Prohibitory Bill in the House and Senate action terms
In Des Moines reports detail bills introduced in the Senate and House including a prohibition bill followed by debate, amendments, and engrossment. The Senate considers licensing measures and railroad and tax provisions while the House passes or amends similar alcohol control proposals and related reform bills amid adjournments.
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Chabb
Farmers’ Protective Association of Iowa
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Graves
Fifteenth General Assembly
Committee On
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Baker
Campbell
Govarr
Claus
Jayten
Merell
Wolf
Ruse
Ruse! Appealed From the Decision of the Chef. Representatve Arpenter
Mr. Rusel
Hiright
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Benson
Loges
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Gusmore
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Washington Matters From Feb 25 Cable Updates
Secretary of State reports the death of James R. Partridge in Alicante by self-inflicted illness, and notes long service in Brazil and South America. House and Senate move on pensions for Civil War veterans and widows, direct presidential election proposals, and anti lottery mailing laws amid other foreign and domestic items.
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Ballingalli
Benson
Boggs
Carpenter
Dabney
Winterset
Gilliland
Head
Jews Council of
Angus
Holbrook
Johnson
Merrell
Rice
Russell
Mulcatine
Wuereas
Benj
Clayton
Pottawattamie County
Iowa
United States
General Assembly
Seventeenth General Assembly
Areland
Benjaman F. Clayton
Pottawattamie
Judiciary Committee
Wasumerox
Moulton
Illnois
Peoria
House
Converse
Gibson
Stewart
Texas
Springer
Hardeman
Broadhead
Hassel
Potter
J. Wise
Virginia
Morrison
Committee On Ways and Means
Belford
Secretary of the Interior
Senate
Ransom
George
Morrill
Ohio
Elford
Secretary of State
Germany
Finertoy
Congress
Wendell Phillip
McCowns
Stevens
Interstate Railway and Transportation Bureau
G. D. Wise
Mother of Washington
Fredericksburg
Dusu
Committee On Territories
Alaska
Mate
Foster
Madrid
Alicante
Spain
James R. Partridge
Partridge
Brazil
Lima
Harrison
House Committee On
Matson
Carlisle
Pariy
Reichstag
House of Representatives
Herr Lasker
Loring
Unite States
de Struve
St. Petersburg
de Giers
Hunt
Northern Pacific Company
Secretary of the Navy
Indian Territory
Birmingham
State Department
England
Secretary of the Treasury
Great Britain
Pendleton
Fort Wrangel
Canadian Pacific Railroad
Commissioner of Agriculture
Bureau of Animal Industry
Xoe Fo Pew
Pacific Coast
China
Railroad Collision Near Paris Shunts Freight and Passenger Trains
A February incident on the Indianapolis and St. Louis line near Paris left both engines demolished and cars piled in a wreck. Fireman Lindsey was killed and many passengers hurt, with reports of as many as twelve dead. The collision is blamed on disobedience of orders.
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Chicago
Indianapolis
St. Louis
Paris
Lindsey
Setting Sun Praise Upbeat Women Across Nations
The St. Louis Spectator praises American women as peerless while contrasting Britain and other regions. The essay extols women’s grace and intellect and references a theoretical theocracy under a flower wreath. It lauds beauty, virtue, and cultural influence with grand rhetoric.
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Patrik Conan
St. Louie
Henry James
Britain
Effort to Harmonize State Divorce Laws Continues
An attempt to standardize divorce laws across States is under way but all previous efforts have failed. An Eastern society woman favors secret divorces to spare sensitive ladies the publicity of divorce trials. The remark ends with a wry note: six days of labor make the seventh comfortable.
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Polite aside on marriage and wealth ends with a quip about polygamy and Mrs Fogg. The speaker, Fogg, is described as a rich man and the remark contrasts wealth with how it is spent.
Recollections of Marshall Adams Webster and Jackson
Ben Perley Poore recalls Chief Justice Marshall and peers of the era including John Quincy Adams, Daniel Webster, Andrew Jackson and Henry Clay. The piece notes Marshall as a long serving judge with plain dress and quirky joys, Adams’s aloof cabinet relations, Clay’s leadership of the Whig shift, and Jackson’s rise aided by Burr Van Buren and Livingston.
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General Jackson
Aaron Burr
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Edward Livingston
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Tennesssee
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Samuel Breck
White House
Mary Hilton
Hawley
St. John’s Church
Ramsey
Virginia
Slavery in the Hawaiian Islands Criticized by San Francisco Chronicle
A San Francisco Chronicle correspondent reports on Hawaiian labor conditions. Laborers on sugar plantations sign three year contracts and work eleven hours daily for eight dollars a month under harsh overseers. The piece condemns autocratic government, notes rising Chinese influence, growing Portuguese presence, and a declining native population.
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America
Hawaii
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