Congress Debates Legislation Amid Filibuster and Statehood Talks
The House faced a furious fight over a legislative reform bill as the filibustered debate stretched for hours. During the session, discussions touched on retirement of clerks, immigration limits, and federal court jurisdiction. Babcock of Wisconsin condemned the measure as a major legislative outrage and argued against merging Arizona and New Mexico into one state.
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Ressone
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New Mexico
Republican caucus and Interstate Commission bill debate
The article notes Williams comments on today's caucus and a division over the bill to empower the Interstate Commerce Commission to investigate disputes between railroads and oil industries. The Senate considers rule questions and a War Department letter is briefly mentioned. Bacon discusses Moros policy while the House votes to grant commission authority on discrimination charges.
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Senate stalls as rail bill and Smoot case dominate March agenda
March 14 reports the senate handling of the rall Me bill in regular order before a brief executive session. Amid debate over rail interference, time extensions and livestock transit, the Smoot case looms with testimony and references to policy and territorial matters across the Olville Indian reserve and related lands.
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Senate Advances Bills Before Railroad Question debate
The Senate on Tuesday in Washington approved several measures before tackling the railroad issue. Bills include penalties for government officials who prematurely disclose secret bureau information, grant executive power over bridge construction on navigable streams, and authorize Delaware and New Jersey to pursue a long standing boundary dispute settlement.
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New Jersey
Lawmakers Debate Appropriation Bill Amid Immigration and Reform Talks
The house conducts a general debate on the legislative appropriation bill totaling 20 million 134 thousand 181 dollars. Littauer and Livingston clash on government reform while Marshall supports free alcohol and Hayes argues for limits on Japanese and Korean immigration. Bennett defends New York City policy on long-term foreign residents.
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New York
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Georgia
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North Dakota
Hayes
California
Bennett
New York City
Senate split over Tillman-Gillespie holdings inquiry
Washington lawmakers divided over whether the Tillman-Gillespie resolution to charge the Interstate Commerce Commission with probing coal and oil land holdings is justified by the president's message. Culberson seeks emergency ICC powers as replacement, arguing Congress misuses the commerce clause to regulate rates.
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Foraker
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Washington lawmakers push ocean going tug and coast life stations
Senator Piles and Representative Humphrey introduced a bill to authorize the construction of an ocean going tug for North Pacific coast use from Puget Sound southward along Oregon. The vessel would serve in emergencies and aid life and property, under treasury direction and Revenue Cutter Service control, with crew from the life-saving service. A second bill calls for three new life-saving stations on the Washington coast between Gray’s Harbor and Cape Flattery.
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Employers Liability Bill Backed by House Committee
Washington March 12 The house committee on judiciary favorable report on the Bates Employers' Liability bill in amended form Representative Sterling of Illinois to draft the report The bill makes railroads liable to an employee and dependents for damages caused by negligence or defects in cars engines appliances track roadbed or other works
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Senate approves doubling annual appropriations for agricultural stations
The senate passed a bill to raise the annual appropriation for agricultural experiment stations to eighty thousand dollars, with ten thousand dollars more for the first year and two thousand more per year for five years, to be paid to each state and territory maintaining a station.
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Susan B. Anthony Dies After Long Reform Life
Susan B. Anthony died in Rochester New York at 12 40 this morning after a period of unconsciousness from double pneumonia heart failure and long valvular trouble. Born February 15 1820 in Boothbay Mass she spent over four decades advocating reform and expanding women’s work opportunities. She coauthored The History of Woman Suffrage with Stanton and Gage and lectured in England.
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Oregon
Busan Brownell Anthony
Reformer
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Mass
Daniel and
Lacy
Reed) Anthony
Elizabeth Cady Stanton
Matilda Joslyn Gage
England
Investigation of Kansas rail rate bias against independents
Three Interstate Commerce Commission members opened an inquiry into charges by Kansas independent oil producers that Kansas railroads favor Standard Oil. Attorney for the commission John T. March and lawyers for independents Frank S. Monnett and Clifford Thorn attended. The probe follows earlier filings by Clifford Thorn and James B. Garfield regarding alleged rate discrimination.
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Congress
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Railroads
Standard Oil Company
Francia M. Cockrell
Judson C. Clements
Charles A. Pronty
John T. March
Southwest
Frank 8. Monnett
Ohio
Clifford Thorn
Washington
Railwaye
Kansas Oil Producers’ Association
James B. Garfield
Happenings of Two Continents Resume Week’s Interesting Events
A collage of reports from New York to Europe covers plans for a municipal seaside resort, a six month wait for a supreme judge, suffrage drives, railroad deals, statehood action, population figures, and labor shortages. It notes political shifts in Roumania, legal moves on public records, weather and rail blockages, and various international tensions.
Women as Shields at Dajo Hill Fight
Major General Wood arrives in Manila and takes responsibility for operations at Dajo hill near Jolo. He states no deliberate harm to women and children occurred, many killed by necessity as Moros used women as shields, some in male attire. Moros allegedly feigned death and attacked American hospital staff.
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Supreme Court Denies Writs in Moyer Steunenberg Case
The Supreme Court granted the state's motion in the habeas corpus cases of Charles H. Moyer and associates from Denver accused of murdering ex Governor Steunenberg. The court struck out the extradition and removal portion of the answer, removing grounds for the writs. The writs were denied by formal order after agreement by the attorneys.
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Charles H. Moyer
Denver
Steunenberg
Colorado
Fenlandia Tows Olympia Toward Sandy Point In Strait
The Fenlandia sailing from San Francisco January 31 bound for New York tows the side wheel steamer Olympia from Portland to Sandy Point in the Strait of Magellan. All on board are reported well. Both vessels have been bought by New York interests for Atlantic coast service.
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Famine Threat Looms Across Morocco
The Daily Mail correspondent in Tangier reports Morocco faces a looming famine due to failed wheat and barley harvests. No reserves from last year leave the country vulnerable to widespread hunger.
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Blanket for draft animals with ventilating openings
A Seattle inventor develops a horse blanket designed for draft animals with ventilating openings at the blanket’s top where the animal bends. A fabric shield on a skeleton wire frame covers the openings to keep water or snow out while the reins rest in the frame, and the setup suits other livestock.
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Building Up a Beef Herd on Quality Environment
A New York farmer argues that cattle quality depends as much on environment as pedigree. He notes his county farm is among the best, well drained with limestone underlay, likening it to Kentucky grasslands famed for stock.
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American Agriculturist
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Honey Muaskmelon Promising New Melon Variety
The author notes growers often overlook quality in vegetables and fruit. Musk melons like the Honey melon, tested for three years, show promise with a neatly formed fruit, green skin, and firm yellowish green flesh.
Sweet Spice Melon Variety Praised for Wide Planting
A discussion praises a muskmelon variety with sweet spicy flavor and strong consumer appeal. If well adapted, it should be widely planted in all muskmelon growing regions and producers expect it to please the market.
To Keep Sweet Potatoes For Storage And Breakfast Dish
Wash and boil potatoes in water until fork tender. Peel, slice thin, and dry in the sun on newspaper. Soak before cooking, then add a little sugar and butter for a nice breakfast dish.
Milk fat varies by day in single cow study
An experiment with a choles jersey cow showed milk fat ranging from 4.45 to 5.88 percent. The variation suggests a single cow test may be of limited value for predicting butter yield, since more or less milk fat affects the amount of milk needed for a pound of butter.
Secretary seeks boll weevil funds for next year
Secretary Wilson requests 105 500 dollars to be added to the boll weevil item for the coming year. He urges continued cooperation with state stations and cotton growers and proposes folding the 195 000 dollar special appropriation into regular Bureau funds to extend disease studies diversification and cultural methods across southern states.
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Department of Agriculture
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Secretary of Agriculture
Milk Pays More than Putter
The decline of butter manufacture in England is explained by the higher profitability of selling milk directly for drinking. Farmers focus on milk sales rather than butter, with some dairies even buying foreign butter to pass off as domestic, despite consumer judgments that the foreign product is inferior yet priced higher.
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England
Frank W. Mahin
United States
Nottingham
Ringing Usraly Hogs With Rope and Handle Device
A handbook note describes restraining aggressive hogs using a rope arrangement around the jaws. A simple aid made from an old broom handle with a small book inserted at one end is used to position the rope safely when hogs prove unruly.
Handling Restraint Device For Cattle Jaw
The article describes a restraint method using a looped strap and rope to secure a bovine jaw. A slip noose is attached to a pole hook and placed over the upper jaw as the rope is held above the noose. Rings are inserted on the snout to limit movement and control the animal during handling.
Demand for Trotters in Breeding and Profit
The American Cultivator urges farmers to focus on trotting horse stock rather than hackneys. It advises breeding for size, intelligence, good disposition, pure trotting gait, and strong all‑round action. Proper education to harness and market readiness create steady demand and profit.
Wheat Outperforms Grains as Sheep Feed
An agricultural note reports wheat provides higher nutritive value for lambs than corn oats rye and other grains with wheat at 10.23 percent protein. An English authority estimates wheat fed to lambs yields about 76 cents per bushel, while the Indiana station shows 77 cents per bushel.
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Roots Good for Poultry in Winter Feeding
Roots of all kinds can be fed to poultry with advantage in winter to supply green food. It is a good practice to split the roots and allow hens to pick out the contents. Where roots are small drive a wall through one end and into a board or side of the house to prevent them from being dragged around and soiled.
Remedy for Limberneck in Fowls Suggested
Advice warns that copper dissolved in drinking water may help. maggots from decaying matter are blamed for Limberneck in fowls. Precautionary burial of any nearby carcass is recommended.
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