Senate Debates Include Grosvenor on Altgeld and Morton Roast
The open senate session touched on an international monetary conference bill and a Nicaragua canal bill with no progress, while two speeches dominated: Grosvenor defended Ohio’s elections and attacked Altgeld, and DeArmond ridiculed Secretary Morton over a finance pamphlet. Merrill notes greenbacks and gold costs. Eckels defends currency policy amid banking questions.
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Washington
Senate
Chandler
Stewart
W. 8. Forman
Dunois
Bryan
Ohio
Crosvenor
Buckeye
Grosvenor
Altgeld
Chicago
Illinois
Altgeld F
Layton
Bushnell
McKinney
Bramwell
Rep
Debated Pamphlet Sparks Silver Incident in Cabinet Row
De Armand sharply attacks Secretary Morton over a "Mariner's Interest in Finance" pamphlet. He accuses the agriculture secretary of pandering to silver interests and mocks the feed for farmers. The outburst follows talk that Missouri's Melber would target the cabinet member amid the silver controversy.
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DeArmond
Grosvenor
Morton
de Armand
Melber
Republican Party
Pension Bill for Widow of Major Sanger Passes City
Washington lawmakers approved a bill pensioning Mary A Viel, widow of Major W. D. Sanger, Fifty-fifth Illinois Infantry, at 25 dollars per month. The measure was part of the house agenda yesterday.
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Washington
House
Mary A. Viel
W. D. Sanger
Fifty-fifth
Hinois Infantry
Wisconsin Senate Cets After University Bills
Wisconsin senate debate centered on a joint resolution urging regents to provide detailed university finances and staffing data for 1896. Assembly bills included taxing express companies, libel reform, Chippewa Falls fair funding, and ground improvements. Separate reports note a Chicago court verdict for Airs. Dreac against the Alingigs Central Railroad and Anna Allen of St. Louis, reputedly wealthiest, leaving no will with a $10 million estate.
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Madison
Wis
Senate
Withee
Davidson
Bullard
Wisconsin Editorial Association
Agen
Chippewa Falls
Chicago
Dan
Ksimma A. Dreac
Stein
Alingigs Central Railroad Company
Treat
van Buren Street
St. Louis
Anna Allen
Pittsfield
Mass
Treasury Guard Announcement at Canton Cantona Jan 2
Lyman J. Gage, banker from Chicago, accepted the treasury portfolio after a McKinley conference in Canton. He and Major McKinley discussed policy briefly, with Gage declining further comment. Gage traveled to Chicago later that night amid congratulatory notices from officials and reporters.
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Treasury
Gage
Cleveland
Major McKinley
Cornell
New York
McCook
McWinley
McKinley
Associated Press
Ffe
Chicago
Rise of Lyman J. Gage to Chicago bank presidency
Lyman J. Gage, born in De Ruyter New York in 1836, rose from bookkeeper to president of the First National Bank Chicago. He joined Merchants Savings, Loan and Trust, advanced to cashier then to VP and GM, led bank reorganization in 1882, and became president in 1881. He chaired efforts for the World’s Fair funding and joined major Chicago clubs.
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Canton
Lyman J. Gage
First National Bank
Chicago
McWinleys
Associated Press
Major MeKinley
de Ruyter
Madison County
New York
Jnglish
Merchants’ Savings, Loan and Trust Company
American Bankers’ Association
J. J. PL. Odell
Wirt Dexter
J.W. Doane
Gage
Sarah Wtheridge
Little Malls
N. Y
Cornelia Gage
Denver
Colo
Commercial and Union League
Illinois Solons Progress Slow as Sessions Open
Illinois legislators move slowly as the General Assembly begins. A heated half hour debate in the house over a joint resolution opposing the arbitration treaty with Great Britain ended with referral to the committee on federal relations. Merriam criticized Britain, while Needles was named chairman of the appropriations committee. Perry proposed election law changes and a flag-law repeal. Governor’s appointments await next week.
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Washington
House Committee On Banking and Currency
Mekels
Morrill
Cox
Tennessee
Eckels
Cook
Wisconsin
Binls
Springfeld
Tms
House
Senate
RR. C. Busse
Britain
Congress
Committee On
Federal Relations
Merriam
Hon
Needles
Appropriations Committee
Perry
Pingree Pardons Four In Michigan Murder Case
Governor Pingree visited Jackson prison and pardoned August Furhman Carl Voegler August Grossman and Henry Jacobs who were jailed for life for the 1873 Rogers City murder of Albert Molitor. The case drew scrutiny as Repke later claimed perjury and the pardon board concluded the real killers were dead or beyond law.
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Lansing
Mich
Pingree
Jackson
August Furhman
Carl Voegler
August Grossman
Henry Jacobs
Albert Molitor
Rogers City
Presque Isle County
Molitor
William Repke
Repke
State Board of Pardons
Disgraceful Row at Lansing Ends in Gunfire
Lansing Michigan January 29 Samuel L Caton a noted horseman who trained racehorses in Russia is involved in a shooting affray with his wife amid a pending divorce suit. He returned from Russia recently and planned to ship horses back there. He visited his former home and shot at a man named Scott then clashed with his wife who knocked him down with a club and he shot her in the cheek leaving a flesh wound.
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Lansing, Mich
Samuel L. Caton
Russia
Downey
Caton
Scott
Jle
Abbreviated telegrams report ill Lorimer and deaths
Representative Lorimer lies seriously ill at his Chicago home suffering nervous prostration and forbidden to see friends. Numerous obituaries list Chaghes Dolan in Chicago San Francisco widow Mrs J da Mlood W H Metche r and Sophia Nichols. A pipe collapse death from the Fifth Avenue fire is noted along with other political and business items across Illinois California and Kansas.
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Lorimer
Chicago
Jeremiah O'Rourk
Fifth Avenue
Monroe Street
Andrew Jackson Smith
St. Louis
Smith
Louis
Ited States Army
Tanner
William St. Simpson
Vienna
Johnson County
Tlinois State Board of Pharmacy
Boyd
Cleveland
Co. Co. Merrill
Los Angeles
Cal
Mexico
Dresno
Cab
Chaghes Dolan
San Francisco
J. da Mlood
New York
W. H. Wmetcher
Decatur
Mich
Sophia Nichols
Middlebury
Ind
William Hoover
Halpin Havi
Northwestern
John M. Thurston
Nebraska Kenite
Brooklyn
Lyman Abbott
State Central Committee of
Kansas
Kansas City Stock Yards Company
Kansas City Live Stock Exchange
Charles Counselman
Europe
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