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Newspaper
La Crosse Tribune
Location
La Crosse, Wisconsin, United States of America
Date
Jun 16, 1911
Page
12
A proposal to reduce rates by twenty percent was rejected by the legislature. The vote outcome halted the express bill and leaves current pricing in place.
Wisconsin lawmakers clash over Hurlbut bill on express rate cuts and a state board of education plan. The senate rejects the assembly substitute on defending fishermen and the Purdues rumored lakes claim, while saving the insurance commissioner appointment. Debate also stalls land purchase and other bills with several measures advancing.
After seven years of U.S. construction 75 percent of Panama Canal excavation is complete with 138 million cubic yards moved and 44 million remaining. Concrete for locks is 52 percent done, lock gates begun, and major progress reported at Culebra Cut Gatum Dam and canal entrances with docks planned and lighting buoying fortifications to begin.
About 122 students are set to enter high school this fall, with many choosing the commercial course. Franklin leads with 25 entrants, Lincoln 23, Washburn 21, followed by lists from Hamilton Washington St Marys and Jefferson schools.
Washington dispatch reports Cipriano Castro located on the Italian gunboat Umbria at Port de Paix Haiti as U S consular and diplomatic officers in the Caribbean unite to block his asylum bid and prevent a new Venezuelan revolution aimed at restoring Castro to power after Gomez.
Judge Blair, who led the Adams county vote selling investigation, starts a new inquiry into alleged violations of the law of consent, which he says is common in West Union Ohio.
War on express companies begins in earnest as the House Post Offices and Post Roads committee hears parcels post proposals. Representative Lewis supports condemning and purchasing express firms. Sulver proposes a limited parcels post backed by the Parcels Post League.
James Gayley president of United States Steel testifies on rail and steel price history. He explains 1897 to 1898 rail prices at 17 to 18 dollars a ton, 1899 jump to 28 dollars, and says prices have been uniform since the steel corporation formed. He admits railroads and steel men agreed on rail prices.
Each senator donated $10 totaling 910 to buy a silver service for Mr and Mrs Taft for their silver wedding anniversary next Monday. Senator Bacon of Georgia passed the subscription sheet.
James J. Britt, third assistant postmaster general, told the International Circulation Managers association in Chicago that honest publishers have nothing to fear from the post office department while dishonest ones have little to hope for. He urged equalization of postal rates, saying it could allow reducing letter postage from two cents to one cent.
Fred N. Webber Sr. arrives in Duluth with a subpoena for Wirt A. Cook as part of the Lorimer investigating committee efforts to locate witnesses. Cook had been identified as a potential witness before the U S Senate committee. The canvassing special officer travels the northwest to serve subpoenas on men desired as witnesses.
A man left the document with Mrs. Cook in Chicago and proceeded to Chicago then to Springfield to serve additional subpoenas. He travels to continue official duties and complete court demands.
Mexico will gain half of the Chamizal boundary zone area including part of El Paso after Canadian arbitrator Eugene LaFleur ruled a compromise. The two mile long strip, valued around seven million dollars and home to about six thousand Mexicans, becomes Mexican. American commissioner General Anson Mills protested, while Mexican commissioner Fernando Belhany Puga filed a formal, but mild, complaint.
The Denver Chamber of Commerce announced plans to buy billboard space in New York Chicago Boston and Philadelphia to project a message of moderate temperature for Denver.
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