Deadlock broken in House over tariff debate and adjournment
The Democratic majority ends the deadlock with a vote to adjourn after a tense session. Republicans rally for obstruction while Randall and Reed clash. Debate shifts to the tariff bill and South Dakota statehood as the Senate weighs Dakota admission and political timing.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Wasureron
Sprcrar
House
Randall Rose
Reed
Maine
Randall
Cox
New York
Dick Townshend
Lowden
Pennsylvania
Mr. Russell
Massachusetts
Morse
Burnett
General Collins
Point Comfort
Rockwell
Hayden
Committee On Rules
Tariff Debate Highlights Stewart Resolution and Coke Speech
In Washington on April 12 a Stewart resolution was adopted requesting State Department information on John Prussia a naturalized American pressed into French service and other cases. Senator Coke argued against high tariffs claiming they harm labor and inflate prices while enriching capital and trusts, urging tariff reform toward revenue needs and referencing wage comparisons between American and English workers.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washtneron
Stewart
Secretary of State
John Prussia
France
Coke
Senate
Congress
Union
England
Europe
America
Census of 1890 bill outlines census worker roles and pay
Washington April 12 The census bill proposed by Congressman Cox creates many temporary offices with salaries for superintendent 5000 chief clerk 2500 and a large staff including two stenographers ten chiefs of division and numerous clerks. Supervisors in each state receive 125 plus up to 1 per thousand in dense districts or 140 in sparse districts, totaling about 850 per supervisor with about 30 000 enumerators to be hired. Per diem or per capita pay rates vary by district density and method, with minimums and maximums set by the Interior Department and secretary approval.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washinecton
Sproran
Cox
Civil Service Commission
Secretary of the Interior
Massey Fire Destroys Large Part Of Town In Maryland
A major blaze at Massey Maryland destroyed two thirds of the town including a hotel four stores nine dwellings and several shops. No fire apparatus existed and losses may reach 80000 with light insurance. Nearby city reports note Chronicle Telegraph room damage and small fires in McRose and Florence street houses with total losses around 7500.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lambson
Massey
Queen Anne & Kent
Baltimore & Delaware Bay
Ittsburg
Penn
Chronicle- Telegraph
Dispatch Office
Grundy House
Washington Street
Florence Street
Calvin Varney
House Debates Child Labor, Licensing Laws, and Local Bills
The House reported bills including suits against licensees and their sureties, penalties for sending females to houses of ill fame, limits on black duck shooting, and authority for foreign manufacturers to hold necessary real estate. It debated child labor ages, rejecting McEttrick’s 14-year proposal 54 to 142, and kept some amendments. The safe deposit and trust company bill drew many amendments and was postponed.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
First Congregational Society
Jamaica Plain
Southampton
Sullivan
Suffolk
Towne
Lynn
Boston
Brooks
McEttrick
Morey
Lowell
Massachusetts
McKittrick
Germany
Austria
Switzerland
New York
Pennsylvania
Messrs
Milne
Wyman and
Gile
Floyd
Winthrop
Fire damages several buildings at Fort Hill square
Early morning blaze at the Fort Hill square corner Fort Hill square and Oliver street destroyed four story brick building housing HBradice Hastings & Co and other businesses. Firemen Kenney Riley and Phenix were badly burned while fighting the flames. A stable at 36 Parker street burned next door and the fire spread to Warren Hall and P O'Brien's shop. Total damage about 500 dollars. An alarm came from Box 223.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Fort Hill Square
Oliver Street
Hbradice, Hastings & Co
New England
Emery Wheel Company
Rank Morse
F. H. Gilson
Iiremen Kenney
Parker Street
J.T. Webber
Warren Hall
P. ¥. O'Brien
Employment of Children Bill Passes House Amid Amendments
The special committee bill regulating child labor was approved for engrossment by the House after amendments. Opposition from Mr. McKitrick of Boston to lowering the age to 14 failed nearly 3 to 1, and the measure moves to the Senate. The House rejected a plan to incorporate the town of Brooks and an adverse report on street water usage by streetcar companies. Additional bills include raising Boston Heating Company capital and town sewage funding, with various other calendar items disposed of or carried as engrossed.
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House
McKttrick
Boston
Senate
Brooks
Boston Heating Company
Committee On Mercantile Affairs
James F. Mallen
Boston Catholic Cemetery Association
Register of Probate
Suffolk
Rowse R. Clarke
Charles E. Fogerty
Boston Legislation on Street Railways and Related Bills
Leave to withdraw petitions for street railway earnings use ban and fare regulation in Boston. Bills regulate fertilizers trade, pilotage fees at Wood's Hall Harbor, and allow Boston Heating Co to raise capital up to 2 million dollars. Other measures cover pauper support, inebriate asylum, and a bank reserve fund reconsideration.
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Boston Street Railway
Boston
Wood’s Hall Harbor
Boston Heating Company
General Court
Board of Lunacy and Charity
Gleason
Hartwell
Kingsley
Cambridge Road
Kimball
Howe
Boston, Winthrop & Shore Railroad Company
Winthrop
Point Shirley
Committee On Railroads
John F. Hemming
Board of Railroad Commissioners
New Haven & Northampton Railroad Company
Whately
Whately Station
Liorace Mann
Cooley Dickinson Hospital
Second District Court
Eastern Middlesex
Police Court of
Gloucester
Charlemont Rural Club
Nantucket
Underground Wires Hearings On Underground Electric Lines
The committee on mercantile affairs held a hearing on orders to place all electric wires underground. Representatives from Bell Telephone, Western Union Telegraph, and Spaulding Conduit attended with pro and con arguments. Pulsifer urged legislation and cross-examined by opposing counsel as the committee adjourned to next Thursday.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Committee On Mercantile Affairs
Messrs
H. E. Cobb
R. M. Pulsifer
F. R. Chapman
8S. C. Powers
Bell Telephone Company
Board of Aldermen
Eer
Powers
Board of Electrical Control of New York
Public meeting on Egypt Exploration Fund in Boston 1888
A Boston notice invites educated citizens to a public meeting at Emanuel Church chapel on Newbury Street April 19 1888 to discuss the Egypt Exploration Fund work. Rev Alexander McKenzie D D of Cambridge to preside with several eminent speakers. no contributions or personal solicitations.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Egypt Exploration Fund
Society
Europe
United States
Boston
Copley Square
Oliver Wendell Ho T. Bailey Aldrich
Charles Eliot Norton
James Freeman Clark
George E. Ellis
William Claflin
Alexander H. Rice
William Gaston
Mellen Chamberlain
Leverett Saltonstall
Frederick L. Ames
H. H. Hunnewell
Henry L. Pierce
Henry Lee
Ezra Farnsworth
William G. Russell
Edmund H. Bennett Causten Browne
Nathaniel Thayer
Thomas C. Amory
Nathaniel J. Bradle
Samuel D. Warren
James F. Hunnew
William O. Grover
Mahlon D. Spaulding
Edward Wheelwright
I. Pei
Emmanuel Church
Newbury Street
Erem
Alexander McKenzie
Cambridge
Dudley Street
Greenville
Woories Church
Warren Street
Old Hawes Schoolboys Reunion Toasts Alumni Across Distances
A Hawes school reunion at Young's Hotel drew graduates from 1825 to 1359, with Dr Charles A Greene from Harrisburg and Mr Robert Bragg from San Francisco in attendance. President George B James praised teachers, and speeches by Spinney Monks and others highlighted lifelong learning. Officers were elected including President James B Rogers and secretary John Monks.
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James
Young’s Hotel
Charles A. Greene
Harrisburg
Robert Bragg
San Francisco
Hawes School
Richard J. Monks
Georges. Dexter
Horace Smith
William Davis
George W. Armstrong
Edwin B. Spinney
James H. Stark
B. B. Whittemore
M. Bedlington
Elisha F. James
G. D. Burrage
N. P. Mann Jr
Ezra Harlow
John H. Locke
Edward H. Rogers
Charles W. Dexter
Alpheus M. Stetson
Albert J. Wright
Boston
George B. James
Hawes
Dr. Greene
Bragg
California
Association
Oakland
Cal
George W. Burrage
F. L. Capen
James B. Rogers
Charles '{. Gallagher
George D. Burrage
John Monks
N. P. Mann, Jr
E. B. Spinney
Charlies L. James
Francis E. Park
George W. Ball
Albert J. Wight
Amos T. White
John A. Stetson
William ©. Greene
James T. Tighe
No alliance with Spreckles denied by CP rail VP
Montreal April 12 Vice President Van Horn of the Canadian Pacific railway denies a San Francisco report that the Canadian Pacific plans an alliance with the Spreckles sugar refinery.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Spreckles
Montreal
van Horn
Canadian Pacific Railway
San Francisco
Canadian Pacific
Bugar
Senator Morrill Tariff Talk Cited In Post Debate
Boston April 12. A letter to the editor引用 Senator Morrill's tariff remarks as reported in the Post. It argues that savings deposits rose from 669 million in 1872 to 1.235 billion in 1886, yet debt payments continued, and laboring men and women held substantial deposits enough to cover national debt. The piece cites savings bank reports and Wright's bureau data, claiming wage gains vs. price rises and criticizes free trade advocates as harming labor.
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Morrill
United States Senate
Post
United States
Massachusetts Savings Bank Commissioners
Carroll D. Wright
Bureau of Statistics of Labor
Bureau of Labor
Wright
Boston
Prison reform discussed at Merchants' Club dinner
The Merchants' Club hosted a Parker House dinner with figures from prison oversight including H. W. Chaplin and C. K. Fay. Dr. Ashcroft urged adoption of English probation and discharge practices, while others praised reform efforts at Concord and the women's prison in Sheburn. The discussion covered grading, labor, and humane treatment to aid reintegration.
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Merchants’ Club
Parker House
England
Eustace C. Fitz
H. W. Chaplin
Prison Commission
C. K. Fay
Gardner Tufts
Massachusetts Reformatory
J. Russell
State
Ashcroft
Prussia
Messrs
Hugh Cochrane
I. H. Bromley
W. P. Shinn
Dr. Ashcroft
Fitz
Concord Reformatory
Tufts
Russell
State Prison
Mr. Fay
Ir. W. E. Spalding
Powderly Letters On Labor Strikes And Education Fund
Master Workman Powderly publishes three letters in the Journal of United Labor. He denies deals with the Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers over the Chicago Burlington & Quincy strike and restates loyalty to labor unity. He urges assemblies to study funding methods, taxation fairness, child labor, and land value issues while outlining the educational levy and handling of donated funds.
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Philadelphia
Journal of United Labor
Knights of Labor
Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers
Burlington & Quincy
Chicago, Burlington & Quincy Road
Knights
Organized Labor
America
General Assembly
The Weekly Post Highlights In This Issue
The Weekly Post volume previews fifty six columns of reading including Senator Morrill's protection address sketches of Republican leadership contests views on the fisheries treaty and Canadian issues Marietta centennial events Hoar’s address Lovering nomination Beck amendment interviews and foreign news plus a chess section directed by Captain Huntington with new features in every issue.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Weekly Post
Morrill
Erastus Wiman
Phelan
Marietta
Hoar
Lovering
Beck
Chess Department
Huntington
Albany defeats Answorth bill on woman suffrage vote
Albany April 12. Answorth's municipal woman suffrage bill was defeated in the Assembly tonight by 61 yeas to 66 nays.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Albany
Answorth
Assembly
Yeas
Grant Birthday Banquet Planned at Delmonico's
General W T Sherman writes to ex Confederate generals Longstreet Mosby Gordon Buckner Lee Mahone and Johnston inviting them to a Delmonico's banquet in New York on April 27 to honor General Ulysses S Grant. Sherman cites the affection of all regions for Grant and the duty of those who knew him to set an example for future generations.
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New York
W. T. Sherman
Delmonico’s
Grant
Longstreet
Mosby
Gordon
Buckner
Lee
Mahone
Johnston
Union League Resolves on Waite Death and Tariff Policy
The Union League Club in New York on April 12 adopted resolutions mourning the death of Chief Justice Waite, an honorary member. The club also condemned the President's tariff policy as unsound and un-American, urging abolition of the internal revenue department, tariff revision, and high license.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York
Union League Club
Waite
Internal Revenue
Treasury
Internal Revenue Department
Laying Down the Law to Critics in 1883
E G S defends critical duty and standards in response to a critic’s harsh dismissal of a play. He argues a critic should urge public failure when warranted, and cautions against relying on personal taste, praising established consensus and notable companies as benchmarks. Boston, April 6, 1883.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Winter
the Tribune
Meinigen
Théâtre Français
Boston
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Democrats
National Treasury
South Dakota
North Dakota
Turpie
Cullom
Dakota
Butler
Washington Post
Democratic Party
Illinois
Mr. Butler
Iowa
Mr. Edmunds
Spooner
Mr. Coke
Cleveland
Mr. Cox
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Egypt Exploration
James Russell Lowell
Francis Parkman
Julia Ward Howe
Francis A. Walker
Benjamin H. Paddock
William F. Warren
Brooke Herford
Joseph T. Duryea
Frederick Courtney
Joseph Cook
O. B. Frothingham
W. Elliott Grittis
Henry W. Foote
George A. Gordon
A. J. Gordon
A. A. Miner
Charles C. Grafton
Samuel E. Herrick
David Gregg
William C. Winslow
Henry M. Dexter
M. J. Savage
Caleb D. Bradlee
Edmund F. Stafter
A. P. Putnam
Reven Thomas
Thomas R. Lambert
Edward A. Horton
James Reed
Stopford W. Brooke
Lysander Dickerman
Hamilton A. Hill
George C. Shattuck
Samuel Johnson
Abbott Lawrence
George H. Norman
Elisha
Converse
H. O. Houghton
Andrew G. Weeks
Jacob Sleeper
E. C. Fitz
E. N. Horsford
Henry W. Haynes
Martin B. Inches
Samuel Eliot
Jon Wolcott
OLD Hawes Schoolboys
Senator Morrill
Powderly
the Weekly Post
Union League
S. R. Knights & Co
Washington St
Main St
Cambridgeport
Bennett and Rockdale
Burney Street
Dell Avenue
Roxbury
Roxbury Crossing
Springfield Street
Columbus Avenue
Hallett & Cumston
Appleton
Brewster
L. Foster Morse
Dudley and
Greenville Streets
Mt. Pleasant
Samuel Hatch & CO
Congress Street
Ashburton Place
Cor
Somerset St
Hotel
Ashburton
Somerset Street
Massachusetts Title Insurance CO
William Woods
South Boston Savings Bank
Savings Bank
City of
County of Suffolk
Commonwealth of Massachusetts
Second Street
C. C. Conley
Tisdale Drake
Charles C. Conley
Mary A. Leavitt
Horatio Harris & Co., Auctioneers and Commission Merchants
State Street
Albert Howe & CO
Market Street
Brighton
Readence
Warren Avenue
Richards & CO
John C. Wilmerding
Bey Wilmerding
Hoguet & CO
Townsend & Montant
Leonard Street
Fred’k, F. Moore
Harvard Medical College
Vernon Street
Hancock Street
Mass
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