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Newspaper
Bryan Morning Eagle
Location
Bryan, Texas, United States of America
Date
Mar 19, 1909
Page
1
The Ways and Means Committee, aligned with Republican members, votes to advance the bill without any amendments. Key figures and party names are cited as supporting the stripped bill, signaling a party line move in the legislature.
Washington March 18 The house ways and means committee agreed to report the Payne tariff bill without amendment. Broussard of Louisiana voted with the majority while all other Democrats opposed. The panel’s vote stood 13 to 6 and the minority report deadline was set for next Tuesday.
Governor Campbell transmitted to the legislature a message presenting eleven additional subjects for action. Topics include rail fare regulation, taxation reform, permanent school fund rehab and protection of public lands, banking oversight, insurance regulation, anti trust enforcement, railroad liability alignment with federal rules, liquor license tightening, state powered utilities for capitol needs, and modernization of inheritance tax law with delinquent tax collection provisions.
Sheriff Tilley reports the assailant who assaulted the young daughter of W. T. Simmons near Tokio used chloroform or a similar anesthetic to quiet her. The girl suffered memory loss for hours, partly from the drug and the fright, and said the man covered her face with a handkerchief.
A large fire in Texarkana on March 18 leveled Peek Street Baptist church, the College of Surgeons building, and Julius Scherer's residence. Total loss estimated at 33 000 dollars.
In Austin on March 11 the senate adopted a resolution for printing 8000 copies of the senate journal detailing the expulsion of the Sulphur Springs senator. The chamber spent the morning passing bills to establish experimental stations in multiple districts and to fund them at 5000 dollars apiece.
In Chicago diverse views greet the new tariff bill with mixed hopes and fears. Eugene Buffington of Illinois Steel warns the measure could blight steel if enacted with proposed provisions. J Harry Selz predicts the shoe trade will grow if hides enter free list. Lumber duty cuts may not affect prices, while wool dealers doubt benefits and wholesalers fear revenue impact.
Manila reports unfriendly reception of the Payne bill proposals due to limits on sugar and tobacco. Local commercial bodies plan to meet and cable protests, arguing for reciprocal access for Filipino products to America.
New York March 18 Elmer S Lee lecturer at the Medico Legal Society Waldorf Astoria argued Americans bathe too often. He claimed a man in the audience had not bathed in twelve years, eliciting smiles and gasps though no one admitted to the claim.
A Pasadena story attributing Harriman remarks on retirement contrasts with his actual stance. Officials indicate there is no immediate plan for stepping back from public life.
Mrs Mary H Armour state president of the Womans Christian Temperance Union of Georgia is in Chicago to address Illinois women about how Georgia went dry She urges church members not to stay home but to engage communities and she counsels couples to persuade husbands with guidance including a provocative suggestion about persuading husbands at home to support temperance.
Okmulgee, March 18. Miss Lena Spencer twenty two engaged to a young man shot herself in the head after a quarrel. The dispute with her fiancé, last Wednesday, left her despondent since.
News from Los Angeles reports Polish American actress Helena Modjeska seriously ill at her Bay Island home near Newport Orange County. Count Bozeut her husband attends her bedside as she battles long chronic kidney trouble now complicated by heart and lung affection. Modjeska born near Krakow Poland in 1844.
Selden S. Loving alias W R King completed a prison term in McAlester Oklahoma. The Jackson County Kansas sheriff met him with a requisition warrant and escorted him to Kansas to answer a charge of obtaining money under false pretenses. He is a physician.
Hopkinsville Kentucky March 18 Frank Bell a widely known newspaper man died here Thursday after a lingering illness He had been connected with many leading newspapers in the south.
Washington March 18 workers in iron and steel trades express alarm at the Payne tariff bill in a statement issued from Washington. The release is signed by L. Lewis vice president and John Williams secretary treasurer of the Amalgamated Association of Iron Steel and Tin Workers of North America.
Trustees of the Peabody education fund announce a $1,000,000 outright grant to the Peabody College for Teachers at the University of Tennessee in Nashville. The gift funds preparation of teachers for southern states.
El Paso reports Sam F. Bax, representing Waco interests, closed negotiations to buy a large tract of timber land in Lepicu territory, Mexico. A mill may be built and lumber shipped, with purchase from Torreon interests.
Pearson's Weekly recounts the Ottoman Empire's waning power from the Moorish loss in Spain to the 1882 British occupation of Egypt and the 1878 Berlin Congress losses. It notes Greek independence, Algerian annexation by France, and the ceding of Bosnia and Herzegovina and other reshufflings under Austria and Russia. A separate brief from Waco notes the death of Frank Zajicak Bohemian near Elm Mott.
In Nacogdoches Texas on March , Clay Morrison twenty one attempted to load an oversized bullet into a rifle. A charge of powder sprayed from the gun striking his right eye and causing injury.
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