Debate on Senate procedures and canal project in 1904 session
The Congress proceedings cover Senate debates on limiting unlimited debate, tariff concessions, and procedures. Highlights include Gallinger’s Canada annexation proposal, Lodge’s extradition correspondence, and Shiloh Park and Nicaragua canal discussions. Senate votes include a Missouri bridge permit, a national military park at Shiloh, and a currency bill debate in the House with urgent deficiency funding and a Banks widow pension bill.
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Bhnate
Dolp
Congress
Railroad Companion
R. Gallinger
New Hampshire
Canada
Gallinger
Great Britain
Continental Union
Committee On Foreign Affairs
Lodge
Gray
Delaware
Hill
Senate
Harriq
Shiloh Park
Mr. Turpie
Nicaragua
Banking and Currency Committee
House
Conference on Carlisle currency bill yields possible amendments
Secretary Carlisle and Chairman Springer conferred at the Treasury on amending the Carlisle currency bill. Springer may offer amendments including raising allowed circulation to match bank capital, and ensuring greenback deposits cover excess. Time for compliance could be extended two years. A substitute bill with all agreed amendments is favored over patching. The conference touched on other major floor amendments but did not resolve them.`
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Warren Street
Kennedy
DonaLd Kennedy
Roxbury
Mass
Carlisle
Committee On Banking and Currency
House
Springer
Messrs. Springer
Committee On
Banking and Currency
Walker
Treasury Department
House Committee On Banking and Currency
Banking Committee
Parson Arrested for Counterfeiting in Alabama Lookout Mountains
Treasury officials report the arrest of W. J. Morris, a preacher, in the Lookout mountains of Alabama on counterfeiting charges. Authorities seized several plate sets and a large batch of counterfeit silver coins, detailing the scope of the operation and the prosecution to follow.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Treasury Department
Lookout Mountains
Alabama
W. J. Morris
Southern Grocers push for lower carload freight rates
A large delegation from the Southern Wholesale Grocers Association urged the rate committee to cut interstate carload freight rates. The committee referred the petition to a special panel after speeches arguing that retail merchants benefit from same rates as wholesalers. Holiday rates of four cents per mile one way were approved for associated rounds and students during the holidays.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Nd Steam- Ric
Ation
Ab Atlante
Bouthern Wholesale Grocers’ Association
Joseph M. Brown
Western and Atlantic Railroad
J. M. Culp
The
Southern Railway
A Go Jackson
Georgia Railroad
Florida
H. Wright
Port Royal
Augusta
Bahlman
Mond
Atlanta
Nashville
Chattanooga
Montgomery
Memphis
Charleston
Savannah
Trasi
Eame
Southern Passenger Association
Associated Ronda
Reforming Alabama elections in Senate inquiry resolution
Senator Allen of Nebraska introduced a resolution calling a five member committee to examine whether Alabama had a republican form of government over the past two years and to investigate the election of U S senators and congressmen. The panel may probe fraud coercion or unfairness in state elections and related legislative elections. It may sit anywhere and compel witnesses and documents and report back with a bill or recommendation.
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Pasco
Florida
Senate
Missouri River
Jefferson City
Batc
Dem
Tennonsen
Shiloh
Lodge
Sénate
Turpie
Cullom
Allen
Nebraska
Alabama
Harris
Cockrell
Missouri
Peffer
Kansas
Guilinger
New Hampshire
Hawley
Military Affairs Committee
Berry
Arkansas
Public Lands Committee
Seaboard
Butler
South Carolina
Quay
Pennsylvania
E Contendi
Washiat
Reese
Beech
United States
Alabame
Kol Bame
Kol Bame Is Once Those Affized To the Cortificate, Gol. Reese
Dort
Morgan
Clouel Reese
Wnit
Anid
United States Senate
Congress of the United States
Congress
Want Hill Pardoned After Jury Petition For Clemency
Relatives and friends of Harry Hill, through attorney Ben Hull, petition the governor for executive clemency. They cite kidney disease and deteriorating health in confinement, claiming the punishment already fits the offense. A duplicate petition, identical save for signer count, was presented by 150 legislators.
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Boling
Harry Hill
Ben Hull
Porowry
Harry
Wretherry Hill
G. V. Gross
Georgia
Hill
Gallows Sentence for Myers and Alex Carr in Atlanta
In Atlanta Superior Court Alex Carr and Will Myers were sentenced to hang for murder. Myers showed clear defiance and composure during sentencing while Carr appeared unmoved and distressed, with the crowd watching the judge announce the doom set for Friday February 8 in the new year.
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Witth Myers
Alex Carr
Atlanta
Captain Bing
Willgore
Forest Crowley
Myers
Will Myers
Clark
Growth of the South industrial condition report
The weekly industrial report shows a quiet period with improvements in iron and lumber sectors. Coal production remains large with steady prices while textile mills stay busy and new mills and plant projects spread across Alabama, Georgia, Kentucky, Florida, and other Southern states, including new factories, mines, and rail facilities.
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Daight Mills
Chicopee
Mass
Alabama City
Alw
AW. Poe and Associates
Greenville
Tsactss MN Oa
Augnata
Louisville
Louisvile Millo
Americns
Ludlow
Coneond
N.C
Pensecola
Pla
Rickme T.and
Capital
Augusta
Industrial Fertilizer Co
Jacksonville
Fla
Leetrical Company
Lonsvill Ky
Manchester
Harriman
Tenn
Jonesboro
Ark
Houston
Ten
Fairmont
Gade
Fli
Laichton
Quito
Merdiau
Misa
Sernant Mewihis
Asios
W. Va
Walter Works
Fayetteville
Dawson
Hopkinville
Wayneevbe
Rickweal
Tern
Union
Lonney He
Hantavdls
Alt
Covington
Richmond
Wison
Monroe
Wheeling W. Va
Chattanooga
Novelist Stevenson Dead in Samoa
Advices from Apia Samoa dated December 8 report the death of noted English writer Robert Louis Stevenson from apoplexy. He was buried atop Pala mountain after dying mid novel. UK papers honor his influence, with Pall Mall Gazette calling him a notable figure and St James Gazette predicting wide grief in England and America.
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Samoa
Apia
Robert Louis Stevenson
Pala Mountain
Stevenson
Pall Mall Gazette
St. James Gazette
England
America
Duties on Cotton Bill Introduced in Calcutta Council
At a Calcutta council meeting on Monday James Westland introduced a bill to impose duties on cotton. He argued that without these duties the financial balance could not be achieved. The duties were to take effect immediately to secure the state benefit from large English cotton shipments.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Vice Regal Council
Calcutta
India
James Westland
No Substitutes For Royal Baking Powder
The Royal baking powder is portrayed as superior in tests and widely acknowledged by manufacturers and dealers. It warns against substituting cheaper powders, accusing rivals of higher profits and inferior materials, urging buyers to distrust off brands and insist on the Royal product.
Preventing Runaway Accidents in Russia and Odd Bits
A historic note describes a Russian method to stop runaway horses using a neck cord linked to the dashboard. It also includes stage quips about electric lights and a mother’s remark on God knowing all, plus brisk mentions of Ripans Tabules and Clover Root as remedies.
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Russia
Czar'n Dominions
Education and crime link seen in Lubbock remarks
Sir John Lubbock told a Paris sociology audience that English schooling rose from 1.5 million to 6 million pupils since 1870 while prison numbers fell from 12,000 to 5,000. The average annual penal servitude sentences for serious crimes dropped from 3,000 to 800. Public Opinion notes Miss Maxson and Miss Newwoman on registering and hats at court.
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John Lubbock
Paris
England
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