Philippine tariff row exposes Senate splits over Philippines terms
In Washington a Senate clash pitted Bristow and allies against allies of Aldrich Lodge and Newlands over a finance committee plan on Philippine sugar and tobacco imports. Amendments sought free sugar limits, duties, and policy on sovereignty. most provisions passed, some defeated.
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Tribune Bureau
Washington
Senate
Philippines
Bristow
Aldrich
Lodge
Smoot
Curtis
Philippine
Clapp
Rhode Island
Taft
Finance Committee
Stone
Newlands
Chamberlain
Oregon
Philippine Islands
Penators
Bulkeley
Brandegee
Connecticut
Islands
Committee On
Sugar Trust
American Sugar Refining Company
Seuger
Lofge
Massachusetts
fFull- Pines
Japan
United States
Sen@tor
Mr. Lodge
Java
Cuba
Argentine Republic
Mr. Clapp
Minnesota
The
Mr. Aldrich
Congress
Brown
Cummins
Davis
Dolliver
Senator Lodge
Guam
Tutuila
Philippine Commission
la Follette
Wisconsin
International Cigarmakers’ Union
Seek a Direct Vote on Income Tax Amendment
Senators Borah Cummins and Bailey and their progressive allies plan a direct Senate vote next Friday on the Bailey Cummins income tax amendment. A conference with Cummins Borah La Follette Bailey and Jay discussed amending the measure to tax undistributed corporate earnings while excluding dividends paid to individuals.
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Washington
Borah
Cummins
Bailey
Senate
Messrs
la Follette
Jay
Lodge Predicts Good Tariff Bill
Boston June 14 Senator Henry Cabot Lodge writes the Somerville Board of Trade that the tariff is being revised downward and the new bill will be a good one. He notes 373 reductions across 373 paragraphs and 30 increases mainly on luxury items for revenue, expressing confidence that the bill passed will be excellent.
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Boston
Henry Cabot Lodge
Somerville Board of Trade
Large rise in imports and exports in May
Washington reports May imports at 116 million 0659 percent with a $32 913 275 rise from May last year. Exports totaled 123 356 708 up 9 746 228 from May. Eleven month excess of exports over imports stands at 365 374 98, down 284 794 222 from last year. Increase centered in manufacturing materials. exports drop mainly in cotton corn wheat and meats due to price effects.
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Washington
Bureau of Statistics Today
Ellis Rejuvenated by Mysterious Elixir in Congress
Washington June 14 The House witnessed a remarkable revival as Rep Ellis of Oregon appeared twenty years younger with a full brown beard. Colleagues speculated on a barber shop visit while Doorkeeper Lyon mistook him as an intruder and Messengers were sent to fetch Carter and others with aging beards.
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Tribune Bureau
Washington
House of Representatives
Seven Sutherland Sisters
Ellis
Oregon
James Hamilton Lewis
Lyon
Senate
Carter
Copper director U S charged with obstructing justice
Sanford Robinson once a United Copper director and Heinze adviser pleaded not guilty in federal court to an indictment charging he impeded a deputy marshal from serving a subpoena on a clerk. The case ties to the Mercantile National Bank probe and ongoing U S Copper book seizures. Indictment outlines concealment schemes and a Canada flight by the clerk Buckingham. Prison and fines total eighteen months and $1390.
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Sanford Robinson
United States Copper Company
F. Augustus Heinze
Ray
United States District Court
Robinson
Joseph P. Cotton, Jr
United States
Henry A. Wise
Cotton
Wise
United Copper Company
F. Augustus Héinzé
Mércantile National Bank
Federal Grand Jury
Otto Heinze
Max H. Schultze
Mercantile Bank
Joseph J Kumb
Tracy S. Buckingham
No. 74
Broadway
Buckingham
Canada
Mr. Wise
George Baglin
Heinze
Baglin
Factory Hands Receive 1000 Dollars Each at Yonkers
Three hundred fifty employees of Smith and Sons carpet factory in Yonkers received one dollar each as beneficiaries under the will of the late Eva Smith Cochran. She died in February leaving eight thousand dollars in property. The will ordered a one dollar legacy to every employee who had worked there twenty years. Mrs Cochran was the widow of William Cochran and daughter of Alexander Smith founder of the factory.
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Smith & Sons
Yonkers
Eva Smith Cochran
Punishment squad loses two captains to new posts
Police Captain Frederick W. Martens left the punishment squad to command the Queensboro Bridge precinct, succeeding Captain William Knipe who retired after a two-week post. Knipe had requested vacation and then retirement, reducing the veteran group from five to three. Captains Henry Halpin and Stephen McDermott remain to work nightly rounds from 9 p.m. to 7 a.m., with Wormell the first to retire for not being a Civil War veteran. All five had long tenures of at least thirty years.
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Frederick W. Martens
Bingham
Queensboro Bridge
William Knipe
Knipe
New Bridge
General Bingham
Henry Hapin
Stephen McDermott
George Wormell
Wormell
McDermott
Halpin
Senate confirms Durand for census director role
Washington June 4 The Senate confirmed Edward Dana Durand of California as director of the census replacing S N D North who resigned and Luther Conant Jr of New York as Deputy Commissioner of Corporations in the Department of Commerce and Labor succeeding Durand
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Washington
Senate Today
Edward Dana Durand
California
S. N. D. North
Luther Conant, Jr
New York
Department of Conmerce and Labor
Durand
Old Fargo Servant Welcomed Home by Fargo Family
Martha Inkerbrand, 78, a former semi servant for the late Mrs. James, sought shelter at 56 Park Avenue. A patrolman helped her up to the door. servants sent her away with carfare. A detective suggested vagrancy arrest, but William Fargo intervened, and Mr. Fargo arranged lodging for her.
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Martha Inkerbrand
van Nest
James. Fargo
Wells Fargo Express Company
Fargo
Park Avenue
House Asks Reports On Indian Agent
Washington June 14 after a ten minute session today the House adjourned until Thursday on motion of Representative Murphy Missouri a resolution was adopted asking the Secretary of the Interior for the reports of Cyrus Bede an Indian inspector on the conduct of J Blair Schoenfeldt Indian agent at Union Station Muskogee Indian Territory in 1994 following an investigation by Bede Schoenfeldt resigned but the reports were never made public
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HOUSE
Washington
Representative Murphy
Missouri
Secretary of the Interior
Cyrus Bede
J. Blair Schoenfeldt
Union Station
Muskogee
Indian Territory
Bede
Schoenfeldt
Policyholders Share in Savings at Metropolitan Life
The Metropolitan Life Insurance Company announces higher benefits for industrial policies issued since January 1, 1907, with a per cent increase per the new table effective after January 1, 1909. It reports five year expense reductions of about per cent, saving roughly 3.5 million dollars, and a six per cent cut in the ordinary department with over 1.5 million dollars saved annually.
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Métropolitan Life Insurants Company
Mrs Baldwin to Wed Dr Leon Landone in Surprise Union
Informal announcements say Dr Leon Landone and Mrs Lillian Baldwin widow of E J Baldwin will marry soon. The Los Angeles society circle is startled as Landone, a lecturer on child culture, had shown interest in breeding and raising children. A recent US tour saw him select twelve children for experiments. they are housed at the Hollywood Home.
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Los Angelés
Léon Landene
Lillian Bennett Baldwin
E. J
Herring Gains Time On War Department Aeroplane
A dispatch from Washington confirms A M Herring's claim that the War Department extended the final delivery date for his aircraft to July 1. Herring says he may test near New York before bringing the machine to Fort Myer, with tests set to begin soon and a new machine nearly finished after the earlier one was broken.
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Washington
A. M. Herring
War Department
the Tribune
New York
Herring
Fort Myer
The
Tribune
Mr. Herring
Allen
Signal Service
6Th Street
Broadway
U S Geologist Dr Day Wins Petrochemical Fight Abroad
Dr David T Day of the United States Geological Survey returned from London where he defended US interests at an International Congress on petroleum testing and at Applied Chemistry. He secured resolutions favorable to America and noted progress in nitrogen fixation and anticipated exhaustion of guano supplies. Nichols of the city was named to preside at the next congress in America.
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David T. Day
United States Geological Survey
United States
London
International Congress of Applied Chemistry
Minnehaha
Day
America
Congress of Applied Chemistry
Dr. Day
South America
Germany
Norway
William H. Nichols
Early likely not leper says Johns Hopkins pathologist
Dr William H Welsh of Johns Hopkins reports to Dr Duncan L Bulkley that microscopic skin samples from John R Early show no bacilli or definite leprosy lesions. He cannot rule out a macule but notes leprosy bacilli are often few or absent in early cases. Welsh adds no health authority objection to Early entering New York if needed.
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the Tribune
Baltimore
William H. Welsh
Johns Hopking University
Duncan L. Bulkley
New York
John R. Early
Washington
Welch
Welsh
Attachment Against A Segal in $75,000 Note
Sheriff received an attachment for 75000 dollars against Adolph Segal of Philadelphia in favor of John E. Du Bois on a demand note dated October 30, 1908. Segal, a non resident, had built the Pennsylvania Sugar Refining Co and secured a 1250000 dollar loan from American Sugar Refining Co. The loan was cancelled after a suit by the receiver of Segal’s old company and collateral returned. It is unclear how Du Bois came to possess the note.
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Adolph Segal
Philadelphia
John E. du Bois
Segal
Murray
American Sugar Refining Company
Pennsylvania Sugar Refining Company
American
Pennsylvania Company
du Bois
New Harriman Contracting Firm Forms After Purchase
McArthur Brothers of New York City buy Kirkpatrick Brothers and Collins for 750000. They assume all contracts and plan extensive railroad building including the Union Pacific cut off from Topeka to Marysville, forming a new Kansas City to Omaha through line. Kirkpatricks have built for Harriman lines. the New York firm will take over that business.
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Tribune
Omaha
McArthur Brothers
New York City
Kirkpatrick Brothers & Collins
Kirkpatricks
Union Pacific
Topeka
Marysville
Kan
Kansas City
Harriman Lines
Rescues as Slavonia Lies Wrecked at Flores Island
The Cunard steamer Slavonia ran ashore on Flores Island in thick fog on June 10. Passengers were landed to the cliff by hawser and blocks, while the Prinzess Irene rescued first class travelers. Ninety nine first class passengers remain aboard the Prinzess Irene en route to Naples, with arrangements made for steerage passengers at local hotels.
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Slavonia
Flores Island
Azores
New York
Hell
Wirelése
Iréne
Naples
John Mitchell
Milwaukee
Mitchel
Steenge
Joseph Ri Pd
Worcester
Mass
Flores
Cunard Company
Welcome Home
King Edward's Institute
Sargents Point
Sargents
Batavia
Beggar Given 90 Days Under Vagrancy Law
Philadelphia June 15 A decision by Judge Magill upholds the arrest of Charles Burnside a blind musician who refused a $0 monthly pension and lingered on the streets The magistrate had sentenced him to ninety days in the House of Correction and Burnside challenged the commitment via habeas corpus The judge rules the commitment legal under the vagrancy law.
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Philadelphia
Marill
Charles Burnside
Society For Organizing Charity
Burnside
House of Correction
Magill
Miss Fricks Gift Creates Frick Park for Pittsburg Children
Miss Helen Frick daughter of H C Frick has persuaded her father to donate 150 acres in the East End for a city park named Frick Park. The property valued at 500 900 will be set aside for use by the city children.
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the Tribune
Pittsburg
Helen Frick
H. c. Frick
Frick
Nagel plans a department wide efficiency drive
Washington June 14 Secretary Nagel of the Department of Commerce and Labor orders a thorough investigation of every bureau and a system of efficiency reports for Washington and field staff. He will supervise with Ormsby McHarg and aims to weed out clock watchers and inept workers, regardless of political influence.
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Tribune Bureau
Washington
Nagel
Department of Commerce and Labor
Ormsby McHarg
Commerce
McHarg
Civil Service Commission
Committee On Appropriations
Nagels
Sallinger
Interior Department
Ballinger
Roosevelt
Garfield
General Land Office
Public Service
Nagel Visits Ellis Island Eyes New Lighting Plant
Secretary Nagel of the Department of Commerce and Labor visited Ellis Island yesterday since Commissioner Williams’s reappointment. He conferred with Williams about lighting the island and will likely seek a Congress appropriation for a new lighting plant to guard against darkness next winter as the new buildings come online.
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Nagel
Commére and Labor
Ellis Island
Commissioner Williams
Williams
Congress
Washington
Alleged Townsend Burglar Held
Minsola Nassau County sheriff arrested Louis P. Doty a painter of Oyster Bay for the assault and robbery of Mrs Beekman Townsend and her daughters Elizabeth Ada and Miss Caroline Horsey on Wednesday night. Doty worked on Mrs Townsend's Old Mill Road property. women’s descriptions matched his appearance. He denied knowledge and was held for examination by Justice Franklin after failing to account for his movements.
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Minsola
Long Island
Foster
Nassau County
Louis P. Doty
Oyster Bay
Ar Salypes
Justice of the Peace
Franklin
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