Assembly Leader Blames Senate for Long Session
Albany June 8 Assemblyman Phil lips Republican whip defended the Assembly against charges it delayed adjournment. He blamed the Senate for not acting on bills including the Recount and Public Utilities measures, noting delays since March and a Senate caucus that produced no prior plan.
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New York Times
Albany
Phillips
Allegany
House
Wadstworth
Assembly
Senate
Assembly Railroads Committee
Ministers Meet Hughes In Albany visit
Governor Hughes welcomed a large General Synod delegation from the Reformed Church in Albany and expressed: we are all pursuing the welfare of our fellow men and raising citizenship standards. An Evangelical Lutheran Ministerium delegation offered 162,000 members’ support for his vow to enforce righteous laws.
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New York Times
Albany
Gov. Hughes
General Synod of the Reformed Church
Evangelical Lutheran Ministerium
New York
Charles E. Hughes
State of
Civil Service List Ruling Question At Issue
In Albany June a civil service dispute questioned whether a change of residence voids a place on the list. Deputy AG Williams urged vacating a writ to review the Civil Service Board’s appointment of C H Smith as Court Attendant in the Second Judicial Department over Edward J Makendick who led the list. The board said it could appoint Smith since Makendick moved from Brooklyn in the Second District to Manhattan in the First. The court reserved decision.
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New York Times
Albany
Justice Betts
Williams
State Civil Service Board
C. H. Smith
Second Judicial Department
Edward J. Makendick
Recount bill and McGowan veto in Albany Assembly
The Recount bill and Acting Mayor McGowan's veto message appeared in the Assembly on June 8. Debate centers on whether Clarence O. Shearn’s reply to Mayor McClellan’s letter may be read. An attempt is planned for Monday night to have the communication read, with opposition noting the difference between a private citizen and a 4,500,000-strong city represented by McClellan.
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New York Times
Albany
McGowan
Assembly
Clarence O. Shearn
McClellan
Rogers
Broome
Wadsworth
Oliver
Park Hippos Move To Summer Quarters In Central Park
Caliph and Miss Murphy, the park hippos, moved from the animal house to the outdoor summer tank in Central Park under police guidance. The two hippos entered their respective water sections while onlookers watched, a red flash noted near Miss Murphy as she crossed to her side.
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Caliph
Miss Murphy
Animal House
Central Park
Governor Vetoes Patronage Bills in Albany
Gov Hughes returns three local patronage bills to the Legislature without approval. Hasenflug in Brooklyn and Queens, and Harte in Queens seek more magistrates and assistants. Weber seeks more Coroners' Physicians. veto urges local or broader county-law amendments instead.
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Albany
Hughes
Kings County
Hasenflug
Weber
Harte
Queens
Brooklyn
Erie
Richmond
Erie County
Board of Supervisors
Erley County
Richmond County
Queens Quay
Assemblyman Weber
Kings
Greater New York
Peach rate unjust weighs on Atlantic Coast Line shipments
The Inter-State Commerce Commission ruled the freight rate on peaches from Macon and Atlanta to Washington Baltimore Philadelphia and New York as unjust. It set new rates 78 cents to Washington and Baltimore and 76 cents to Philadelphia and New York with refrigerator charges 11 cents per crate and specifics for car capacities. The changes take effect July 15 and retain demurrage charges of 5 dollars per day after the first 24 delayed refrigerator cars.
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Washington
Inter-State Commerce Commission
Atlantic Coast Line Railroad Company
Macon
Atlanta
Baltimore
Philadelphia
New York
J. J. Waxelbaum
Secretary Root Advises Knapp On ICC Inquiry
Secretary Root held a one hour conference with Commissioner Knapp of the Interstate Commerce Commission in Washington. It is believed Root offered advice on continuing the inquiry into relations of various coins and no statements were released by either side.
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Washington
Root
Knapp
Inter-State Commerce Commission
Cadet Admissions Reforms at West Point
The War Department will require all cadet candidates to pass rigid entrance examinations. Examinations move from May to January second Tuesday and admission date shifts from June 15 to March 1 annually.
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Washington
West Point
War Department
New Plan for Court House Would Reuse City Land
The Court House Commission will consider a plan by Librarian ilip Baer to add wings to the existing City Hall Park courthouse rather than use the Union Square site. It would save about 9 million dollars and avoided costly condemnation, but would require amending the Court House Act and moving the eastern City Court building.
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Court House Commission
Union Square
Board of Estimate
City Hall Park
Ilip Baer
City Hall
Baer
Court House
Cyers Street
Broadway
Cefttre Street
County Court House
City Court
Sigel Monument Plans Unveiling Set for Oct 19
Announcement states an equestrian statue of Major Gen. Franz Sigel by Karl Bitter will be unveiled and dedicated at Riverside Drive and 1 Street on Oct 19. The effort is led by the Sigel Monument Committee with Pushes and supporters coordinating the event.
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Franz Sigel
Riverside Drive
Karl Bitter
Coast Artillery guardsmen to train with regulars in joint defense drill
Regulars from the Coast Artillery will coach citizen soldiers from National Guard units including the Thirteenth Coast Artillery Brooklyn and Seventh Infantry New York in seven coastal defense topics at Fort Wadsworth Fort Hamilton Fort Totten and Fort Schuyler. The exercise aims to form a reserve force ready to man fortifications in time of war with a simulated enemy fleet attacking Li Island Sound.
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New York
Thirteenth Coast Artill Regiment
Brooklyn
Seventh Regiment of Infantry of
Forty-seventh Regiment
Eighth Battalion Infantry
New York National Guard
Forts
Wadsworth
Hamilton
Totten
Schuyler
National
Coast Artillery
War Department
Li Island Sound
Sound
New Tere
Garland Whistler
Fort Totten
Fort Wadsworth
Medorem Crawford
Fort Hamilton
George 8
Thirteenth Regiment
Fortamilton
Fort Schuyler
Forty-seventh
Col. Crawford
National Guard
Atlantic
Pacific
Gulf
Col. Whistler
Col
Crawford
Priny
Oystermer
New Jersey
Army official reassigned to new communications post
Col David L. Brainard, chief of commissary at the Army Building, has been ordered to take a similar role at a new communications office. The transfer affects his seven years in current duty and places him within the War Department bureaucracy.
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David L. Brainard
Army
Lane
Cole
Heart Mechanism Study Sparks Interest at Academy of Sciences
Dr Hugo Kronecker of Bernes detailed report on heart muscle behavior describes how ventricular diastole and uncoordinated fibrillar contraction can be triggered by puncture or nerve-centre irritation in the septum. He argues acute anaemia of the ventricles drives the quivering and paralysis, with separate ventricular control by nerve plexuses.
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Paris
Tax Times
Hugo Kronecker
Berne
Academy of Sciences
Kronecker
University of Berne
Institut Marcy
Timms
Academy of Sciences of Paris
Germany
Steiner
Century Club Exhibition Highlights Portraits and Europe Scenes
A Century Association Summer show features Huntington’s symbolical canvas of Righteousness and Peace, portraits by Carroll Beckwith, and continental landscapes from Hopkins Smith, Chapman, Garnney, Magnese, and Turner. The display includes interior genre pieces, naval scenes, and a Quaker Meeting portrait, with notable likenesses of club members.
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National Academy of Design
Century Association
Daniel Huntington
Righteousness
Peace
Office of Honor
Frank D. Miller
Carroll Beckwith
Judge Peters
Dorothy Persketch
Hopkinson Smith
Venice
Gran Canal
Sweden
SaltsjSbaden
Normandy
Anner
William the Conauéror
Dives
Carlton T. Chapman
North East Harbor
Mount Rt
Elmer’ E. Garnney
Italy
Riviera
Magnese
H. A
Mili
J. B
J. A
Magnolia
Lake Old Club
C. Y. Ct
Turner
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