MEW TARIFF BILL BECOMES LAW AFTER CONFERENCE VOTE
The Senate adopted the conference report on the tariff bill at 2 10 pm with 47 ayes 31 nays. Bristow Clapp Cummins Dolliver La Follette Beveridge and Nelson voting no. The concurrent resolution reducing leather goods duties passed unanimously at 3 14 pm. Provisions include automatic minimum rates for some countries a customs court of appeals and a 10 percent excise tax on corporate net income over 5 000, with many tariff reductions and increases across chemicals earthenware metals lumber sugar tobacco wines and luxuries.
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Cummins
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Aldrich
Borah
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Burton
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Wyo
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Smith
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Cuba
Philippine
Ate
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Forite
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Eral
Ross Ton
Secretary of the Treasury
Isthmus
Canal
Treasury
Payne
Conference Committee
Canada
Cannon Announces New Committee Assignments
Cannon reshuffles lawmakers naming ennedy as chairman with Rivers and Harbors. Dawson on naval affairs and civil service reform. Pickett to public lands railways and canals. Haugen oversees agriculture and war claims. Good handles territories and irrigation. Hull chairs military affairs and militia. Jamieson Indian affairs Pacific railroads and appropriations. Woods Pacific railroads and industrial arts. Hubbard insular affairs and justice expenditures. Martin public lands buildings. F Burke Indian affairs and library.
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Dawson
Civil Service
Pickett
Mississippi
Haugen
Hull
Jamieson
Pacific Railroads
Mith
Woods
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Iowa
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Illinois
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District of Columbia
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Michigan
Howell
Reeder
Gardner
McCall
Massachusetts
Cannon Names House Committees Amid Turbulent Shuffle
Speaker Cannon named committees as the House adjourned, punishing insurgents like Hubbard by removing him from the revision of laws panel while keeping him on expenditures in the department of justice and insular affairs. Kennedy received an enhanced post as chair of the mileage committee and joined rivers and harbors.
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Washington
Cannon
House
Iowa
New Congressional Chairmanships and Committee Appointments
The list outlines newly announced chairmanships across key panels including Election No 1 Knapp leading levees and river improvements, Campbell in education, and Roberts on ventilation. It also details fresh committee memberships in Appropriations Judiciary Banking and Currency Interstate and Foreign Commerce Rivers and Harbors Agriculture Military Naval Affairs Post Offices and Postroads Territories with party affiliations and member names.
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Morran
Kentucky
Green
Massachusetts
Currier
New Jersey
Bartholdt
Missouri
Mondell
Wyoming
Moon
Pennsylvania
Hamilton
Michigan
Knapp
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Mississippi
Campbell
Kansas
Burke
Roberts
McCreary
State Department
Edwards
Treasury Department
Hill
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Interior Department
McGuire
Oklahoma
Department of Agriculture
Graham
Mlllnois
Taylor
Ohio
Maltby
New York
Kelliher
Higgins
Goebel
Denby
Howland
Nye
Minnesota
Sheffield
Rhode Island
Guernsey
Maine
Millington
Joyce
Barnard
Indiana
Heald
Delaware
Hammond
Georgia
Howell
Utah
Chapman
Pratt
Hanna
North Dakota
Plumbey
Vermont
Lee
McDermott
Ilinois
Morgan
Tillson
Cravens
Arkansas
Dent
Alabama
Englebright
California
Slemp
Virginia
Kitchin
North Carolina
Mason
Estopinal
Louisiana
Payette
Smith
Lowden
Dury
Haner
Idaho
Dodds
Cox
Langham
Good
Iowa
Humphrey
Conry
Driscoll
Wickersham
Alaska
Oil Well’s Natal to Be Observed in Titusville
Titusville with the world’s first oil well anniversary near. Colonel Edwin W. Drake drilled the 1859 artesian well southeast of Titusville on August 28. The site yielded oil at 40 barrels per day. Canandohta Chapter DAR plans a memorial at the Drake well site.
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Titusville
Edwin W. Drake
Canandohta Chapter
Daughters of the American Revolution
Drake Well
Des Moines Plan Vindicated by State Examiners
Des Moines receives high praise from M. F. Cox and F. M. Abbott in the first state examination since adopting the commission form. They file results with State Auditor Bleakley commending city management and urging councilmen to cooperate to sustain the system.
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Des Moines
M. F. Cox
F. M. Abbott
Bleakley
Mann for Governor Leads in Virginia Primary
Returns show Judge William Hodges Mann won the Democratic state primary for governor, carrying Virginia by about 4 000 to 5 000 votes over H St George Tucker. R E Ellison was named lieutenant governor candidate along with Williams for attorney general and Koiner for agriculture commissioner.
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Richmond
William Hodges Mann
H. St. George Tucker
R. E. Ellison
Williams
Koiner
Indians Have Share in White Earth Lands Ruling
Judge William Van Devanter in a federal appeals court opinion holds that full blood and halfbreed Indians are entitled to shares in the White Earth reservation lands in Minnesota while those of less than half-blood are barred from allotments.
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St. Louis
Federal Court of Appeals
William van Devanter
White Earth
Minnesota
Reflections of a Bachelor. From the New York Press
A humorous column notes playful insights on women and men, remarking on hair imagination reputation fashion religion and business bravado with light satire and social observation. It highlights casual asides about romance character and weather as conversation fodder.
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New York Press
Newell Outlines National Irrigation Progress and Funding
Spokane August 12 F H Newell director of the United States reclamation service spoke at the National Irrigation congress detailing the act’s impact. He noted homes for thousands, 700000 acres under irrigation and funds of 52000000 by December 1909 with more systems planned. He acknowledged criticisms of residency requirements as essential for federal funding.
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Spokane
Wash
National Irrigation Congress
F. H. Newell
United States Reclamation Service
Newell
Congress
Chinaman Barred on Return Trip
Philadelphia senator Ernest L. Tustin fights to admit Har ry Lee Sing to the United States after authorities detain him at Malone New York on his return trip with a Chinese bride Sing claims citizenship and voting rights and threatens habeas corpus action if no reply from the secretary of commerce and labor is received.
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Philadelphia
Ernest L. Tustin
Harry Lee Sing
United States
Malone
N. Y
Secretary of Commerce and Labor
Sing
Tennis Court Gives Way to New Offices
Washington August 12 Night work has begun on the White House addition with three shifts operating and no pause until completion. While the old tennis court is excavated a worker found a tennis ball buried four to five inches deep in clay and kept it as a souvenir joking that Theodore himself drove it into the ground.
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Washington
White House
Theodore
Police capture queen of fakers in broad fraud sweep
In San Francisco on August 12 a woman named Mrs. Maud Myrtle Johnson was arrested at Merritt hospital in Oakland for alleged frauds on railroad companies across multiple cities. Authorities say she used fake injuries to simulate accidents, using aliases, fake limb injuries, and a red powder to simulate hemorrhage, and has swindled thousands of dollars. Seattle authorities may pursue action pending extradition or formal charges.
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Cal
New York
Portland
Seattle
Tacoma
Kansas City
Joplin
Maud Myrtle Johnson
Merritt Hospital
Oakland
Engine Kills Two in Chicago Collision on Night Run
The grisly find at Ninety-fifth Street and St. Lawrence Avenue revealed a severed leg on a Baltimore and Ohio engine pilot. Police later recovered the mangled bodies of James E. O'Connor, a boilermaker at Illinois Central shops in Burnside, and his helper Dennis Crowley. They lived together and were likely returning home when struck.
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Chicago
Baltimore and Ohio
Ninty-fifth Street
St. Lawrence Avenue
James E. O'Connor
Illinois Central Railroad
Burnside, Ill
Dennis Crowley
Army veterans and Philippines delegates open Pittsburgh convention
Delegates to the Army of the Philippines and the American Veterans of Foreign Service begin their first day in Pittsburgh at Camp Alexander L Hawkins. The two national groups contemplate unifying during the week long sessions as they awaken to the convention mingled with the recall of the taps bugle.
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Pittsburg
Alexander L. Hawkins
Santiago
Army of the Philippines
American Veterans of Foreign Service
Pacific coast extension closes gap. trains to Maiden Wa.
Announcement states the final gap in the Chicago Milwaukee and St Paul line will be closed next Sunday August 15 establishing local passenger service between Butte Montana and Maiden Washington.
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Chicago
Chicago, Milwaukee & St.Paul
Butte
Mont
Maiden, Wash
Greek flag lowered on Crete after evacuation protests
In Caen Crete the Greek flag over the fortress and military barricades was lowered yesterday following protests by the four protecting powers after the island was evacuated by international troops on July 27.
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Crete
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