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Newspaper
Madras Pioneer
Location
Madras, Oregon, United States of America
Date
Mar 01, 1906
Page
3
The Senate moves toward controlling railroad rates with the Tillman-Gillepte resolution and a Heyburn pure food bill advances after years of debate. Republicans push a Tawney funding plan while hearings address coal handling and foreign vessel inspection. The session includes passage of a pure food bill by a wide margin.
February session opens amid heavy interest as Hale leads discussion on naval affairs. Dilek calls extreme measures an education in brutality. House adjourns for Washington birthday as army appropriation debate continues and a joint resolution on commerce and investigations is advanced.
A House session discussed a proposal from the general treasury to establish a permanent appropriation fund. Rep Tawney of Minnesota urged against the measure citing risks to fiscal stability and the creation of protected borrowing obligations. The debate touched on international obligations and other related fiscal powers.
The Philip bill, long blocked in committee, is set for reporting after a conference with 4 of 5 members voting to proceed. Republicans Hale and Burrows loom in the session as others push to finalize the measure. The Ninth Circuit case on Behring Sea claims is also noted in related Judiciary activity.
The Senate spent hours debating the pure food bill with minor amendments proposed while awaiting action on all amendments tomorrow. Raynor read a Baltimore and Ohio reply denying discrimination claims by Red Rock Fuel. Senator Castor’s memory was honored as the chamber adjourned. Gallinger presented Oklahoma petitions urging prohibition, including 4 000 voter names and 6 000 women signatures, plus Indian petitions. The discussion involved Lodge, Piles, Hemenway, Gallinger, Spooner and others.
The House of Representatives adjourned today out of respect for George A. Castor of Pennsylvania after approving resolutions and naming a funeral committee. Castor died yesterday in Philadelphia.
Washington reports three suspension bills passing the House. A prohibition on gambling in U S territories including Arizona and New Mexico is enacted. A Census Bureau expansion orders statistics on insurers, factories, electricity, savings banks and crime. A $50 000 appropriation buys coal land on Batán Island in the Philippines.
Washington February 19 the senate spent most of the day discussing the pure food bill with Heyburn in charge Foraker presenting liquor industry amendments Money supporting his own measure and McCumber. An order was set to take up amendments under the ten minute rule tomorrow and begin voting at 5 oclock Wednesday. The president sent Congress a special message backing the minority report of the consulting engineers on the Panama canal favoring a lock canal.
Thousands of women from California and Colorado join petitions opposing Senator Reed Empnot. Sopresenting figures Perkina and Patterson state positions on protecting against Utah senator. Perkina argues religious views should not affect qualification while Patterson cites constitutional questions.
Washington February Nineteenth Senate judiciary panel to hear Judge James Wickersham of Alaska whose nomination faces charges. The committee will allow refutation but not confront the accusers. Wickersham plans to return to Alaska after the hearing concludes.
President Roosevelt intervened to stop the quashing of indictments tied to fraud and corruption in the Five Civilized Tribes affairs. Interior Department will pursue new indictments, potentially naming officials in Washington, with March 4 tribal relations change cited as a trigger for stronger federal action. Secretary Hitchcock and Attorney General Moody have submitted a comprehensive report guiding the effort.
Berlin reports a cable interview supposedly quotes Chinese minister Sir Chentung Liang Cheng accusing Germany of disturbing world peace and backing the Chinese revolution. German officials deny the remarks and await authentication before discussing with China and potential disavowal.
Ex French chargé d'affaires at Caracas M Taigny tells Liverpool correspondent diplomats opposed his expulsion and says a revolutionary movement to overthrow President Castro is being prepared in Venezuela. He notes revolution could clear up the current awkward situation.
John Mitchel and the anthracite miners cable committee completed proposals for an eight hour day agreement with coal operators. Miners expect to push a firm demand for the eight hour day for all workers in the mines, deeming it the most important issue.
A major fire in Rutland Vermont on February 20 devastated six of the largest and most valuable blocks in the financial district. The blaze, checked by wind shifts and aid from Whitehall New York engine companies, could have erased the entire business section. Estimated damage reaches seven hundred thousand dollars.
Reports from Kiev dated February 20 describe an anti Jewish riot erupting in Vietka a 6000 population town near Gomel. A large section of the town is burning and troops have been dispatched from Go to restore order.
Charles E. Moyer William Haywood and G A Pettibone, charged with the Steunenberg assassination, reached the Boise peniten tiary after a Denver to Boise transfer. A Idaho detective agency head vowed they would never see Colorado again and claimed strong evidence of their complicity and more indictments to come.
President Roosevelt, after talks with Western lawmakers, abandons the plan to delay forest reserve extensions. Proclamations creating reserves in Oregon and Idaho are expected soon, with Hayden Reserve in Northern Idaho likely first. Protests from Southwestern Oregon will be reviewed before any decision.
Fresno growers vote to break up the Central California Raisin Growers company and return half a cent per pound held for packing houses. Dried fruit failed to move as costs remained high and Mercantile Co of San Francisco bought the entire crop at three cents per pound.
The new fast mail train on the St Louis Iron Mountain and Southern fell into a 15 foot embankment at Carondelet early today. Twelve men were injured, several seriously. The engine and first car tipped over the embankment, the second car paused by the Des Peres river with mail clerks aboard, and lives would have been lost if the car had plunged into the river.
Pat Crowe was arraigned on joint indictments with Arthur Levi for holding up two street car crews on July 2, 1906. He pleaded not guilty.
The article describes the Lost Mountains as a vast mining center now hosting the third largest copper mine globally. It details a city of 20,000, 33 miles of tunnels, 6,000 workers, and daily output of 2,500 tons of ore with smelters and reduction plants, contributing over £9 million annually and £35 million total yields.
Six years ago at Cananes Mexico a barren range of low mountains known as the Lost Mountains, connected to the main range, was desolate with no settlers or wildlife. Now the area yields a million pounds per year from a newly productive mine, transforming the remote, eroded hills into a thriving operation.
The illustration from Greytown Natal shows a mule in a shoeing frame using pulleys ropes and a leather band. The mule is restrained with its head resting on a padded bar, front legs bound to side bars and hind legs to a crossbar. Coarse bags protect the hooves to prevent damage during the procedure.
An eyewitness recalls Sha Ho battle scenes from Manchuria. A Russian general questions a deserter officer as a few dozen survivors pass by. The officer explains this is all that remains of his regiment after a two thousand strong unit entered combat.
The tale recalls Queen Wilhelmina as a child who treated her dolls like people, including a dinner scene where she tells a general she fears his proximity because her dolls are sick. The general replies with humor, noting his honor to sit beside the future queen.
The applicant declares he is the progenitor of the whole human race and claims Eden origin. St Peter questions the nerve to apply for admission, ordering a demonstration to the gentleman below.
A compact thought on why some men prefer shelter over public meals. The contrast between staying home and appearing out of place in a noon restaurant reveals social expectations.
A lighthearted remark from a woman notes a man attempting a fortune with an incubator. She jokes that hat size has nothing to do with the price, underscoring skepticism about the scheme.
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