Taft Secures Postal Savings Bill Victory On 96 Degree Day
President Taft pushes through the postal savings bank bill as insurgent and regular Republicans shift to support. He stays in Washington all summer to see the measure enacted, abandoning a Yale visit to ensure final Senate action and avoid a conference.
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Whom the Gods Would Destroy Postal Savings Fight
Washington report outlines Senator Cummins and allies filibuster against the postal savings bill, the President's firm stance to pass it, and Taft's diplomacy with Senate leaders. Bailey's opposition sparks clashes over army engineer funding and canal projects while a swift diplomatic push on the Chamaó/El Paso boundary and Hukuang loan advances.
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Ballinger Committee Debating Post-Session Study Plan
Washington June 21 Several Ballinger Pinchot committee members want to stay in Washington after Congress adjourns to review collected evidence and draft a report. A decision at next Saturday’s meeting will determine if the panel delays travel to speedily publish findings in two to three weeks.
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Taft urges land case appeals to federal courts
President Taft sent to Congress a bill allowing litigants in land disputes to appeal Interior Department decisions to the federal Court of Appeals on questions of law. The measure, backed by Nelson in the Senate and Mondell in the House, faces limited action this session. The Mandel bill to issue 20 million dollars in irrigation reclamation certificates also moves under a special rule for quick debate and vote.
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Former Insists on Labor Organization Exemption
House votes 152 to 105 to urge conference on the sundry civil bill to include the Hughes amendment shielding labor unions from Sherman anti trust prosecutions. Deadlock looms as Senate opposition and partisan lines shape adjournment timing and public pressure for action.
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Eldredge Smashes All-Continent Walk Record in 77 Days
San Francisco reports that 26 year old Jack Eldredge arrived after walking four thousand miles in 77 days. He beat Edward Payson Weston’s 105 day record and won a $2000 purse from the Boston Athletic Club, having rested on Sundays.
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Curtiss Faces Attachment Over Avia tion Meet Receipts
Glenn H. Curtiss was served with a writ of attachment levied for 5506 against his share of receipts from the Twin Cities aviation meet. Judge W. E. Hale issued the order at Minneapolis. Curtiss to receive 30 percent of gross receipts from June 22 to 25.
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Roosevelt plans Chicago visit after homecoming events
Oyster Bay June 21. Roosevelt greeted few callers today. Secretary of War Luke E. Wright and H. M. Hobson of the Hamilton Club of Chicago visited. Hobson arranged a Chicago reception in Roosevelt’s New York office for the club delegation tomorrow. Roosevelt may speak in Chicago this summer, his first major address since returning to the United States. He rode about fifteen miles with his sons Archie and Kermit and later boated and bathed. He will depart Oyster Bay at 11:06 tomorrow for New York to lecture on his Africa hunting trip. Rear Admiral W S Cowles, Mrs Cowles, and Sheffield Cowles left for Farmington Conn.
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Diplomatic nominations sent to Senate from Washington
The President submitted a batch of diplomatic and consular nominations. Thomas Dawson of Council Bluffs Iowa is named Minister to Panama and Horace Knowles of Wilmington Delaware is named Minister to Bolivia. H Percival Dodge of Boston is named Minister to Morocco and chief of the Latin American Affairs Division. William W Russell of DC is named Minister to Santo Domingo. H S Reynolds Hitt of Illinois is named Minister to Venezuela. Hoffman Philip of DC is named secretary of embassy at Rio de Janeiro.
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