Statesmen Report on Budget and Foreign Affairs 1899
The annual message notes revenues above 450 million dollars with no embezzlement, praise for public officials, and summaries of foreign policy. It highlights the Brazil republic shift, awakened Central American peace efforts, Chinese laborer regulations, the Danish Carlos-Butterfield claim, cordial ties with France, the Samoan treaty effects, and ongoing reforms in taxation and governance in the Pacific realm.
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Senate
House of Tives
Congress
Hayti
Brazil
Salvador
Guatemala
Central America
United States
Republic of Salvador
Ezeta
Mexico
Great Britain
Edmund Monson
French Republic
Germany
Sweden
Norway
Land Commission
Municipal Council
Malietoa
Revenue and expenditures figures for 1890 to 1892 summarized
The report outlines the government’s fiscal data for 1890 to 1892. It details total revenues and expenditures, adjustments for postal receipts, and the resulting surpluses. It notes customs and internal revenue gains, pensions excess, and projected 1892 receipts and expenditures, plus silver bullion policy impacts and collecting costs.
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Internal Revenue
Treasury
Ashows
Post Office Department
Oe Yee Ee Ee
Customs Administration
Interior Excerpt Highlights Indian Policy and Utah Views
The secretary of the interior outlines vast department work, congressionally backed land cessions, and settlement aims. It notes unsettled treaties with tribes, shortfalls in Sioux payments, and calls for corrected appropriations while praising land patent progress and the 1890 census outcome for new representation apportionment.
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Secretary of the Interior
Congress
Executive
United States
Sisseton
Wahpeton
Sac and Fox
Iowa Pottawattamies
Coeur d'Alene
Land Office
Utah
Wilford Wood*ruff
Mormon Church
Woodruff
Wyoming
Idaho
Atlantic
Pacific
Patent Office
Special Attention to Report of the Secretary of Agriculture
The report highlights ambitious farmer agitation and the department's focus on farmer interests. It notes rising market prices for wheat corn oats and barley and a large export rise in live animals fowls beef dairy and butter. The sugar beet industry shows promise and treasury support backs tariff transfers to agriculture.
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Secretary of Agriculture
Secretary of the Treasury
Department of Agriculture
Its Permanent Effects Upon Trade and Prices
The article assesses long term impacts of the policy on commerce and inflation, noting considerable uncertainty about how trade patterns and price levels will adjust over time. It discusses theoretical mechanisms while citing limited empirical evidence available from early studies.
Trade and industry show marked improvement in 1890 year
The year 1890 sees a broad upturn in general trade and industry with a favorable balance of exports over imports, larger bank clearings, and fewer failures. Exports rose by over 115 million dollars, driven largely by agricultural products, while pig iron and steel production surged. Labor remains largely employed and prices for agricultural goods buoyant despite foreign monetary upheavals in England.
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Bank Dearings
New York
England
London
Push for federal action on railroad couplers and brakes
Congress could initiate a uniform safety program for interstate freight rail operations. Legislation would need broad testing to decide best content and balance effectiveness with cost. Delays cost lives and injuries, urging managers and lawmakers to act now.
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Congress
Commission for Title Trials on Spanish Mexican Grants Urged
The author urges Congress to create a commission or tribunal to settle title disputes arising from unadjusted Spanish and Mexican land grants. Bills have advanced in both houses, and delaying settlements harms settlers and communities. The New Mexico governor recommends modifying provisions on small farm land holdings per the interior secretary.
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Congress
New Mexico
Secretary of the Interior
Government Use of Telegraph by Post Office
The telegraph can serve rapid written communications if contracted with telegraph companies, similar to railroads. The Post Office Department should test this approach on defined rates, with legislation enabling experimental use.
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Post Office Department
National Bankruptcy Law and Copyright Reciprocity
The text urges Congress to enact a uniform national bankruptcy law to remove inconveniences of partial state insolvency codes and to provide simple permanent rules for insolvent debtors. It also renews support for legislation granting copyright protection to foreign authors on reciprocal terms for American authors.
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Congress
Law Governing Civil Service Appointments
The law relating to the civil service has been executed by those with appointment power in the classified service with fidelity and impartiality. The report shows a large amount of work completed during the year despite very limited appropriations, and the service is increasingly satisfactory.
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Europe
Free and Honest Elections for National Life
Excerpt argues for federal supervision of congressional elections to curb fraud and minority control. Cites constitutional support and practices like ballot voting, inspector duties, and deputy marshals. Warns violence and lawlessness persist, urging duty and courage to uphold the Fifty-first Congress’s reform efforts.
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Hmany
Supreme Court
Congress
Circuit
House of Representatives
United States
North
South
Benjamin Harnicon
Northwest Summary Highlights War with Gas and Water Firms
This week in the Northwest reports Duluth council feuds with gas and water companies, talks of a Mankato beet sugar factory, and Blue Earth county elects Mies Stevens as ladies superintendent. Other items note Stillwater sawmills closed with a record season, Mankato Methodists vote for women lay delegates, Barnum post office burglary, and multiple local deaths and arrests including Edwin McGowan at St. Cloud, Frank Wood's capture, and Royalties in St. Paul.
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Duluth
Mankato
Blue Earth County
Mies Stevens
Laverne
Stillwater
Edwin McGowan
Staples
St. Cloud
Frank Wood
Renville County
St. Paul
John Lundberg
Milbank
Minneapolis
Joblem
J. B. Olsen
Leach Lake
Rush City
Destruction of Great Northern Bridge and Frontier Turmoil
A Great Northern bridge over the Marais between Mallory and Fisher was destroyed by fire disrupting travel briefly. Reports detail a Fargo resident L Holstein dying of suspected heart disease, a wood pile accident in Grand Forks injuring George Challis, a loose mountain lion at Archies Point Conkling, and rising frontier tensions with settlers returning home amid Sioux freight fears at Mandan. Elevators issue script for wheat payments as money tight. Fire losses near Lisbon total about 5000 with unknown cause. Lakota fears grow as Indians rove and threaten homes, prompting defense talk. Fred Clark of Mandan dies at Brainerd from pistol wound at a public meeting. NP plans six artesian wells on the Dakota division to aid water supply and identify flowing wells. A Turtle Mountain boy body found after disappearance, and an Indian assault on Dora Wright in Bismarck bank district alarms residents. NP forced to press cars to meet wheat traffic.
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Great Northern
Marais
Mallory
Fisher
L. Holstein
Fargo
George Challis
Ingalls
Grand Forks
Archie's Point
Conkling
Mandan
Fort Yates
St. Paul
8. W. Bell
Lisbon
Fred Clark
Northern Pacific
Brainerd
Northern Pacific Railroad Company
Dakota
Buffalo
George Pettie
Turtle Mountain
Willow Creek
Biemarck
Dora Wright
Capital National Bank
South Dakota Capital Vote Totals and Local News
Pierre leads with 41 800 votes to Huron 34 523 a 7 277 margin Yankton reports two shooting injuries while Castalia loses Presiding Elder C B Clark to a horse kick Editor Oxley closes Burling printing office in Chamberlain creditors seek Gould Burton whereabouts near Faulkton pay day prompts disappearance of Gould Sturton Twelve Odessa German families relocate from Yankton to spread across the state Timber agents survey illegal cut near Deadwood Y M C A site dispute in Sioux Falls Mrs Hattie C Philips contributes 10000 toward building Moody County bank obtains injunction against tax list delivery to the county treasurer testing board of equalization legality
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South Dakota
Pierre
Huron
Yankton
C. B. Clark
Castalia
Oxley
Burling
Presho County
Chamberlain
Faulkton
Gould & Burton
Gould & Sturton
Odessa
Russia
United States
Wood Camp
Deadwood
Sioux Falls
Hattie C. Philips
Warrant Seeks Burlington Principal for Floggings
A warrant issued at Racine targets the Burlington school principal accused of flogging the son of Joseph Hoch. Other items note Fond du Lac dogs dying from poison, a missing Martin Beardsley near Waterford, creditors seizing property, and a six week gap without a county treasurer in Ashland. Gov Hoard to lecture on dairy after retirement. census workers unpaid. odd assorted local items from Wisconsin and Iowa.
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Racine
Burlington
Joseph Hoch
Fond du Lac
Martin Beardsley
Waterford
Ashland County
Methitable Wright
Whitewater
Wright
Hoard
Madison
Appleton
Martin Wilson
Hollandtown
Dv.pere
St. Hubert
Holland
Tomah
St. Paul Racine
John Underwood
John Brown
Victoria
Cedar Creek
Ozaukie County
She Rises as a Beacon of Courage and Change
A lyric tribute quotes Rose Hartwick Thorpe praising a woman who speaks fiery truth, rises from oppression, climbs toward light, leads with courage, and embodies power and protection for her sons and future. The passage frames her as a divine guiding force in the struggle for justice.
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Rose Hartwick Thorpe
Ladies’ Home Journal
A Lesson for Husbands and A Jersey City Shoe Joke
In a kitchen drama set on a summer day, Squire Sadley grows irritable over haying heat and household neglect. A fired-up family scene reveals fatigue, love, and a vow to change, ending with renewed happiness as Mary and the squire conspire to celebrate twelve years of marriage and a brighter future. A closing humor bit follows a Jersey City blacksmith where a man jokes about his skull being thick, contrasting lighter amusement with the domestic tale.
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Israel Newcomb
Israel
Sartin
Will Dallas
Mary Sadley
Kitty
Titus
Squire
Mrs. Sadley
Argus
Bay Barton’s
Mary
Dallas
Kingsley Church
Eunice
Amy Randolph
New York Ledger
New York
Jersey City
Tax on hair powder condemned by Pitt proposal
On February 23 1795 Mr Pitt proposed a tax on persons wearing hair powder. He estimated revenue at 210000 pounds annually but the tax killed the custom as its use ended immediately. Wearers who continued were called guinea pigs since one guinea was the tax per head.
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Pitt
Woman Burned by Barrel Fire in Lafayette Incident
A Lafayette woman attempted to remove odor from an alcohol barrel by dropping a live coal into the bung. She was injured, with nine tenths of the barrel damage striking her and the rest breaking windows. Detroit Free Press notes the accident will prevent her walking order before January 1.
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Lafayette
Ind
Detroit Free Press
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