Congress Listens To President Message In Joint Session
The Tribune Bureau reports Washington lawmakers spent the day reading the President's message. Republicans praised its clarity on corporations labor and the courts while some Democrats and a faction of Republicans grew irritated. Objections focused on Secret Service restrictions and the reclassification of Indian agents as school superintendents affecting patronage. Most lawmakers chose to study the message further before commitments.
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Tribune Bureau
Washington
Congress
Secret Service
Berlin Publishes Roosevelt Message Draws Policy Glimpse
Berlin newspapers print Roosevelt’s message at length with limited commentary due to late edition. The remarks hope to reveal future external policy of the United States and growth of the army and navy. Cherry McCabe schedules two Christmas parts inviting wealthy patrons. note appears in next Sunday's Tripone.
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Berlin
Dec
Roosevelt
Cherry McCabe
Taft Reserves Right to Prosecute Panama Canal Charges
The Times-Star prints a Taft reply to Panama Canal articles from The Indianapolis News and The New York World. It claims the World used a story linking Taft and Roosevelt to profits in Panama for political ends. Taft asserts the publication aided opponents and reserves legal action for the insinuations.
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Ncimeati
Times-Star
Cheries P. Taft
William H. Taft
Isee
Panama Canals
Indianapolis News
New York World
The
Durnig
Douglas Robinson
Reeese- Tother
Theodore Roosevelt
Wil Taft
United
Washington
Douglas Robin Charles P. Taft
Taft
Che Leer
Senator Millard Comments On Panama Canal Stockholders List
Thee and Senator Millard, former chairman of the Senate committee on the Panama Canal, said the French government was not involved in any war with the deal. He noted errors in a recent letter and said the canal company could not be certain who held the stock, despite efforts to identify stockholders assisted by William Nelson Cromwell.
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Tribunemash
Ya Millard
Ebreeke
Senate
Panama Canal
United States
William Nelson Cromwell
Canal
Millard Sars
Proorewsl
Bunching Order Regulates New York Harbor Barges
Washington reports new rules from Secretary Straus cutting tow lengths to 75 fathoms and limiting to three barges per tow. Bunched tows must cluster above a line between the Statue of Liberty and Erie Basin Entrance in New York Harbor.
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Washington
Straus
Department of Commerce and Labor
New York Harbor
Congress
Bureau of Navigation
Secretary of Commerce and Labor
New York
Erie Basin
Long Island Sound
Fort Schuyler
New Yor
Whitestone Point
Old Contracts Stand in Albany Insurance Case
Albany court rules that pre existing agency commission contracts survive the Armstrong insurance laws. Section 97 not retroactive, unconstitutional if applied. Victory for William Boswell of Cincinnati against Security Mutual Life of Binghamton, detailing contract terms from 1899 and status as general agent. The unanimous court, led by Chief Judge Cullen, discusses retroactivity and agency scope.
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Albany
Dec
Armstrong Insurance
Court of Appeals
William Boswell
Cincinnati
Security Mutual Life Insurance Company
Binghamton
Cullen
Hiscock
Edward T. Bartlett
Willard Bartlett
Gray, Haight and Werner
American Ice Company Loses Case in New York Land Fight
In a New York Court of Appeals decision Albany December court reverses Appellate Division and upholds Special Term finding that American Ice Company has no franchise rights in water land the city seeks to condemn while Forty second Street Railway Company receives award. A separate ruling grants American Ice a new trial to restrain construction of a West Street pier and bulkhead.
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Albany, Dec
American Ice Company
North River
City of
New York
Court of Appeals
Appellate Division
Commissioners of Estimate
Forty-second Street Railroad Company
Sti
West Ind Street
Hill Says Chicago to New York Railroad Unviable
James J Hill, honored in Peoria by Commercial and Creve Coeur clubs, warned that current material and labor costs make a Chicago to New York line impractical to yield a 2 percent annual dividend. He left Peoria for the East after dinner, traveling with railroad officers. He urged agriculture as the nation's future salvation, predicting population growth to 200 million in thirty years and insufficient current farming methods.
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Peoria
Ill
James J Hill
Creve Coeur
Chicago
New York City
Mr Hill
Mc Hill
Venezuela Crisis Deepens Over Dutch Naval Cruise
Caracas reports show President Castro facing a growing threat as three Dutch warships patrol the coast. The government vows to open fire on any unfriendly act while ministers split on response. Dutch ships Jacob van Heemskerk and Friesland move near Maracaibo with forts mapped along the channel.
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Caracas
Willemstad
Castro
Europe
la Guayra
Vicente Gomez
Germany
Gomez
Apure
Colombia
Fernandez
Gabalidon
Perez
Dec
Jacob van Heemskerk
Friesland
Mararaibo Bay
San Carlos
Great Britain
Italy
Maracaibo Channel
American wine growers host water first at Gotham dinner
About 150 American wine growers dined at the Hotel Gotham with mineral water as the only water course before a wine heavy menu. Twenty two varieties of wine followed, with toasts on The Political Vintage, The Truth About Wine, and American Hotels and American Wines. Lee J. Vance presided, and Dr. Eugene H. Porter and Edward R. Emerson spoke, urging education on U.S. wine quality and separation of wine dealers from saloonkeepers.
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Hotel
Gotham
Committee of Arrangement
Lee J. Vance
Patrick F. McGowan
Board of Aldermen
Eugene H. Porter
E. M. Tierney
Edward R. Emerson
W. B. Atwood
Patrick F. Medsowan
New York City
Astor House
United States
the Wine Press
California
Vance
Lcense
South
West
Edward R. K. Emerson
Wine Growers’ Association
Congress
W .&. Hilareth
P T. Morgan
L. J. Masson
L. J Vance
F Rfr Emerson
Castro Not In Port As Guadeloupe Bids Farewell
Santander hosts a tense scene as the steamer Guadeloupe bearing President Castro is not sighted. Venezuelan officials and foreign correspondents await his arrival while reports suggest he may disembark in Santander to avoid a clash with French authorities en route to Berlin.
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Santander
Guadeloupe
Castro
Bordeaux
Caracas
Spain
Nicolas Veloz-Goilicoa
Berlin
Gomez
France
Haiti appoints cabinet under General Simon
Port-au-Prince reports General Antoine Simon has named a cabinet after assuming the presidency. Interior General Hippolite, Finance Luders Chapeteau, Foreign Affairs M Claude, Public Works M Bretllard, War and Marine General Rollant, Justice M Magn t head ministries. Ministers will hold temporary councillor titles. All is quiet with no trouble reported.
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Port-au-Prince
Antoine Simon
Haiti
Hippolite
Luders Chapeteau
M. Claude
M. Bretllard
Rollant
M. Magnt
Bulgaria Proposes Indemnity Payment to Turkey
A Sofia dispatch in Temps reports Bulgaria has informed the powers of willingness to indemnify Turkey with 16590000 dollars for damages claimed from the Bulgarian declaration of independence.
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Paris
Dex. S
Temps
Sofia
Bulgaria
Turkey
German arms factories busy as Turkey seeks ammunition
The Turkish government is negotiating for the purchase of about 1.275 million dollars of shrapnel and infantry ammunition from a German company at Düsseldorf. Berlin small arms factories are unusually busy as war supply demands rise.
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Turkey
Dusseldorf
Berlin
Austria Reopens Talks Over Turkey Settlement
In Constantinople on December 8 Marquis Pallavicini Austro-Hungarian ambassador resumed direct negotiations with the Porte to settle disputes. The anti Austrian boycott remains active as ships carrying passengers luggage from an Austrian steamer were sunk today intensifying tensions.
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Turkey
Constantinople
Pallavicini
Porte
Edict Honors Kuang Hsu as Good Emperor of Ancestral Temple
An official edict announces the late Emperor Kuang Hsu receive the title Good Emperor of the Ancestral Temple in appreciation of reforms he implemented. The proclamation notes worldwide recognition of his achievements and the esteem in which he is held for his efforts.
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Peking
Kuang-Hsu
Senate OKs Brazil Coffee Loan Guarantee
Rio de Janeiro December 8 The Senate authorized President Penna to grant the federal guarantee for the San Paulo coffee loan of 75 140 dollars The President will sign the guarantee tomorrow.
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Rio de Janeiro
Senate
Penna
San Paulo
Gould Divorce Case Denies Motion to Strike Parag raphs
In the Supreme Court yesterday Judge Seabury denied Frank Gould's bid to strike parts of Helen Kelly Gould's bill of particulars in her absolute divorce suit. The motion claimed the passages were irrelevant, while the complainant's counsel argued the paragraphs showed gifts to several correspondents amid allegations of misconduct with a woman named Rose Winter and with Marjorie Stevens.
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Justice Seabury
Supreme Court
Frank Gould
Helen Kelly Gsould
Gould
Rose Winter
Marjorie Stevens
Sphinx Club Dinner At Waldorf Lights Up Advertising World
Leading lights of the advertising world attended the Sphinx Club annual dinner at the Waldorf last night with Samuel Brill presiding. W Post of Battle Creek Mich spoke on A Newspapers Responsibility to the Public noting the decline of yellow journalism and criticizing labor leaders bulldozing methods. Frank B Noyes replied to Post's criticisms.
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Sphinx Club
The
Waldorf
Samuel Brill
W. Post
Battle Creek
Mich
Mr. Post
Frank B Noyes
Hyde and Schneider sentenced in land fraud case
Frederick A Hyde of San Francisco was fined $10,000 and sentenced to two years in a Moundsville penitentiary for conspiracy to defraud in Oregon and Washington. Joost H Schneider of Tucson received $1,000 fine and one year two months. both appealed. Also noted: other defendants acquitted after West Coast land deal probe. A separate notice describes a December sale of a Chinese and Japanese art collection at Fifth Avenue Auction Rooms.
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Washington
Dec
Frederick A Hyde
San Francisco
United States
Oregon
District Criminal Court
Moundsville
W. Va
Joost H Schneider
Tucson
Ariz
Cf Hyde
District Court of Appeals
Hyde
Schneider
John A. Benson
Henry F. Dimond
West
R. Redovema
Ofaku
Paris
Fifth Avenue
Governor Hughes Rejects Inquiry Commission On Insurance
Albany December governor Hughes replies to New York City Chamber of Commerce about appointing a five citizen commission to probe life insurance firms. He says not advisable now but will consider amendments. He cites recent reforms taking effect January 1 1907 and stresses protecting policyholders while guarding against extravagance and preserving business.
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Albany
Hughes
Chamber of Commerce of
New York City
Twe Insurance Companies
New York State
Sereno Stratt
Chamber of Commerce
Independent Democracy Organizes to Fight Tammany Hall
Dr William J Stewart presides over an independent Democracy group formed by Seventh District Democrats after friction with William S Devery. Nathan Greenbaum serves as secretary and outlines goals at the meeting held last night.
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William J Stewart
Fitness
Nathan Greenbaum
Stewart
Mr Greenbaum
Independent Democrats seek fusion against Tammany Hall
In Manhattan Assembly district meetings at the Jackson Club, Independent thinking Democrats denounce Tammany Hall and Murphy methods. They aim to fuse with anti-Tammany groups, noting William S Devery and John C. Sheehan are not part of the movement, while Devery once influenced uptown politics.
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Jackson Club
Manhattan
Star Chamber
Murphy
William S Devere
Devery
Tre
Johnn Co. Sheehan
Democratic Union
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