Revenue legislation in Congress eyed after election
Washington reports indicate Senators and Representatives favor revising revenue laws and reducing 1898 war taxes when safe. Committees will study details before December, with Aldrich to review France tariff policies and reciprocal trade measures as the basis for a revised revenue system.
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THE
Tribune
Washington
Finance Committee
Senate
Ways and Means Committee
House
National Treasury
Congress
Financial Committees of Congress
Europe
Aldrich
Committee On Finance
France
United States
Bitter Discontent With Lentz Over Closing Congress Actions
Washington June 8 Special Democrats condemn Mr Lentz for opposing nearly all measures in the closing hours of the session. They say the Ohio man blocked meritorious bills and hindered action on important business. Critics cite his obstruction over Coour d Alene testimony and the failure to favor veterans.
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Washington
Congress
Lentz
Ohio
Union
Reciprocity with Barbadoes extended to 1901 ratification
Secretary Hay and Lord Pauncefote signed a protocol extending the period for ratification of the reciprocity treaty with Barbadoes until March 4, 1901. The agreement was announced in Washington.
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Washington
Hay
Lord Pauncefote
Barbadoes
Industrial Commission Plans Subcommittee Tour
The Industrial Commission will form a sub committee on industrial conditions. Major Farquhar Mr Clarke and Mr Kennedy will start in Philadelphia June 22 then travel to New Jersey New York and the New England States. A Pacific Coast visit is also considered for fall.
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Washington
North Atlantic Coast
Farquhar
Clarke
Kennedy
Philadelphia
New Jersey
New York
New England
Pacific Coast
Special honorary commissioners named for Paris Exposition
Washington announces Rev. Dr. Joseph Kraus koff and Ralph Blum of Philadelphia as special honorary commissioners to inspect agricultural exhibits at the Paris Exposition and to study agricultural schools and the status of agriculture in Europe.
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Washington
Joseph Krauskoff
Ralph Blum
Philadelphia
Europe
Hazel Receives U S District Judge Appointment in New York
Buffalo June appointed John R. Hazel United States District Judge for the Western District of New York. He received his commission at noon and later took the oath of office, beginning his term as the district’s judge.
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Buffalo
John R. Hazel
United States
Western District of New York
Tts
Savings
Nassau St
New York
Richard Morgan
Clergymen Endorse Duffy’s Pure Malt Whiskey as Medicine
A Presbyterian minister with a Doctor of Divinity degree writes from Meate Center Kansas praising Duffy’s Formula and Duffy’s Pure Malt Whiskey as the purest and most effective medicines he knows. He stresses he is a temperance man and would not advise drinking, but supports their medicinal value based on extensive experience and letters from temperance supporters.
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Kans
Duffy
B. Mills
D. D
Cadet Appointments Expanded as Senate Nominates
Washington reports that Adjutant General Corbin completed preliminaries to add one hundred cadets to the Military Academy program. Senators are urged to nominate state candidates and alternates by July 10, with examinations set for July 25 at West Point, then summer camp. The President may appoint the remaining cadets at large, focusing on officer sons with distinguished Civil War or later service.
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Washington
Corbin
Military Academy
Senate
Secretary of War
West Point
War Department
White House
Spain
Philippines
Navy Department
Secretary Long
Naval Academy
Navy to Advertise Armor Bids for Battleships
The Navy Department in Washington in June will publish ads inviting proposals to supply face hardened armor of the best type for battleships under construction and for protected cruisers and three battleships funded by the new appropriation bill. Bids will be sought in three classes totaling 10 000 tons, 20 000 tons, and 30 000 tons with hopes that large contracts yield better terms and that armor may descend toward 500 dollars per ton. Secretary Long may decide to build an armor plant if bids prove unworkable.
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Washington
Navy Department
Long
Visit of Cuban teachers heads to Harvard summer course
Washington June 8 The Quartermaster General reports arrangements to transport 1,483 Cuban school teachers to the United States for Harvard University summer tuition from July 1 to September. Five transports Burnside McPherson McClellan Crook Sedgwick will carry them to Boston with detailed sailing ports and passenger counts.
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Washington
Quartermaster-General
United States
Harvard University
War Department
Burnside
McPherson
McClellan
Crook
Sedgwick
Tunas
Casilva
Cienfuegos
Boston
Manzanillo
Santiago
Guantanamo
Baracoa
Gibara
Cardenas
Sagua
Carbarien
Nuevitas
Havana
Matanzas
A Million A Day: U S Imports Tropical Goods
The Treasury reports that US imports of tropical products for ten months ending in April 1900 totalled over 65 million dollars for the year, averaging about a million dollars daily. Rubber, fibres, silk, cotton, gums, woods, indigo and ivory lead the list, with sugar, coffee and tobacco dominating foodstuffs. The Dutch East Indies now top sugar sources and a table of ten months’ imports follows.
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Washington
United States
Treasury Bureau of Statistics
India
Tropics
Dutch East Indies
Philippines
Gold Democrats Plan Third Ticket Split In 1896 Style
The Gold Democrats announced a July meeting in Indianapolis by the Executive Committee to consider fielding a ticket this fall. George Foster Peabody begins a Western tour to gauge interest among prominent Democrats. Decisions hinge on Kansas City and Philadelphia actions, with Sound Money Democrats cautious about potential support.
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National Democrats
Gold Standard Democrats
Indianapolis
Palmer
Buckner
George Foster Peabody
The
Gold Democrats
Kansas City
Philadelphia
Americans Fight Heroic Siege at Catubig Samar
Thirty one men of Company H, 43d Infantry, held off six hundred insurgents for four days at Catubig on Samar, April 15. Reinforcements led by Lt. J. T. Sweeney arrived aboard the Lao Ang, rescuing the besieged and aiding in the retreat. Corporal Carson earned high praise for leadership and saving lives during the perilous siege.
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Washington
Catubig
Samar
43D Infantry
War Department
H. M. Day
J. T. Sweeney
48D Infantry
Corporal Carson
Lieutenant Sweeney
Sweeney
Day
Latle
Three natives blamed for Votrie killing in Philippines
Washington reports that a military commission found three natives guilty of murdering Quartermaster-Sergeant Albert Votrie of the 39th Infantry at Bagbag near Tanauan in Batangas February 2. They were sentenced to death but General Otis commuted the sentences to twenty years hard labor at the Presidio de Manila, citing local guerilla influence and the convicts’ ignorance of legal consequences.
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Washington
War Department
Albert Votrie
39Th Infantry
Bagbag
Tanauan
Batangas
Otis
Presidio de Manila
Change in plan for 6th Cavalry to Philippines
Washington announces a revised plan for the 6th Regiment of Cavalry. Only the first and third battalions will sail for the Philippines to relieve volunteers. The other battalion remains in the United States as a reserve. The two deploying battalions will depart from the Pacific Coast in two detachments around June 15 and July 1.
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Washington
6Th Regiment of Cavalry
Philippines
Pacific
Manila
A Lieutent General Now Miles Receives New Rank
Washington June 8 President issues recess commissions creating the rank of lieutenant general for Nelson A Miles commanding the Army and H C Corbin Adjutant General. Miles issues first order naming his personal staff: Francis Michler secretary Hobart Bailey aide de camp Henry Whitney aide de camp.
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Washington
Military Academy
Nelson A. Miles
Army
H.C. Corbin
Senate
Miles
Root
Francis Michler
5Th Cavalry
Hobart K. Bailey
5Th Infantry
Henry H. Whitney
4Th Artillery
Secretary Gage Withdraws Second $5 Million From Banks
Washington June 8 The Secretary of the Treasury issued the second call in a series for depository banks to deliver $5,000,000 to the Treasury on or before the stated deadline.
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Gage
Washington
Secretary of the Treasury
The
Treasury
Appointment of deputy attorneys general in New York
Attorney-General Davies names Henry B. Coman of Madison County as Deputy Attorney-General for the Franchise Tax Bureau and Robert E. Steele of Herkimer County as Corporation Deputy. The posts fill vacancies created by the transfer of Deputy Attorney-General Job E. Hedges to the Bureau of Elections as counsel to State Superintendent McCullough. Salary attached to the offices is Miu.
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Albany
Davies
Henry B. Coman
Madison County
Franchise Tax Bureau
Robert E. Steele
Herkimer County
Job E. Hedges
Bureau of Elections
McCullough
Miu
Webb's Academy Commencement Honors Founder Webb
A large audience attended Webb's Academy and Home for Shipbuilders for the commencement exercises. Phases included prayers, diplomas, prize awards to Friebele, Morrison, Crouch, and Minuse, and a memorial oration by Andrew H. Green on founder William H. Webb.
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Webb's Academy
Sedgwick Ave
Joseph M. Hodson
Academy
Stephenson Taylor
Andrew H. Green
William H. Webb
W. S. Crowe
Thomas Fitch Rowland
John F. Friebele
Clarence L. Morrison
George Crouch
Alfred W. Minuse
Mr. Green
Seymour Johnson & Coos Pailure Listed with Liabilities
The stock brokers Seymour Johnson & Co. of 71 Broadway filed May 28 an assignment to Alfred Hayes Jr. showing liabilities 682730 and nominal assets 798095, actual assets 610266. Collateral loans totaling 463000 are largely in stocks and bonds sold by banks, leaving net liabilities 219730 and net assets 147266. Banks holding secured loans include Phenix National and American Exchange National at 163000 and 50000 respectively. Unsecured creditors listed include Townsend 41090 Logan 10767 Howland 17288 Meeker Bros 19093 Drummond Betts 14441 and Brady 23564.
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Seymour, Johnson & Co
Broadway
Alfred Hayes, Jr
Phenix National
American Exchange National
National Bank of Commerce
Bank of Remirca
Corn Exchange
Mercantile Trust Company
J. & W. Seligman & Co
J. J. Townsend
Chicago
F. G. Logan
J. E. Howland
Meeker Brothers
Columbus
Ohio
Drummond, Betts & Co
St. Louis
A. W. Brady
This City
Curtis assails firm’s preliminary statement as unauthorized
William J. Curtis assignee of Price McCormick and Co. denied yesterday that his prior remarks on the firm’s affairs were authorized. He said he could not yet say if a surplus would exist and that the full statement would take several days to prepare.
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William J. Curtis
Price, McCormick & Co
World's Temperance Congress Opens in London
London prepares for the World's Temperance Congress to open next Monday under the presidency of the Most Rev. Frederick Temple with a formal opening ceremony and speeches by prominent temperance leaders.
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London
World's Temperance Congress
Frederick Temple
Garden party and temperance meeting at Lambeth Palace
The Archbishop of Canterbury will deliver an address and entertain the congress at a garden party at Lambeth Palace next Thursday. The Lord Mayor A J Newton will host a reception for delegates next Friday. A grand cosmopolitan temperance meeting led by the Earl of Carlisle features, with Lady Henry Somerset chairing on Tuesday, and many American speakers are listed.
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Archbishop of Canterbury
Lambeth Palace
A. J. Newton
Earl of Carlisle
Henry Somerset
Lightning Shocks Lineman in Westchester County
In New Rochelle, William Myers a telephone lineman from No 14 Avenue fell sixty feet from a pole and fatally injured likely due to an electric shock. A bolt struck trees near White Plains blackening a car on the Huckleberry line near Elmsford. The storm halted service, drenched passengers, and disrupted travel while farmers welcomed the rain.
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Westchester County
New Rochelle
William Myers
No. 14 Avenue
Windsor Hotel
White Plains
Tarrytown
Mamaroneck
Lightning Claims Baltimore County Officer’s Daughter at Braishaw
In Baltimore on June 8 Dollie Taylor aged fifteen daughter of Colonel B F Taylor a member of the Baltimore County Board of Commissioners was killed by a lightning strike while seeking shelter with her sister Carrie under a tree in her father’s Braishaw yard. Carrie aged twenty was knocked unconscious but is expected to recover.
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Baltimore
Dollie’’ Taylor
B. F. Taylor
Board of
Baltimore County
Braishaw
Carrie
Devastating Thunderstorm Strikes Corning Causes Wide Damage
Corning New York June 8 a severe thunderstorm accompanied by hail swept the city for about twenty minutes breaking windows and injuring crops. The event also disrupted travel as washouts blocked the Pennsylvania division of the New York Central.
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Corning
N. Y
Pennsylvania
New York Central
Lightning strikes pole and floods street waterway
A bolt hit an electric pole at Henry and Jersey streets New Brighton Staten Island yesterday around 3 pm. The strike split the pole and sent current into the water running along the street car tracks for several hundred feet to Jersey street and Richmond Terrace where it vanished in the floodwater.
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Henry and
Jersey Sts
New Brighton
Staten Island
Jersey St
Richmond Terrace
An Appeal to the Code at the Paris Exposition Pavilion
In Paris during June, M. Morin Gustiaux the pavilion builder and assistant architect and M. Henri Dumay the American correspondent exchanged cards after a reception at the National Pavilion. Assistant United States Commissioner-General Benjamin D Woodward, a friend of Gustiaux, mediated the encounter. News circles mockingly debate the unsafe pavilion claim.
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Paris
New York
United States
M. Morin Gustiaux
M. Henri Dumay
America
National Pavilion
Benjamin D. Woodward
M. Gustiaux
M. Dumay
Tropical summer suits offered at big Brooklyn shops
Tropical summer clothing line features full-lined skeleton and negligee style suits in Canadian Wool Crash, Homespuns and Fancy Flannels priced from 15 to 30 dollars. Marketing promotes comfort and style for men, with tropical dress options emphasized for young and small gentlemen.
Tribune Announces Complete 1900 Summer Resort Guide
Next Sunday Lune 10th, the Tribune will publish the most complete Summer Resort Guide of the season 1900. It will be widely circulated and advertisers are urged to submit copy early to ensure insertion in the Tribune’s advertising columns.
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