Lobbying Charges Shake President's Influence in Tariff Debate
Washington reports on Michigan Senator Townsend accusing President Wilson and Democrats of coercing Congress to pass the tariff bill through insidious lobbying. The Senate lobby committee heard cries for recalls, with Walsh and Reed clashing over Townsend’s charges. Townsend defines lobbying as pressuring legislators through money, favors, patronage, or threats, noting the executive and party caucus as near undue influence. Further recalls and interviews are expected as the hearing may extend two to three weeks.
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Washington
Wilson
Congress
Townsend
Michigan
Weeks
Massachusetts
Walsh
Reed
Knute Nelson
Minnesota
Cummins
Iowa
Buddha's Six Essentials for Perfection
The text outlines six Buddha taught essentials for men. Knowledge to distinguish truth from falsehood, energy to resist fleshly evils, purity, patience, charity or loving kindness, and almsgiving as key practices in spiritual reform.
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Buddha
Christ
Freed On Return Of 1 700 000 He Stole
Walter S hourds vault superintendent at Merchants Union Trust faced a dramatic court scene when the judge quashed the indictment and entered a not guilty verdict after Shourds turned over the remaining loot. The bank officials urged immunity in exchange for restitution. the court accepted the deal, and Shourds handed over the bonds and stocks plus extra funds. He had stolen 1.4 million in securities and 30 thousand cash two years earlier to fund a salary shortfall.
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Philadelphia
Walter
Shourds
Merchants’ Union Trust Company
Wall
Rotan
Naval Secretary Calls Battleships to Learn and Lead
Secretary Daniels told Naval Academy graduates that ships must become schools for the jackies with officers as teachers. He urged a single conduct standard, temperance, and stamping out hazing as a relic of barbarity while training officers in public writing and speaking. An emphasis on day by day living for the country and keeping graduates in service was stressed.
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Hasing
Annapolis
Navy
Daniels
Naval Academy
United States
Temperance Daniels
Hazer
Senate seeks government tuberculosis cures reports
The Senate unanimously adopted Bristow’s resolution directing the secretary of the treasury to transmit to the Senate all government reports and information on tuberculosis cures from the United States Bureau of Public Health. In London, suffragettes set fire to Mudie's lending library in Bloomsbury causing about 25,000 dollars in damage and suspected militant activists.
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Washington
Bristow of
Kansis
Secretary of the Treasury
United States Bureau of the Public Health
London
Mudie
Bloomsbury
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