Abolish Fee System Among County Officers Proposed in West Virginia
Charleston dispatch reports a plan to end the fee system for county officers including sheriffs and clerks and place all on straight salaries funded from the county treasury. The measure would allow a poor person to sue or defend without costs, with penalties for default and embezzlement, and would require strict accounting and monthly salary payments.
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Charleston
W. Va
House of Delegates
A. G. Swiger
Tyler County
Sheriffs’ Association
Judiciary Committee
Neu
County Treasury
General County Fund
State Tax Commissioner
Graft Prevention Provisions For County Officers
The draft measures require officers to file detailed monthly statements with receipts showing all fees paid into the county fund. Affidavits accompany the statements. The act prohibits officers from taking or earning any portion of deputy or employee compensation or rewards for appointments. Violations carry fines up to 500 dollars, imprisonment up to one year, or both, with forfeiture of office.
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General County Fund
Alleged Shoe Trust Hasn't Violated Law
Washington February 3 The Supreme Court held United States Machinery Company officials did not violate the Sherman anti trust law by organizing the firm The ruling followed Massachusetts federal court action invalidating one indictment The government argued eighty percent of shoe machinery business flowed to the company after it took over rivals Officials defended the leasing system citing patent protection and independence of machines.
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Washington
Fep
Supreme Court
United States Machinery Company
Massachusetts
Shoe Machinery Corporation
Arson Trust Ring Brought to Attention in Chicago
A new ring of five incendiaries, two adjuters, linked to the Arson Trust is under state’s attorney scrutiny. Assistant State’s Attorney Frank Johnson says the case could become national, cooperating with officials in New York Boston South Bend and other cities. An insurance agent provided key information from private inquiries into fires the company insured. Johnson plans to confer with South Bend officials on evidence against members.
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Chicago
Frank Johnson
Johnson
New York
Boston
South Bend
Ind
House Seeks Longer Term for Wilson in Proposed Amendment
Washington reports another bid to modify the six year single term amendment to the constitution. The House plans to act after the Senate passed a version allowing the current and former presidents to be eligible for reelection. Democrats split on ensuring a four year limit for Wilson is avoided.
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Washington
Wilson
House
Senate
Public Service Commission Fight Tops West Virginia Legislature
Governor Glasscock urges creation of a public service commission and forest water protection as WV lawmakers debate committee appointments and constitutional reforms. Senate and House move on local charters and anti lobbying measures while planning a possible US senatorship caucus.
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Public Service Corporation
Commission
Charleston
W. Va
Woods
Senate
Glasscock
Public Service Commission
England
Marshall
Strother
Public Service Corporation Commission
Wysong
Demcrat
Theodore Roosevelt
William Jennings Bryan
Senate Judiciary Committee
United States
Scott
Senate Committee On Public Printing
Bland
Huntington
Huntington Independent
Guyandotte
Parkersburg
Keyser
Piedmont
Joint Assembly
the &Car
W. E. Glasscock
Executive Mansion
Glasscock Martial Law Proclamation Upheld
The Supreme Court declined to interfere with Governor Glasscock's martial law in the Cabin Creek coal district West Virginia amid a strike. A black plaintiff challenged the governor's authority and the military commission's five year penitentiary sentence, but the court did not overturn it.
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Washington
Supreme Court
Glasscock
Cabin Creek
West Virginia
Military
Wickersham Score in Oil Indictment Case
Washington February 3 Attorney General Wickersham is scored for delaying indictments against John D Archbold and other Standard Oil officials. Secretary Fisher is accused of subserviency to the oil trust in a brief filed with the house Indian affairs committee by attorneys for the Uncle Sam Oil Company in the Osage land controversy.
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Wickersham
Washington
Texas
John D. Archbold
Standard Oil
Fisher
House Indian Affairs Committee
Uncle Sam Oj Company
Osage Land
Ways and Means
Garner
Wickeysham
John JD. Archbold
Carter
Oklahoma
Fort Land
Foreign Affairs Committee
Niagara River
Diplomatic and Consular Service
Strike Rioters Formally Arranged for Trial in Edgewater
Hackensack New Jersey February 3 A number of laborers arrested during December strike riots at the Shadyside coal docks near Edgewater were arraigned to stand trial for the alleged murders of Police Captain A J Craw and Detective Clarence Mallery.
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Hackensack
N. J
Shadyside
Edgewater
A. J. Craw
Clarence Mallery
Senate Session News and Legislation Actions
The Senate convened at noon with Webb and Shepherd sworn in. Comptroller reports pensions. amendments to rivers and harbors bill seek 850000 to straighten Harlem River channel. Post Office Committee reviews primaries for postmasters and the judiciary backs cotton claim court. Adjourned 6:03 p.m. until Tuesday.
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Senate
William R. Webb
Tennessee
Saunders
Morris Shepherd
Texas
Johnson
Pension Committee
Arthur McArthur
O'Gorman
Postoffice Committee
Postoffice
Judiciary
House
Court of Claimy
Owen
Department of Health
Direct income tax assured after sixteenth amendment
The sixteenth amendment ratified today makes direct taxes on incomes possible and 38 states have adopted it. A new law to levy income tax will be introduced after the extra session opens, with an anticipated exemption for incomes below four to five thousand dollars and a one percent rate on many ordinary incomes. The tax will replace the corporate levy and apply to individuals in firms and corporations.
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Washington
United States
Delaware
Wyoming
New Mexico
Congress
Senate
Brown
Nebraska
Hull
Tennessee
West Virginia and Virginia Weather Forecase
West Virginia will be fair and colder on Tuesday with Wednesday also fair. Virginia will be fair and colder on Tuesday with Wednesday progress to fair conditions.
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West Virginia
Virginia
Allies Bombard Adrianople as Balkan War Reopens
The Balkan conflict resumes with a renewed bombardment of Adrianople at 7 tonight and a Tehaialja clash. Bulgaria ignores remonstrances as Turkey faces allied demands to yield or risk expulsion from Europe. Scutari reportedly near fall amid tensions in London and Constantinople.
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Bulgaria
Servia
Montenegro
Turkey
Europe
London
Adrianople
Tehaialja
Balkan
Belgrade
Scutari
Daness
Paris
Edward Grey
Osman Nazim Pasha
Berlin
Al-Lies
Arabia
Tripoli
Nicholas
Dibra
Constantinople
Germany
Great Britain
Bathtub Trust Trial Moves Ahead in Detroit
The government’s criminal anti trust case against the bathtub trust resumes before Judge Clarence W Sessions after a hung jury in the first trial. A U S Supreme Court ruling in the civil case held the bathtub combination a monopoly and ordered its dissolution. The prosecution leans on civil case evidence to prove the criminal charges.
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Detroit
Mich
Bathtub Trust
United States
Clarence W. Sessions
Grand Rapids
Supreme Court of the United States
Taft Drafts Two Messages to Congress This Month
President Taft cancelled engagements and stayed in his study drafting two messages for Congress. One outlines the proposed budget system and the other transmits a report from the Alaskan railways commission.
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Taft
Washington
Congress
Alaskan Railways Commission
Porcelain Strike Ramps Up In Trenton Riots
In Trenton New Jersey February 3 4 a clash occurred as 1500 porcelain workers strike with strikebreakers imported by ten plants attempting to leave work. The incident marks a serious flare in the labor dispute.
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Trenton
N. J
Ortrorder
Theim
Street clash as strikers attack. several hurt
Reported assailants, among them women and girls, attacked men on the street. Stones bricks and knives were used. A dozen strikers were arrested. Four men named Ratta Snyder Tennoch Bennash were taken to a hospital with knife wounds and bruises.
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Lauis Ratta
Stephen Snyder
Dennis Tennoch
Jerry Bennash
Cold wave to spread from Midwest to East Coast regions
The weather bureau reports a cold wave will move eastward from Minnesota and North Dakota reaching eastern Montana to western New York and Pennsylvania and as far south as Mississippi. Tonight a drop is seen in the upper lake region with colder weather forecast for Tuesday in the Ohio Mississippi valleys and gulf states.
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Washington
Minnesota
North Dakota
Weather Bureau
Montana
New York
Pennsylvania
Mississippi
Upper Lake
Ohio
Gulf States
Atlantic States
Mississippi Valley
Hollow Horn Bear Plans Inauguration Visit and Peace Pipe Gift
Hollow Horn Bear of South Dakota writes to the inaugural committee via Senator Gamble to attend the inauguration and present a great peace pipe to the president. If accepted, he will lead a group of chiefs in tribal ceremony. The event also marks women’s first participation in the parade, with 200 members in uniform from the national peace congress. The AFL under Gompers invites unions to have women relatives march in the suffrage parade.
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Washington
Hollow Horn Bear
South Dakota
Senator Gamble
Wilson
National Peace Congress
American Federation of Labor
Gompers
Kansas City Editor Nelson Again Escapes Jail
Kansas City editor and owner William R. Nelson of the Kansas City Star faced another effort to jail him for contempt of court. Sheriff Win Stanley rejected a habeas corpus writ filed by court supporters, and the Kansas City Court of Appeals sent the case to the Missouri Supreme Court. The appellate court did not rule on the motion to dismiss, noting possible lack of jurisdiction and delaying the hear.
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Kansas City Star
Supreme Court of Appeals
Kansas City, Mo
William R. Nelson
Kansas Cty Star
Winstanley
Kansas City Court of Appeals
Court of Circuit
Guthrie
Court of Appeals
State Supreme Court
Chemical Schedule of Tariff Law Considered
Democrats of the house ways and means committee discussed the chemical schedule of the tariff law in executive session. The items focus on raw materials for medicines dyes and coal tar products. The measure is not expected to differ much from the prior Democratic bill which passed 179 to 127. Revenue expected around 12 million dollars similar to last year.
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Washington
House Committee On
House
Hanna
North Dakota
Hundreds of Shots Fired Into a Mining Town
Charleston West Virginia reports say men ambushed the mining town of Acme on Cabin Creek last night firing three hundred to five hundred shots. Many strikebreaker houses were hit but no injuries were reported. deputies went to the scene but gained little information.
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Charleston
W. Va
Acme
Cabin Creek
Postal Service Cuts Costs and Expands Parcels Post
Postmaster General Hitchcock reports a $45 million reduction in postal operating expenses and a shift to profitable growth. The plan envisions lower parcels post rates, higher weight limits, and consolidation of third and fourth class mail to move books and papers by parcels post, with savings and a path to self sustaining savings banks expanding to 12,812 post offices and 300,000 depositors.
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Washington
Hitchcock
Presidential Post
Postal Savings System
Central Office
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