Senate Receives Comptroller Report and House Action
Washington reports the Senate received the comptroller of the currency’s report while Lodge plans to discuss the Brownsville case next Wednesday. The House adjourned to Monday with the postal savings bank bill on the agenda and adopted a Perkins resolution to form a five member committee to review the president’s message on congressional security. The $31,335,350 legislative, executive and judicial appropriation bill passed with minimal debate and no general remarks. Hawley introduced a bill to extend Bannock War pension laws for Oregon and Washington veterans of 1878 and 1879.
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Comptroller of
Lodge
Brownsville
Postal Savings Bank
Ashington
House of Representatives
Perkins
New York
House
Congress
Secret Service
Appropriations Committee
Hawley
Oregon
Congress Moves to Censure Roosevelt Over Secret Service Fracas
Washington reports Congress plans to police the president's remarks in his annual message and expunge an insult claim. Senators may push a resolution to remove the disputed line, while in the House a special committee could be formed with Tawney leading to review the alleged affront and craft action.
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Washington
Congress
Roosevelt
Tawney
Appropriations Committee
Congress Debates Census Bill Amid Prolonged Session
Washington with long debate the house clears a bill for decennial censuses and related reforms after heated amendments. Other items include Humboldt Harbor improvements for Eureka California and San Diego harbor work. A tariff commission proposal is introduced, and talk of Alaska mine inspection and compulsory military service appears as well. Nominations to the Philippines commission also noted.
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House
Gillett
Massachusetts
Lee
Englebright
California
Humboldt Harbor
Eureka
Cal
Smith
San Diego
Fowler
New Jersey
Carter
Alaska
Cullom
General Staff
Senate
Philippines
W. Cameron Forbes
Philippine Commission
Newton Gilbert
Indiana
Rafael Palma
Soils Are to Be Tested in Northwest Belt Study
Professor Milton Whitney reports U S farming lands total 838,591,774 acres and cereal yield per acre rising. The Bureau of Soils plans to study the semi arid Northwest belt to identify soil nature and best improvements for its use.
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Washington
Dec. C
Milton Whitney
Bureau of Soils
United States
Northwest
Dead Letter Office Auction Prepares Big Yearly Sale
Washington December 10 The dead letter office plans its annual sale of 8784 packages at an auction house starting December 14. A surge of items from many walks of life includes jewelry books tools and foreign language volumes. Some packages hold unusual combinations and prized items like a thousand stories and a gentleman's watch may be waterbury or gin.
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Washington
Post Office Department
Uncle Joe Cannon
Roosevelt
Elbert Hubbard
President
Jack London
Ernest Thompson - Seton
Post Office
Waterbury
Navy official backs Pearl Harbor repair base plan
Rear Admiral Capps reports to the construction bureau recommending Pearl Harbor Hawaii be developed as a repair dock facility and not turned into a shipyard. He also criticizes berthing space shortages for ships under repair at Puget Sound and Mare Island yards.
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Capps
Navy
Washington
Construction Bureau
Naval Station
Pearl Harbor
Hawaii
Navy Department
Puget Sound
Mare Island Navy Yards
Wilfley Resigns Judgeship in China District
Washington dispatch reports the resignation of Laebbeus R. Wilfley of Missouri as judge of the United States district court for China. President Roosevelt has accepted the resignation and named Rufus H. Hay er of this city to succeed him.
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Congress
Roosevelt
House of Representative
New Mexico
Arizona
Senate
Luke Wright
Truman H. Newberry
Navy
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Rainier
J. E. Logan
Burns
Ben Weathers
Enterprise
George F. Russell
Seattle
Wilfley
Laebbeus R. Wilfley
Missouri
United States District Court For
China
Rufus H. Hayer
Wright completes purchase of ships Shawmut and Treyo
Secretary of War Wright announced the purchase of the transports Shawmut and Treyo Tempestant for the Panama canal service. The ships now lie at Seattle awaiting assignment to the Boston Towboat fleet for canal duties.
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Panama
Washington
Wright
Shawmut
Tre Yo Tenmpetant
Boston
Seattle
Neill to Be Reappointed by Roosevelt
President Roosevelt notified Labor Commissioner Neill that he will reappoint him. The move signals continuity in labor policy and reinforces ongoing administration authority over labor affairs.
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Neill
Washington
Roosevelt
Labor Comsronpany
Abandon Famous Hotel Plans Move to Annex
Chicago December 15. The Congress Hotel company votes to abandon the Auditorium and merge operations into the Annex on Michigan Avenue. President Southgate says the Auditorium has lost money and is inferior to the Annex, which now has double capacity and earns about 250000 annually. Last year rentals were 153701, theater 67000, offices 64780, plus 9015 interest and dividends, totaling 295077.57 with building cost 262103 and net income 32974 minus 17168 depreciation.
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Congress Hotel Company
Michigan Boulevard
Southgate
Pdéor
Chicago Auditorium Association
Worst Accident on Canal Explodes in Panama Zone
A deadly explosion at Bas Obispo on the Panama Canal construction site killed at least thirteen workers and buried many beneath rock and earth. Debris wrecked a 9 ton steam shovel and tore up railway tracks as authorities collect evidence and search for missing laborers.
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Colon
Bas Obispo
Panama Canal
United States
Reopen Land Island Case Heads to Olympia
State Senator Stewart and Senator McGowan with Representative Burke traveled to Olympia to urge Governor Mead and Attorney General Atkinson to reopen the Washington Oregon boundary dispute. They argue the Supreme Court decision wrongly divested Washington of Sand Island and Puget Island, harming state revenues and fishing interests. They seek a rehearing with new evidence.
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Tacoma
Wash
Stewart
Cowlitz County
McGowan
Pacific County
Burke
Wahkiakum County
Olympia
Mead
Atkinson
United States Supreme Court
Washington
Sand Island
Puget Island
Supreme Court of the United States
Albany Officials Reject Reanimation Probe After Execution
In New York State prison circles Superintendent C V Collins said reviving a man electrocuted in the electric chair would be illegal. He noted permission from the legislature would be required before any revival to test if the current or the autopsy knife causes death.
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Albany
N. Y
New Jersey
C. V. Collins
Naval police to pursue cattle rustlers at Pyramid Lake
Captain W. L. Cox of the naval state police and Sheriff Emerson of Lassen county California, with a selected squad, left for Pyramid Lake to drive out and arrest the cattle rustlers who have been depredating in Northern Nevada and California. The rustlers are said to be armed and likely to resist.
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Nev
W. L. Cox
Naval State Police
Emerson
Lassen County
California
Pyramid Lake
Nevada
Indian Editors Arrested in Calcutta Uprising
Great excitement grips Calcutta as prominent Eastern Bengal leader Dutta is arrested and sent to an unknown destination. Fellow nationalist Mitra editor of the Sanjibani is also arrested, while another native paper’s editor is sentenced to transportation for sedition.
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Calcutta
Bengal
Dutta
Mitra
Sanjibani
Japan Starts New Line To South America
Tokio reports a dinner for Japan s new minister to Chile announces Toy Ysin Steamship plans a Japan to South America line beginning January 1 with three steamers on a regular schedule.
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Tokio
Chile
Toy Ysin Steamship Company
South America
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