Congress debates tariffs and shoe contracts in early sessions
A sweep of House actions covers a push to enlarge the House to 433 members and redraw districts. attacks on Herman & Co over army and navy shoe contracts. progressives clash with regulars over committee seats. and a Democratic free tariff bill sparks fight with Republicans.
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Diffendorfer
Gardner
Secretary of War
Secretary of the Navy
Ceater
Herman & Co
Boston
United States
Army
Navy
Liberty
Washington
National
House of Representatives
House
Congress
Senate
Houston
Secretary of Commerce and Labor
Republican Committee On Committees
Ballinger
la Follette
Underwood
Ways and Means Committee
Oregon Delegation Mulls New Central Oregon Land Office
Washington reports Oregon lawmakers weighing a bill to create a land office in Central Oregon likely at Madras. Existing offices at The Dalles Lakeview Burns and Yale are too distant as 50 to 75 settlers arrive daily making travel a hardship.
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Washington
Navy Department
Beers
Yale
Ann
Congress
Naval Academy
West Point
Korbly
Indiana
Miss Beers
Annapolis
William H. Tarrant
U.S. N
Meyer
Academy
Oregon
Madras
Dalles
Lakeview
Burns
Deschutes Road
Korbley Seeks Facts on Mc Namara Los Angeles Times Arrest
Representative Korbley of Indiana telegraphed Indianapolis requesting all facts to determine if any Federal law was violated in the arrest of J. J. Mc Namara tied to the Los Angeles Times explosion. Labor constituents urged congressional action.
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Washington, D. C
J. J. McNamara
Los Angeles Times
Korbley
Indiana
Indianapolis
Congress
Resignation Ends Ballinger-Pinchot Era Officials
With Edward C. Finney resigning as chief law officer of the reclamation service effective May 1, most Interior department officials prominent in the Ballinger Pinchot inquiry have left government service.
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Washington
Edward C. Finney
Reclamation Service
Interior Department
Ballinger-Pinchot
Government Service
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W. F. Bart
MAIN
Independence, Oregon
Amall
Geo. F. Heck
Drexler & Alexander
Geo. C. Will
Salem, Oregon
Edison, Victor and
Columbia
Watt Shipp
The
Sun Typewriter
Victor Berger
Milwaukee
Berger
House of Lords
Richardson and
Fletcher
Japan
Maizuru Naval Station
State Department
O’brien
Ways Ad Means
Mann
Iinois
Iwide
Polk County Bank
Monmouth
H. Hawley
Butler
MA C. Powell
Cashier
Powell
Stump
the Arcade Cigar Store
F. A. Williams
Independence
L. C. Reeves
Grocer
H. Hirschberg
W. Irvine
A. Nelson
B. F. Smith
D. W. Sears Otis D. Butler
Willamette Valley Lumber Co
Dallas
Independence Livery and Feed Stable
J.D. Layton and Son
Jim Hillird
Main Street
White House
WM. McGilchrist & Sons
Willamette Valley
Salem
State Street
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