Corporation tax reargued as Treasury plans proceed
The Payne Aldrich corporation tax case heads back to the Supreme Court for re argument while the Treasury girds to collect the $27,010,000 tax. Secretary MacVeagh and Commissioner Cabell say collection will go forward despite possible court reversal, with funds going to the general treasury.
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New York Times
Washington
Gov. Hughes
Commissioner of Internal Revenue
Supreme Court
Moody
Hughes
Justice Moody
Justice Hughes
Treasury Department
Treasury
Secretary of the Treasury
MacVeagh Hals
Petegent
House
Senate
Aldrich
Internal Revenue
Internal Revenue Officers
MdcVeagh
Cabell
General Fund
Women in Bayonne Row Over Taft Suffrage Debate
Bayonne society is split after Mrs. William B. Du Bois condemns Taft and urges hissing of his name at a Woman's Political Study Club meeting. Insurgents led by Mrs. Ten Broeck resign in protest. further resignations follow. The dispute threatens to disorganize the club as members clash over patriotism and political loyalties.
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Taft
Bayonne
N. J
William B. du Bois
Woman's Political Study Club of
Watters
Avenue C
Morris
Fen Broeck
Jose
Ten Broeck Pi Sire de Pon
du Boi
Oils
Joe
Halt on rate rise by Western Trunk Line Committee
Petition claims the Western Trunk Line Committee fixed freight rates across its territory through a monthly Freight Committee meeting and unanimous agreement. It alleges a 1900 1910 plan to raise commodity rates, with Hosmer of Chicago filing new schedules for June 1 1910, threatening higher charges for many goods.
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Western Trunk Line Committee
Chicago
Western ‘Trunk Line Committee
J’reight
United States
ICC
Hosmer
Inter-State Commerce Commission
Western Tran Line Committee
Wickersham Acts Quickly to Block Rail Rate Increases
Attorney General Wickersham and President Taft move to obtain a preliminary injunction to stop railroads from enforcing higher rates tomorrow. Frederick N. Judson is named special assistant district attorney to press the action as Judge Dyer grants the injunction. Shippers see the move as shifting the burden to railroads to justify the increase.
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Washington
Committee of Shippers
Wickersham
Inter-State Commerce Commission
Taft
Supreme Court
Wickersam
United States
St. Louis
Houts
Frederick N. Judson
White House
Department of Justice
Dyer
Ripley denounces rate rise plan and govt move to block
E P Ripley president of the Atchison Topeka Santa Fe rails warns against government injunctions on the Western Traffic Association rate increase to June 1. He accuses shippers of being misled, cites wage hikes and tax rises, and argues railroads face weak futures despite some recovery.
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Chicago
E. P. Ripley
Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fé Railroad
Western Traffic Association
Atchison
Ripley
Chi
Rate orders upheld by Supreme Court in Missouri case
The Supreme Court ruled 4 to 3 that the Interstate Commerce Commission did not exceed its power by ordering rate reductions in the Missouri River and Denver cases. The decision reversed a lower court ruling, enabling enforcement of reduced through rates amid ongoing rail wage and rate disputes.
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Western Railroads
Reading
Wall Street
Interstate Commerce Commission
Amal
Amer
Atchi
Ry B'klyn Rapid Tran
Chi
Mil. & Bt. P
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Southern Pacific
Union Pacific
United States Steel
Chicago
St. Louis
Denver
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District Court
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St. Joseph
Omaha
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Mississippi River
Missouri River
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Buffalo
Ttsburg
Parkersburg
Potomac
Seaboard Territory
Circuit Court of the United States
Commission
Solicitor General
Fuller
George J. King& Manufacturer
New York
Broulton
Salt Lake City
Denver Chamber of Commerce
Lanmeer
Besic
Colorado
Missouri
United States District Court For
Lehigh Valley Raises Commutation Rates to Bound Brook
Washington May 31 Lehigh Valley Railroad raises rates on commutation passenger traffic to Bound Brook in line with other Eastern lines. The company filed with the Interstate Commerce Commission the advance in its rates and the new tariff is in effect.
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Washington
Lehigh Valley Railroad Company
Inter-State Commerce Commission
Transit fares rise as half-dozen agencies raise rates
A report notes a general fare increase of about 5 percent across ticket types. Sixty trip monthly passes rise about 3.76 percent, fifty-trip family tickets 4.65 percent, and ten-trip passes 4.95 percent. Increases vary by agency and ticket form with shifts shown against rivals.
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Vance
New York, New Haven & Hartford
Erie
Burroughs Calls for Sparrows Destruction
Prominent naturalist John Burroughs declares in a letter to Middletown businessman C W Edgar that police in every city should destroy English sparrows. His son also shoots sparrows on the Burroughs property in Ulster County.
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Middletown
N. Y
John Burroughs
C. W. Edgar
Ulster County
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