Five Attempt to Condemn Ballinger Chooses Party Split
Minneapolis dispatch reports five members of the Ballinger Pinchot committee adopt a resolution condemning Secretary Ballinger. The move, disputed by the rest of the panel, claims a binding majority despite claims a quorum was not present. Debate centers on full committee action and potential minority reports.
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Minneapolis
Minn
Richard A. Ballinger
Department of the Interior
Congressional Committee
Madison
Kansas
Duncan A. Fletcher
Florida
James
Graham
Nelson
George Sutherland
Rep
Utah
Samuel W. McCall
Massachusetts
Nelgon
Messrs
Sutherland
McCall
Gifford Pinchot
Etcher
Canninger
Roosevelt Tours Milwaukee German DayVisits
Former President Roosevelt spends a German day in Milwaukee touring the city, visiting trades schools, attending luncheons and dinners, and addressing large crowds. He rails at no speeches, alters his schedule, and plans to speak next in Freeport and Chicago. The Milwaukee Press Club produced a special edition for his events.
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Milwaukee
Wis
Roosevelt
Emil Seidel
White Fish Bay
Burley Tobacco Society Hails Rally Aimed at 1910 Pool
The Burley Tobacco Society district board adjourned in Lexington urging frequent county reports and aiming to sign 100000 acres for the 1910 pool by September 27. President LeBus warned members not to rest and emphasized hard work to win, doubling solicitors and expanding to Cumberland and Warren counties.
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Commercial Tribune
Lexington
The
Burley Tobacco Society
LeBus
Burley Society
Cumberland
Monroe
Warren Counties
Dixie guests flood Cincinnati for Southern exposition Day
Thousands from the South and Cincinnati residents converge on the expo grounds in a Dixie day spectacle. Congressman T. W. Sisson of Mississippi headlines as the day’s orator while Southern cities send delegations and Georgia watermelons weigh a total 1,150 pounds in the exhibits. The Cincinnati Southern railway adds relics honoring its role in Southern development.
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Dixie Land
Queen City
South
Boards of Trade and Chambers of Commerce
Cincinnati
T. W. Sisson
Mississippi
Country Club
P. Lincoln Mitchell
Georgia
Edward Hafer
Hafer
Dixie
Cincinnati Southern Railway
North Hall
King’s Mountain
County commissioners order $400000 return from Provident
County commissioners yesterday ordered the return of 400000 in county funds held by Provident Savings Bank and Trust, after the Queen City bank liquidation created double the legal maximum. The treasurer will receive the funds back, and Provident officials said the action complies with state law limiting public funds per depository to 400000.
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Provident Savings Bank
Provident Savings Bank and Trust Company
Eioehassaetelianeslavingbean Eta
Queen City Savings Bank and Trust Company
The
Provident
Queen City Bank
Queen City Bank & Trust
Queen City
Roth
H. Kroger
the Provident
Examiners of Banks Swap Places in Federal Shakeup
Twenty national bank examiners, about one fifth of the force, were transferred to new districts by Comptroller Lawrence O. Murray. The moves aim to reduce influence and ensure fresh oversight as the government tightens enforcement of the national bank act. Examiners in paired districts swap responsibilities, with John F. Zerbey and M. A. Kendall among those reassigned.
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Washington
Lawrence O. Murray
National Bank Act
Treasury Department
John F. Zerbey
Pennsylvania
M. A. Kendall
West Virginia
Henry P. Brightwell
W. L. Yerkes
Kentucky
J. K. McDonald
Georgia
Florida
J. R.stevens
Alabama
Mississippi
Louisiana
Fred Hull
Virginia
North Carolina
A A. Armstrong
South Carolina
Probers Examine Stock Purchases Tied to Franchise Pressure
New York September 7 The inquiry by a legislative committee into political corruption focuses on Louis Bedell once chairman of the state assembly railroads committee and his stock in the New York Transportation company after a 1900 bill granting the firm a unlimited citywide street franchise. The session opens with scrutiny of the New York Street Railway association and its role in bills favorable to the group and obstructive to reform efforts.
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Bedell
New York
New York City
Albany
New York Street Railway Association
Lewis A. Goodsell
Orange
Fred
Nixon
Malloy
Green
Raines
G. Tracey Rogers
Binghamton
New York State Street Railway Association
Traction
Wall Street
Ellingwood & Cunningham
Rogers
George Carpenter
Carpenter
New York Transportation
M. Linn Bruce
Ellingwood and Cunningham
H. H. Vreeland
Metropolitan Street Railway Company
Louis Badell
Senator Goodsell
G. T. Rogers
Elling Wood
Cunningham
Bruce
H. A. Robinson
Metropolitan Street Railway
Ellingwood
Morton Trust Company
L. Bedell
Great Britain Wins Key Points in Newfoundland Fisheries Case
The Hague ruling finds five of seven questions favoring the United States and two in Britain's favor. Justice Elihu Root hailed as delivering the era’s greatest legal presentation. The decision trims U S rights to regulate fisheries and hints at possible later arbitration.
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Great Britain
New England
Tion Court
Nicholas
Russia
John Hay
United States
Tribunal For Arbitration
the Hague
Root
Washington
United Staes
Hague Tribunal
State Department
Newfoundland
Rameau Island
Cape Ray
Quirpon Island
Magdalen Island
Labrador
Mount Joli
Newfoundland and Labrador
Hill Charges Extravagance in Contracts During Conservation Congress
At St Paul on September 7 delegates heard James J. Hill and Senator Beveridge praise conservation while criticizing federal overreach. Testimony traced Bedell and Goodsell era dealings with Ellingwood Cunningham. Pinchot received a rousing ovation as Hines scandal closed. Hill pressed quick, private solutions for irrigation and coal, warning against costly national machinery.
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ST. Paul
National ‘Conservation
Congress
Taft
Theodore Roosevelt
James J. Hill
Beveridge
Agriculture
Wilson
Hill
Clifford Pinchot
Edward C. Hines
Hines
Illinois
Lorimer
Senate
T. B. Baker
Condra
Indiana
Pinchot
National
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Ballinger
L. B. Gravis
Secretary Ballinger
Reclamation Service
James Roviding
Ollie M. James
James M. Graham
Fletcher
W. E. Purcell
North Dakota
Repubican
Nelson, Sutherland
Purcell and
Denby
Olmsted
Maine
Frank J. Flint
Califa
Conservation Congress
Burley
Latch
Royal Welcome
Southland
Theodore Roose
Velt
Music Hall
Pensacola
Raleigh
Bristol, Tenn
Nashville
Asheville
el Paso
Dallas
Atlanta
Tampa
North
W. I. Rice
Bristol
Tenn
Ment
Louis Bedell
Committee On Railroads of the State
Hague
Elihu Root
Elihu
Stubbs
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