Call for Compulsory Mediation to Heal Industrial Strife
The speaker renews support for federal action on major industrial disputes. He cites a telegraph strike as proof of the need for a board of compulsory investigation to determine merits and inform public opinion, praising the 1898 act creating mediation bodies and proposing next steps toward compulsory investigation after failed mediation.
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Eover
Congress
Boards of Trade
Chambers of Commerce
Interstate Commerce Commission
Commissioner of Labor
Growth of Cities and Labor Reform in the Nation
The piece argues that urban growth intensifies capital labor tensions and calls for strong laws to curb abuses like child labor and wage mistreatment. It urges honest public conduct, better industrial education, and stronger federal measures, including a national grain inspection system to standardize commerce and protect workers and markets.
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Department of Commerce and Labor
Department of Agriculture
United States
Congress
Improvement of the Rivers and Reclamation Work
President urges foresight in conserving natural resources and developing inland waterways. He proposes a national plan to deepen waterways from the Great Lakes to the Mississippi, build levees, and harness water power to relieve rail congestion and boost eastern and southern regions. He also highlights irrigation expansion and reclamation efforts as essential to long term prosperity.
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Mississippi
Columbia
Pacific
Atlantic
Gulf
Congress
Totes
United States
Inland Waterways Commission
Shell Tay
Great Plains
Rocky Mountains
South Atlantic
Gulf States
Preserving Public Lands and Forests For Nation’s Future
The essay urges reform of the land law to curb fraud on public lands and protect small homesteaders. It calls for federal range control, better fencing regulation, and temporary leases or allotments to settlers. It warns of timber depletion, advocates forest preservation, and opposes open access to reduce waste and secure future supplies.
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Reclamation Service
Middle West
Great Plains
Mountains
Pacific Slope
Department of the Interior
Department of Justice
Public Lands Commission
Congress
Interior Department
Department
United States
White Mountains
Alleghenies
Rockies
Sierras
Appalachian
Canada
Work on the Panama Canal progress report
The commission led by George Goethals advances canal work with growing excavations in the Culebra Cut and rising daily outputs. Rainy seasons and wage disputes briefly slowed progress, but August through October records set new milestones while foundations for locks and dams are vetted as rock solid for an 85 feet level canal. The government favors in house construction over private contracting to save time and cost.
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Panama Canal
John F. Stevens
George W. Goethals
Corps of Engineers
Unit States Army
D. D. Gaillard
Corps O Engineers
Hnired States Army
William L. Sibert
Cor of Engineers
United States Army
H. H. Rousseau
United States Navy
United States
Gatun
Secretary of War
Alfred Noble
Frederic P. Stearns
John R. Freeman
Pacific
Isthmus
Postal Savings and Civil Service Reform Proposal
A national text urging Congress to support a postal savings bank system to boost thrift and channel cash back into trade via postal deposits. It also backs expanding parcel post on rural routes to aid farmers and country merchants and favors placing fourth class postmasters under civil service to reduce partisan influence.
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Congress
Oklahoma Admitted as State and Alaska and Public Welfare Proposals
A special report outlines Oklahoma's admission as a state with equal rights to existing states and urges Alaska self-government, improved navigation aids, salmon protection, and new fiscal and legal measures. It calls for Pearl Harbor fortifications, Porto Rico citizenship rights, and funding for the Hermitage, a naval monument, and a thirteenth census. It also urges public health expansion, campaign finance reform, a national art gallery, and robust support for the Biological Survey to safeguard agriculture and wildlife.
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Alaska
Congress
Prince William and
Puget Sound
Columbia
United States
Far Northwest
Pacific
Washington
Seattle
Hawaii
Pearl Harbor
Secretary of War
Philippines
Porto Rico
Bureau of Mines
Secretary of the Interior
Interior Department
Hermitage
Andrew Jackson
Hermitage Association
Vicksburg National Park
Independence and Labor Shape The Nation's Welfare
The article notes the agriculture department’s value since its founding, countering early sneers. It states government work hinges on physical and mental labor and that the department, second only to the post office in public contact, underscores citizen welfare. It highlights two citizens whose welfare rests in aggregate.
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United States
Department of Agriculture
South
Department of Commerce and Labor
Post Office Department
Coal Land Regulations To Safeguard Public Utilities
The passage argues for selling coal deposits under limiting rules to keep them as public utilities. It calls for separating mining rights from land title, allowing adequate production by multiple corporations, and denounces existing stringent limits as excessive and counterproductive leading to fraud or halt of coal extraction.
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United States
Indian Territory
Congress
Congressional Debate Sparks Civil Service Reform Proposal
A debated session discusses action on civil service inclusion. The speaker urges Congress to enact a law adding civil-service status and placement in the classified service. The remark underscores reform aims and legislative push.
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Co Ss
Study Proposes Salary Classification Reforms for Congress
The study notes increased efficiency in respective lines of work and urges legislative action on personnel and salary classification. The author plans to submit a special message to Congress soon regarding these subjects and the necessary action.
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Congress
Government Commissions Advance Bureaucracy Reform
Two commissions established to reorganize federal science work and streamline department methods report progress. Aimed at planned coordination, consolidation by executive orders, and modern business practices, they note abolition of antiquated procedures and widespread self inspection among civil servants.
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Cascern
Extension of Ocean Mail Act Urged for American Sea Power
A congressional appeal urges expanding the 1891 Ocean Mail Act to improve foreign mail service. The speaker cites Hawaii, the Philippines, and isthmus linkage progress, arguing fast steamships and national flag mail uphold sea power and support shipyards amid growing American commercial and political reach.
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South
Central America
Merce
Hawaii
Philippines
Pacific
Atlantic
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Oklahoma
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Permanent Census Bureau
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National Gallery OF Art
Smithsonian Institution
Texas
Tree Ife
Illinois
America
oTher Foreign Mail
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