Tariff Debate Continues As Tillman Seeks Tea Duty
In the Senate heat, Tillman presses a 26 cent per pound tea duty to aid a Southern infant industry while Aldrich questions its value as a protective measure. Cummins offers iron and steel rate cuts, later defeated. cotton bagging and ties debate ends with free bags, and Taft loses a golf match.
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Tariff Conference Convenes in Senate and House
The Tribune reports Senate conferrees will be Aldrich Burrows Penrose Hale and Cullom with possible Lodge. House line remains five senior Ways and Means members Payne Dalzell McCall Hill Boutell. West representation debated as protectionists push for changes amid insurgent labels.
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Wickersham blocks Perrin papers in Devlin nomination
Washington June 28 Attorney General Wickersham refuses to send to the Senate the Justice Department files on Dr E B Perrin's California timber land case. The Senate Judiciary Committee postpones action on Robert T Devlin's nomination as U S Attorney for the Northern District of California.
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Nagel Sets Policy to Run Commerce and Labor Bureau as Business
Washington June 2 Secretary of Commerce and Labor outlines a new policy to run the department on a business basis. He pledges fair returns for salaries and vows dismissal for those failing to meet duties or showing bad habits. He denies a recent scandalous allegation against the Civil Service Commission and says action on July 1 will come before any public statements.
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Tawney Targets Bonding Firms Over Government Pay
Washington June 28 The great bonding companies face pressure as Representative Tawney proposes limits on bond charges for government employees and plans to require the government to bond its own staff He insists no bonds with raised rates may be issued to government workers and notes census bill actions as a precedent.
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Von Buelow to resign amid talk of successor
Berlin reports Prince von Buelow plans to retire as chancellor once finance reform passes. Emperor William urged him to stay until the bill moves through the Reichstag. Possible successors include Dr. von Bethmann Hollweg or Baron Marshall von Bieberstein, with other names mentioned among a broad field.
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Cuban Budget Passes in Havana House Approves $33.8 Million
Havana reports the Liberal majority backed a $33,800,000 budget, abandoning retrenchment. Senate action and presidential signing were anticipated, with the measure funding a $50,000 first instalment for Spanish cannon purchases and a $300,000 total price. The Senate planned to discuss the national lottery bill and approve a $40,000 two year mission to Latin republics under Major General Enrique Loynaz del Castilla before adjournment.
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Cens us Bill Agreed by Congress and Senate Soon to Sign
Both houses adopted the conference report on the census bill and await the President's signature. The act sets strict regulations, competitive civil service exams under the Civil Service Commission, one job per family, state residency requirements, and geographic apportionment to balance employment. Emergency hires limited to sixty days from the eligible list. Provisions for a census building in Washington and a naval stores inquiry at Savannah were removed.
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Lieutenant Clark's Meteorological Expedition Arrives in Lan-Chow
Lieutenant Clark and his meteoric expedition reach Lan-Chow Kan-Su after a week of frontier clashes in which surveyor Harrah Ali was killed. Clark seeks a consular inquiry while viceroy reports Chinese casualties and summons recall with safe escort offered. Legations doubt the viceroy's version and deem demands extravagant.
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President Taft Hears Whiskey Interests At White House
President Taft granted a hearing at the White House to whiskey representatives led by Attorney General and others. The two hour session addressed the pure food law definitions and the treatment of whiskey and ethyl alcohol derived from grain or molasses, with further arguments expected tomorrow.
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Cholera Cases Rise in St Petersburg and Finland Talks
Sixty-one cholera cases were taken to hospitals in the last twenty four hours with thirty deaths. The Russo Finnish Commission in St Petersburg opened to revise imperial law relations and potential Finnish representation in the Douma and the council. A Chinese mission led by Tai Hongtse arrives to thank Emperor Nicholas for sending an official to Peking for Kwang Hsu’s funeral.
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New Viceroy of Pe Chi Li Assigned in China
An edict names Tuan-Fang as Viceroy of Pe Chi Li in succession to Yang Shi Sieng with Na Tung acting until arrival. Chang Jen-chun moves to Nanking, Yuan Shuh-sun to Shanghai. Sun Pao-chi becomes Acting Governor of Shan Tung. Foreign Board head Shih Hsu also named temporary president.
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Public Service Commission Bans Pilot Fenders on Major Rails
The Public Service Commission disapproved pilot fenders on the Second Avenue system and the 58th Street crosstown line of Central Park North & East River R Co after hearings. Commissioner Marble urged automatic trip wheel guards, noting injuries and damages from pilots, and citing other lines replacing the design. Estimated cost to install across lines is about $4,000 initially and under $10,000 eventually, with life saved justification.
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La Guayra Declared Free of Bubonic Plague
Consular advices to the State Department report La Guayra Venezuela is officially certified free of bubonic plague. All baggage from La Guayra to Curacao is fumigated and transit passengers cannot land. The Venezuelan government pays four cents per rat and one cent per mouse captured in the rat eradication drive.
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White troops for Brownsville move announced
Brownsville Tex June 28 the War Department will send two companies of white troops to occupy Fort Brown previously held by African American soldiers of the 2th Infantry who were discharged from service.
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Wireless telegraphy in war game off New England coast
Washington reports wireless telegraphy will play a key role in the Atlantic fleet war game off the New England coast next month. Admiral Schroeder’s flagship Connecticut leads equipped ships Chester and Birmingham will join depots, with long distance tests planned from Brant Rock Mass. The Navy plans a station near Washington to send messages three thousand miles after experiments end. Deputy Sheriff Walter T. Fitzsimmons appointed to fill vacancy from Deputy Walring’s death in the 2th Assembly District.
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Church and State Squabbles in France Deepen
Paris reports Cardinal Andrieu of Bordeaux backed by militant bishops amid court charges over separation law. Prosecutions threaten churchmen who excommunicate councils and charities backing church property seizures. Monsignor Gieure of Bayonne cited for excommunicating councils and groups opposing neutral education, urging diocese resistance.
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Scorpion Tests New Soilers In Turkish Waters
Naples June 28 The American gunboat Scorpion left port for Turkish waters this Wednesday to test her boilers. It steamed out into the bay this morning and returned this evening with preliminary results and plans for further trials abroad.
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Leper John R Early barred from New York treatment plan
John R Early, held in Washington for eight months as a leper, cannot travel to New York for Dr. Morgan Bulkeley's treatment until he undergoes further medical examination or wins release via habeas corpus. District and health officials insist on confirmation and threaten public action if he resists.
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Verdict on Killarney Accident Lacks Blame Yet Warns
Inquest at Killarney Ireland finds deaths of Mrs H W Coburn of Lowell and other women accidental after a boating disaster on Lower Lake last week. Jury cites serious lack of supervision of lake traffic and notes the boatman over seventy and another rower unfit for duty. Boat fourteen years old and condemned three years earlier. One rescued boatman says four good men could have prevented the accident. A rider recommends stricter rules for lake safety.
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