Foraker Blocks Negroes Return to Army in Senate
Washington March 31 Senator Foraker joined with five Democrats to report adversely the Warner bill to restore discharged negro soldiers from the 25th Infantry. He and allies thwarted a measure that would let innocent former troops prove their innocence and seek restoration, provoking White House disappointment as the executive window to restore troops expires.
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Tribune Bureau
Washington
Senator Foraker
Committee On Military Affairs
25Th Infantry
Warner
Foraker
Messrs
Bulkeley
Hemenway
Ohio
Administration
Senate
Messrs. Foraker
Military Affairs Committee
Scott
Hemenwar
Warren
Lodge
du Pont
White House
Werner
Action on Agricultural Bill Passes Part Relating to Forestry
The House approved a paragraph of the agricultural appropriation bill concerning the bureau of forestry after days of debate. Wyoming’s Mondell and California’s Smith led attacks accusing the bureau of creating timber monopolies and overstepping water rights authority, while Colorado’s Bonynge and Washington’s Cushman backed the charges. Iowa’s Hepburn and Kansas’s Scott defended the bureau’s work.
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Washington
Bureau of Forestry
House of Representatives
Messrs. Mondell
Wyoming
Smith
California
Bureau
Messrs. Bonynge
Colorado
Cushman
Iliega
Congress
Meesrs
Hepburn
Iowa
Scott
Kansas
Cocks bill shelved by House Judiciary Committee
The House Judiciary Committee considers the Cocks bill unconstitutional and shelves it. It would regulate identification and registration of automobiles but would infringe state police powers. Some members argue interstate auto travel is not interstate commerce and not under ICC control. States retain right to set transit rules within borders. bill unlikely to receive favorable report.
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Tribune Bureau
Washington
House Judiciary Committee
Interstate Commerce Commission
Senate panel backs favorable report on Employers' Liability bill
The Senate Committee on Education and Labor authorized a favorable report on Senator La Follette s Employers Liability bill. The measure aims to fix defects noted by a recent Supreme Court decision and expand protections for workers.
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Washington
Senate Committee On Education and Labor
la. Foliette
Supreme
Postum Coffee Helps Womans Health and Cheerfulness
A Washington woman credits Postum with transforming her nervous health and daily energy. Four years ago a doctor predicted she would not live long due to nervous spells and poor appetite. After stopping coffee and using Postum, she reports stable nerves, resumed housework, and caring for two infants with renewed cheerfulness. Name from Postum Co Battle Creek Michigan. Read The Road to Wellville. There's a Reason.
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Washington
Lon
Postum
Postum Co
Battle Creek
Mich
Wellville
PLAN CHANGE IN FLEET
Washington reports a fleet reshuffle with Maine and Alabama to be detached from the Atlantic fleet and replaced by Nebraska and Wisconsin. The two battleships will return to the Atlantic coast in reserve after overhaul, with the hospital ship Relief sailing with the group. A third torpedo boat flotilla is expected not to join the world voyage. The sailing date from San Francisco remains unsettled awaiting Admiral Evans's docking and painting needs.
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Washington
Evans
Maine
Alabama
Nebraska
Wisconsin
Atlantic
Relief
Magdalena Bay
Acapulco
Navy
San Francisco
Admiral Evans
Commonwealth seeks American fleet visit to Hobart Tasmania
Melbourne officials join with American Consul General John P. Bray to extend the fleet itinerary to Hobart Tasmania Wellington residents push for part of the American fleet to visit Wellington from Auckland as the voyage proceeds via New Zealand dates unspecified.
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Melbourne
Hobart
Tasmania
Mellbourne
John P. Bray
Wellngton
New Zealand
Wellington
Auckland
Rice Denies Electric Boat Company Influence Probe
Washington, March 31. Isaac L. Rice, president of the Electric Boat Company, vehemently denied charges before the House special committee that the firm tried to influence Navy Department actions. He said agents offered to buy Lake Boat Company to halt the investigation, naming A Grant Brown and Charles R Flint as the proposers, though he had no knowledge beyond Brown’s claim. Kellogg and Gordon, counsel for Electric Boat, testified they had no evidence of improper influence.
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Washington
Isaac L. Rice
Electric Boat Company
George L. Lilley
Connecticut
House
Navy Department
Boat Company
Lake Boat Company
John P. Kellogg
William D. Gordon
Midland
Mich
Eilectric Boat Company
Congress
Abolition bills heard on bucket shops in D C
The House District Committee heard advocates of Campbell’s bill to end bucket shops and bucketing. Ogden D Budd proposed two amendments to define bucket shops and require complete stock‑trade records. Percy Wade, linked to Wade and Hedges, was found guilty in the Criminal Court on the bucket shop gaming case and released on bail pending appeal.
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Tribune Bureau
Washington
Ogden D. Budd
Consolidated Stock Exchange
New York
Henry D. MacFarland
District of Columbia
House Committee On
Representative Campbell
Kansas
Jobell
Budd
Percy Wade
Wade & Hedges
Court of Appeals of
Texas Still Pursues Gould Road
Telegraph report from Galveston on March 31 states the federal receiver of the International and Great Northern Railroad must invest all income beyond operating and fixed charges into mandated improvements. The Texas Railway Commission warned that failure could trigger charter forfeiture and a prior insolvency admission.
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The
Tribune
Galveston
Tex
International and Great Northern Railroad
Texas Railway Commission
State Commission
International
Miss Green to marry in Rome
Information from the Tribune reports Miss Susanne Green, daughter of the late Charles E. Green, will travel to Rome on April 7 to wed Nelson Lloyd, a Trenton magazine writer. She is abroad with her brother Henry W. Green and his wife, after an engagement to Dr Thomas Darlington was postponed.
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the Tribune
Susanne Green
Charles E. Green
Rome
Nelson Lloyd
Trenton
Miss Green
Europe
Henry W. Green
Thomas Darlington
New York
Darlington
Lievd
Princeton University
Lawrenceville School
Man agrees to support both wives in bigamy case
Michael Briefer of 50 West 115th street faced Judge Foster in the Court of General Sessions on a bigamy charge. He agreed to support both wives and their children, with $7 weekly to his first wife Evelyn and $3 to his second wife Mary Guile. Briefer, a photographer earning $20 to $30 weekly, will have sentence passed today. Sir Caspar Purdon Clarke of the Metropolitan Museum of Art sat with the judge.
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Michael Briefer
West 115Th Street
Foster
Court of General Sessions
Briefer
Evelyn Briefer
Mary Guile
Brooks Grove
N. Y
Foever
Representative Geldrogie Recovers Sufficiently to Leave Rooms
Washington dispatch reports Representative Henry M Geldrogie of New York was taken ill yesterday at the House and by today had recovered enough to leave his apartments.
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Washington
Henry M Geldrogie
New York
United States seeks arbitration with Venezuela over five claims
The memo outlines how Venezuela ignored American demands for amicable settlement and arbitration. It details Root and Russell correspondence urging arbitration before The Hague or a three-judge panel, and summarizes five dispute cases including Jarrett expulsion, Orinoco concessions, and the Bermudez and Critchfield claims, with the State Department pressing for diplomatic redress.
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Mr. Root
Venezuela
Mr. Russell
Root
Russell
United States
Willemstad
Tribunals of Justice of the Republic
Scott
State Department
Senate
Lodge
A. F. Jarrett
Jaurett
Panama
Jarrett
Caracas
Department
Criticizes Hill's R. R. Pessimism in Washington
Franklin K. Lane, Interstate Commerce Commissioner, disputes James J. Hill's railroad pessimism in an New York interview. He notes higher monthly receipts per mile for the first seven months of this fiscal year compared with 1905, and a net revenue shortfall of seven dollars per mile versus 1896-97, framing the current period as not a railroad crisis.
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Washington
Franklin K. Lane
Interstate Commerce Commissioner
James J. Hill
New York
Hill
Congress
United States
Senate Talks Dam Construction on Snake River
In Washington on March 31 the Senate devoted most of its session to a bill authorizing a Snake River dam. An adjournment followed after Idaho's Mr Heyburn refused a vote. Senator Teller condemned executive encroachment during debate.
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Washington
Senate
Snake River
Heyburn
Idaho
Teller
Westinghouse Receivership Ends
Pittsburg March 31 The receivership for the Westinghouse Machine Company created last October was vacated by Judge James S Young on petition of the company and the receivers The property will be turned back to stock holders tomorrow and the company will begin its fiscal year debt free with cash in bank and orders to justify operating the plant on about a 12 percent basis Plans are under way to reorganize Westinghouse Electric and Manufacturing Company the creditors committee will meet in New York next Thursday to develop plans further
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Pittsburg
Westinghouse Machine Company
James S. Young
United States Circuit Court
Westinghouse
Westinghouse Electric and Manufacturing Company
New York
Shriners Dine Amid Wild Beasts at Garden
Two thousand Shriners from Mecca Temple gathered in Madison Square Garden for a dinner in the circus jungle after a concert hall meeting. Caterers converted the menagerie room for midnight rituals as Potentate Frank Donnatin presided and roars from beasts interrupted conversations. The group plans a larger visit to the circus soon.
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Madison Square Garden
Mystic Shrine
Mecca Temple
Frank Donnatin
Shriners
No Decision in Cameron Case
After hours of deliberation the building committee of the Board of Education failed to decide on charges regarding the purchase of pianos against Caleb W. Cameron inspector of masonry requested by Joan A. Wilbur a former board member The board later returned the committee report proposing a fine of forty days pay for Cameron citing ten years of satisfactory service Some members favored dismissal.
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Board of Education
Caleb W. Cameron
Joan A. Wilbur
Cameron
Berkman Released on Bail in Bomb Case Probe
In Jefferson Market court detectives briefed on new evidence in the Berkman bomb case, yet the material is not expected to implicate him directly. Berkman posted 590 bail, told reporters he believes Cohen did not throw the bomb, and criticized police for pursuing a plot theory.
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Warzansky
Jefferson Market Court
Alexander Berkman
Berkman
Droege
Cohen
Silverstein
George Robertson
Bowery
Walter Uppitt
Commissioner of Immigration
Uppitt
Russia
South America
New York
Meyer Londen
Emma Goldman
St. Louis
Mother Earth
Winnipeg
Manitoba
Socialist
East Syth Street
Morris Hillquit
A. Selomon
East Mth Street
Resolutions Condemn Police At Union Square Meeting
Brooklyn Unemployed Conference delegates at Laker Lyceum Willoughby avenue Williamsburg adopted resolutions condemning police action after the Union Square bomb explosion. Leaders from metal workers and Brooklyn Federation of Labor demanded an end to police oppression and criticized the Central Federated Union for asking police restraint.
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Union Square
Brooklyn
Laker Lyceum
Willoughby Avenue
Williamsburg
J.T Hill
The
Metal Workers
E. Silsineer
Brooklyn Federation of Labor
Central Federated Union
Wiliam Harvers
Brooklin Wood Carvers
Policeman’s Club
J. A Beneger
Chandelier and Metal Workers’ Union
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C. C. Fitzgerald
Orinoco
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Harry Barge
New Jersey
Critchfield
Castro
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Horatio R. Hamilton
Bermudez
Calhoun
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Vatican
Carrara & D'Istrian Marbles
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