Ballot reform drives a constitutional amendment in Massachusetts
Senator SaxTon presses a new ballot reform bill to address Governor HiLu objections while preserving official ballots. He proposes a constitutional amendment to sanction such ballots, to be voted on at the next election. News notes New York fund plans for memorial arch aid and a Chicago gambling expose raising questions about World’s Fair costs and police corruption.
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SaxTon
HiLu
Massachusetts
New York
Memorial Arch Fund
Arch Fund
Chicago
Daily News
Chicago Tribune shifts tone on free raw materials and tariffs
The Chicago Tribune's sudden support for free raw materials and opposition to the McKinsey tariff bill alarms some while others see it as a passing eccentricity. The piece notes past independence in 1888 and warns the shift may be short lived amid party politics. It also mentions La Paix Paris discussing Franco German disarmament with caution about other powers and an Eastern Question tied to Ottoman and Balkan tensions. It ends by examining civil service reform and its impact on the veteran vote, noting the Senate bill broadens dis ability-based preference to all honorably discharged veterans.
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Chicago Tribune
la Paix
Paris
France
Germany
William
Berlin
Europe
Constantinople
Russia
Austria
Balkan
House
Senate
Republican Party
Maine
Pennsylvania
Alabama
Handel and Haydn Society
Charles Gounod
Boston
Hart
Jesus
Mary
Clementine DeVere
Jennie Patrick Walker
Emily Winant
Edward Lloyd
William Tudwig
Myron W. Whitney
William Ludwig
Clementine de Vere
Carl Zerrahn
Lloyd
Veterans and politics mix in a district law lesson
The piece notes Congress once required veterans for DC police appointments and explains a shift to a manufactured veteran supply as veteran pools age. It also mocks Coswell and Harrison over renewal of the BAYARD CHAMBERLAIN pact and defends Canadian modus vivendi for New England fishermen under license terms despite partisan politics.
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Co@swen
Washington
Cogswell
New England
The Effect of the Bill on Revenue and Trade
The article analyzes the Republican tariff bill's delayed reporting to the House, arguing it may raise or shift revenue by 12 to 20 million dollars while potentially reducing imports. It notes exclusions in calculations, questions on the bill’s title versus its provisions, and cites Treasury estimates and a Boston Journal correspondent on mechanisms of protection and consumer tax impact.
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House
Treasury
McKinley
Journal
Sagely
Protests Form Around Republican Revision Affecting American Industry
The piece argues that the Republican revision targets American manufacturers and workers by raising duties on key materials while expanding free-list revenues. It cites increases of 83 556 259 dollars and 45 653 083 dollars in various schedules, hitting hides wool tin plates flax lime iron ore coal silk hops tobacco leaf and other essentials, thus burdening American labor and industry. It portrays the reform as a false protection that costs workers and manufacturers.
Heretical tariff views spark Republican rift and policy doubt
A long analysis argues that a proposed duty on hides exposes the deep tensions in the Republican party over protectionist policy. It critiques the American policy rationale, notes past and present shifts, and questions enforcement and economic effects while contrasting with labor claims and broader tariff aims.
Suspended Freshman Class At Agricultural College Recalled
A remark about the freshman class at the Agricultural College being suspended is noted with a call for disciplined conduct from student embryo farmers, reflecting campus governance and behavior standards.
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The
Agricultural College
The Boston Elm and City Seal Debate Revisited
In Boston a crowd watched the elm near Granary Burying Ground be felled after days of what critics called harsh municipal trimming. The writer argues against a new city seal and praises the present emblem, citing its historic integrity and caution over urban expansion. He also notes purse thefts on Boylston Street and critiques rapid changes to electric car regulations and shared road use, predicting safety conflicts between rapid transit and other travelers.
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Pennsylvania
Harrisburg
Boston
Bunker Hill
Charlestown
Roxbury
Dorchester Bay
Jamaica Plain
West Roxbury
Brighton
Cambridge
New Hampshire Judge Named Harvard Law Professor
The Hon. Jeremiah Smith of Dover New Hampshire confirmed as Story professor of law at Harvard. Born 1838 he is son of Jeremiah Smith a governor US senator and chief justice. Smith Jr rose to NH Supreme Court at 27, resigned 1874 due to ill health, now a leading state lawyer and law educator.
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Dover
N. H
Story
Harvard
New Hampshire
United States
Smith
Supreme Court of
Rutgers
Jeremiah Smith, Jr
George D. Robison
Carleton Hunt
Stephen Salsbury
George Blagden
Harvard Law School
Supreme Bench of
Supreme Court
Dartmouth College
Judge Smith
Massachusetts Historical Society Holds Annual Meeting
The Massachusetts Historical Society met at noon with Dr. George E. Ellis presiding. Officers were elected, funds and acquisitions reviewed, and plans announced for a centennial commemoration next year. Highlights included notes on missing volumes and a deed of land, plus praise for long-time members and library improvements.
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The
Massachusetts Historical Society
George E. Ellis
Palfrey
New England
Samuel A. Green
Society
Thomas Danforth
Town of
York
Green
Robert Keayne
Rhode Island Historical Society
Boston
John Wilson
Henry W. Haynes
Judge Sewall
Black Friars
John Beaumont
John Lowell
Peleg Whitman Chandler
Henry Wilder Foote
Thomas Cottin Amory
Charles Deane
Robert Bennett Forbes
Chandler
Francis Winthrop Palfrey
Theodore Dwight Wolsey
James Riker
Baron Franz von Holtzendorff
Henry B. Dawson
Alexander Johnston
Austin Allibone
William Francis Allen
George Otis Shattuck
James Bailey Thayer
Henry Stedman Nourse
Henry Fitz Gilbert Waters
Edwin Lassetter Bynner
Hamilton Andrews Hill
Massachusetts Historical Trust Fund
Peabody Fund
Savage
Erastus K. Bigelow
William Winthrop
Richard Frothingham
General Fund
Anonymous
William Amory
Fitch Edward Oliver
Edmund F. Slatter
Library and Cabinet
George Edward Ellis
Francis Parkman
Charles Francis Adams
Edward James Young
Justin Winsor
Charles Card Smith
Samuel Abbott Green
William Watson Goodwin
Josiah Phillips Quincy
Roger Wolcott
Edward Bangs
Edward Jackson Lowell
Winsor
George S. Hale
Paige
Oliver
Mr. Smith
George B. Chase
George T. Bigelow
Supreme Court
Massachusetts
Marlboro Street
Thompson explains alternating currents at Boston arts gathering
The Boston Society of Arts met at the Institute of Technology. Professor Cross introduced Elihu Thompson of Lynn, electrician of Thomson-Houston. He demonstrated experiments with a dynamo and chalk diagrams showing effects of alternating currents on metals, especially copper and iron.
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Boston Society of Arts
Institute of Technology
Cross
Institute
Elihu Thompson
Lynn
Thomson-Houston Electric Lighting Company
Resignations and gifts mark civic notices in southern cities
Personal resignations include Miss Sara Chalmers leaving Mr. Augustin Daly's company. Congressman J. Randall's condition improved yet he remained weak. Charles Lanier, New York banker, offers Macon Georgia a bust of Southern poet Sydney Lanier. Yale Professor H W Farnam plans marriage to Miss Kingsley of New Haven. Robert Garrett gives Baltimore a bronze George Peabody statue for placement near the Peabody Institute.
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Sara Chalmers
Augustin Daly
J. Randall
Charles Lanier
New York
Macon
Sydney Lanier
H. W. Farnam
Yale
Kingsley
New Haven
New Englander
Yale Review
Robert Garrett
Baltimore
George Peabody
Peabody Institute
Knotty voyage riddle and global curiosities
A collage of lighthearted notes from poetry to science and society. It mentions Howells’s West-leaning prediction of the great American novelist, a Chicago-born, London-based Eugene Field, a Providence mason stamping a copper cent in 1840, jokes about vegetables and funerals, a Japanese tea cuttings venture from Yakima County, a lightning photograph claim, Italy’s chestnut tree record, German printing anniversaries, a small March comet 240 million miles from the sun, and Prince of Wales in Scotland sharing old-city banter with a local committee chairman, plus Savage Club tales of timing and pills.
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Howells
Eugene Field
London
Chicago
William Andrews
Providence
R. I
Simpson
Ethel
Charleo
America
Yakim County
Washington
Japan
Mt. Alma
Mai
Taverner
Veritas
Lowell Courier
Germany
Teutonic Printers’ Union
Brooks
New York
Earth
Prince of Wales
Scotland
Savage Club
Husband
Chicago News
Senator Sherman faces vote on McKinley tariff bill
The Philadelphia Record notes Senator Sherman has pledged to vote to reduce or repeal protective duties that shield trusts. It asks what he will do when the McKinley bill reaches the Senate and how his stance will play out amid expectations and political pressure.
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China
John “Boyvite O’reity
United States
Ireland
New England
Senator Sherman
Sherman
Senate
Philadelphia Record Nd
Unsported career highlighted by Cincinnati Gazette remark
A Cincinnati Commercial Gazette representative notes Randall’s public life, stating there was never a time when any man would face him with dishonorable propositions. The remark frames his legacy as priceless to his family, surpassing wealth.
Congressmans cry to warn on protection
A letter from Congressman Walker to the Spy is described as naive yet entertaining. The piece lampoons protectionist fears and invokes Diana of the Ephesians, leather trades, and a Massachusetts shoemaker, ending with a folk tale about a boy and a bull pup to humorously illustrate resilience under pressure.
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Congressman Walker
Massachusetts
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