Senate Opens Regualr Session with Brief Day
The Sixty-first Congress began at noon with minimal activity. Senator Bailey proposed switching to 2 o clock sessions, but the plan failed. House members met for 40 minutes and welcomed Speaker Cannon with applause as ceremonies proceeded. Both chambers plan to reconvene at noon tomorrow for the President's message.
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New-York Times
Washington
Sixty-first
Congress
Bailey
Senate
Texas
House
Johnson
North Dakota
Rall
Cannon
Couden
John Dalzell
Serena Payne
Representative Bennet
New York City
Bennet
Herbert Parsons
Republican County Committee of
New York
Tammany
Albany
Parsons
Dalzell
White House
Garner
Penn
Customs Service
Hitchcock
Mann
III
Hamilton
Mich
New Mexico
Arizona
W. W. McCredie
Francis W. Cushman
Lassiter
DeArmond
Scott's Emulsion Offers Quick Help for Chest Ailments
Coughs and colds often lead to pneumonia bronchitis and consumption. Scott's Emulsion invariably leads to health and is the best for sore chests coughs colds and throat and lung troubles. For sale by all druggists.
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Scott
Sulzer seeks congressional war mandate on Zelaya
Representative Sulzer introduces a House resolution demanding Zelaya’s arrest, trial, and punishment, backed by U S force to install a republican government in Nicaragua. The proposal labels Zelaya a despot and implies war, while critics question the move as a personal act against the Nicaraguan leader.
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New York Times
Washington
Zelaya
Nicaragua
Sulzer
New York
House
United States
Sulzer Aks
Central America
Knox
Congress
Legislative Branch
State Department
Committee of Foreign Affairs
Senate
Managua
Mexico
Americans in Estrada forces 46 fighters in Nicaragua
Capt. A H Wilson touring Lexington says forty six Americans fight with General Estrada's army in Nicaragua. He confirms Cannon and Grace were shot by order of Zelaya or Estrada forces.
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Lexington
Nicaragua
A. H. Wilson
Estrada
Charleston
West Va
Central America
Wilson
Cannon
Grace
Zelaya
Estrada Orces
Dixie sails with Marines for Central America
The transport Dixie with 700 marines and equipment transferred from the grounded Prairie sailed to sea en route to Colon and possibly Nicaragua. Navy officials planned the move after Prairie failed to free herself from Pea Patch Island, with Dixie, marines, crews, and tugs completing the transfer swiftly.
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Philadelphia
Central America
Admiral Kimball
Colon
Nicaragua
Navy Department
Pea Patch Island
Delaware River
Dixie
Estrada Defies Zelaya Ruling Nicaragua Battle
Mobile dispatch reports copies of El Regenerator show Zelaya proposing retirement if Estrada lays down arms. Estrada replies victory certain and vows to seize Managua by force if Zelaya resists, condemning his rule and pledging insurgent leadership.
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New York Times
Mobile
Ala
el Regenerator
Bluefields
Zelaya
Gen. Estrada
Estrada
Managua
Congress probes customs service and Sugar Trust frauds
Two concurrent resolutions call for a joint investigation into the customs service and the American Sugar Refining Company known as the Sugar Trust. They seek scrutiny of collusion between officials and employees and empower a House Senate committee to subpoena witnesses. Referred to Rules for action by Speaker Cannon.
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New York Times
Washington
Customs Service
Sugar Trust
Congress
Campbell
Kansas
American Sugar Refining Company
The
Wickersham
Cannon
Committee On Rules
Supreme Court Grants Writ in Gompers Contempt Case
The Supreme Court granted a writ of certiorari to Samuel Gompers Frank Morrison and John Mitchell lifting the lower court’s jail decree and staying its execution. Chief Justice Fuller read the order as Gompers and Morrison attended. Gompers left with his wife and daughter in the corridor. The court move may push the case to a hearing within sixty days. Gompers welcomed the action and said the case would be tested before the proper tribunal.
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New York Times
Washington
Samuel Gompers
Frank Morrison
John Mitchell
Supreme Court
Fuller
Gompers
Mr. Morrison
Mann seeks free Canadian wood pulp and paper entry
Representative James Mann of Illinois launches four bills to curb Payne law rates on wood pulp and print paper. He aims to free Canadian pulp and paper imports while maintaining $3.75 a ton on others, contingent on Canada removing export air restrictions.
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New York Times
Washington
James Mann
Illinois
Canada
Mann
Mr. Mann
Peary Draws 5000 To Hear Polar Discovery Tale
About 5,000 people packed the Engineering Society building at 29 West Thirty-ninth Street to hear Commander Robert E Peary recount his north pole voyage. Archer M Huntington introduced him as he described starts, supply landings, and the perilous ice conditions faced during the trek illustrated by stereopticon views.
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Robert E. Peary
North Pole
Engineering Society
West Thirty-ninth Street
American Geographical Society
Archer M. Huntington
Society
Peary
Jon
Ross Marvin
Marvin
Taft Pruning Policy Cuts $732 Million Budget
Secretary MacVeagh submits 1911 estimates totaling 732,223,075, down 103,370,303 from 1910 and 123,066,493 from 1910 projections. Taft orders no padding, insists on bedrock needs. large reductions target Treasury, War, Navy, Post Office, and Commerce and Labor, with notable cuts and selective increases such as Isthmian Canal expenses.
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House of Representatives
Congress
Taft
Treasury Department
War Department
Panama Canal
Post Office Department
Department of Commerce and Labor
Navy Department
Meyer
MacVeagh
State Department
Esas Wickwar Daeses
District of Columbia
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NRW
Boas Bees
Argctior GS
Department of Agriculture
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Navy Yard
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Mare Island
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Pacific
United States
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Isthmian Canal Commission
Philippines
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Manila
Fort Leavenworth
Fort Mason
Cal
Hawaiian
Yellowstone National Park
Gowanus Bay
Cleveland
Interior Department
No Minority Leader Yet As Democrats Fail To Agree
Washington December 6. Democratic Senators met to choose a new minority leader but failed to elect, hoping Culberson might reconsider retirement. The field centers on Money of Mississippi who is reluctant to take on the duties. Also mentioned are Bailey and Bacon.
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New York Times
Washington
Culverson
Culberson
Senator Money
Mississippi
Money
Senator Bailey
Senator Acon
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