Roosevelt Letters Challenge The News Over Panama Scandal
President Roosevelt defends against The News and The Indianapolis News with a forceful letter condemning false accusations linking his brother in law and Taft to a Panama matter. He accuses several papers of deliberate mendacity and asserts access to public documents for scrutiny by any reputable person.
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Wsy
Delavan Smith
Mr. Smith
Mr. Robinson
Robinson
Panama
Charles Taft
Taft
War Departments
Mr. Swift
Booth Tarkington
George Ade
Congress
Roosevelt letter dispute spurs Indianapolis News rebuttal
Cleveland December 6 Delevan Smith left Chicago for New York carrying a Roosevelt letter reply. The Indianapolis News defends its Panama editorial crediting a New York paper and explains the editorial was published during the editor’s absence, noting Mr. Foulke could have used the letter but did not. The News will address the President’s explanation in due time.
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Cleveland
Delevan Smith
Chicago
New York
Roosevelt
Panama
New York Sun
Indianapolis News
News
Indianapolis
Soil fertility not on decline declares soil chief
Washington reports that soil fertility remains steady despite mineral plant food losses. Professor Milton Whitney, head of the bureau of soils, says the outlook for U S soil resources is encouraging with 838,591,774 acres of farming land and increasing cereal yields. Mineral plant food supply is deemed inexhaustible.
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Washington
Milton Whitney
Bureau of Soils
United States
Gould Calls On Croker At Country Club
George J Gould visits Richard Croker at his hotel after leaving a note during Croker's golf lesson at the Lakewood Country Club. Croker played eighteen holes and defeated Andrew Freedman in the round, marking a restful day for Croker.
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George J. Gould
Croker
the Tribune
Lakewood
N. J
Richard Croker
Andrew Freedman
Progress on Revision Ways and Means in tariff rewrite
Washington Dec 6 The Ways and Means Committee nears finish on drafting a new tariff law. Members report learning much from three weeks of hearings while aiming to protect American labor and consumers and raise revenues. Payne as chair stresses gathering facts, with supplemental hearings planned.
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Washington
Ways and Means Committee
Payne
Miles for Tariff Commissioner Rumor in Racine
Racine Wisconsin December 6 The belief in Racine is that H E Miles will join Taft’s tariff commission after Congress adjourns not as chairman but as a member following his retirement from general management of the Racine Sattley Company where he is a major stockholder. Miles has conferred with Taft since the election and was thought by many to be named when he addressed the Ways and Means Committee yesterday.
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New York Sun
Roosevelt
Prairie Oil
Department of Justice
Department of the Interior
Hitchcock
Prairie Oil and Gas Company
L and Gas
Oklahoma
Indian Territory
Representative Bonynge
Colorado
Calderhead
Kansas
Hill
Connecticut
Crumpacker
Indiana
Champ Clark
Bourke Cochran
Underwood
Alabama
Pou
North Carolina
Randell
Texas
Clark
Cochran
Fordney
Michigan
Representative Pou
Representative Dalzell
Pittsburg
Dalzell
Bonynge
Congress
Representative Payne
Representative Hill
Representative Calderhead
Gaines
Longworth
Taft
Representative Boutell
Ilinois
Representative McCall
Massachusetts
Representative Needham
California
Payne
Tribune
Racine, Wis
H. E. Miles
Tariff Commission
Miles
Racine Sattley Company
Ways and Means Committee
Maine
Frank E. Guernsey
Llewellyn Powers
Guernsey
Dover
Foxcraft Academy
Bucksport
Kent
Piscataquis County
House
Senate
Chicago
Harry A. Barnhart
Rochester
Abraham Lincoln
Barnhart
Rochester Sentinel
Ariosto
Democratic State Executive Committee
St. Louis
Alabama Midland Ralway
State Normal College
Standard Chemical and Oil Company of
Troy
Republics Bureau Work Urges Faster Transcontinental Steamers
John Barrett of the International Bureau of American Republics outlines needs for faster mail passenger and express steamers between North and South America. He calls for U.S. controlled banks across republics and native capital, plus fluent Latin market agents. Growth in Latin America's foreign trade is noted with optimism.
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Washington
North America
South America
John Barrett
International Bureau of American Repubics
United States
Latin-America
Root
Mexico
Andrew Carnegie
Arrested in New York for old card swindle conspiracy
Bridgeport reports William E. Farrow arrested at No 127 West 9th Street Manhattan charged with conspiracy in a $1500 swindle by traveling salesman William Hipple. Farrow and Adelph Franks allegedly duped Hipple after meeting him August 6 in a local poolroom. Police link them to a September fake prize fight scam that cheated a Scranton hotelkeeper. Extradition will be sought promptly.
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Tribune
Bridgeport
Conn
William E. Farrow
West 9Th Street
New York City
William Hipple
Farrow
Adelph Franks
Hipple
Franks
New Faces in House Seven Will Be Seen
Washington December 6 seven new faces will join the House when the Speaker's gavel falls and officers are already chosen. Eben Wever Martin of South Dakota is the only former member among the newcomers. John P. Swasey of Maine, Frank E. Guernsey of Maine, Otto Godfrey Foelker of New York, Harry A. Barnhart of New York, Albert Estopinal of Louisiana, and Oliver C Wiley of Alabama join in the opening. The roster features veterans, wartime service, and long local careers, with shifts in party balance noted.
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Tribune Bureau
Washington
House @ Representatives
Martin
South Dakota
Eben Wever Martin
Congress
House
Philo Hall
Brookings
Northwestern
White House
White House. After Mr. Hall
Hall
Mr. Martin
Iowa
Cornell
Ann Arbor
Deadwood
Loyal Legion
the Sons of the American Revolution
Canton
Dingley
Charles E. Littlefield
Mr. Swasey
New York
Ostracize Divorced Persons Says Milwaukee Bishop
The Milwaukee Episcopal bishop declares the divorce issue must be solved by ostracizing divorcees. He says he avoids social visits to divorced individuals and has lost friends due to enforcing this rule, noting he sometimes visited homes unaware of a divorce.
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Tribune
Milwaukee
Bishop Webb
Episcopal Diocese of
Wday
Bryan address interrupted by proctor's death in Austin
James B. Clark proctor at Texas State University in Austin collapsed during William J. Bryan's speech and died minutes later from heart disease. The event continued to avoid panic while Bryan and his wife were hosted by Governor and Mrs Campbell.
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Austin
Tex
William J. Bryan
Texas State University
James B. Clark
Clark
Bryan
T. M. Campbell
Canadian Northern Victory Reshapes Midwest Rail Linkup
A new deal would lock Wisconsin Central under Canadian Northern interests, forming a transcontinental line from Edmonton to Chicago via Duluth and St Paul. MacKenzie and Mann of Toronto lead the effort with Met and government guaranty backing, aiming to extend Edmonton Winnipeg routes and establish through trains to Chicago.
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Wisconsin Central Railroad
Canadian Northern
Messrs. MacKenzie and Mann
Toronto
Wisconsin Central
Duluth
Edmonton
Chicago
United States Ste Corporation
Met Messrs
MacKenzie
Mann
Northern Pacific
Canada
Wheat District
Great Northwest
Winnipeg
Messrs
Warren and Wetmore
New York
New York Central
Edmonwn & Line
Rocky Mountains
St. Paul
Pacific
Winnipe
Minapolis
Minneapolis
Quebec
Atlantic
Detroit
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U. S
Hudson St
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Leffan
the Sun
Indianapols News
Theodore Roosevelt
William Dudley Foulke
Richmond
Ind
Mr. Laffan
William Dudley Foullse
Mr. Foulke
Soils Bureau
E. M. Gattle
E. M. Gattle & Co
Goldsmiths and Jewelers
Fifth Avenue
38Th Street
West Virginia
Democrats
Tariff
Mr. Barrett
Latin America
New Yorker
Fiffany & CO
MR. Guernsey
MR. Foelker
Otto Godfrey Foelker
Albany
Hughes
Charles T. Dunwell
Foelker
New York Senate
Assembly
MR. Barnhart
MR. Estopinal
Louisiana
Albert Estopinal
Adolph Meyer
Kerims
St. Barnard Parish
Louisiama Confederate Association
Meyer
Estopinal Wile Qr
MR. Wiley
Webb
Man
Proctor
Canadian Pacific
Apollinaris
Emperor of
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England
Prince of Wales
Spain
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