Bill to abolish State Highway Commission passes in Senate
After a six hour bitter debate the New York Senate approved the Murtaugh bill to end the three member State Highway Commission. The measure, backed by Democrats amid charges of patronage and bad faith, passed 27 to 19 with Roosevelt voting no.
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New York Times
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State Highway Commission
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Buffalo
Thom
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Eveat
Brack@tt
Sullivan
Brackett
Bowery
Rackett
Nator Sullivan
Twelfth
Frawley
Special Highway Committee
Senator Sylvan
Congress
Enator Frawley
Resos
Hughes
Sentor Brackett
Byrd
Senator Jackett
Bradsett
Stawley
State highway commission condemned amid bids dispute
The speaker charged the present highway commission with incompetence and corruption. He claimed a contractor fund financed a campaign to bolster support for the commission while alleging favoritism in contracts. The commission members listed are S. Percy Hooker of Leroy, Thomas Warren Allen of New York, and Robert Earl of Herkimer.
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State Highway Commission
S. Percy Hooker
Leroy
Thomas Warren Allen
New York
Robert Earl
Herkimer
Governor under fire as reform bill sparks clash
Albany June 6 Assemblyman Murray condemns the governor and backs the Lareau bill for Buffalo to adopt a commission form of government with initiative and referendum and recall provisions. Lareau also supports it. Buffalo backers see reform while others call it a blow to representative government. By 71 to 64 the Assembly upholds the Rules Committee adverse report.
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Murray
Lareau
Buffalo
New York
Cuvillier
Assembly
New Trial in Brokers Case Reversed by Court of Appeals
Albany June 6 The Court of Appeals grants a new trial in the case of William B Keller editor of a trade journal who sues Charles D Halsey and others stock brokers for selling stock he carried on margin causing a loss of 312712 Keller says he was induced to buy 228000 worth of stock in 1904 with a margin promise 1 percent The trial term verdict for defendants was overturned by the Court of Appeals finding corroborative evidence for the plaintiff and sending the issue to a jury
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Albany
Court of Appeals Today
William B. Keller
Charles D. Halsey
Tage
Halsey
Keller
Court of Appeals
May Shelve Income Tax in Albany Showdown
Assemblyman Murray warns the Judiciary Committee to report the Wagner resolution ratifying the proposed federal income tax amendment by June 14 or he will discharge the committee. Majority Leader Smith and Speaker Frisbie pledge action if needed while Gov. Dix signals an extraordinary session to address the issue.
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Murray
New York
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Judiciary Committee
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Frisbie
Merritt
Dix
Osborne's Successor Sought by Albany Delegation
A group of Assemblymen pressed Gov. Dix to appoint Francis A. Willard as State Conservation Commissioner if the Conservation bill passes. Willard, secretary of the State Forest Fish and Game Commission and of the Democratic League, is backed amid Osborne’s vacancy. James W. Fleming of Troy is another candidate for the post.
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Albany
Gov. Dix
Francis A. Willard
Willard
State Forest, Fish and Game Commission
Democratic League
James W. Fleming
Troy
Thomeeepi Osborne
Auburn
Interboroupit Rapid Transit Tax Exemption Clarified
New York Court of Appeals rules machinery and apparatus in power houses of Interborough Rapid Transit Company exempt from real property tax for 1905 and 1906 while the power houses themselves are taxable. Case sent back to Special Term for modification per the opinion.
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Albany
Court of Appeals
Interborou Pit Rapid Transit Company
New York
Escape from House of Refuge Seventeen Year Old Tells All
Seventeen year old Alexander Siegel recounts a daring escape from Randall's Island House of Refuge. He describes tying bedsheets into a rope, fleeing rooftops, swimming through Little Hell Gate, past searchlights, and reaching the East River before officers captured him. He plans to return to the refuge.
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Little Hell Gate
East 104Th Street
Alexander Siegel
Mancini
Lennon
104Th Street
Madison Avenue
106Th Street
Park Avenue
Siegel
East River
Ward's Island
Hell Gate
103D Street
College Point Ferry Dock
Ninety-ninth Street
Second Avenue
A Shakespearean Descendant to Lecture at Harvard
John Henry Shakespeare, arriving from Bremen on the Kaiser Wilhelm II, claims descent from Shakespeare's grandfather and serves as Secretary for the European section of the Baptist Alliance. The group will meet in Philadelphia June 19 and Shakespeare will lecture at Harvard during his stay, following a conversion by Mrs. Russell James who plans lectures on Woman's Work in English Churches.
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Bremen
John Henry Shakespeare
William Shakespeare
Baptist Alliance
Philadelphia
Shakespeare
Harvard University
Russell James
Jamey
May convict his mother in Hud son murder case
In Ulster County Court Mrs. Vincenza Crauso faces trial as jurors hear that her eight year old son testified against her alleged accomplice Big Pete in the Aug The case centers on the Porterville murder of four year old Petruchio Fabiano found in an outhouse after the crime on the Hudson River settlement near Saugerties. The boy testified last March to the fatal blow and the concealment of the body by Crauso and Big Pete. The defense argues for motive to place the body toward the river and notes skull signs of a blow were lacking.
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New York Times
Kingston
N. Y
Vincenza Crauso
Cantine
Ulster County
Dannemora
Hudson River
Saugerties
Porterville
Petruchio Fabiano
Crause
Crauso
Pietro Ortale
Big Pete
Suffragist Play Put On By Wage Earners Club
Mrs Edith M Whitmore directed and acted in The Suffragette Mother a comedy about suffrage staged by the Wage Earners Dramatic Club at Clinton Hall Lower East Side. Characters include a resisting Aunt Maria and Bridget O Flaherty with conversions depicted. first act finished late.
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Edith M. Whitmore
Wage Earners’ Dramatic Club
Lower East Side
Clinton Hall
Clinton Street
Maria
Bridget O’flaherty
Bridget
Bertha Richpan
Senate panel backs Stilwell bill against mercantile agencies
In Albany on June 6 the Senate Judiciary Committee reported favorably Stilwell's bill to curb mercantile agencies. The measure would bar confidential verbal ratings and require written reports on agency letterheads signed by a responsible official. It would permit reports to any paying requester. opposition from merchants noted. The committee also endorsed Stilwell's fare-cut bill for Fifth Avenue stage lines.
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New York Times
Albany
Baye
Senate Judiciary Committee Today
Stilwell
Charles H. Unversagt
Senate Judiciary Committee
Fifth Avenue
Pass Death Avenue Bill In Assembly
The Walker bill to remove New York Central tracks on Eleventh Avenue passed the Assembly by 58 to 44. Backed by Mayor Gaynor and the railroad, it sets a mutual concession plan: the city grants a 60 foot roadway from the line to Beach Street in exchange for the line’s removal from the surface. Unlike the McManus Boylan bill, no summary removal if no agreement by October 1.
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New York Times
Albany
N. Y
New York Central
Eleventh Avenue
Gaynor
Beach Street
McManus-Boylan
Cram Confirmation Sparks Party Debate In Senate
The senate debated the nomination of Mr. Cram with Republicans opposing the confirmation and a Brooklyn Democrat joining in the vote against. Senator Wagner and others attacked the process while Senator Saxe praised Gov Dix's selections and urged support for Cram. A party split emerged as votes neared a majority.
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Saxe
Gov. Dix
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Travis
Brooklyn
Gov. Hughes
Manhattan
Wagner
Majority Iouner
Sentec
Newcomb
O’brien
Duhamel
Independence League
Roosevelt
Insurgent
Seeetrcoe
Clergymen Walk Out as Peters Denounces Robber Barons
The Rev. John P. Peters of New York City assails the Christian Church for aiding robber barons and money worship. Clergymen at the Western Massachusetts convocation leave the Trinity Church meeting in Lenox after his charged remarks on labor, prostitution, and Sunday observance.
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New York Times
Lenox
Mass
John P. Peters
St. Michael's Episcopal Church
New York City
Christian Church
Massachusetts
Trinity Church
Peters
Anti-Saloon League
America
Church
Metropolis
Tammany
Episcopal Church
Richard Croker
Croker
Edwin Gould Pays Drainage Assessments in Lump Sum
Supreme Court Justice Tompkins signed an order allowing Edwin Gould to pay 6892.31 in a single payment for drainage assessments on 181 acres in Greenburgh town. Gould sought to avoid twenty yearly payments as required by law. Supervisor Millard did not oppose but declined to accept the money.
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Edwin Gould
Whith. Plains
Supreme Court
Tompkins
Greenburgh
Charles D. Millard
Penn Railroad Denies Rate Cutting in Grain Case
The Pennsylvania Railroad Company defended itself against an Interstate Commerce Commission suit claiming rate discrimination favoring Keystone Elevator Company. The railroad argued carelessness in freight car numbers and denied any preferential domestic versus export grain rates. The Keystone Elevator is controlled by the PRR but leased to L F Miller & Sons. a firm member was recently acquitted in Savannah. Commissioner Lane presides over the hearing in Philadelphia.
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Pennsylvania Railroad Company
Inter-State Commerce Commission
Keystone Elevator Company
Keystone Company
Atlantic
L. F. Miller & Sons
Savannah
Lane
Illegal City Weddings Declared Void by Judge
Municipal Judge Stewart ruled thousands of recent Chicago marriages invalid. The ceremonies were performed by a Justice of the Peace from outside the city in a Chicago office, though Justices had been abolished in 1905. A man named Fishman recounted unknowingly marrying a woman after a clerical encounter for a peddler’s license.
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Chicago
Stewart
Justice of the Peace
Lmits
Cooper
Justice Stacey
Pastors Heresy Trial Set in Pittsburg Parish Leader
Special to The New York Times reports Rev. Dr. John H. Dietrich of St. Mark's Memorial Reformed Church faces heresy charges from the Pittsburg classis. Trial is scheduled for July 10, marking a rare denomination clash after more than fifty years. Dietrich defends his pulpit and editorial remarks as aligned with his views. The case committee met at the church today.
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New York Times
Pittsburg
Penn
John H. Dietrich
St. Mark’s Memorial Reformed Church
Dietrich
Uplift of Saloonies Urged by Liquor Dealers Chief
The National Wholesale Liquor Dealers Association opened its sixteenth annual meeting in Chicago. President Morris F. Westheimer of Cincinnati urged acceptance of national probes and education of the public on evils of prohibition, advocating license regulation and defense before public opinion.
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Chicago
National Wholesale Liquor Dealers’ Association
Morris F. Westheimer
Cincinnati
Subway Compromise Open for Two Weeks
Bronx lines and the Lafayette Avenue route in Brooklyn are tentatively set for two weeks of negotiation as city officials push for a Broadway extension plan while Interborough officials resist territorial division and demand favorable operating terms. The dispute centers on cost, funding, and how to allocate earnings between existing lines and extensions, with McAneny's report due for Board of Estimate consideration and a possible counter proposal from Interborough.
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Lafayette Avenue
Brooklyn
Interborough
James L. Quackenbush
City Club
Broadway
Manhattan
Theodore P. Shonts
Brooklyn Rapid Transit
Brooklyn Union
Brooklyn Rapid
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Willcox
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Bar Association
Board of Estimate
Wall Street
Friends
Mitchel
Prendergast
Gaynor
Subway
Steers
Col. Siams
Brooklyn Company
McAneny Committee
Gresser
Queens
Astoria
Woodside
Fea
Steel Trust Leaders Face Criminal Trial in Probe Report
Judge Elbert H. Gary arrives in Washington to resume testimony before the House select committee probing the United States Steel Corporation. Chairman Stanley predicts Department of Justice and Bureau of Corporations will disclose information on possible violations beyond anti trust, including freight and terminal charges.
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Culberson
United States Steel Corporation
Judiciary Committee
Senate
Tennessee Coal and Iron Company
Steel Corporation
United States
Representative Parker
New Jersey
House Judiciary Committee
Department of Justice
Congress
Bureau of Corporations
Courts of Justice
Unit States Steel Corporation
Megaba
Reperot
Department
Elbert H. Gary
Washington
New York
House of Representatives
Steel Trust
Gary
J. P. Gayle
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House Adopts Sugar Investigation and Taxation Probes
The House authorized 25000 dollars for the American Sugar Refining Company inquiry and directed probes into DC tax assessments. It debated extradition law changes, moved a 6 million mail route appropriation, and tabled a Los Angeles dynamiters issue while sending testimony to the Judiciary Committee.
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House of Representatives
American Sugar Refining Company
District of Columbia
Judiciary Committee
Appropriations Committee
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Post Office Committee
Los Angeles
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New York
House Committee On
Department of Justice
Henry A. Wise
United States
Southern District of
Felix Frankfurter
Ernest Baldwin
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