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Newspaper
Dillon Tribune
Location
Dillon, Montana, United States of America
Date
Mar 19, 1897
Page
2
President McKinley asks Congress to address the financial crisis. He cites recurring deficits, rising debt, and declining gold reserves since 1892, urging a tariff bill and urgent revenue measures to restore fiscal stability and fund pensions.
Chairman Dingley outlines a bill projected to increase revenue by about 112 million dollars, detailing specific duty changes across metals, cottons, wool, sugar, tobacco, and agricultural goods. The plan shifts many items from free to dutiable lists and aims to protect farming while promoting domestic production.
The president sent a message to Congress detailing a persistent deficit of 137.8 million over three years, with January and February shortfalls totaling 10.257 million. He cited 264 million in bonds issued by the last administration and warned that lack of surplus weakens treasury and debt repayment.
Washington March 16 The Fifty fifth house organized with Thomas B Reed reelected speaker by a vote of 199 to 114 to 21 and 1 for Newlands The chamber then swore in members and chose officers including Clerk Alex McDowell Sergeant at arms Benjamin F Russell Doorkeeper William J Glenn Postmaster J C McElroy and Chaplain Henry M Conden The president's message and tariff bill drew strong applause.
The Senate opened its extra session with 87 members present and packed galleries. The day included reading the president's message, seating Kansas Senator Harris, and referring the credentials of Corbett and Senator as part of the credentials process.
A compact digest lists varied events across cities and states including a St. Louis packing house plan in Kansas City a Chicago gas asphyxiation a jail wedding in St. Louis a Missouri gubernatorial pardon and multiple crime accidents and public notices. The round up mentions settlements, endowments, and notable deaths and trials across the United States with many named places and people.
A collection of short notices reports drownings and deaths including Michael Holly in Lake Michigan and Colonel Jess Peyton dying, trades strikes and wage cuts in Pittsburg and Wisconsin, legislative moves on sugar beets and freight rates, ship routes to Liverpool and many local curiosities in towns like Dubuque St Louis Kearny Sibley and Webster City with mentions of public figures and events.
A sprawling dispatch notes a $12 000 poor house planned in Ford county Illinois John Boone dies by falling from a train near Porn Missouri post office robbing in Wichita Kansas telephones wage war in Keokuk Iowa county treasurer robbery in La Grange Indiana Missouri raises age of consent to 21 Judge Budd vetoes civil suit transfer bill in California Oklahoma enacts gold contract ban Eau Claire judgement against city for election notice St Paul Minneapolis Omaha railroad earnings over 3 million pounds Halliburton judge in Hillsboro dynamite blasts fatal for James Madden Salem Salvation Army commander ill in Canada Hoop Iron dissolves in Pittsburg initiative and referendum defeated in Kansas City ice floe breaks loose near Bay City Michigan with 200 fishermen missing Capitalists commission conducts Pittsburg furnace work.
A ledger of brief items reports a 103 year old George Gibson of Perry O T nominating a woman for city treasurer. deaths in Leavenworth Buffalo St Louis Mort Wayne Guthrie Beloit and more. robberies, arson, drownings, and legal actions across towns from Kan to Tex to Ill with accidental injuries and odd incidents.
Governor Bradley of Kentucky declines to intervene in the execution of Walling one of Pearl Bryan's murderers at Green Bay Wisconsin. Captain James Camm dies at seven. a veteran of the Florida and Mexican wars and the rebellion. Mr and Mrs W M Smith of Carroll Iowa celebrate their 60th wedding anniversary he aged 80 and she 77. Filgrim Congregational church in Sioux City IA crowded by railroad men to hear Rev J H Holman on life like a railroad. The German empress joins royal cyclists and Jenny Lind's daughter Mrs Raymond Maude writes a memoir of her mother. John Cooper Van Tassell oldest Greensburg New York resident dies aged percent years. His father William C Van Tassell fought in 1812 war. grandfather in the Revolution. Harriet Beecher Stowe statues being arranged by the Equal Rights club of Hartford. Gil Mosher dies at Beaver City Nebraska from a shot fired by P M Beeler. John Cody Ray Monroe killed Oscar Wincrim injured in a wreck on the Chicago and Eastern Mines railroad. Harry W Getz nerves shattered by overwork. he will rest and go to California with wife.
A collage of brief reports: Dar Muck of Wichita shots his wife by accident. Galesburg and other factories resume work. Fanny Dedreich killed by a cable car in Chicago. numerous other incidents include a St Louis bridge fall, tramps captured, a Lexington murder charge, India aid drives, land dispute killings, a factory for whey sugar in Wisconsin, Chicago fire victims, a bicycle ban by Prussia's empress, and Scovel the American reporter reaching Havana.
The president sent to the senate nominations for ambassador extraordinary and minister plenipotentiary to Great Britain John Hay and to France Horace Porter, with Henry White named secretary of the embassy to Great Britain. Hay, 59, a Indiana native born in 1839, has a long diplomatic and political career, while Porter, born in Huntington, Pa, 60, is a Harvard and West Point graduate noted for artillery work with McClellan, Rosecrans, and Grant.
In Carson on March 17 delays kept enough entrants from meeting the 10 needed for the wing shot championship, so the event was canceled. A sweepstakes series substituted with J A R Elliott and A P Bigelow competing while Elliott declined entry. Bigelow won first in the 10 straight kills, Murphy and Barnett tied for second. The 23rd race saw Elliott beat Bigelow 47 to 42. Sullivan arrived in Carson amid a brass band welcome.
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