Tax On Dividends Of Corporations In Tax Plan Shakeup
Finance Committee moves toward a substitute for the income tax by proposing a 2 percent tax on corporate dividends. President strongly favors the plan, aiming to present it as a revenue measure and to secure broader Republican support. Debate centers on timing, revenue estimates, and political strategy for the 1910 campaign.
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Washington
Co Committee
Eff Hill
Judiciary Committee
Tribune
Adice
Boral
Cummins
England
Senate
Joint Committee On Conference
Republican Party
House
We Wilson
Supreme Court
Aldrich
May Riot at Funeral Sparks Paris Protests
Paris reports say socialist papers led by L Humanite condemn M Chauchard's will as scandalous. They note 290000 to the poor arousing anger while millions go to politicians and a 20000000 fortune is cited. The funeral is scheduled for tomorrow amid calls for reform to prevent such gifts.
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Paris
L’humanite
M. Chauchard
Mme. Boursin
the Tribune
Chicago
Daily News
H. A. Chauchard
M. Leygues
Colonies
Legion of Honor
Annam
Youngstown Votes Wet in sharp local option fight
In Youngstown Ohio and Mahoning County voters chose wet by 1 601 with 11 052 for wets and 9 263 for dries. The contentious election centered on breweries a distillery and about 300 saloons with campaigns using automobiles banners and women volunteers at precincts advocating or opposing liquor sales.
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Youngstown
Ohio, Inc
Mahoning County
Billy Whitla
Michigan battleship Michigan tops speed in trials
Rockland Maine June reports battleship Michigan achieving 26.61 knots in standardization tests as builders and officers anticipate meeting 18.5 knot contract speed in a four hour run tomorrow. Weather favorable with calm sea, yacht-like conditions aided the measured mile runs. New York Shipbuilding Company of Camden New Jersey built the vessel.
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Rockland
Battleshi Michigan
Michigan
New York Shipbuilding Company
Camden, N. J
Putnam House Sold to Syndicate for 8309.00
The Putnam House at 369–373 Fourth Avenue and 143 and 105 East 26th Street was sold yesterday by Putnam Holding Co through John N. Golding for about 8309.00. An ongoing mortgage foreclosure of 211,008 was expected to be discontinued. Buyers include Varick J. Martin, H. M. Gulick, A. L. Everett, and Frederick T. Barry, with plans for a sixteen story office building by A. Fillmore Hyde on the site. The sale continues a wave of landmark transfers along Fourth Avenue from Union Square to 34th Street.
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Putnam
Fourth Avenue
East 26Th Street
Putnam Holding Company
John N. Golding
Varick J. Martin
H. M. Gulick
A. L. Everett
Frederick T. Barry
Union Square
34Th Stree
Ashland House
Hotel Belvedere
Clarendon
Florence
Parker Building
Putnam House
26Th Street
A. Fillmore Hyde
Andrew Ryan
William Hickey
H. H. Hamilton
Stein & Veno
Sartoris Resigns as Secretary at Guatemala Mission
Algernon Sartoris, secretary of the American Legation in Guatemala, resigns citing ill health. Reports suggest family interests and possible pressures may have influenced the move. official wording centers on health and climate.
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Washington
Algernon Sartoris
Guatemala
Sartoris
Va. S. Grant
the Times
State Department
Paris
Department
Brooklyn Hearing Attacks City Officials and Bosses Over Subways
Justice William J. Gaynor denounces lax city officials and political bosses at Prospect Hall Brooklyn meeting urging Fourth Avenue subway, linking graft to Metropolitan bankruptcy. He criticizes Controller Metz and cites Croker dinner as corrupt. Audience includes Tammany figures and civic leaders in a charged political setting.
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Prospect Hall
Brooklyn
Fourth Avenue
William J. Gaynor
Supreme Court
Metz
Belmont
Croker
Jerome
Tammany
Croker Dinner. the Gathering Before Which Justice Gaynor
Iis
Justice Gaynor
Hugh. V. Monahan
Anthony N. Brady
J. Pierpont Morgan
Brady
Morgan
Monahan
Bingham
Steamer Ashore In Fog Off Fire Island
A steamer ran aground off Fire Island Beach near Point O Woods in thick fog around 9 p.m. The ship’s name isn’t learned yet. Volunteer lifebuoys crews work to throw a line to the vessel as surf inhibits launching. The sea is moderating and the wreck is not in immediate danger. Revenue cutter service alerted. a cutter expected by daylight.
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Fire Island
Long Island
Fire Island Beach
Point O ° Woods
E. W. Baker
Charles Baker
Point O’ Woods
Trials of wireless talk between Condé and land stations
Toulon June trials of wireless telephone service between the cruiser Condé and land stations show progress. The cruiser, with shorter poles than earlier, communicated today over more than one hundred miles, after a prior session at sixty miles a few days earlier.
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Toulon
Condé
Artist William J Comley commits suicide in New York offices
William J Comley president of the International Society of Art, with offices in the Billings Court Building at Fifth Avenue and 34th Street, shot himself in the head. The death occurred on the fifth floor early this morning in the society offices. A revolver lay beside him and two letters were found on a table, one to Miss A Comley of Yonkers and another to the Coroner.
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William J. Comley
International Society of Art
Billings Court Building
Fifth Avenue
34Th Street
Society
Comley
John Candlin
A. Comley
Warburton Avenue
Yonkers
Parochial School Scuffle Ends With Injury at St. Vincent Ferrer
John Downes a Lexington Avenue coachman clashed with a priest and tore a nun's robe during a dispute over his daughter's exam results. Downes slipped on stairs, cutting his head, and left the scene after a heated exchange with Father Durkin. He sought arrest of the Sisters and Durkin at East 67th Street station, which refused.
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St. Vincent Ferrer
Lexington Avenue
65Th Street
John Downes
55Th Street
Presbyterian Hospital
John J. Durkin
Downes
Father Durkin
East 67Th Street
Mason
Big Spring Lake Fire Destroys Breakers Hotel in New Jersey
A large hotel at Breakers and two nearby cottages burned in Spring Lake near Asbury Park New Jersey. Fire started just before 11 p.m. with about 25 guests and similar number of servants evacuated unharmed. Local departments requested assistance from Asbury Park Point Pleasant and Belmar. Efforts to confine the flames showed progress an hour after ignition.
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Asbury Park
N. J
Breakers
Spring Lake
John H. Eckel
Park Place
Brooklyn
Point Pleasant
Belmar
Chamberlain proposes duty to curb art exports from Britain
London June 10 J Austen Chamberlain former Chancellor of the Exchequer writes to The Times suggesting a 20 percent duty on art exports to prevent draining works of art from Great Britain. Proceeds would fund national collections enrichment.
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London
Great Britain
J. Austen Chamberlain
the Times
Sanna
Rubbernecks, Joke Suppressed at City Hall Protest
Police halted a sight-seeing vehicle joke referencing Boston City Hall as headquarters of the Steal Trust. The line, used during court proceedings against city politicians accused of illegal practices, prompted a prohibitory order issued today after a police captain overheard it.
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Boston
Boston City Hall
City Hall
American Capital Plans Large China Development Syndicate
A new American syndicate including National City Bank First National Bank Kuhn Loeb Co and J P Morgan Co will supply capital for China development with no upper limit. An agent will visit China within two weeks to assess opportunities for railway financing provincial and state loans and banking ventures. The move signals open doors policy support from Washington and aims to rival English French and German interests in the region.
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National City Bank
First National Bank
Kuhn, Loeb & Co
J. P. Morgan & Co
China
State Department
Washington
United States
Roosevelt
Hays
American-China Development Company
Calvin S. Brice
Chinese Railways Syndicate
Peking-Hankow
Thurlow
Far East
International Banking Corporation
Wich
Hong Kong
Shanghai
Canton
J. W. Jenkx
Charles A. Cemant
Board of Revenue
British Banks Watch as American Syndicate Eyes Hankow Rail
London June 9 British banks in the Hankow Sze Chuen Railway tri partite loan show strong interest in reports that a major American syndicate with government backing plans to participate. The Americans cite 1904 written assurances from the Chinese government that American and British capital would be invited if Chinese funds fall short, with American and British capitalists favored. Ambassadors Reid White Hill and Rockhill have conveyed the American claim to the three governments and China.
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London
China
Peking
Reid
White
Hill
W. W. Rockhill
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