North Admits Five Thousand Dollar Tariff Gift
Washington dispatch reports N. D. North admits receiving a $5,000 gift from the National Wool Manufacturers Association for services on the 1894 and 1897 tariff work. He says he did not influence Senator Aldrich or any other member and describes his duties as clerk to the Senate Finance sub committee. He asserts he wrote no rate changes and that Whitman occasionally sent schedule suggestions.
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New York Times
Washington
N. D
North
Serena Payne
Champ Clark
Frank Bennett
Boston
National Association
Senator Aldrich
Aldrich
Bennett
Payne
Serena E. Payne
Ways and Means Committee
House of Representatives
Senate Finance Committee
Senate
National Association of Wool Manufacturers
Maltby
Association
Finance Committee
Treasury Department
New York
R. Arthur B. Shelton
Whitman
Allison
Platt
Walcott
Congress
Lynn
National Wool Manufacturers’ Association
N. D. North
Ways and Means
House
Wool Manufacturers Chief Denies North Aid
William Whitman, President of the Wool Manufacturers Association, tells a Times reporter at a Waldorf Astoria dinner he never received information from S D N North. He says rates on wool tops mirrored the McKinley tariff, notes North’s confidential relation, and recalls a $5,000 sum paid later not for that period. Letters Whitman wrote to North surfaced in a separate trial.
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Wool Manufacturers’ Association
TIMES
Allied Woolen Association
Waldorf-Astoria
S. D. N. North
North
Association
Dingley
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North Ne
Whitman
Bennett
Wool men stand pat on the tariff at Waldorf meeting
William Whitman of the National Wool Manufacturers' Association defended the Dingley tariff and urged no radical change. Joseph E. Fletcher, re elected president, warned against drastic revision, citing gains in safety and price stability under the current law. A luncheon at the Waldorf assembled leaders to press for tariff stand and to name a committee to lobby Ways and Means in Washington.
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National Wool Manufacturers’ Association
Association of
Woolen and Worsted Manufacturers
Waldorf-Astoria
Whitman
Association
Joseph E. Fletcher
Ways and Means
Manufacturers’ Club
Philadelphia
Ways and Means Committee
United States
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Moet & Chandon
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Bankers Call for Law Changes on Banking Reports
The National Monetary Commission heard the American Bankers Association committee led by Arthur Reynolds of Des Moines urge an amendment making it a crime for a bank official to file false reports to the Controller of the Currency or Bank Examiners. They opposed further changes to current banking laws, while William H. Porter of the Chemical National Bank urged higher pay for National Bank Examiners to attract experienced staff.
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American Bankers’ Association
National Monetary Commission
Arthur Reynolds
Des Moines
Iowa
Murray
William H. Porter
Chemical National Bank of New York
Commission
Fort Hughes discuss state matters at Albany conference
Gov Fort of New Jersey and Gov Hughes of New York met five hours in the Albany Executive Mansion to talk over matters affecting both states. They touched on sewage disposal into New York Bay and rivers and the Public Service Commission’s powers, with Fort showing interest in reforms and corporate control.
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Albany
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Fort
New Jersey
Gov
Hughes
New York
New York Bay
Public Service Commission
Gov. Fort
Gov. 4
Gov. Hughes
Dynamite Attacks Left Pine Bluff River Front in Peril
Unknown attackers used dynamite to divert the Arkansas River from Pine Bluff. Explosions shook the city overnight as more than 100 yards of Boyd's Point and a four room residence vanished into the river. Government engineers halted the plan while local sentiment and shifting current reduced danger.
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Pine Bluff
Ark
Boyd’s Point
Parkin
United States
Little Rock
Philpott
N. P. Distributes $17,000,000 Dividend
Northern Pacific Railway and its Northwestern Improvement Company subsidiary paid a special dividend of 11.26 percent totaling over $17 million. The payout, in checks by the Northwestern Improvement Company, boosted activity in Great Northern and Northern Pacific shares, with Great Northern closing two points higher after heavy trading and Northern Pacific rising.
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Northern Pacific Railway Company
Northwestern Improvement Company
Hill
Great Northern
Northern Pacific
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