Free Coinage Triumph Dominates Senate Session
After an eight hour session the Senate passed an unlimited free coinage amendment at six pm amid crowded galleries. The vote was 42 to 30 with strong party splits and shifts on compromise plans. The bill, amended by a substitute, was approved 39 to 27, while estimates on 1890 crop production showed a mixed harvest with record yields per acre in some items and overall declines in others.
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Can the House Remove the Speaker
The Colorado coalition caucus asks whether the House can oust its speaker. Judges Brown and Butler say the House holds full power to remove a speaker, citing constitutional and parliamentary authority and historical precedents.
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Notorious Kiss Thefts End In Nolle Pros
A court report from the Boston Traveler notes two complaints over kissing without permission. The man jokes about charges for larceny of a kiss and receiving stolen property, but both complaints are nolle pressed.
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Resolutions Adopted by Capital Grange on Railroads and Reform
The legislative committee presented a series of resolutions adopted by Capital Grange on January 14. They include government ownership of railroads, unity with reform groups, creating an organizing and defensive fund, land use and water appropriation for beneficial purposes, publishing irrigation commission reports, replacing fees with salaries for public officers, adopting the Australian ballot system, and abolishing the Bureau of Immigration.
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Ethel and the Harvard Gymnasium Exchange
A Munsey's Weekly excerpt shows a dialogue about references to young men at the Harvard gymnasium and a rebuke from Aunt Priscilla over familiarity with James Nasium. The tone mocks social propriety and flirtation in a literary vignette.
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Japanese Ways Topsy Turvey Customs Entertain Reader
The London Spectator reviews Basil Hall Chamberlain’s Things Japanese noting the reversal of many practices such as book layout footnotes, dinner before sweets, right side mounted on horses, reversed letter addresses, and figures written before items. The piece reflects on how these quirks reveal a culture unlikely to change quickly while broader arts and learning would yield to modern rules.
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Russian family travels through town in freight train
A humorous note from Munsey's Weekly claims a Russian family named Ivenovich Steppinoff Kauphupacatski and 38 children arrived by a long freight train, with a stray piece tearing three miles of track before discovery.
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