Doings at Des Moines introduces many measures
In the Iowa legislature, Monday February 7, the house rejected several bills, including Putnam’s measure granting large county power to raise the treasurer salary. Corrections on a vote about anti pooling left a tie. The judiciary proposed indefinite postponement on reducing house employes. In the senate, bills on night work pay, shorthand evidence, and commission hiring were debated, with no action. The senate planned an afternoon session for Pioneer Lawmakers. Friday’s session focused on waterworks law amendments, freight rate investigation, Hawaiian annexation, and building and loan contracts, along with tax and mortgage debates. Christie vs Hartshorn contest seen.
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Putnam
Stewart
Polk
Congress
Judiciary Committee
House
Senate
Lewis
Hig County
Hayward
Haywari
Pioneer Lawmakers’ Association
McArthur
Lothrop
Committee On Federal Relations
Iowa
Northwestern Grain Shippers’ Association
Public Health
Board of Health
Penick
Mitchell
Potter
Bremer
Powers
Jasper
Carr
Blake
Klemme
van Houten
Gibson
Plymouth
County
Christie
Christie- Hartshorn
Wright-lardin
Des Moines Moves in Legislature on Morality and Banking
Tuesday February 8 in Des Moines the legislature debated two bills by Senator Cheshire, one imposing a mulot tax on real estate used for prostitution or gambling and a shorthand note trial aspect. House debate covered private banks being state supervised and other measures, amid protests from Jobyists on the floor.
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Des Moines
Cheshire of
Polk
House
Santee
Barrett
Wokk
W. CG. U
Benedict
Bowen
Smith
Greene and Lambert
Junk
Vitus
Inventive device offers global typewriter telegraphy
Donald Murray of Sydney reports a patented system enabling an operator in New York to type copy for New Orleans and to operate a typesetting machine there, delivering ready forms. The device uses multiple telegraph lines to publish the same copy simultaneously in a dozen places, with ordinary currents and no clock-work machinery, capable of eighty characters.
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Donald Murray
Sydney
New South Wales
New York
New Orleans
Srass
De Lome Recall Shocks Washington Diplomacy
The Spanish minister Dupuy de Lome is recalled after a forged December letter in which he insults the US President. Madrid accepts his resignation. the White House and State Department deem the act serious but expect no friction with Spain. De Lome sought to shield his status with a preemptive resignation, while officials suspected forgery but pursued recall to end his diplomatic usefulness.
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Madrid
Enrique Dupuy de Lome
United States
Senor Canalejas
New York
Havana
Canalejas
Woodford
State Department
Gen. Woodford
Minister de Lome
Senor Gullon
Senor Dupuy de Lome
Washington
Senor Camnlejas
Senor de Lome
Legation
de Lome
White House
Spain
McKinley
Kia
Electric Light Poles and Distant Transmission Demands
The article notes cedar pole production from country swamps to meet long distance transmission needs. A firm shipped 150,000 poles last year with consignments to Buenos Aires, South America, Canada, and U.S. states including Texas, Utah, and Colorado. Poles are rafted in 20,000 bundles, raised, sorted, then used for fences or paving if not high standard. The piece also touches on suicide trends blandly, mentions Chinese methods, and a Kansas mortgage debt drop from 200-300 million in 1890 to about 40 million, with farmers paying down debt. It ends with a joke about twins called sardines in a Hojack exchange.
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Buenos
Ayres
South America
Canada
Texas
Utah
Colorado
Kansas
Kentucky entertainment tale hints at a deadly night
A column jumbles sensational items from Kentucky about a card game killing eight, senatorial fence worries, a Georgia postmaster firing at a critic, Detroit’s bigamy case, Washington reporting Havana calm, and a light inventor challenging Standard Oil. It also notes a 16 year old expelled for marriage and press censorship hindering war correspondents before the Maine visit as a pawn in international chess.
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Kentucky
Georgia
Detroit
Washington
S. D. Nickum
Indiana
Standard Oil Company
St. Louis
Havana
Maine
Spain
Exposure of Spanish trickery in De Lome letter affair
The De Lome letter reveals Spanish duplicity in reciprocity talks with Cuba. Washington demands disavowal of De Lome's unfriendly remarks and deception claims, and maintains Spain bears responsibility for the diplomat's initiative. Minister De Lome's relations with the U S are ended. Madrid must respond.
Views of the De Lome Affair in American Papers
A compilation of major U S newspaper reactions to the Dupuy de Lome affair. Pieces from the Cincinnati Enquirer Memphis Commercial Appeal Baltimore Sun Pittsburgh Chronicle-Telegraph Columbus Dispatch Indianapolis Journal Rochester Union and Advertiser St Louis Globe-Democrat Louisville Post St Louis Republic Cincinnati Commercial Tribune New York Sun New York Tribune New York World New York Journal Philadelphia Ledger New York Evening Journal discuss insult to McKinley, calls for recall, and potential diplomatic consequences with Spain, framed as a crisis over the Spanish minister’s letter.
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Snackville-West
Memphis
de Lome
Rochester Union and Advertiser
St. Louis Globe-Democrat
Washington
Madrid
Buffaloxpress
Dupiy de Lome
McKinley
Mekkinley
Dupuy de Lome
Louisville Post
St. Louis Republic
Spain
Cincinnati Commercial Tribune
Cal
New York Sun
New York
Guba
New York Tribune
Senor de Lome
Gon. Weyler
United States
Philadelphia
Nevw
York Journal
Private Bill Day Ends With Fort Defense Bill Passed
Congress confined Friday to private pension bills while filibusters kept the private calendar from moving. The House acted on fortifications and coast defenses, passing a $4,144,912 appropriation as the Senate remained in session only briefly. The week featured debates on the Kansas Pacific sale, Cuban independence, and Aldrich Plowman contested election, with Senate fights over various resolutions and the Indian appropriation bill dominating proceedings.
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House
Committee On Claims
Menning
Georgia
Iis
Powers
Pacific Railroad Committee
Union Pacific
Kansas Pacific
Senate
Chandler
Admiral Worden
Hampton
Merrimac
United States
Congress
Alen
Sudan
Cannon
Spain
Mr. Mason
Gneue
Unites States
Aldrich- Plowman
Alibama
Mr. Plowman
Aldrich
Messrs
Saylor
Ohio
Mann
Ilinois
Pox
Mississippi
Settle
Kentucky
al- Aridh-Plowman
Alabama
Mason
Ifate
Alien
Nebraska
Reed
House of Representatives
Sparks from the Wires headlines and future events
Bolivia fears a broader war with Peru and Argentina while boxing matchups loom in Buffalo between Kid McPartland and Lemon. The steamer Penland, aground off Chester, has been floated. Edward Mack, Ohio’s oldest man at 109, died in Uren and was buried in Sandusky. A New York Typographical Union funded pot plantings on vacant lots. Francis Carroll, an actor, was remanded in London on threats against actress Florence St John.
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Bolivia
Peru
Argentina
Kid McPartland
Lemon
Boxer
Buffalo
Penland
Chester Bar
Philadelphia
Liverpool
Edward Mack
Uren
Ohio
Sandusky
Typographical Union No. & of
New York
Ias
Francis Carroll
London
Florence St. John
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Loree
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Carney
Carroll
Cheshire
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Ellison
Erickson
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Funk
Garst
Gilbertson
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Jaspers
Hotchkiss
Druet
Eaton
Palner
Nepublicans
Alexander
Blanchard
Healey
Farley
Kossuth
Prentiss
Prentis
Committee On Elections
Kelly
Benor DE Lome
M’kinley
Legacion DE Espana
Ene
Bo eBid Carr
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Weyter
China
Hojak
Cuba
Cincinnat Vines-Star
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