Congress Divides On Direct Elections
The House rejected the Bristow amendment to a direct Senate election resolution by 112 to 172, leaving Congress to regulate state elections under the Constitution. Debate featured party splits, with only Sells and Burke voting with the minority alongside Berger the Socialist. Speaker Clark sought guidance from parliamentarians and aimed to send the measure to the Senate for possible reconsideration.
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New York Times
Washington
House
Sells
Tennessee
Burke
Wisconsin
Berger
Bristow
Congress
Clark
Asher Hinds
Cannon
Senate
Mann
Sherman
Friends of
Olmsted
Pennsylvania
Messrs
Young
Michigan
Norris
Moon
Prouty
Jackson
Madden
Rucker
Missouri
Cullop
Hardy
Florida
Sherley
Witherspoon
Sisson
Hughes
New Jersey
Randell
Richardson
Heflin
Representative Rucker
United States
Representative Prouty
Senate tarff revision showdown rocks reciprocity bill
Senators clash over attaching other tariff schedules to Canada reciprocity and a woolen measure. Regulars, insurgents, and Root clash as Gallinger and Penrose warn against rushed action while Cummins La Follette and Borah push for broader tariff revision and open trade with Canada.
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Gore
House
Mr. Lodge
Massachusetts
Penrose
Senate
Cummins
Nelson
Crawford
la Follette
Jones
Northwestern
Martin
Williams
Bailey
Canada
Borah
Finance Committee
Union
United States
Dixon
Montana
Senator Root
New York
Mississippi
Root
Sugar Trust Hearings Probe Beet Factory Merger Details
The Hardwick Sugar Trust committee examined the absorption of six Michigan beet sugar factories into the Michigan Sugar Company and its sale of a controlling stake to H O Havemeyer’s American Sugar Refining Company. Witnesses denied contracts or price fixing. Horace Havemeyer urged possible price regulation by government.
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Times
Washington
Sune
Hardwick Sugar Trust Committee
H. O. Havemeyer
American Sugar Refining Company
Charles H.warren
Detroit
Michigan Sugar Refining Company
Michigan
Michigan Sugar Company
Havemeyer
Warren
Comany
American Sugar Refiting Company
Theichigan Company
Ways and Means Committee
House
Michigan Beet Sugar Corporation
Hardwick
Wise
United States Circuit Court
Southern District of New York
Mr. Warren
Bardo
Thomas
Avemeyer
Horace Havemeyer
Sugar Trust
BH. H. Gary
Ardwick
Fordney
England
Aws
New Jersey
Pardons in Peonage Cases Ordered by Taft
President Taft ordered immediate release for W. S. Harlan C. C. Hilton and G. IX Huggins of the Jackson Lumber Co Lockhart Ala from Atlanta Penitentiary for peonage sentences. Clemency to expire fines and sentences in days with Fletcher pushing for Gallagher and Grace not included. Harlan wealthy lumberman. Hilton and Huggins fined and jailed. charges involved importing foreign laborers and detaining them in a lumber camp.
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Washington
Taft
W. S. Harlan
C. C. Hilton
G. IX
Huggins
Jackson Lumber Company
Lockhart
Ala
Atlanta
Fletcher
Florida
New Haven
Gallagher
Grace
Harlan
Hilton
Race
New York
Eee
Loan Sharks Shut Out by Commerce and Labor Chief
Washington June 21. Secretary Nagel issued an order forbidding any assignment or making over of salary by a department employee as security for a loan. Assignments may be made to family for credit to the employee, but Logan sharks are crippled in their operations.
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Root
House
Congress
Taft
Senate
Legislative Branch
Canada
Upper
New York
Pierees
United States
Ontario
Gtienaper
News Print
Washington
Secretary of Commerce and Labor
Nagel
Department
Logan
Industrial Manager Seeks Solutions for Troubled Teams
H F J Porter consulting industrial engineer describes diagnosing weak spots in organizational structure. He offers experience to restore efficiency and guide business out of trouble from his New York office at 1 Madison Ave.
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H. F. J. Porter
M. E
Madison Ave
New York City
Gram
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Burleson
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Texas
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North Carolina
Mr. Williams
Gallinger
Minnesota
Kansas
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Nebraska
Clapp
South Dakota
Kenyon
Iowa
Grorna
North Dakota
Poindexter
Works
California
r.'La Follette
Senate Finance Committee
Ersel
Panama
Wood Pulp Commission
Mann den
Mr. Malloy
Industrial
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Enone
STS
Saks
Europe
Saks Travel Department
Broadway
Saks & Company
34Th Street
Conservative
Will
Lennev
Houston &T
14Th &T
Beaver St
28Th St
Nassau &T
Fulton St
Fifth Ave
Brooklyn
City Hall
Hardman
Metropolitan Opera Company
Hardman, Peck & CO
New Hardman Building
Fifth Avenue
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