19 Dec 1912
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Newspaper
Mitchell Capital
Location
Mitchell, South Dakota, United States of America
Date
Dec 19, 1912
Page
1
President Taft accuses the House of spreading untruths about a civil service order. He terms the moves a spoil system and defends the integrity of reform efforts.
President Taft contends Congress blocked his order placing 36000 fourth class postmasters under civil service and accuses opponents of politics. He backs Cabinet participation in debate, land law revisions for conservation and private ownership, Alaska leases, and a court for pure food appeals. He also seeks funds for a government building at the Panama-Pacific Expo and opposes Washington suffrage.
J J Murphy elected state railroad commissioner may miss oath taking due to illness and planned Chicago hospital visit. He remains Turner county auditor whose term runs to March while doctors investigate a left side ailment resembling appendicitis but in an unusual location.
Senate claims chair Coe Crawford, SD, personally examined thousands of items in H R 19114, reporting a thorough, whistle stop review that cut hundreds of weak claims and saved about two million dollars for the government. His exhaustive 425 page report aided the bill’s passage on the Senate floor.
Ile gave a full history of the case and pressed for an adverse Senate report. The committee sustained him, and the Senate rejected the claim on Crawford's report, saving nearly 200000 dollars. No senator will dare move to reintroduce and pass the bill.
President Taft has decided to accept the Kent professorship of law at Yale and will likely begin duties in New Haven early next spring. He plans to lecture to Yale students and may lecture elsewhere or pursue other lawful activities as he sees fit.
Deadwood South Dakota reports Game Warden Peterson, an old settler named John White, was arrested near Ti nton on the Wyoming border charged with killing two elk near the state line. Stray elk from Sun Dance National Forest in Wyoming were found dead in the western part of the state.
Near White's residence police allege the sled was used to move the corpses. White claims no knowledge of the killing and remains jailed awaiting a hearing.
The Cheyenne Sioux assembled at Thunder Butte station for a two day conference with representatives from Cherry Creek Thunder Butte White Horse and Cheyenne agency. They demand timely payments from land sales on the Cheyenne River reservation arguing funds were to be distributed to tribe members periodically. A committee including Ed Swan Charles Jewett Straighthead Bazille Claymore and O Black Hugle will go to Washington in January to present the claim.
Washington pardoned Henry Nelson of Owensboro Kentucky who was recently sentenced to the penitentiary for moonshine distilling. The pardon cited that Nelson expects to live only a short time and wishes to spend his last Christmas at home.
The forecast covers South Dakota and North Dakota with fair conditions tonight and Friday. Temperatures will drop, bringing a noticeably colder period across both states. No precipitation is expected.
As the legislative session nears, whispers name P J Tscharner of Perkins County as a leading speaker candidate. Supporters from the western and progressive factions back Tscharner, while Granger or Mor ris followers dispute, and other officials seek clerk and secretary posts.
Morgan warns that a money trust combine is impossible under current conditions and would be avoided by his leadership as director. He emphasizes his power to keep any such grouping from forming, preferring to keep competition intact.
The Senate convened at noon to consider presidential nominations while the House adjourned until January 2. Morgan testified in the money trust inquiry and former Indian Affairs Commissioner Valentine was censured by the interior department expenditures committee for conduct before his resignation.
J Pierpont Morgan told the money trust committee there could be no money trust and that all banks could not control money and credits He favored private bank deposits for interstate corporations and outlined interlocking directorates linking 18 institutions including Morgan First National Bank Guaranty Trust Bankers Trust and others in a vast network with total resources near 25 billion dollars The hearing drew large crowds in Washington as Morgan’s testimony began and continued with preliminary statements on concentration of money and credits
Irene Justin an eleven year old girl daughter of cabinet maker Frank Justin was abducted from Holmes Square park after a mother momentarily left her child. Police believe she was taken by a negro couple and have scoured Kansas City since Monday with no trace found. The Justin family recently moved from California six months ago.
Indianapolis prosecutors cite Herbert Hockin as the unreliable spark in the dynamite conspiracy. Special Assistant D A James W Noel says Hockin told varying stories to different ears while aiding in plans to blow up non union jobs. He allegedly sought money and tried to betray the group as rifts emerged among the bomb plotters.
Pierre South Dakota today hears arguments in a mandamus case to force the secretary of state to file endorsements for state committee appointments. The attorney general argues the matter affects only interested parties, not a general right. New court members are in town and a decision on a new clerk could come today.
A fragment lists financial institutions including Kidder Peabody in Boston and New York, Higginson Co in Boston and New York, and mentions a Chicago bank connection.
Washington DC A motion for a more specific decree in the Union Pacific merger case was made in the Supreme Court by Attorney General Wickersham. Chief Justice White said the matter would be considered. Agents for the railroad and government sought further instructions on stock disposal.
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