House Democrats Defiant In Face of the Gag Rule
The House adjourned after a day of obstruction as Democrats resisted a gag rule on general debate the District of Columbia appropriation bill. Minority Leader Williams pledged not to be intimidated and promised to use every rule to force legislation for the people. The roll call ended in a party stalemate at 8:42 p.m.
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Washington
House of Representatives
Dalzell
Pennsylvania
Payne
Williams
District of Columbia
Messrs Payne
Committee On Rules
Remar
Congress
Nebraska
Parker
Bryan
Oratory
Resolutions Committee
Denver
Murray Kentucky under guard against night riders
Acting Governor Cox ordered a mounted second regiment to Murray to quell nightly raids by about 150 night riders. Judge Wells asked for troops as townsfolk armed themselves for defense. The militia arrived after calls to protect residents and tobacco interests. authorities warned of more violence and urged citizens to form law and order leagues.
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Commercial Tribune
Murray
Cox
Whbitesburg
Middlesboro
A. J. G Wells
Kuksey
Hopkinsville
A. J. G. Wells
J. A.edwards
American Tobacco Company
Wells
Liberty
Brinkley
Taft outlines religious affairs in the Philippines in Chicago talks
Secretary of War Taft spoke at the Interdenominational Social Union on Philippine religious policy and land issues, then addressed the Hamilton Club's Appomattox Day event. He discussed church property, U.S. rent payments, and the role of Protestant missions alongside Roman Catholic concerns, urging education and self-government for Filipinos.
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Chicago
William H. Taft
Interdenominational Social Union
Philippines
Hamilton Club
Appomattox
Mr. Taft
International Union
Rome
United States
Congress
Islands
Taft
Appomattox Bay
Grant
Lee
Roads May Break Compact Against Convention Rates
Central Passenger Association officials say the pact against convention rates will be broken at the Chicago meeting. Ohio two cent fare law allowed state limits on traffic charges while preserving excursion and special occasion fares. Officials expect eighty six requests for special rates as liberal concessions are seen to boost traffic and revenues.
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Commercial Tribune
Columbus
Central Passenger Association
Chicago
Ohio General Assembly
Kansan Bank President Killed in Train Shooting
The State Department reports an American banker, identity not yet confirmed, killed on a Constantinople bound train by a Syrian who says the pistol discharge was accidental. The Newton leader B Warkentin is identified as the deceased in Newton Kansas.
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State Department
Leishman
Constantinople
Kansas
Damascus
Newton
Kan
B. Warkentin
Warkentin
Kansas State Bank of
Admiral Evans Improves After Hot Springs Visit
In El Paso Robles Cel April 5 physicians report Admiral Evans greatly improved this morning. He slept well at night and all pain has subsided. The rear admiral noted the hot baths he was taken to at 10 o clock as beneficial.
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EL Paso Robles Hot Springs
Cel
Admiral Evans
Evans
Alsapp
Katie
Hays Open Door Policy at Stake
Washington reports Baron Rosen met with Secretary Root to discuss Manchuria influence. The United States asserts no recognition of Chinese Eastern Railway authority in Harbin municipal government and maintains open door policy amid Chinese protests over the 1896 Russo-Chinese Bank contract.
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Hays
Washington
Hay
Chinese Eastern Railway
China
Russo-Chinese Bank
Chine
Bryan 3 Friends Unable to Owing Populist Party
Three Bryan residents are named in a local public notice as unable to owe debts related to a populist party land purchase. The document outlines proceedings and deadlines for claims and filings.
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Bryan
Watson Snubs Nomination News in Jacksonville
Thomas E. Watson spent April 3 in Jacksonville where a reporter conveyed the Populist presidential nomination. He declined to commit to acceptance, saying it would be premature without official word and that he would decide after reaching his Thomson Georgia home that night.
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Jacksonville
Fla
Thomas E. Watson
Thomson, Ga
Threats Against Regie Plant Stir Murray
Murray Mayor Hughes reports serious threats against the Regie rehandling plant in Murray Kentucky. He says the town has quieted since troops arrived and no trouble is expected.
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Regie
Commercial Tribune
Paducah
Hughes
Murray
Negro Is Run Off from Trenton Jail
There is no truth in the Hopkinsville report that George Tutt a colored man was taken from a Trenton jail by masked men. Tutt was jailed for carrying concealed weapons and after sentence expired he was ordered to leave town. He complied and departed immediately.
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Commercial Tribune
Trenton
Hopkinsville
George Tutt
Tutt
Joint Convention Decided Upon in Indianapolis
President Thomas IL Lewis of the United Mine Workers said there will be a joint convention with miners and operators in Western Pennsylvania Ohio Indiana and Illinois to rehabilitate the interstate wage agreement in the central competitive field. He did not specify location or time but noted assurances the joint conference in Indianapolis next Monday at 3 a.m. will lead to a call for a joint convention.
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Indianapolis
Thomas IL. Lewis
United Mine Workers of America
Pennsylvania
Ohio
Indiana
Illinois
Lewis
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