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Boston Post

Location

Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

Date

Feb 07, 1888

Page

5

Riddleberger Leads Clash Over British Treaty and Centennial

Washington reports Senator Riddleberger clashes with Ingalls and Sherman over open session for the British extradition treaty amid the constitutional centennial debate. In Indiana Captain White’s seat fight, Collins and Lodge defend White as the House votes and party lines shape the outcome.

Washington Sproran Senator Riddleberger Riddleberger Ingalls Sherman Foreign Relations Committee Senate Virginia Ir. Riddleberger House Committee On Elections Captain White Iowa Indiana Collins Powell Lowry White Solomon McAdoo New Jersey Lodge Carlisle Burnett McKinney Bynum

Centennial Constitution clash over invited guests and trade ties

Senate debate centers on a joint resolution for a centennial celebration to be held in the House hall with the chief justice delivering an ovation and invitations extending to the President, Cabinet, Supreme Court justices, and state executives, while concerns about South American commercial talks and broader exposition plans mix with procedural rulings. The session also covers inquests under national authority and a postmaster circulation bill as well as tariff policy and a contested Indiana seat.

Wasuieron Mgr. Hoar Houses of Congress House of Representatives United States Supreme Court Hoar Senate Congress Voorhees Select Committee Committee On Foreign Relations Frye Hale Massachusetts Washington Riddleberger Mr. Sherman Sherman Virginia Judiciary Committee Sawyer Saulsbury Committee Finance Beck Prussia Russia Iddleberger Platt New York Connecticut New Jersey England Pratt New England Treasury Butterworth Ohio United Dominion Canada Weaver Iowa Secretary of the Treasury Groavenor Lowrey-White Johnston Indiana O'Neill Collins Committee On Elections White Solomon Messrs McAdoo Houk Oates Davis Lodge Crisp Georgia Elections Committee House Rowell Illinois Yeas Comtoon Culbertson Dockery Eno Fisher Ford Forney Glass Hare Laffoon Lanham MacDonald Mahoney McKinney McShane Merriman Neal Nichols O’neill Whelan Randall Rayner Rowland Rusk Sayres Shively Lowden Springer Stewart Texas Stone Massachusetts Tariff Reform League Henry L. Pierce Josiah Quincey Jabez Fox General Hazard Stevens James Means Osborne Howes Home Market Club A. W. Beard Charles A. Stott E. M. McPherson J. R. Leeson F. W. Breed The Tariff Reform League

Exchange of worn silver coins and bond refinancing proposal

In Washington February 6 under the call of States bills were introduced and referred. Morrow of California proposed exchanging worn or mutilated fractional silver coins for new coins. Candler of Georgia offered refunding US 4 percent bonds into 244 percent bonds. Long of Massachusetts advocated penalties for forfeitable imported books. Henderson of North Carolina proposed a division measure.

Washincron Call of States Morrow California Candler Georgia United States Long Massachusetts Henderson North Carolina

Block Island Currents Warn Mariners After Shipwreck

The schooner William H. Jourdan of Taunton Massachusetts struck Block Island on January 2 at 2 30 a m en route from Baltimore to Bristol with coal. The crew were saved by the West Side life saving crew using the breeches buoy.

William H. Jourdan Taunton Mass Block Island Baltimore Bristol West Side Southwest Point Montauk Point Montauk Mohegan

Joseph Cook on the Saloon at Tremont Temple

Rev Joseph Cook opened the thirteenth annual course at Tremont Temple drawing a warned crowd. He warned that the saloon holds power over police courts and elections, cites Kansas prohibition ruling, and urges temperance allies to stand together.

Tremont Temple Joseph Cook New York Sioux City Iowa Mr. Haddock Supreme Court Kansas O'Brien Davis

Financial Markets And Rail News From The Era

Union Pacific shares slid after a December net earning of 208593 was announced while market bears anticipated a racy development when President Adams testifies next Saturday. Chesapeake & Ohio plans 4 percent bonds for 100 years totaling 25 million with Drexel Morgan syndicate taking much of it.

Union Pacific Bears Adams Congressional Committee Chesapeake & Ohio Drexel-Morgan Syndicate

Wiswall-Wiswall Carr Wedding Card at Brighton Avenue

At the Brighton Avenue Baptist Church on February 1, the Rev. F T Whitman of Allston assisted by the Rev. Ek A Capen of Watertown joined George H Wiswall of Watertown to Miss Fannie E Carr of Allston in a marriage ceremony.

Obituaries from Feb funeral notices list many mourners

A long list of death notices shows multiple residents across Massachusetts and beyond, including Rowse Reynolds Clarke 66, Joshua Conant 61, Edith Curtis 11 months, Martha Davis, Sarah Dow, Fred Warren Eastman 20, Eliza Parkman Hall 84, Amelia Holmes 69, Clifton Kendall 51, Helen Lang 45, Cynthia Litchfield 41, Henry Lord, Samuel Mulliken, Charlotte Peirce 83, Irene Pierce 84, Mary Smith, and Samuel Shumway. Burial details and service times noted where provided.

Dow Braintree Sarah E Charles H. Dow Eastman Cambridgeport Fred Warren F. C M. MM. Lastman Hall Camden Eliza Parkman Joseph Hall Holmes Lord Henry Lord Mulliken Washington D. C Samuel Mulliken Dorchester Mass Peirce Cambridge Charlotte Elizabeth Peirce Benjamin Peirce Sr Lydia R. Peirce Salem Pierce Watertown Irene Joel Pierce Smith Lynn Mary B Anni Smith Shumway Orlando Fla Samuel Shumway West Chester Park

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