Tariff Revision Dominates House Debate in Washington
In Washington on February 5 the House focused on tariff revision and the President’s recent special message. Serena F. Payne of New York argued for including a tariff revision plank in the Republican platform, attacking Bryan for political maneuvering and praising Theodore Roosevelt as a unifying figure for ordinary Americans. Payne urged possible employers’ liability reform, supported Aldrich-style financial fixes, and favored protecting American labor with a tariff if needed, while promising to consider removing white paper and wood pulp from duties if not necessary. Other speakers included Thomas, Cox, Hardy, and Nelson, with Hardy quipping about reactions to the President.
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Congress
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Serena EF. Payne
New York
Mr. Bryan
Roosevelt
Bryan
Judge Parker
Payne
Adullam
Democratic Party
Theodore Roosevelt
Pelle
United States
Messrs. Thomas
North Carolina
Cox
Indiana
Hardy
Texas
Nelson
Wisconsin
Opposed to Currency Commission Heard in Congress
Representative Lovering of Massachusetts urged the House Banking and Currency Committee to back a currency revision commission comprising House and Senate members and nonmembers. He said Congress is not united on currency measures this session and no bill may gain enough support. Chairman Fowler and the committee discouraged the commission idea as unproductive. Edmond B. Fisher of the Flatbush Trust Company spoke for the Fowler bill and against the Aldrich bill.
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Lovering
Massachusetts
House Committee On Banking and Currency
House
Senate
Congress
Cheirman Fowler
Commission
Edmond DD. Fisher
Flatbush Trust Companys
Brooklyn
Fowler
Aldrich
Navy budget request faces House panel in 1920s figures
Washington reports Secretary Metcalf urged Congress to authorize extensive warship construction including four heavy ships, four scout cruisers, ten destroyers, four submarines, an ammunition ship, a repair ship, ten mine laying ships and four fleet colliers. He sought 73 thousand seven hundred seventy dollars, with a likely reduction toward economy amid a looming deficit and lower revenues.
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Washington
House Committee On Naval Affairs
Metcalf
Asylum Refugees From Haitian Revolt Reach Consulates
Washington dispatches report 29 participants in the late Haitian revolt have sought asylum in foreign consulates in Gonaives. Four refugees remain in other locations as the State Department tracks the situation.
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Washington
State Department
Hayti
Gonaives
Haitian government seeks surrender of refugees amid revolt
The American Vice-Consulate reports General Fermin, leader of the revolt, is at the French Consulate. Haiti demands the surrender of all refugees but likely will not be handed over without a guarantee of fair trial or safe conduct.
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Fermin
Manufacturers Seek Tariff Commission Hearings at White House
A large delegation of manufacturers met with the President in the White House seeking creation of a tariff commission as proposed by Senator Beveridge. The President said he would study the matter carefully but did not commit to any action or promise a message to Congress. Delegates accused certain lawmakers of monopolizing the visit and pledged to press their case regardless.
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Tribune Bureau
Washington
Beveridge
Indiana
White House
Congress
Crane
Graff, Crumpacker
Littauer
Herbert E. Miles
Racine
Wis
Fake Brokers Get-Rich Quick Scheme Leads to Arrest
Horace A. Blackmur Jr. and Edna Smith, both in their twenties and linked to Newark, were arrested in Room 13 of the Produce Exchange building on charges of grand larceny involving $670 from J. N. Limbaugh of Talladega. Detectives say they operated under the J Fulton Rogers Company at 18 Broadway with suspected references from figures in Brooklyn. Smith’s residence is listed as Dunellen, New Jersey.
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Horace A. Blackmur, Jr
Edna Smith
Newark
N. J
Produce Exchange
J. N. Limbaugh
Talledega
Ala
J. Fulton Rogers
McConville
J. Fulton Rogers Company
No. 18
Broadway
Blackmur
Wood
Hubbard Brothers
No. 16
Beaver Street
A. K. Hubbard & Co
Douglas Robinson & Co
Dunellen
Returns Letter to President in Patronage Case
William Dudley Foulke has returned a letter from President Roosevelt regarding federal patronage distribution. The exchange responds to charges that patronage favored Secretary Taft’s candidacy. Yourke declined further comment while Washington is expected to publish a formal statement.
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Techmord
Ind
William Dudley Foulke
Roosevelt
Washington
Taft
Yourke
Lighten Huston's Attitude in Capitol Conspiracy Case
Harrisburg Feb 5 Damaging testimony by Stanford B Lewis undermined Joseph M Huston's claimed stance in the Capitol conspiracy suit. Lewis described changes to Huston certificates at Snyder direction to shift responsibility for furnishings checks, tying Sanderson and others to the furnishing warrants.
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Penn
Joseph M. Huston
Capitol
Stanford B. Lewis
Lewis
Sanderson
Snyder
Mathues
Shumaker
Commonwealth
Paston
Senate Hotel
Huston
Archite
Snyder and
Vasao
Sanderton
Senator Stone Proposes 1912 Philippine Relinquishment Plan
Washington February 5 Senator Stone of Missouri introduced a joint resolution proposing the President relinquish central control of the Philippine Islands in 1912 after securing pledges from other nations to preserve the islands neutrality.
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Washington
Stone
Missouri
Philippine Islands
Beveridge Urges Plan for Tariff Expert Commission
Senator Beveridge spoke in the Senate urging a bill to create a commission of experts to study tariff facts and classify articles for duties. He argued the commission would gather data, leaving duty setting to Congress, and contrasted Germany’s clear classifications with the United States chaotic system. Following his remarks, Democratic Senators commented briefly before the Senate adjourned at 4:57 p.m.
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Com
Goldfield
Senate
Bureau of Corporations
House
General Board of Appraisers
Treasury Department
Germany
Beveridge
May Test Dr N B Sizer's Will In Brooklyn
Relatives of Dr Nelson B Sizer who died January 27 at his home 336 Gates Avenue Brooklyn prepare to contest his will. The will leaves his entire estate to his housekeeper Mrs Leonora Augusta Lorillard. The estate valued at considerably more than ten thousand dollars.
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Nelson B. Sizer
Gates Avenue
Brooklyn
Leonora Augusta Lorillard
TSO
Contempt Finding in Edison Inventions Case
Judge Hazel of the U S District Court found the National Phonograph Company in contempt for selling Edison inventions in New York case. A fine of 3500 dollars was imposed with 1340 dollars to the plaintiff for legal expenses and the rest to the government. An attachment to secure payment was issued.
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Tribune
Buffalo
Hazel
United States District Court
New York City
New York Phonograph Company
National Phonograph Company
Thomas A. Edison
Sothern Prizes At Lyric Theatre Riddle Contest
A mass meeting at the Lyric Theatre will distribute prizes to readers whose Dundreary riddle solution is deemed best by judges. E. H. Sothern awards the prizes while Rowland Buckstone reads submitted answers. The riddle asks how many legs twenty four rabbits need to escape eight thousand legless dogs.
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Lyric Theatre
Dundreary
E. H. Sothern
Rowland Buckstone
Mr. Sothern
Typhoid Costs Pittsburg Over Seven Hundred Thousand
Pittsburg records show a Pittsburg Survey finding typhoid fever caused 721486 in costs for the year ending June 1907. The report highlights health and municipal expense impacts from the outbreak and its fiscal burden on the city.
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Pittsburg
City Declares San Francisco Free From Bubonic Plague
San Francisco officials announced the discharge of the final treated patient and declared the city free from bubonic plague. Authorities say drastic preventive measures are being kept in place to avert a spring recurrence.
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San Francisco
Yelay
Tew Hospital
San Prencisco
Stillings Ousted as Public Printer in Washington
Washington reports the President suspended Public Printer Charles A. Stillings pending a formal inquiry after House investigators pressed for an in depth audit. William S. Rossiter is named temporary chief, with labor groups and Congress urging action on eight hour law, Civil Service and veteran protections.
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Washington
Charles A. Stillings
Stillings
Government Printing Office
William S. Rossiter
House
Stirlings
Representative Landis
Indiana
Landis
Rossiter
Palmer
Stillines
Havenner
Commerce and Labor
Stillngs
Congress
Boston
New York
Printers’ Board of Trade
City
Massachusetts
Census Bureau
American Battleship Fleet to Sail Friday from Punta Arenas
Preparations for the sailing of the American battleship fleet are set to be completed, with a Friday morning departure planned. Festivities in Punta Arenas honor the visiting officers and men include receptions, dinners, and social events, as the torpedo flotilla joins the voyage and coaling begins for the long voyage to Talcahuano.
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Punta Arenas
Moritz Braun
John Hicks
Chili
Sefiora Velenzuela
C. M. Thomas
Sefiora Braun
Juan Chaigneau
Sefiora Gacitua
Basilio Rojas
Sefiora Campana
Chacabuco
Minnesota
Chillan
Cone
Buenos Ayres
River Plate
Talcahuano
Esquimault Squadron Plan To Send Fourth Cruiser Force To Pacific
Halifax reports advices that a strengthened British squadron will include the Cressy Euryalus Hogue Brilliant and Inde fatigable plus six County class cruisers. The fourth cruiser squadron may sail to the Pacific this year likely in May to Esquimault B C to reinforce the naval base. Dominion troops guard Esquimault and Halifax fortresses as part of a revived Pacific squadron plan.
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Pacific
Esquimault
B. C
Cressy
Euryalus
Hogue
Brilliant
Sir John Fisher
Admiralty
China
Hong Kong
England
Algerine
Equaaren
British Pacific naval squadron to sail from Esquimault
Five ships have been recommissioned and armed with two 3 inch and twelve 6 inch guns. Esquimault, on Vancouver Island, is fortified with arsenal dockyard and a large harbor. The squadron will be the largest ever centered at Esquimault and will guard Puget Sound.
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Brilliant
Cressy
Euryalus
Hague
North American
Esquimault
Pacific
Vancouver Island
Puget Sound
Admiralty
IOWA SOCIETY HEARS SHAW AT WINTER ENTERNTAINMENT
The Iowa Society held a winter entertainment and reception at Duryea Road and Broadway with speakers Leslie M. Shaw former Secretary of the Treasury and Mrs. Carrie Chapman Catt. General Grenville M. Dodge introduced the program.
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Iowa Society
Duryeard Street
Broadway
Leslie M. Shaw
Secretary of the Treasury
Judge Hubbard
Carrie Chapman Catt
Grenville M. Dodge
Lowa Society
Night Riders Force Farmer to Move from Tennessee Farm
W E Wall of Fre donia Montgomery County Tenn sold his two hundred acre farm and will relocate to another state after repeated attacks by night riders. His tobacco barn was burned last week and his plant beds and general merchandise store were destroyed last August.
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Nashville, Tenn
W. E. Wall
Fredonia
Montgomery County
Tenn
Forty five below in Maine cold wave tightens grip
Boston reports the ongoing New England cold wave with subzero readings across the region. MattaWamkeag Maine logs 4 degrees below zero at 6 am, Burlington Vermont 2 below, Pittsfield Massachusetts 2 below, Eastport Maine 4 below, Concord New Hampshire 16 below, and Boston 2 below.
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New England
Rhode Island
Massachusets
Mattawamkeag
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Pittsfield
Mass
Eastport
Concord
N. H
Dynamite Blast Destroys Greensburg General Store
A dynamite bomb exploded under Letsovic’s general store at Expert near Greensburg Pennsylvania, burning the building and damaging property estimated at about sixteen thousand dollars. Letsovic received a threatening Black Hand letter and state police are handling the case.
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Greensburg
Penn
Letsovic
Expert
West Virginia House Backs Prohibition Amendment
Charleston February 5 A joint resolution passed in the House proposes a state prohibition amendment. If the Senate approves, voters would decide whether to forever prohibit manufacture of liquor in the state.
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Charleston
W. Va
House
Senate
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