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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Jan 29, 1913
Page
16
W H Berry former Pennsylvania state treasurer urged a currency plan before the House currency committee. He called for paper legal tender backed by government State and municipal bonds and a gold reserve of at least twenty percent as a solution to the currency problem.
Representatives of steamship agents and longshoremen unions met yesterday afternoon. The threatened strike of 3006 longshoremen in the port was averted for the present.
Mr Berry told the committee that insufficient legal tender reserve pressures extended credit by banks and concentrates money in reserve cities. He urged making bank notes legal tender and requiring bond surrender to issue notes, advocating a 20 percent gold reserve and opposing the Aldrich plan as cause of unemployment and stock exchange gambling.
One million dollars in gold ten dollar pieces were sent from the local sub treas ury to New York to keep specie on reserve at peak standard. The transfer, under Treasury Secretary Mac Veagh orders, moved in 200 gunny cloth bags via Federal Building vault to a special New Haven train car with guards throughout. The shipment weighed about a ton and a half.
Union delegates said agents offered a few concessions and vowed no strike while talks continue. No public statement of propositions was made. next round of conferences is planned with good prospects for an amicable settlement. Representing agents were Charles Stewart Cunard John H. Thomas IMM John Wylde Hamburg American and John Cusick Lombard. Union leaders included William P. Dempsey Adam McBain William O'Brien and George W Brady. K of I members listed P J McCarthy William Hoban Edward Bulger Robert J Colbert.
Robert Washburn urged the Railroad Board be granted mandatory powers before the railroad committee. He cited repeated legislative attempts and Republican platform support, noting prior Senate defeats but urging passage now. William B. Lawrence argued the board attorney should earn more than 5000 dollars annually.
An indictment accuses McNicholas of selling unmined ore and paying fictitious dividends through the St Joe Quartz Mining and related companies formed in 1908 1909 in Idaho and Oregon. The case notes a par value of 1 but shares sold from 12 1 2 cents to 7 cents with a 17 1 2 cent dividend. He was arrested and admits his name but used an alias. He traveled from Portland to Boston after staying at the Lafayette House and Poland Spring House.
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James H. McNicholas, arrested in Boston, lives in Portland and was in the city days before a Sept. 26 indictment in Cleveland with his brother Thomas on a misuse of the mails charge tied to mining schemes in Oregon and Idaho. Authorities say he sold vast amounts of stock in properties worth little.
James L. MacNicholas was indicted in Cleveland on charges of inducing hundreds of northern Ohio residents to invest in alleged worthless mining stocks. He allegedly obtained over a million dollars from his operations aided by George T. Biggs of Elyria who compiled the investor list. R. T. McNicholas is being sought by federal authorities.
Representative Benjamin F. Sullivan of East Boston asked the Supreme Court to determine the constitutionality of a law that would collect a one cent toll from passengers using the East Boston tunnel. The matter was laid over until today.
The rules committee recommended admission of a resolution to appoint a special commission to investigate child labor in the Commonwealth. The House adopted the committee's recommendation.
Josephine Arabella 21 lies dying at Re lief Hospital from a self inflicted left breast wound. This marks her fourth suicide attempt since last fall after two roof top rescues by neighbors and a failed throat cut attempt on Nov 8. She bought a 38 caliber revolver and cartridges with her aunt Sabina Nicolatti and fled to her room to fire the shot. Her brothers Giuseppi and Cologero live with the aunt. father died at sea returning to Italy. mother long dead.
The House ordered a vagabond bill to a third reading by 117 to 382. Douglass of East Boston called it unnecessary and warned it would allow police to detain and interrogate individuals with grudges. Tufts of Waltham cited 33 out of state pickpockets arriving to target crowds at a forthcoming event.
A judiciary committee meeting addressed high coal prices. A. Franklin Priese of Haver Hill argued a bill to align prices with trade agreements among dealers and clubs. Alfred C. Bettely of the Boston Coal Exchange denied any price fixing or coal dealer combination.
The committee on legal affairs heard bills to make New Year’s Day and March 17 legal holidays. Representative Lydon of South Boston supported the New Year’s proposal while Clarence J. Rowley backed the March 17 bill. Mrs. Stella Weston of Arlington, representing 1000 DAR members, opposed more holidays until Lincoln’s Birthday is added.
A hatpin bill approved by the committee on legal affairs imposes a one month jail term for violations. It follows a petition discussed in the Legislature and bans hatpins extending beyond half an inch past the crown unless equipped with a safety device.
A hatpin safety bill, long stalled in the legislature, draws renewed attention as lawmakers warn of a real societal threat. Prominent figures Robert M. Washburn of Worcester and William Robinson of Chelsea urge mandatory safety devices, amid rumors of a hatpin guard manufacturing trust forming to push the law.
In Washington on January 28 the House passed the river and harbor appropriation bill totaling 40.8 million dollars. A bid to recommit the bill with instructions to strike the Atlantic intercoastal canal expenditures failed 82 to 160.
A brief notice promotes reading Breezing By With Peggy a Torchy story full of charm and wit in next Sunday's Post Magazine. It highlights Torchy's cleverness and invites readers to enjoy the feature.
Massachusetts Woman Suffrage Association wins an early victory as the elections committee votes 8 to 3 against transferring the straw ballot bill to the constitutional amendments committee. The move suggests the bill may be killed in committee.
Legislative representative Michael F. Culliney argues anti suffragists may use the straw ballot to delay the real issue. He says votes exist to kill the bill and that a straw vote would obscure the push to allow the people to vote on suffrage. He calls the move a last desperate effort to confuse the issue.
President-elect Wilson attended a farewell dinner hosted by the New Jersey State Senate in Atlantic City. Republicans and Democrats were present. only senators could attend. An informal program of fun followed a train trip from Trenton, with plans to return to the State House tomorrow.
Mayor Fitzgerald urged the Roads and Bridges Committee to grant the Highway Commission authority to divert part of automobile license revenue to parkways in the Boston and Metropolitan Park systems. Colonel Sohier and Lewis R. Speare opposed the bill arguing Boston highways do not require the funding.
Miss Maud Younger a California advocate for girl workers faced arrest with nine strikers in New York for disorderly conduct. She refused to pay a $2 fine in night court, with others also resisting, and remained in custody late at night.
Mrs Younger told Magistrate Herbert she did not refuse to move from a shopping district corner. Miss Fola La Follette vouched for her, saying Younger stood a block away from where police say the arrest occurred and did nothing to incite a crowd. Meanwhile idle garment workers vote on a four week strike over a wages scale 10 to 6 percent proposed by trade groups, ballots in several languages, results due later in the week.
Fire at the Appleton Hotel for colored persons in Haverhill forces 12 guests to flee in nightwear. Mary Proctor is saved from suffocation by Rufe Crittenden who lowers her to the street. Jim Davis, the night clerk, jumps to the street from a second story window and breaks his leg. Several others escape as stairways burn away and damage nears $5000.
The Wakefield Co operative Coal Company completed its opening subscription week with 250 stockholders enrolled. Under law no further subscriptions are allowed until a meeting is held, after which a new subscription period may begin. The club reports a working capital of $2000.
One thousand two hundred Berkeley pupils are withdrawn from public schools after a joint order by the boards of education and health compelling immediate smallpox vaccination following several cases of the disease.
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