Subvention defeated but may be revived in House vote
The postal subvention amendment to the postoffice appropriation bill failed 156 to 145 in the House in a near tie vote. Supporters vow to push again via conference committees, with Speaker and others backing the measure. Many Republicans abstained or opposed, while Overstreet Hobson and Moon spoke for and against, respectively. The matter moves to Senate conferrees for possible renewed action.
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Tribune Bureau
Washington
Hobson
Alabama
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Nevada
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Nebraska
Burton
Ohio
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Kansas
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Connor
Iowa
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Wisconsin
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Higgins
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Mann
Miller
Morse
Murdock
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Nortis
Nye
Perkins
New York
Reeder
Smith
Stafford
Steenerson
Townsend
Michigan
Volstead
Wilson
Ilinois
Woodyard
West Vir
Representative Overstreet
Committee On Post Offices and Post Roads
Representative Hobson
Moon
Tennessee
Senate
Lilley Case Closed in House no Expulsion Plans
Washington says no action toward expelling Representative George L Lilley of Connecticut. A special committee investigated Lilley charges against Electric Boat, reported to the House, which adopted the findings. The House has no further role in the Lilley episode.
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Washington
George L. Lilley
Connecticut
Speaker Cennon
Lilley
Electric Boat Company
House
House of Representatives
House Banking Committee Endorses Aldrich Currency Commission
The House Banking and Currency Committee voted by a substantial majority to recommend passage of the Aldrich joint resolution creating a currency commission. The Senate had passed it yesterday. Amendments to expand beyond eighteen members were rejected to avoid a conference, keeping the commission size as in the Senate bill.
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Washington
House Committee On Banking and Currency
Aldrich
Currency Commission
Senate
Senate debates commodity clause power in interstate commerce
Open Senate session featured a lengthy debate on Congress power to regulate interstate and foreign commerce. A 6 to 22 vote defeated the Forker substitute affecting timing of the penalty provision under the Hepburn era rate law. Executive session followed as emphasis moved to other measures.
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Washington
Senate
Congress
Interstate Commerce Committee
Aldrich
Public Buildings Bill Debated By Conferrees In Washington
Washington May 22 The conferees on the public buildings bill began the day debating the park scheme for Washington and the Justice and State department building. They expect a report by Monday and likely approval of a new government building. The President is not believed to veto the measure. funds totaling 2 000 00 are cited with 36 050 00 needed next year. The supervising architect called the provisions meritorious and the sums economical.
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Tribune Bureau
Washington
Departments of Justice and State
Capitol
Secretary of the Treasury
Cortelyou
Senate
Tobacco Suit Arguments Conclude Against American Tobacco
Government counsel J. C. McReynolds closed his argument in the monopoly suit against the American Tobacco Company. He alleged concealment of ownership of United Cigar Stores and cited a $17 000.08 annual retail business. He noted independent dealers could have strengthened the case, but avoided exposing their affairs. The government claims sufficient evidence supports the action.
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J. C. McReynolds
American Tobacco Company
United States Circuit Court
McReynolds
United Cigar Stores Company
Subway bids awarded for five Fourth Avenue sections
The Public Service Commission awarded five of the six Fourth Avenue subway contracts No 2 to No 6 after low bid comparisons. Section 1 award was delayed due to bidder James P Graham withdrawing and not providing a pipe gallery estimate. Final costs total 14 763 970 10 dollars with Westinghouse option rejected in favor of preestablished cost estimates.
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Fourth Avenue
Brooklyn
Publi Service Commission
Nassau Street
Willoughby Street
James P. Graham
Commission
Graham
G 2m
Mr. Graham
Rogers & Haggerty
Metz
Westinghouse, Church, Kerr & Co., Incorporated
Board of Estimate
Paterson libel suit fears over Broadway Magazine article
Hampton editor defends the piece as calm and factual noting Paterson was lightly treated and not fully cited. Brandenburg says Paterson has not been attacked and the claim of harboring anarchists is a falsehood, promising to prove his case in Paterson and to the public.
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B. B. Hampton
Broadway
Paterson
N. d
Broughton Brandenburg
Ludovico Caminata
la Questione Sociale
Brandenburg
Collier's Weekly
Fat contract for city records furniture plan
Commissioner of Records William S. Andrews asks the Board of Estimate to approve a plan by architect William Horgan and firm Horgan & Slattery to move and furnish court records in the Hall of Records eighth floor. Andrews found eight kinds of records scattered in 241 basement spots and will advertise for bids after the contract is reviewed.
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Andrews
Hall of Records
Horgan & Slattery
New Rochelle Plans Sunday Ball at Fort Slocum
New Rochelle team aims to play Sunday baseball at Fort Slocum to escape Westchester County ban. The fort on government property hosts a soldiers’ organized team and a priest from New Rochelle says President Roosevelt approves Sunday play, likely aiding fort officers if Sheriff intervenes.
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Westchester County
New Rochelle
Fort Slocum
Thomas P. McLoughlin
Roosevelt
Steamer John H. Starin Arrives Damaged After Collision
The John H. Starin of the New Haven Line reached the harbor yesterday and entered drydock after a Thursday night collision in New Haven Harbor with the coal schooner Calvin P. Harris. A large hole was stove in the Starins starboard side but no one was sleeping on that side and no injuries occurred. Passengers were sent to the city by train.
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John H. Starin
New Haven Line
Starin
New Haven
Calvin P. Harris
Central Power Charter Revisions Debated at Public Hearing
Charter Revision Commission shows favor toward centralization, proposing reduced borough presidents powers and expanded local boards of public improvement to streamline citizen access to central government. Ivins urges briefs by July 1 and cautions against changing well functioning law language.
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Charter Revision Commission
Boards of Public Improvement
William M. Ivins
Bronx
Brooklyn
Queensland
Ivins
Coler
Bar Association
Frederick W. Hinrichs
Mr. Ivins
Mr. Hinrichs
James L. Wells
Low
Board of Estimate
Board of Public Improvements
Queens
Manhattan
McKnight A. C. Hottenroth
Taxpayers’ Alliance of
The
Mae Wood Remains Defiant in Tombs Cell
Mae Catherine Wood, jailed in the Tombs by order of Justice O'Gorman for allegedly giving perjured testimony in a bid to prove Senator Platt was her husband, says she is content and plans to fight, with a grand jury review set for Monday and possible indictment leading to a rapid trial.
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Mae Catherine Wood
Elevated switchman freed in Ninth Avenue crash case
Cornelius A. Jackson, the switchman in charge at Ninth avenue and 53d street when an elevated train derailed on September 11, 195, was freed by the Appellate Division. It reversed a five year sentence, finding signals showed the switch was not set for a Ninth avenue train and the motorman should have halted for a clear track. Justice Scott dissented.
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Cornelius A. Jackson
Ninth Avenue
53D Street
Appellate Division
Foster
Jackson
Scott
Girl to go up in airship on Friday excursion
Carrie E. Jenkins of Jamaica Queens will ride Knabenshue’s airship on Friday June 5 as passenger. C E Baker controls the ship which will start near the City Training School for Teachers in Jamaica and loop over Richmond Hill Flushing and Hollis before returning to Jamaica. Jenkins was chosen from over 400 applicants. she is a stenographer at 364 Fulton Street Jamaica. A Jamaica holiday is declared for June 4 5 and 6.
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Knabenshue
Carrie E. Jenkins
Jamaica
Queens
C. E. Baker
City Training School
Richmond Hill
Flushing
Hollis
Miss Jenkins
Fulton Street
City Fights Rabies Panic From Marsh Case
City officials push anti rabies measures after the Marsh dog attack case. Dr Park warns rapid cauterization and serum treatment are essential to prevent death. authorities consider leash enforcement and a uniform state law.
Girl Pushed From L Platform Injures Head at 116th Street
Seventeen year old Mariana Manborgue of 1797 Lexington Avenue was crowded off the Third Avenue elevated platform at 116th Street yesterday morning. She fell twenty five feet to the street, struck wires, and was treated at Harlem Hospital with no broken bones but serious injuries.
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Third Avenue
116Th Street
Mariana Manborgue
Lexington Avenue
Harlem Hospital
City Rail Receivers Face Mandamus Overdue Repairs
Public Service Commission adopted formal action against New York City Railway Company receivers for failing to report daily car conditions and ordered a writ of mandamus sought from the Supreme Court. The panel also instructed the New York & Portchester Railroad to confirm compliance on franchise construction, and required IRT to pursue a Broadway line third track, while NYNH&H must halt soft coal use at Harlem River yards within ten days.
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Public Service Commission
New York City Railway Company
Supreme Court
New York & Portchester Railroad Company
Interborough Rapid Transit Company
Broadway
New York, New Haven & Hartford Railroad Company
Harlem River
Street Closure Planned for Track Extension Near Brooklyn Bridge
The Board of Estimate and Apportionment authorized closing William Street and North William Street where they intersect the Brooklyn Bridge. The action supports extending elevated track lines to a new terminal at Tryon Row and Park Place.
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Board of Estimate
William Street
North William Street
Brooklyn Bridge
Tryon Row
Park Place
Man Dies After Fall Into Boiling Vat at Dye Works
Philadelphia May 22 Walter Bottomly of this city fell into a vat of boiling water at a dye works while skylarking with two fellow workmen yesterday and died in a hospital today.
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Philadelphia
Walter Bottomly
Crash injures many as five trolley cars race across Brooklyn Bridge
A rush hour crash on the Brooklyn Bridge injures numerous people when a slippery track caused a runaway trolley train daybreak. Ambulances from Hudson Street St Vincent's and St Gregory's hospitals attended to a long list of Brooklyn residents with contusions lacerations and internal injuries as the line halted for over an hour.
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Brooklyn Bridge
Hudson Street
St. Vinecent’s
St. Gregory’s
Delmer Bantz
Central Avenue
Joseph Feddman
Stockton Street
Brooklyn
Daniel Matsch
Flatbush Avenue
George McGuinness
Tillery Street
John McGraw
Hamburg Avenue
George Meming
John Newman
William Waggs
Irving Avenue
Andrew Webbe
Warren Street
Bergen Street
Flatbush
Myrtle Avenue
Teadinng
Bridge
Oak Street
Lusitania Sets Record for Fast Transatlantic Run
The Cunard liner Lusitania arrived after a record fast voyage from Daunt's Rock to Sandy Hook Lightship, averaging 4.83 knots overall and reaching 632 knots on a single day. Fog reduced speed near Fire Island, but the ship still set a 4 days 2 minutes passage and a 26.33 knot daily average. Captain Watt praised the turbiner's performance despite the weather.
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Fire Island
Cunard
Daunt’s Rock
Sandy Hook
Lusitania
Watt
New York
San Francisco
Vreeland Wins Appeal In Libel Damages Case
H H Vreeland won an appeal from a Supreme Court judgment that awarded William N Amory $10 000 in a libel suit against a traction man The Appellate Division set aside the verdict and ordered a new trial ruling the trial court erred in jury instructions on exemplary damages The opinion notes the jury may not award punitive damages solely for falsehood without injury or factual basis.
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H. H. Vreeland
Supreme Court
William N. Amory
Houghton
Pay Increase Dates Haunt Treasury Navy Army Ranks
Treasury experts dispute when the navy pay raise takes effect with May 23 date versus May 24 for hereafter. Army paymasters are told to begin reckoning from the act’s approval date, May 11, for army marine corps and revenue cutter service officers. Movements report ships arriving in various ports and several vessels sailing, including the Wolverine, Dew Moines, and Saturn.
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Tribune Bureau
Washington
Treasury Department
Marine Corps
Revenue Cutter Service
Best Policed Block After Bugher Incident Irving Place
Deputy Police Commissioner Bugher lives on Irving Place and residents on the bounded block praise its heavy policing after a woman accosted him. Eight patrols with four sergeants and three lieutenants guard the area around the clock, though some say Headquarters lacks sufficient men.
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Bugher
Irving Place
Third Avenue
Sth Street
Lth
Greater New York
Steve” MelDermott
Commissioner's Office
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