Senate votes down key railroad valuation and commodities amendments
Washington June 1 two major amendments to the railroad bill failed in the Senate. La Follette’s physical valuation plan was defeated 39 to 25 and Bailey’s attempt to modify the Hepburn commodities clause lost 71 to 1. Several other amendments were defeated or adopted as the session planned a final vote before 6 o'clock.
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Tribune Bureau
Washington
Senate
Senator la Follette
Bailey
Newlands
fEeme Senetore
la Follette
Brenater Moner
Bristow
Brown
Boreh
Clapp
Crawford
Dixon
Dolliver
Gamble
Jones
la Foillette
Simmons
Interstate Commerce Commission
Stone
Elkins
Senator Burton
Burton
Frye
Arbitration Moves at The Hague Addressing Newfoundland Fails
The Hague opened arbitration on Newfoundland fisheries disputes between United States and Great Britain. The case tests a century of diplomacy and will influence future arbitration efforts. Also covered are Venezuela arbitration, Nicaragua actions, rail rate injunctions, Parker for Mines Bureau, Roosevelt reception plans, fraternal publications tax issues, and omnibus pension savings.
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Tribune Bureau
Washington
Newfoundland
the Hague
United States
Great Britain
Root
Hague
Albert Gallatin
Richard Rush
Frederick John Robinson
Henry Goulburn
Atlantic
Venezuela
Nexts
Orinoco Steamship Company
Permanent Court of Arbitration
Gonzalo de Quesada
Cusan
Germany
Auguste Beernaert
Henri Lammasch
Dr. Lammasch
Newfoundland Fisheries Arbitration
Melden Wire Tapping Charge In West Side Court
John Hartman, one of four salesmen living at 215 West 18th Street, was held in $500 bail for examination by Magistrate House in the West Side police court on a wire tapping swindle charge. Frederick Louster of Harrisburg says Hartman and others coaxed him to bet $1200 on a fake horse race after a $12 advance.
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John Hartman
West 18Th Street
Wee
West Side
Frederick Louster
Harrisburg
Penn
Hartman
Culebra Slide Worsens Panama Canal Delays
June report notes the Culebra and Cucaracha slides slow canal work. A May 17 mud and rock flow of 59 000 cubic yards filled the Cucaracha cut, halting progress and delaying debris removal. Convicts removed from Gold Hill to Culebra jail due to movement. no immediate collapse danger. April total excavation 2 601 247 cubic yards. Gatun lock gains pace with 3 00 cubic yards daily.
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Culebra
Cucaracha
Gold Hill
Panama Canal
Gatun
Navy Chief Defends American Naval Policy at War College
Assistant Secretary of the Navy speaks at the Naval War College in Newport declaring no brutalization of national character from naval power. He argues the United States can deter invasions through sea control and emphasizes altruistic conduct toward Cuba the Philippines and Porto Rico. The annual summer conference at the War College opens.
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Newport
R. 1
Jumé
Peekman Winthrop
Naval War College
Philippines
Porto Rico
United States
Wer College
Heinze Speaks Hopeful on United Copper Revival
In Jersey City a United Copper Company meeting heard President F Augustus Heinze say litigation delays should end with settlement. He urged careful management and focus to restore stockholders' confidence and listed company properties and outputs.
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United Copper Company
Whith
Jersey City
F. Augustus Heinze
Taft Begins Four Day Western Campaign Trip
President Taft leaves Washington for a four day swing to Michigan and Ohio. He attends Bryn Mawr College commencement in Pennsylvania and speaks on women’s higher education. He next visits Ada Ohio Ohio Northern University and Detroit for business dinners. He speaks in Monroe Michigan at a Custer monument unveiling and attends a Republican birth tablet dedication in Jackson before returning to Washington.
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Washington
Taft
Jackson
Mich
Bryn Mawr College
Bren Mawr
Penn
Helen
Bryn Mawr
Ada
Ohio
Ohio Northern University
Detroit
Roord of Commerce
Monroe
General Custer
Philadelphia Bankers Held in Embezzlement Case
Dr J Kinnear Crawford and his brother Joseph S Crawford vice president and secretary treasurer of the defunct American Trust Company were each held in ten thousand eight dollars bail on charges of embezzling funds. It is alleged they misapplied more than fifty dollars in funds to business ventures in which they were interested.
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Philadelphia
J. Kinnear Crawford
Joseph’ S. Crawford
American Trust Company
Norton Taft's Secretary Appointed to President
Charles D. Norton of Chicago was named secretary to the President today. He will not assume duties until next week, and the President planned to withhold formal announcement until Norton is ready to begin work.
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Washington
Charles D. Norton
Chicago
the Treasury
Norton to Become Assistant President Secretary at Treasury
President Taft announces Norton will become Assistant Secretary of the Treasury with broad duties and Westward travel duties. Norton, 40, long involved in fiscal bureaus, will assume duties Monday at the earliest as MacVeagh heads to New York briefly.
Buffalo Man Returns 2 Cents to Post Office Fund
Washington reports a man from Buffalo sent back two cents claiming a stamp fraud, with Postmaster General Hitchcock noting the incident as part of the conscience fund. The note, signed by "The One Who Tid It," explains using a misused two cent stamp and the subsequent accounting. The government outlay totals about one dollar after recording.
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Washington
Conscience Fund
Post Office Department
Hitchcock
Buffalo
Porto Rican Bill Debated in House Amid Amendments
Washington June 1 The House debated a bill to establish a new civil government for Porto Rico with committee amendments planned. Democrats attacked the proposal arguing it would delay progress for islanders. Commissioner Lesrinagas said most Puerto Ricans favored retaining the current Foraker Act.
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Washington
Porto Rico
House
Olmsted
Committee On Insular Affairs
Istand
Lesrinagas
Secretary Meyer Battles Untried Warship Types
Secretary Meyer opposes legislation to force construction of untried and largely unknown warships. He argues Navy funds should back ships with clear fighting value and notes past losses to impractical designs like the Ammon ram. Also lists army and naval officers assigned to various camps and duties, and reports ship movements and deployments.
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Tribune Bureau
Washington
Moser
Congress
Richard B. Painton
Naval Ordnance Proving Ground
Indian Head
Wheat rate case reheard by Interstate Commerce Commission
Washington June 1 The Interstate Commerce Commission began a rehearing in the wheat rate case involving W J Jennison and other Northwestern millers against railroads east of St Paul and Minneapolis. The commission had cut rates to 211 cents per 100 pounds to Atlantic points and 11 to 10 cents from Buffalo. Protests from railroads and millers urged restoring old rates, and a reversal could raise Buffalo tidewater wheat to 25 cents and Minneapolis wheat to 23 cents per hundred pounds.
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Washington
Interstate Commerce Commission
W. J. Jennison
Northwestern
St. Paul
Minneapolis
Atlantic Seaboard
Buffalo
Atlantic
Far Western
Peinta
Tidewater
Springfield courtroom erupts as Johnston calls Holstlaw liar
A Springfield furniture agent A B Johnston is ordered from the grand jury room after accusing Senator Holstlaw of lying in the legislative bribery probe. He claims Holstlaw and colleagues framed accusations, while Burke cites immunity talk and new witnesses arriving in Sangamon County.
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Springfield
A. B. Johnston
Grand Jury
Burke
Johnston
Holstlaw
Lars
Holstian
O. M. Freir
Ford Johnson Furniture Company
H. J. ©. Beckemerer
Cook County
Sangamon
Holstiaw
Chicago
Broderick
Lorimer
Deneen
4Th General Assembly
Senate
Public Service Commission Delays Moving Platforms Question
The Public Service Commission said it was not yet prepared to state if it would address moving platforms in detail. It will consider the Broadway route from 14th to 42nd and the 34th street route, aiming to combine proposed routes into a single system.
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Iuka
Fil
Daniel Holstlaw
Lorimer
Continuous Transit Securities Company
Public Service Commission
Broadway
42D Street
34Th Street
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