Assembly Seeks Constitutional Reapportionment Plan
Albany June 14 Gov Hughes declines to intervene as deadlock on state senate districts continues. Assembly substitute would create four new Democratic districts in Queens, Rockland Richmond, Columbia Dutchess Greene and possibly Westchester, reshaping power across New York and Kings counties. Casualty of the fight includes Senator Tully’s plan and looming political stakes as committees seek a workable compromise.
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New York Times
Albany
Gov. Hughes
Senate
New York
Kings Counties
Assembly Conference
Cassidy
Joint Conference Committee
Kings
Assembly
Wadsgworth
Smith
Merritt
Schoeneck
Confervice
Dusgust
Westchester
Secretary of
Queens
Rockland- Richmond
Columbia-Dutchess-Greene
Raines
Capitol
Wadsworth
Noator Smith
York and Kings
Assemblyman
Prentice
Poat
Manhattan
Bronx
Brooklyn
New Yorounty
Posey
Woodruff
Ublican
Herbertepublican
Parsons
Windsworth
Regeen
Try One More Good Dinner
Fragmentary OCR notes describe a dinner idea with various dishes. The text mentions steak roast and potatoes with little structure and references to illness or gout and a satirical tone about science failing. Local shop names appear at the end.
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Park
Acker, Merrall
Senate votes to loosen electioneering ban for life insurer directors
In Albany on June 14 the Senate passed Senator Fancher’s bill amending last year’s rules for elections of mutual life insurer directors. The bill allows agents to electioneer outside business hours, after earlier bans urged by Samuel Untermyer and the International Policy Holders Committee. The Assembly version is dead in the Senate. passage again by the Assembly is needed before the governor weighs in. Grady linked the policy holders’ committee to hidden interests, hinting at figures around Thomas F Ryan and Thomas W Lawson without naming them directly.
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Albany
Senate
Fancher
Samuel Untermyer
International Policy Holders’ Committee
Grady
T Yhe
Hhe
Thomas F. Ryan
Thomas W. Lawson
Equal Rights Decision Upheld on Women Labor Hours
The Court of Appeals sustained lower court rulings striking down a Penal Code section that penalized violations of the factory law for hours of women's labor. Judge Gray notes adults should not be treated as wards and calls for equality of rights with men, dismissing gender-based distinctions.
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Albany
Court of Appeals
David Williams
Senate
Hooper
Gray
Affirm Mallon Conviction In First Degree Murder
The New York Court of Appeals affirms three first degree murder convictions including Policeman Arthur J. Mallon who shot Robert Brennan in a Bowery saloon in May 1904, Charles Bonter convicted for the Buffalo double murder of Franz Frehers and his wife in December 1903, and William Nelson convicted for Lizzie Norman’s death in December 1905.
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Albany
Court of Appeals
Arthur J. Mallon
New York
Robert Brennan
Mallon
Brennan
Bowery
Charles Bonter
Franz Frehers
Buffalo
William Nelson
Lizzie Norman
Assembly adopts Davis resolution on statutory revision commission
Albany reports the Assembly approved a Davis resolution to form a commission of four Senators and five Assemblymen to review the Statutory Revision Commission report and report to the 1908 Legislature.
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New York Times
Albany
Assembly
Davis
Assembly Concur on Ballot Bill in New York
Albany June 14 without opposition the Assembly concurred in Senate amendments to Assemblyman Prentice s bill providing for any official primary ballot similar to that used in elections and that primary voting in New York City shall be conducted in a manner similar to elections.
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Assembly
Albany
Senate
Assemblyman
Prentice
New York City
Seeley Charges Dismissed in Port Officials Dispute
Secretary Straus accepts findings by Lawrence O. Murray and Herbert Knox Smith that all charges against Henry M. Seeley Inspector of Hulls are absolutely dismissed. They cite absolute insufficiency and triviality of evidence and find no impropriety in Seeley’s official conduct or duty. Theodore T. Mersereau had filed charges against Seeley regarding efficiency and personality.
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Washington, D. C
Theodore T. Mersereau
Port of
New York
Henry M. Seeley
Straus
Department of Commerce and Labor
Mersereau
Lawrence O. Murray
Herbert Knox Smith
Day
Seeley
Eeley
United Service officer transfers and retirements listed
Washington June 14 officers detailed to enter the United States Signs School at Fort Leavenworth and report there. several vacancies filled in cavalry and coastal artillery. retiring boards appointed at Camp Columbia Cuba and San Francisco with officers listed for each panel. material inspection and ordinance consultations noted. assignments include Somersworth New Hampshire and Fort Stevens.
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Fort Stevens
Camp Columbia
Cuba
W. L. Pitcher
Twenty-seventh Infantry
J. Parker
Eleventh Cavalry
R. W. Johnson
C. G. Treat
H. L. Gilchrist
H.E. Comstock
Travis
Eleventh Infantry
W. S. Peirce
Ordnance
Washington
W. H. Noble
Twenty-third Infantry
Somersworth
N. H
Army
San Francisco
F. Funston
A. Reynolds
Twenty-second Infantry
J. A. Lundeen
Coast Artillery
G. H. Torney
J. M. Kennedy
R. Whitfield
Navy Officer Transfers To Nebraska And Home
Lieut. Commander R. E. Coontz assigned as executive officer to Nebraska. Lieut. Commander W. R. Shoemaker sent home for wait orders. Several lieutenants and petty officers including Crenshaw Abele Perkins Pond Graves Barber Ward Walker Pleadwell Walsh receive transfers or await orders.
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R. E. Coontz
Nebraska
W. R. Shoemaker
A. Crenshaw
C. A. Abele
F. M. Perkins
J. E. Pond
C. 8. Graves
J. D. Barber
J. Ward
H. McL. Walker
Maina
Burgeon F. L. Pleadwell
W. W. Walsh
Local matchups listed for regional crews and ports
The OCR provides a scatter of city names and matchups including Yorktown Acalutia Dubuque Cecilia Princeton San Francisco Mayflower Navy Yard New York St Louis Bahia Truxtun Worden N Cape Bay Etan Annapolis Hampton Roads Connecticut Al Yank Roads New Rhode Island Ion Roads Cod lands Ham Roads and Ganectt Bay, suggesting a damaged roster of slated games or routes.
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Yorktown
Acalutia
Dubuque
Cecilia
Princeton
San Francisco
Mayflower
Navy Yard
New York
St. Louis
Bahia
Truxtun
Worden
Cape Bay
Etan
Annapolis
Hampton Roads
Connecticut
Yank Roads
New Rhode Island
Ion Roads
New
Rginis
Newa
Cod
Ham Roads
Ganectt Bay
Night Attack Repulsed at Fort Hamilton in Mock War
The mock assault on Fort Hamilton ended with defenders repelling a sea and land strike. Coast Artillery, Seventh and Thirteenth Regiments of the National Guard impressed observers as they held the harbor defenses against a fleet of pretend warships amid fog and rain.
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New York Harbor
Coast Defense Artillery
National Guard
Fort Hamilton
Sarratt
Coney Island
Connecticut
Admiral Evans
Alabama
Hampton Roads
Fort. Hamilton
Bob” Evans
Conklin
Wadsworth
Narrows
Manhattan
Tammany
Independence League
Fort Worth
Ringold
Armstead
Rowell
Fiske
Davis
Gilmore
Pendry
Brown
Grant
Youne
Tompkins
Thirty-fifth Coast Artillery
McAlpin
Fort Wadsworth
Sandy Hook
Amilton
Hamilton
Severith
Hamilton Park
Follett
Fort Hamilon
Uncle Sam
States
New York
National
Gen Burt Defends Negroes Before Senate Panel
Brig. Gen Andrew Burt retired a famed Indian fighter testifies that the Twenty fifth Infantry, a regiment of negro soldiers, was among the best in the U S Army. He praises Sergeant Mingo Sanders for loyalty and truthfulness and dismisses the idea 140 or 150 men could withhold evidence of a raid by a small force as impossible given the race.
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Washington
Andrew&. Burt
Twenty-fifth Infantry
Senate Committee On Military Affairs
United States Army
Mingo Sanders
Senator Foraker
Gen. Burt
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