Hay-Pauncefote Treaty Seen Moving Forward in Senate
The Senate shows growing support for ratifying the Hay-Pauncefote treaty with the Davis amendment in play. Lodge defends the accord while Lindsay questions its scope as debate centers on canal defense and U S rights. Money remains opposed unless the amendment changes, and additional treaties are later referred to committee.
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Senate
Senator Lodge
Foreign Relations Committee
Beveridge
Great Britain
United States
Enelené
Lindsay
Kentucky
Constantinople
Hay-Pauncefote
Egypt
Lodge
Suez Canal
Cost of Nicaragua Canal Estimate Sparks Congressional Surprise
Washington December 5 Special The commission raises the Nicaragua Canal cost to about 200000000 dollars up from earlier estimates. The increase reflects factors not clearly outlined in the commission’s preliminary report submitted to Congress.
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Washington
Congress
Con
Grape-Nuts Fameas a Restorative for Nervous Prostration
Grinnell Iowa reader describes rapid strength gains from Grape-Nuts after a long illness. He credits the food with rebuilding nerves by supplying easily digested, pure nourishment and claims it aids recovery when rest alone fails.
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D. Horine
Grinnell
Iowa
Ren
Canal Plans Push To 35 Foot Depth And 100 Foot Width
Commission estimates a canal 35 feet deep and 100 feet wide costing 164 million dollars. The Walker report used Chicago Drainage Canal prices with added difficulties, while the sub committee reports a need for a tunnel after finding the route’s lowest point at 689 feet above sea level. Explorations reveal an eleven minute latitude error in common geographies.
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Chicago Drainage Canal
Isthmus
Chicago
Walker
Darien
Nicaragua
Panama
Army Bill Progress Hailed as McCall Attacks Philippine Policy
In Washington the House advances the Army reorganization bill with a strategy to send it to conference. Rep McCall criticizes the Philippines policy and the president’s discretion over army size while Hull defends sovereignty and swift enactment. Eleven pages of the bill are finished before adjournment.
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Washington
House
Friends
Senate
Pacific
MacArthur
Miles
Hull
Military Committee
Parker
New Jersey
Messrs. Cochran
Missouri
Kleberg
Texas
McClellan
New York
Shafroth
Colorado
Cummings
Cox
Tennessee
McCall
Rep
Mass
Philippines
Valley Forge
United States
Congress
Boutelle Resigns as Chairman of Naval Affairs
Washington December 5 the House Speaker announced receipt of a family note appointing Mr Boutelle of Sapien to chair the Committee on Naval Affairs, replacing the former chairman after he resigns from the post.
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Washington
Boutelle
Sapien
Control of Liquor Traffic in Africa Charged to Senate
Washington, Dec. 6. The Foreign Relations Committee granted a hearing to temperance and reform groups supporting the Africa liquor control treaty. Bishop Hartzell delivered the principal address urging ratification at the earliest day. The committee decided to report a resolution for ratification without amendment.
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Washington
Senate Committee On Foreign Relations
Africa
Hartzell
Kitchin Seeks Fifteenth Amendment Repeal
Representative Kitchin of North Carolina introduces in the House a sixteenth resolution to repeal the Fifteenth Amendment to the Constitution.
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Washington
Kitchin
North Carolina
House
Frye Pushes Shipping Bill After Two Day Speech
Senator Frye concludes a two day defense of the Payne Hanna shipping bill urging Senate passage of a revised plan to aid the American merchant marine. He defends subsidy limits and foreign built vessel rules while addressing objections and rumored mergers in shipbuilding. The session ends with an executive meeting and brief adjournment.
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Washington
Frye
Maine
Senate
Republican National Committee
House
Ways and Means Committee
Commerce Committee
Vickers Sons & Maxim Combination
England
Midvale Steel and Cramps’ Shipbuilding Works
United States
Secretary of the Treasury
St. Louis
Committee On Commerce
Fisheries Service
Hale
Mr. Hale
Foraker
Congress
New York
Paris
Europe
Teller
Platt
Rep
Conn
New Ambassador to Italy Named from Massachusetts
The President selected George von L. Meyer of Massachusetts as Ambassador to Italy and will send the nomination to the Senate. Meyer is a Boston businessman, Harvard graduate, former lawyer, and prominent Republican with roles in the State Central Committee, the Legislature, and as Speaker of the Massachusetts House. He is noted for his large private fortune, enabling proper social status at the Rome embassy.
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Washington
George von L. Meyer
Massachusetts
Italy
Senate
Meyer
Boston
Harvard
Republican State Central Committee
Massachusetts House of Representatives
Rome
Nominations Sent to the Senate by the President
The President sent four nominations to the Senate. Samuel D. Dickinson of New Jersey to be Assistant Collector of Customs at Jersey City New Jersey in the New York district. Roy H. Chamberlain of Iowa to be Collector of Internal Revenue in the District of Hawaii. Benjamin F. Tatem of Montana to be assayer in charge of the Helena Montana assay office.
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Samuel D. Dickinson
New Jersey
J City
N. J
New York
Senate panel moves to revive Vice Admiral rank
Washington December 5 Mr Hale chairman of the Senate Committee on Naval Affairs introduced a bill to revive the grade of Vice Admiral in the Navy.
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Washington
Hale
Senate Committee On Naval Affairs
Railway Officials Confer Seeks Consistent Interstate Rates
The quarterly meeting of railroad presidents and traffic managers west of the Mississippi convened in the Equitable Building with E. T. Jeffery chairing. Participants from many lines discussed rate irregularities east from Kansas City and the need to publish tariffs under the Interstate Commerce Act.
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Mississippi River
Equitable
E. T. Jeffery
Denver and Rio Grande Railroad
Kansas City
Jeffery
Great Northern Road
McNicol
Canadian Pacific Road
Rock Island Road
Purdy
Johnson
Colorado Southern
Colorado Midland
Trumbull
Denver and
Rio Grande
Fish
Iowa Central
Minneapolis
St. Louis
Hawley
Indiana
Illinois
Iowa
Shults
Fort Scott
Memphis
Winchell
Thayer
Knott
Soo” Line
Lowry
Oregon Railway and Navigation Company
Mohler
Burlington
Cedar Rapids and
Great Northern
Special Tenement House Report Highlights City Laws
The Tenement House Commission releases its third special report by secretary Lawrence Veiller, detailing Housing Conditions and Tenement Laws in 27 leading American cities. It compares provisions, notes limited tenement problems outside New York, and contrasts Buffalo Philadelphia and New York shaft requirements with slits used in the latter.
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Tenement House Commission
Lawrence Veiller
Boston
Cincinnati
Jersey City
Hartford
New York
Chicago
Philadelphia
St. Louis
Baltimore
Cleveland
Buffalo
San Francisco
Pittsburg
New Orleans
Detroit
Milwaukee
Washington
Mechanical Engineers Elect New Officers At Annual Meeting
The American Society of Mechanical Engineers held sessions at No 2 West Thirty-first street with 525 at the first session, electing a new Board of Officers for 1901 led by President Samuel T Wellman. The council reported receipts of 1900 totaling 42 and cleared the society debt on its house.
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American Society of Mechanical Engineers
West Thirty-first-st
Robert M. Thurston
H. de B. Parsons
Reginald P. Boston
New York
Charles T. Porter
Montclair
N. J
F. W. Dean
William Sangster
Boston
E. T. Adams
Milwaukee
Society
Samuel T. Wellman
Cleveland
Ohio
David Townsend
Philadelphia
Stevenson Taylor
Hoboken
Jesse M. Smith
Arthur M. Waitt
New York City
James M. Dodge
Ambrose Swasey
Edgar C. Felton
Harrisburg
Penn
A. M. Goodale
Socie
Thirty-first-st
Columbia University
Low
Sherry’s
Thirty-first-st. House
Masters sue over salvage claim for stranded Newcastle
Benjamin A. Saunders and James A. Lowe file libel in U S District Court seeking salvage compensation for the British steamship Newcastle stranded on Florida reefs on November 1, 1900. Newcastle valued at 180000 with coal cargo about 10000. claimants say they were promised 13000 to float and salvage the vessel and that they performed the work.
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Benjamin A. Saunders
Magnolia
James A. Lowe
A. F. Merrell
Newcastle
Upson
United States District Court
Florida
Deela
MesHante
Ba Alleves
Sal
Rumors of Cramp Midvale Sale Denied by Officials
A report that Vickers Sons & Maxim sought control of Cramp & Sons Ship and Engine Building and Midvale Steel was denied by Charles H. Cramp and other Cramp officials in Philadelphia and Washington. J. W. Seligman director Henry Seligman said talk persists but no facts.
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Vickers’ Sons & Maxim (Limited
Barrow-in- Furness
England
Cramp & Sons Ship and Engine Building Company
Philadelphia
Charles H. Cramp
Cramp Company
C. P. Huntington
Vickers’ Sons & Maxim
Newport News
Midvale Steel Works
Vickers’ Sons
Washington
Taylor
Midvale Steel Company
Charles J. Harrah
Experiment Mentioned to Relieve Grand Central Traffic
Officials at Manhattan Railway Company explored The Tribune’s idea to use elevated tracks by New York Central suburban trains. Reported informally rejected by two commands, yet a possible arrangement could move toward execution.
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The
Manhattan Railway Company
Tribune
New York Central
Grand Central Station
F D Tappen Likely To Be Re-Elected Club President
Frederick D Tappen is expected to be renominated and re elected president of the Union League Club. A nominating committee of seven Anson G McCook William L Pomeroy J Adriance Bush Thomas H Wood Pliny Fisk Girard C W Lowrey and Henry L Sprague will be elected on December 13. Polls open at 6 30 and stay open three hours.
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Frederick D. Tappen
Union League Club
Anson G. McCook
William L. Pomeroy
J. Adriance Bush
Thomas H. Wood
Pliny Fisk
Girard C. W. Lowrey
Henry L. Sprague
Tappen
Newsboy Finds $500000 Check. Receives $1 Reward
Harry Geller, a newsboy, found a $500000 check drawn by the Stock Exchange house of C. I. Hudson & Co. on Gallatin National Bank to the National Bank of Commerce. He turned it in to Hudson & Co. and was paid a $1 reward.
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Harry Geller
Wall St
Stock Exchange House
C. I. Hudson & Co
Gallatin National Bank
National Bank of Commerce
Hudson & Co
Knoedler Gallery Seeks Buyers for Select Art Collection
M Knoedler and Co invite attention to a carefully chosen display of paintings from various schools water colors etchings and engravings located at 355 Fifth Ave for potential purchasers and collectors.
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New York Tribune
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James W. Ellsworth
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O. E. Hill
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Iece
London
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Louisville
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