Southern Democrats push protection for regional products
The article highlights Southern Democrat support for tariff protection in the Payne Aldrich debates. It profiles Senator Simmons of North Carolina and Representative Frank Clark of Florida advocating duties on lumber citrus fruits and cotton. It notes renewed citrus industry growth in Florida and marks lemon duty revenue rising from 1.35 million to 2.23 million dollars while lemon imports grew by 24 million pounds and consumer prices eased about ten percent.
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Senator Simmons
North Carolina
Cleveland
Democratic State Executive Committee
Frank Clark
Florida
Clark
Cuba
National Treasury
Reciprocity treaty fate hinges on Senate amid broad opposition
The piece argues the reciprocity treaty faces stronger tariff-backed opposition in Congress, with the House likely to rush approval while the Senate resists. It notes administration pressure and shifting Senate dynamics toward freer trade with Canada, but predicts the treaty may fail despite optimism.
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House
Senate
Washington
Canada
House factions clash over postage and muckraker suppression
Democrats in the house oppose the Hitchcock postage plan and second class rate changes. Champ Clark rejects raising rates and defends access to reading material for educational institutions. Progressives accuse the Hitchcock project of muzzling muckraking periodicals, signaling possible impasses this session.
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Senate
Champ Clark
House Committee On
Hitchcock
Railroads Show Large Revenues In Seventh Annual Report
The Bu reau of Railway News and Statistics reports fiscal year revenues at 2 787 266 000 with operating expenses 1 847 189 000 and taxes 104 1444 076. Railways carried 1 760 103 000 loads of freight and employed 1 674 238 on June 30 1910. The report notes dividends lower than expected and a rise in miles of track by 4 250, with mean daily earnings per worker up to 2 29.
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Bureau of Railway News and Statistics
Interstate Commerce Commission
Lane
Longest Great Northern freight train pulls 115 cars
The Great Northern rumbled 115 cars plus a class F engine from Troy Montana to Bonners Ferry Idaho last Thursday to set a Northwest record. Conductor W H Burke and Engineer Leavitt of Hillyard ran the train weighing 3600 tons over an average grade with no breaks.
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Troy
Mont
Bonners Ferry
Idaho
Wenatchee World
Spokane, Portland & Seattle
W. H. Burke
Leavitt
Hillyard
Northwest
Harrington
Wilson Creek
A. Z. Jones
Haggart
Great Northern Road
Strange freak of figures reveals hidden deaths riddle
A riddle asks to compute a number based on living brothers living sisters and dead siblings. It guides doubling the living brothers adding three and multiplying by five then adding living sisters, multiplying by ten and finally adding dead siblings, subtracting 150 to yield three figures: left is living brothers right is deaths middle is living sisters.
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