Detailed Tariff Skirmish and Political Feud at Annapolis
Washington April 15. The senate opened with a test vote on West’s resolution criticizing Secretary Gage and retroactive tariff provisions. Morrill won 24 to 23, as Republicans plus one silver Republican supported the motion, while Democrats Populists and two silver Republicans opposed. The session highlighted divisions over the Dingrey bill and annual appropriation debates.
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Bhattac
Cain
Annapolis
Washington
Senate
Morrill
Committee On Finance
West
Gage
Dingrey
Yeas
Baker
Burrows
Carter
Clark
Cullom
Davis
Foraker
Frye
Gallinger
Hawley
Hanna
Hansbrough
Hoar
McMillan
Mantle
Mason
Nelson
Platt
New York
Pritchard
Proctor
Quay
Spooner
Warren
Wellington
Bate
Butler
Cannon
Chandler
Chilton
Cockrell
Gorman
Gray
Harris
Kansas
Heitfeld
Lindsay
McEnery
Martin
Mills
Morgan
Pasco
Pettigrew
Pettus
Rawlins
Turner
Turple
Walthall
Kyle
Allen
Montana
South Dakota
Utah
North
Wool Manufacturers’ Association
Ilegal
Congress
Finance Committee
Simpson
Bailey
DeArmond
House
Colored cadet appointment stirs Ohio naval debate
Congressman Shattuc of Ohio nominated D. J. Bundy a Cincinnati color lad for a cadetship at Annapolis. He defends the selection amid murmurs and student threats, saying the appointment was earned fairly after a competitive exam. Shattuc vows to help Bundy face potential hostility and notes the district has 7,400 Black residents.
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Shattuc
Annapolis
Washington
Shattue
Ohio
D. J. Bundy
Cincinnati
Naval Academy
General Shattuc
Bundy
President Angell Nominated as Turkish Minister
Washington confirms President Angell of Michigan State University as minister to Turkey. Other nominees include George N. West to Pictou Nova Scotia and George D. Meiklejohn to be assistant secretary of war. James B. Angell, Rhode Island born 1829, long in Michigan, Brown University graduate, educator and church leader. Bryan lauds the foreign commission picks with Stevens and Wolcott prominent and Paine undecided.
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McKinley
Washington
President Angell
Michigan State University
United States
Turkey
Senate
George N. West
District of Columbia
Pictou
Nova Scotia
George D. Meiklejohn
Nebraska
James B. Angell
Rhode Island
Michigan
Brown University
Angell
William J. Bryan
Stevenson
Wolcott
Paine
Agent barred from mails in Dean brokerage case
Washington April 14 Another agent of the late E S Dean brokerage case M I Massey of Indianapolis was barred from the mails by a fraud order yesterday Postmaster General Gary issued lottery orders against Inland Investment and Loan Chicago and One Hundred Dollars Investment Bradford Pa
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Washington
E. S. Dean
M. I. Massey
Indianapolis
Ind
Gary
Inland Investment and Loan Company
Chicago
One Hundred Dollars Investment Company
Bradford
New House Bill Aims To Ease Rail Traffic Rules
Representative Shannon of New York introduces a bill to amend anti trust laws to permit railroad traffic agreements. The measure is described as far less comprehensive than Senator Foraker's proposal.
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Washington
Shannon
New York
Foraker
Arthur on an injunction and.
Chief P M Arthur of the Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers expressed that no court can prevent workers from talking to others, criticizing the federal injunction in Consolidated Steel and Wire strike as excessive. He noted the case may reach the US Supreme Court and cautioned the injunction may not endure.
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Cleveland
P.M. Arthur
Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers
Consolidated Steel and Wire Company
United States Supreme Court
New Dyke Halts Most Flooding on Missouri River
Omaha dispatch reports a new dyke above Florence lake nearly stopping the flood as Missouri water rises to 16.9 feet. Florence break worsens flooding in Fant and North Omaha while rail yards on both sides suffer. Town side levee holds. Omaha area sees widespread squatters displaced and stock losses reported along farmsteads south of Council Bluffs. The flood, the worst since 1881, is near its crest and may recede soon.
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Omaha
Neb
Florence Lake
Fant
North Omaha
Omaha Terminal Company
Tinian Pacific
Burlington
Columbia
Willow Springs
Omaha and
Grant
Jowna
Union Pacific
Council Bluffs
Florence
Pierre
Sioux City
Missouri
T Hey
Iowa
St. Joseph
Iowa Official Extravagange Report Highlights State Office Extravagance
The House committee investigating state officers reports excessive staffing and high salaries in clerks and capitol janitors, urges curbing executive council spending, and flags unreliable census costs of over 128000. It criticizes uniformism but pins faults on the system, not individuals. The piece notes a senate amendment to allow liquor manufacture in towns by petition, a repeal-era shift since 1882.
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Moon Prining
Panutt
Des Moines
House Committee
House
Capitol
Executive Council
MacFarland
Senate
Mississippi Levees Struggle to Hold Swift River Floods
The Mississippi rise near Vicksburg and along the Louisiana levee system is acute. Thousands work day and night to keep embankments intact as the delta floodwaters threaten crops and force evacuations. Negroes flee cabins to high ground. two drown near Greenville. relief sent to Sunflower. Helena pumps struggle. At Terre Haute an investigation shifts from gambling to theft in a women’s cloak room.
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Memphis
Tenn
Vicksburg
Louisiana
Mississippi
Greenville
Davis Island
Rosedale
Sunflower District
Helena
Governor Pingree vetoes Flint charter bill plea for home rule
Lansing notes Governor Pingree vetoed the Flint charter bill and urged municipal home rule. The house overrode the veto on the bill, and also approved a measure to pay county officers a salary after Jan 1 1899 with fees to the county treasury. The senate backed a joint resolution to submit a constitutional amendment for an educational qualification of electors.
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Lansing
Mich
Pingree
Flint
House
Senate
Wisconsin Senate passes soldiers' home saloon bill
April 15 Madison reports the senate filed the soldiers' home saloon bill after assembly passage. A substitute for Berger's labor bill was adopted but not engrossed or third read. Three bills moved to third reading: intermediary prison, board of immigration, and the plumbers' bill.
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Wisconsin
Madison
Senate
Assembly
Berger
Committee On
State Affairs
Board of Immigration
Abbreviated Telegrams Peek at Revenue and Reform
Water fills several Dubuque cellars as goods shift to upper floors. London papers mock US bimetallic mission. Obituaries note Henry W. Blake in Springfield and others in Montreal and Panama. Inglewood Bureau offers forty acres for unemployed to garden. Sixth and Eighth Avenue railways valuation at 4 million to NY. NY groups urge hearing on mayor veto. Chicago plans pneumatic mail tubes within two years. Mine snowslide kills man White Bred Tulford and stepson. Longmead Iron and Conshohocken Tube in receivership with $300,000 liabilities. Rev Mellvaine resigns NY Presbyterian for Episcopal. Yale president Timothy Dwight resign rumor. Chicago Union League endorses against Humphrey street railway bills.
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Dubuque
Globe
St. James’ Gazette
Pall Mall Gazette
London
United States
Springfield
Mass
Flenry W. Blake
Montreal
Bercard
Panama
Robinson
Massachusetts
Inglewood
Chicago
Bureau of Charities
Third Avenue Railroad Company
New York City
Sixth
Eighth Avenue
New York
Greater New York
United
Senate and
Assembly
Strong
Baltimore
Keteham
Ida
White Bred Tulford
Longmead Iron Company
Conshohocken Tube Company
Conshohocken
James Hall Mellvaine
Protestant Episcopal Church
Timothy Dwight
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Coates
M. Stoskopf
W. N. Cronkrite
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