Cummins Attacks Aldrich as Senate Debates Income Tax Plan
Iowa Senator Cummins criticizes Aldrich over support for a corporation tax while debating the income tax proposal in the Senate. He argues the bill would not fund government expenses and contrasts general versus corporate specific taxes, warning of constitutional and Supreme Court concerns. He also notes tariff implications and fears excessive duties for revenue.
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Washington, D. C
Cummins
Iowa
Senate
Aldrich
Finance Committee
Cummins Attacks Taft in Washington Talk
Des Moines dispatches report Senator Cummins sharply criticizing President Taft. He questioned the president’s constitutional right to recommend tax measures and indicated a break with Taft over the corporation tax while supporting income and inheritance taxes.
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Des Moines
Register and Leader of Today
John Snure
Washington
Senator Cummins
Taft
Cummins
Finance Committee
Income Tax Urged as Remedy in Congress Debate
Open to congress argued that income tax is the only remedy for a looming deficit in 1911. He asserted new taxation should target earnings rather than property and that the government must offset shortfalls with a form of tax borne by those best able to bear it. The discussion touched on receipts estimates and fiscal policy.
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Congress
Cummins
Protest Test on Taft Plan Draws Telegram Flood
Telegrams flood in from businessmen across the country urging opposition to the corporation tax amendment. Senators report 12 to 50 messages each, with some receiving up to 100, signaling a coordinated anti tax movement. Despite a 52 member Republican bloc, administration support casts doubt on passage and could lead to abandoning the measure and restoring the inheritance tax.
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Washington, D. C
Senate
Congress
House
Whiskey Question Is Up
In the sweltering cabinet room President Taft weighs the issue of what constitutes whiskey. The session follows heated arguments over exceptions to Solicitor General Bowers opinion, as experts and lawyers listen to the dispute surrounding the whiskey definition.
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Washington, D. C
Taft
Roosevelt
Bowers
Marengo Mayor Says He Takes A Glass
Des Moines June 30 A M Henderson mayor of Marengo filed his answer to the ouster action. He admits drinking but denies ever being drunk stating electors knew his habit and re elected him.
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Iowa Evening Press
Des Moines
A. M. Henderson
Marengo
Pope Confirms Dunne as Peoria Bishop
Rome June 30 reports the election of Rev. Edmund Michael Dunne to Bishop of Peoria replacing the resigning Rt Rev. John L. Spalding. Dunne serves as chancellor of the Chicago archdiocese and receives papal confirmation today.
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Rome
Edmund Michael Dunne
Archdiocese of
Chicago
Peoria
John L. Spalding
Trials of Women on July 9
London reports say 116 suffragettes arrested during a raid on the house of commons were adjourned until July 9 with release on recognizance. A second deputation to Premier Asquith failed amid clashes in Parliament Square as suffragists and police battled and crowds dispersed around Westminster.
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London
House of Commons
Asquith
Parliament Square
Caxton Hall
Pankhurst
Parliament House
St. Stephens
Parliament
Secantlebury
Mrs. Pankhurst
Saul Solomon
Westminster Bridge
Monster Pearl Found in Iowa River Near Coralville
E R Moore of Coralville found a giant pearl in the Iowa river near his home. He sold it for 360 dollars, with experts predicting a four figure sale later. The gem, hailed as the finest ever found in the Iowa river region, may go to Muscatine interests.
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Iowa City
E. R. Moore
Coralville
Iowa River
Five Hurt in Explosion on Torpedo Boat Hull
Five sailors aboard the torpedo boat Hull were badly scalded by a boiler tube burst in San Francisco on the night of June 30. Fireman B F King was probably fatally injured, while J M Rober France Sanford John R Carter and Newton Carnish sustained injuries. The boat sustained minor damage.
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San Francisco
Cal
B. F. King
J. M. Rober
France Sanford
John R. Carter
Newton Carnish
Secret of Many Bombs Revealed in Chicago Case
Felix Sharkey, once a feared figure, disclosed details of a wave of bomb outrages in Chicago. State's Attorney Wayman ordered secrecy on the statement as police anticipate arrests. Sharkey was arrested as a suspect after allegedly buying 25 pounds of dynamite on June 17, with a key blast damaging downtown property for at least 106000 dollars.
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Chicago
Ill
Felix Sharkey
Gray
Wayman
Sharkey
Fans Riot at Forbes Field Opening
Pittsburg June 30 five thousand men and boys rushed the gates of Forbes Field the new baseball park of the Pittsburg club. Many were injured as police and patrols moved in to restore order. Downtown businesses reported many employees left work for the Chicago Pittsburg game.
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Pittsburg
Forbes Field
National League Baseball Club
New Park
Ten Thousand Workers Quit Over Open Shop Order Fight
At midnight tonight more than ten thousand skilled workers employed by the American Sheet and Tinplate Company in Pennsylvania Ohio West Virginia and Indiana will quit work as the open shop order becomes effective. Indications show both company and union prepared for a fight.
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Pittsburg
Amalgamated Association of Iron, Steel and Tin Workers
American Sheet and Tinplate Company
Pennsylvania
Ohio
West Virginia
Indiana
Electrocution at Church Festival Claims Youth
Waterloo Iowa June 30 Laurie Rogers 18 son of C T Rogers Grundy Center was electrocuted last night while turning on current for incandescent lights at a social on a lawn. He died instantly and remained standing until the circuit was broken as a crowd of young people watched and some were shocked by touching the body or wires.
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Iowa Evening Press
Waterloo
Laurie Rogers
C. T. Rogers
Grundy Center
Rogers
Tragic Iowa killings end in fleeing wife and child
Calvin Littlepage murdered Elmer and Mrs Jamieson near Valley Junction and forced his wife and infant to flee in a buggy. A pursuing posse tracked him to a hay barn where he broke through a cordon and fled in worsening weather.
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Des Moines
Calvin Littlepage
Elmer Jamieson
Valley Junction
Jamieson
Littlepage
Adel
Art Butler
Butler
Marshal Hooke
Ben Littlepage
Butler Place
Babe
Tennessee Enforces Four Mile Law Across State
Nashville Tenn June 30 The statewide four mile law goes into effect at midnight making it illegal to sell or tipple liquor wines ales or beer as a beverage in Tennessee The manufacturers bill prohibiting liquor manufacture starts January 1 Liquor sells at low prices and saloons are busy today with brisk business despite the new restriction.
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Nashville
Tenn
Tennessee
British Navy Needs $300,000,000 More
London news reports Admiral Lord Chas. Beresford declaring in a chamber of commerce address that Britain must spend up to 300 million dollars to rebuild and expand the fleet by March 1914. The plan calls for ten battleships, 18 second class cruisers, 18 cruisers for commerce protection, 24 larger torpedo-boat destroyer type ships, four floating docks, plus replenishment of munitions and coal and 16,009 additional sailors.
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London
Lord Chas. Beresford
Chamber of Commerce
Great Britain
Aged Woman Saves Train in Missouri Collision
An elderly woman named Mrs. Jennie Lewellyn flagged a near miss on the west bound Excelsior Springs train near Missouri City Missouri. Her actions prevented a head on crash with a freight train. One man died and one woman was badly hurt while ten others suffered minor injuries.
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Kansas City
Jennie Lewellyn
Excelsior Springs
Missouri City
David Parrish
President Taft Attends Yale Commencement in Robes
New Haven June 30. President Taft 1878 era joined Yale as a corporation member and walked in the procession with hundreds of officers and degree candidates. He arrived in New Haven at 3 05 this morning and was driven to President Hadley's home by eight.
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New Haven
Conn
Yale University
Taft
Corporation
Hadley
Lawson's Daughter Weds Chicago Man at Dreamwold
Miss Marion Lawson daughter of Thomas W. Lawson of Boston married James F. Lord of Chicago at Dreamwold the Lawson home in Egypt Scituate Mass June 30. Nearly 250 guests attended the open air ceremony with the couple under a floral bower.
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Scituate
Mass
Marion Lawson
Thos. W. Lawson
Boston
James F. Lord
Chicago
Dreamwold
Lawson
Egypt
Bull Frog Bank in Serious Trouble
Rhyolite Nevada reports Bull Frog Bank and Trust Co closed by bank examiner. Only five percent of currency needed to cover deposits on hand. Capital 190000 dollars, deposits total about 200000 dollars.
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Bull Frog Bank
Rhyolite
Nev
Bull Frog Bank and Trust Company
Bank Guaranty Blocked by Court in Nebraska Action
In Lincoln on June 30 a federal court granted an injunction restraining the new state banking board from implementing the bank guaranty act. Judges Vandevanter and Munger said the constitutionality of the statute would be discussed in later opinions to be filed.
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Lincoln
Neb
Vandevanter and Munger
New State Banking Board
Bank Guaranty Act
Mississippi District Attorney seeks injunction against Standard Oil
Jackson Mississippi June 30 application was made by District Attorney Lamb for a perpetual injunction restraining the Standard Oil company from operating in Mississippi and seeking to collect 11 000 000 penalties for alleged violation of the anti trust law
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Jackson
Miss
Lamb
Standard Oil Company
Mississippi
Two Brothers Drown in Marion River
In Marion Indiana on June 29 Cecil Galbraith ten and his brother Estel twelve both drowned while trying to rescue him after the younger fell into the river. Claude Voris eleven also drowned in the same river at the same hour while boating.
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Marion
Ind
Cecil Galbraith
Estel
Claude Voris
Weather outlook Iowa and Illinois cooler Thursday
Partly cloudy skies prevail in Iowa and Illinois with cooler temperatures expected Thursday. Nighttime conditions will be cool with a sunrise at 4 18 and sunset at 7 29 and moonset around 2 05 a m.
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Iowa
Illinois
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