Army Bill Passes House Amid Rare GOP Defection
The bill reorganizing and expanding the standing army passed the House 168 to 125 after a week of floor battles. It authorizes up to about 100,000 men while allowing the president to reduce infantry and cavalry to about 60 men per unit. Six Republicans voted against. several Democrats and Populists supported. Amendments limit civilian hires in engineer corps, abolish camps canteens, and bar extra pay for campaigns in the West Indies, the Philippines, and Alaska.
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Connolly
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Cal
Johnson
Ind
McEwan
N. J
Wadsworth
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McClellan
McAleer
Taylor
Ala
Skinner
Mosersi Dalzell and Hopkine
Messrs. Bailey
Settle
West Indies
Philippines
Alaska
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Ordnance Department
Signal Corps
Cuba
Porto Rico
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Pacific
Twenty Second Embarked for Philippines From Fort Crook
Ohio and Senator transports receive the Twenty second United States infantry under Brigadier General Henry Egbert. The unit, paid, heads to the Philippines in five sections with roughly equal numbers on each transport.
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Fort Crook
Ohio
Senator
San Francisco
United States Infantry
Henry
Egbert
Neb
Philippines
Foster Is The Victor In Tacoma Senator Nomination
A. G. Foster of Tacoma won the Republican caucus nomination for United States senator in Olympia. Fifty-eight remained in the caucus, short of the fifty-seven needed to elect in joint session. Foster, age 62, was born in Heldertown Massachusetts and later moved west joining the lumber business before moving to Tacoma in 1889 as vice president of St. Paul and Tacoma Lumber Company. He has seldom engaged in state politics.
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Wash
A. G. Foster
Tacoma
King County
Ankeney
Foster
Addison M. Foster
Heldertown
Mass
Wisconsin
Minnesota
St. Paul
Hayward Gains One Vote In Joint Senator Ballot
Sixcomn February 1 updates show changes on the joint ballot for senator. Steele switches to Hayward while Foss tops totals with Israel at three. absentees return. Republicans Nesbit and Rouse absent, Howard absent. remaining names and tallies listed.
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Han Bown
Hinshaw
Sixcomn
Senator Steele
Hayward
Israel
Foss
Howard
Nesbit
Rouse
W. V. Allen
F. I. Fosa
M. L. Hayward
E. H, Hinshaw
John L. Webster
H. van Dusen
D. B. Thompson
M.lambertson
Allen W. Fielde
Ek, Adams
J. B. Weston
BUI to Relocate State Fair and Other Updates
Senate bill proposes relocating the state fair to Lincoln while the free high school bill is recommitted for constitutionality review. House debates a transportation board counsel resolution, later defeated, as it passes the state university revenue bill. Other items include Texas resisting stamp tax, Iowa bishop consecration set for Feb 22 in Chicago, Colonel Bannister funeral in Ottumwa, Congo unrest rumors, Taussig on security taxes, Quarles elected senator, Princess Marie Louise of Bulgaria dead, and a Poultry and Pet Stock meeting in Superior early February.
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Rocke
Lancaster
Lincoln
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McGinley
Otoe
Board of Transportation
State University
Texas
Austin
Tex
Internal Revenue Department
Hardy
Smith
BAD CONDUCT OF COLORED TROOPS IN TEXARKANA FRAY
A Texas Gazette report from Texarkana notes eight train loads of 1200 soldiers from the Tenth United States Cavalry en route to San Antonio created a drunken mob. They torn doors and barged into a resort. Constable Rochelle pursued, captured a leader, and was fired on by 100 rifles but escaped. Trains remained halted seven hours as authorities sought arrests, with armed guards and a dynamite-threat mood subsiding without bloodshed.
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Sirum Roar
the Gazette
United States Cavalry
San Antonio
James Rochelle
Cara
Rochelle
Vaughn
Texarkanang
A Woman's Face and the Keys to Attractiveness
An advertisement from Herald New Hampton Missouri extols a pleasant face as a sign of health and vitality. It links beauty to cleanliness exercise air diet and proper blood tone and cites Dr Williams Pink Pills for Pale People as a remedy for female health ills and vitality particularly during life turn or crises.
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A. Fox
New Hampton
Inet
Kh. D. King
Bethany
Dr. Williams
Case
Pasig
Williams
Republicans Meet To Plan Financial Legislation Action
Washington Feb 3 Republican members of the house caucused to decide on a course for framing monetary legislation. General Grosvenor presided as Rep Henderson urged a 11 member committee to craft policy for both houses and report at the opening session of the Fifty-sixth Congress. The vote was nearly unanimous with 823 in favor and 4 against. Two Ohio Roads Consolidate in a separate item. Farnan to testify on chemical beef in Omaha remains unsettled.
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Washington
House of Representatives
Grosvenor
Henderson
Iowa
Senate
Yeas
Multiple Early 1900s News Teletype Fragments
A collection of terse telegram items notes January gold deposits at Denver mint totaling 1 691 107 dollars a Louisville theater destroyed by fire Jockey Ted Sloan acquires 250 000 dollars from Wall Street speculation Idaho senate passes gambling ban after week long struggle Scarlet fever outbreak aboard the cruiser New York court martial record for General Eagansent to the President for review Cherokee Dawes treaty ratified by Cherokees by large margin Fire brick trust forming with ten major Pittsburgh area firms Alaska mail service expands Juneau Sitka and Kodiak cases Suffolk man Hess awarded 1 200 dollars in small claims Springfield Illinois contemplates bronze Frances Willard statue in Washington Capitol Willard memorial planned Two thousand nine hundred dollars legislative appropriation introduced.
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Buckingham
Louisville
Ted Sloan
Wall Street
Idaho Senate
New York
Sampson
Eagan
Fire Brick Trust
Fire Brick
Pittsburg
Copcereton
Smith
Alaska Commercial Company of
San Francisco
June
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