Deep Waterway Fight Fails as Taft Denies Pork Barrels
In a turbulent political note the Deep Waterway scheme loses momentum as Secretary Dickinson's river and harbor estimates for 1918 omit major projects. President Taft urges pork-barrel restraint while Illinois sees small appropriations for Calumet river and Chicago river. Next Monday Cook County Democrats celebrate new officials with planned demonstrations and speeches.
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Mate Ponte
Bank
Porka
Washington
Dickinson
Bixby
United States Army
Congress
Coemney MacVeagh
Taft
Chicago
Illinois River
Missouri River
St. Louis
Kansas City
Army
Ilinois
Calumet River
Waukegan Harbor
Chicago River
Cook County
John
Hruby
Springfield
War Department
Jake
Chicago Aldermen Create Five Member Committee on Garment Strike
Chicago city council adopts Merriam resolution urging a three member panel to mediate the 40 000 garment workers strike amid protests it favors the milk trust. Aldermen Dunn Hey Utpatel and Twigg denounce the milk ordinance as unconstitutional while Mayor Busse and City Clerk Connery join the panel.
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Martin, Hey, Atpatel
Twigg
Milk Trust
Chicago
Merriam
Foell
Busse
Connery
Ryan
Dunn
City Milk Commission
Twenty-fifth Ward
Martin
Hey
Utpatel
Committee
Edison Park
Health Department
Wilson
Harkin
Teller
Michael Zimmer
Thomas F. Scully
William B. Dever
Nonpartisan Organization Committee
Richert
Reinberg
Zimmer
Frank J. Wilson
Scully
Anton J. Cermak
William F. Ryan
Dever
Frank P. Danish
Illinois gains four congressmen as census totals rise
Latest census figures place Illinois at 6,638,691, boosting representation by four seats. Cook county will supply two, reflecting an 817,041 increase since 1900 and a 16.9 percent population rise. Despite the gain, politicians lament Illinois securing only twenty-nine congressmen.
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Rives
Ane Lae
Condon
Presman
Ken Evans
Edward O. Brown
Harry P. Dolan
Gregory
Samuel Alechuler
Joseph B. David
BE. B. Tolman
Richard J. Finnegan
A. F. Reichman
Roger C. Sullivan
House
State Senate
Friends of
Deneen
Charles F. Hurburgh
Galesburg
Senate
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Tals
Peter Bartzen
County Civil Service Commissioners
County Civil Service Board
Bartsen
Charles J. Vopiaina
Hillam Lagnertte
Democrats
David R. Forgan
John M. Roach
Consolidated Tradition Company
United States Circuit Court
Dever and
the United Societies
E. J. Stack
William J. Moxley
Frank Buchanan
Lundin
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A.cmyth
The
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Subway
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