Tea tax fuels Tillman push in tariff debate
The Senate finished committee of the whole consideration of tariff schedules and free list items with Sen Tillman pressing a 26 cent per pound tea duty to aid a South Carolina tea industry. He argued it would raise revenue and protect home production, while others questioned feasibility. Amid heat in the chamber, debate shifted to cotton ties and free bagging, with Tilman urging relief for Southern planters and Aldrich steering opposition to free ties.
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Tribune Bureau
Washingtons
Tillman
Senate
Tillgman
Dingley
South Carolina
China
Alérich
Herburn
Smith
Michigan
Cummins
Iowa
Borah
Bristow
Brown
Crawford
Curtis
Dolliver
Gambie
la Follette
Nelson
Mrr. McEnery
Aldrich
Gore
Becon
Bacon
Georgia
United States
Bristow and
la Foliette
Gam‘Die
Culberson
House
Finance Committee
Money
United States Steel Corporation
Lodge
New England
South
Rhode Island
Beveridge
Clapp
du Pont
Johnson
la Foillette
Burrowa
Tariff conferrees named in Senate and House fights
Washington reports seniority will govern the tariff conference. Senate appointees are Aldrich, Burrows, Penrose, Hale, Cullom. Democrats Daniel, Money, Bailey. If Cullom declines, Lodge may serve. House lineups favor senior Ways and Means members Payne, Dalzell, McCall, Hill, Boutell, with West interests focused on lumber and fruits.
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Tribune Bureau
Washington
Senate
Aldrich
Burrows
Penrose
Hale
Cullom
Daniel
Money
Lodge
Flint
Smoot
West
Ways and Means
Conference
Far West
E. J. Hill
Connecticut
Hill
Representative Needham
California
Cushman
Fordney
Michigan
Representative McCall
Massachusetts
New England
House
Payne
Dalzell
McCall
Boutell
Wickersham Withholds Perrin Papers Delaying Devlin Nomination
Washington June 28 Attorney General Wickersham refused to send to the Senate files from the Department of Justice on Dr E B Perrin and the California timber land conspiracy case. The Senate Judiciary Committee postponed action on Robert T Devlin's nomination as U S Attorney for the Northern District of California. The panel voiced dissatisfaction but chose not to clash with the DOJ amid the Perrin docket. Devlin, who prosecuted Perrin, saw the conviction reversed for a retrial due to perjured testimony. questions remain over failing to sue the alleged perjured witness. California lawmakers expect Devlin to be renominated by Taft after the session.
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Wickersham
Senate
Department of Justice
E. B. Perrin
California
Robert T. Devlin
United States
Senate Committee On Judiciary
Devlin
Congress
Perrin
Judiciary Committee
Wiickersham
Harr
Bonaparte
Taft
Harrihet
Nhlle
Nagel Outlines Commerce and Labor Policy
Washington June 2 Secretary Nagel declared a business minded policy for the Commerce and Labor Department. He pledged to remove employees who do not meet performance standards while protecting longtime faithful workers. He denied a damaging attack on the Civil Service Commission and said personnel decisions to start on July 1 would be explained later.
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Tribune Bureau
Washington
Commerce and Labor
Department of Commerce and Labor
Civil Service Commission
Nagel
Tawney Moves to Stop Bonding Firms From Raising Costs
Washington June 28 The great bonding companies face a challenge as Rep Tawney demands no new bond price hikes for government workers and plans to insert a rider in the urgent deficiency bill prohibiting bonds with raised payment rates from being issued to government staff. He argues the government bears the added cost and cites census bill adjustments as precedent.
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Tribune Bureau
Washington
United States
Tawney
Appropriations Committee
Von Buelow to resign. talk of successor
Berlin June 2 Prince von Buelow says he will retire from the German chancellorship as soon as the finance reform bill is disposed of. The emperor wishes him to remain until the bill passes Reichstag. Likely successor is Dr. von Bethmann Hollweg, with other candidates including Baron Marschall von Bieberstein and General Wedel.
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Berlin
Prince von Bulow
Empire
Norddeutsche Allegemeine Zeitung
Prince von Bislow
William
von Bilow
von Bethmann-Hollweg
Baron Marschall von Bieberstein
Constantinople
Emeror
Ernst von Koller
Alsace-Lorraine
Koller
Baron von Rheinbaden
von Lchwenfeldt
General von Wed
Hamburg
Herr Godfrey
Prince von Biilow
Cuban Budget Passed By House In Havana June 28
The Liberal majority in Havana's House approved a 33.8 million dollar budget, with the Senate expected to pass it and send to the President for signature. The measure includes 50 thousand dollars for the first year of Spanish cannon purchases and 300 thousand dollars total for the installment. The Senate plans to finalize the national lottery bill and approve a 40 thousand dollar two year mission funds to Latin republics under Major General Enrique Loynaz del Castilla.
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Havana
House of Representatives
Senate
Magoon
Enrique Loynaz del
Census bill agreed by Congress with civil service reforms
Both houses approved the conference report on the census bill and await the President's signature. The measure tightens examinations under the Civil Service Commission, limits employment in each family, requires state residency history, and aims for fair state quotas. Emergency hires capped at sixty days must come from eligible lists. Changes to census building construction and naval stores investigation were struck out.
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Tribune Bureau
Washington
Congress
Roosevelt
Civil Service Commission
Civil Service
District of Columbia
Savannah
Lieutenant Clark's Demand From Kan-Su Expedition
The mete orological expedition led by Lieutenant Clark has reached Lan-Chow, Kan-Su, after an encounter in which surveyor Harish Ali was killed. Clark seeks a consular inquiry and plans to return to the capital. The Viceroy reports threats and claims Chinese casualties, while legations doubt his account and deem his demands extravagant.
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Peking
Clark
Bishop Potter
Lan-Chow
Kan-Su
Harish Ali
President Taft Holds Hearing On Whiskey Law
President Taft grants a White House hearing to whiskey interests with Attorney General and industry leaders present. The two hour session, addressing pure food law definitions of whiskey, followed disagreements over grain versus molasses derived ethyl alcohol and the labeling of blended or imitation whiskey. Further arguments promised for tomorrow as Bonaparte and Dr. Wiley’s interpretations are reviewed.
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Tribune Bureau
Washington
White House
Secretary of Agriculture
Joseph H. Choate
John G. Carlisle
Armstrong
New York
Warwick M. Hough
Herman Cellarius
Internal Revenue
Cincinnatii
Maurice J. Freiberg
Lawrence Maxwell
Cincinnati
Edmund Taylor
Louisville
Willis Robins
Taft
Bowers
Solicitor General
Uch
Bonaparte
Roosevelt
Dr. Wiley
Wiley
Cholera Cases Rise in St Petersburg Amid Finland Talks
Sixty-one cholera cases were taken to hospitals in the last twenty four hours with thirty deaths reported. The Russo Finnish Commission opened in St Petersburg to revise imperial Finnish relations. proposals include seats for Finns in the Duma and Council of the Empire. A Chinese mission headed by Tai Hongtse arrived to thank Emperor Nicholas for sending a representative to Peking.
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St. Petersburg
Russia
Finland
Douma
Council of
China
Nicholas
Peking
Kweng-Hsu
Tai Hongtse
Peterhof
New Viceroy of Pe-Chi-Li Selected in China
June 22 edict names Tuan-Fang Viceroy of Pe-Chi-Li in succession to the late Yang Shi Liang with Na Tung to act until arrival. Chang Jen-chun, Viceroy of Canton, will succeed him at Nanking, then Yuan Shuh-sun of Shanghai. Sun Pao-chi becomes Acting Governor of Shantung. Shih Hsu named temporary president of the Foreign Board.
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Peking
Tuan-Fang
Nanking
Pe-Chi-Li
Yang Shi Liang
Na Tung
Grand Council
Chang Jen-chun
Canton
Yuan Shuh-sun
Taotal
Shanghai
Sun Pao-chi
Shan Tung
Shih Hsu
Foreign Board
La Guayra Declared Free of Bubonic Plague
Consular advices report La Guayra Venezuela officially certified free of bubonic plague. All baggage from La Guayra to Curacao is fumigated and transit passengers cannot land. Venezuela’s campaign against rats and mice offers four cents for rats and one cent for mice captured and killed.
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Washington
la Guayra
Venezuela
State Department
Curacao
White Troops for Brownsville Move Reported
Brownsville Texas June 28 It was announced for a day that the War Department would send two companies of white troops to occupy Fort Brown formerly held by negro soldiers of the 2th Infantry who were discharged from service for en
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Brownsville
Tex
War Department
Fort Brown
2Th Infantry
Wireless telegraphy in war game off New England coast
Washington reports wireless telegraphy to play a key role in the Atlantic fleet war game off the New England coast next month. Admiral Schroeder’s Connecticut leads high powered gear with Chester and Birmingham to join after Liberia passage. Brant Rock Mass hosts a station for long distance tests while contracts await later. Deputy Sheriff Walter T Fitzsimmons fills vacancy after Deputy Walring’s death in the 2th Assembly District.
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Washington
New England
Admiral Schroeder
Connecticut
Chester
Birmingham
United States
Liberia
Brant Rock
Mass
Cleland Davis
George Sweet
Navy Department
W. T. Fitzsimmons
Foley
Walter T. Fitzsimmons
Walgering
James J. Fraydepp
Public Service Commission disapproves pilot fenders
The Public Service Commission rejected the pilot fenders on the Central Park North East River Railroad Second avenue system after hearings. Commissioner Martble favored automatic trip wheel guards, citing injuries and damages, with recommendations and estimated costs around $4,000 immediate and under $10,000 total, stressing life saving over expense.
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Public Service Commission
Second Avenue
59Th Street
Central Park, North & East River Railroad Company
Martble
Church and State Conflicts Stir French Clergy
Paris reports Cardinal Andrieu of Bordeaux backed by militant bishops amid charges over separation law. prosecutions loom against churchmen who threaten excommunication if acquiring church property under law. Monsignor Gieure cited for excommunicating councils and charities supporting former church assets. diocese counsels resistance to neutral education. The Scorpion tests boilers at Naples before departing for Turkish waters to conduct boiler tests aboard the American gunboat.
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Paris
Cardinal Andrieu
Bordeaux
Monsignor
Gieure
Bayonne
Leper Early resists further examinations for transfer
John R. Early, detained eight months in Washington as a leper, refuses further medical examination or travel to New York for treatment under Dr. Morgan Bulkeley. District and federal officials threaten habeas corpus while debate over quarantine rules and transport arrangements continues.
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Washington
John R. Early
New York
Morgan Bulkeley
F. H. Stephens
Early
District of Columbia
Bulkele
Corporation Counsel
Bulkeley
Woodward
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