Senate Session and Adjournment Details for December 21
The senate met for just over an hour with half an hour of legislative work. Gearin of Oregon was sworn in after credentials were presented. A bill to extend one year the time for building the Council City and Solomon River railroad in Alaska was passed. The house briefly adjourned until January 4 with a ten minute session. Speech debates on cotton crop estimates were to be printed in the Record. A joint resolution planned adjournment from December 21 to January 4. Dolliver plans a new rate bill to replace pending measures.
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Senate
Gearin
Oregon
Council City
Solomon River
Alaska
Senate recalls canal commission confirmations amid protests
The Senate adopted a motion recalling its confirmation of canal commissioners to permit protest against Chairman Shonts holding both the Clover Leaf presidency and a commission post. Foraker and Culberson led a brief railroad legislation discussion as the House closed its five hour debate and prepared a brief session tomorrow. A bill extending the 50 mile Alaska railroad completion window to 1909 passed before adjournment. Payne noted the Philippine tariff bill for January 4 and Needham introduced Cuban reciprocity repeal citing revenue losses and unfair benefits to Cubans.
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Senate
Shonts
Clover Leaf Railroad
Foraker
Culberson
Council City
Solomon
Alaska
Payne
Needham
California
United States
Senate approves Panama Canal emergency aid and forest policy moves
The senate passed the Panama Canal emergency appropriation bill as in the house. Heyburn pushed a forest reserves resolution seeking forestry receipts and land data. Fulton proposed relief for settlers on Northern Pacific lands after January 1, 1898. Many appointments were confirmed. Dolliver introduced a rate bill to set a max rate with seven commissioners. The house debated the insurance question. a janitor controversy ended with no appointment. Payne’s bill would free Philippine products except sugar and tobacco taxed at 25 percent until 1909.
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Senate
House
Heyburn
Secretary of Agriculture
Forest Service
Fulton
Dolliver
House Committee On Ways and Means
Payne
United States
Canal bill sent to conference after senate debate
The canal emergency appropriation bill arrived from the senate and was debated on insurance matters. The house rejected the canal bill amendments and sent the measure to conference. Hale and Teller were named as senate conferees to the canal bill. The senate then convened in the afternoon.
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House
Senate
Hale and Teller
Preachers on Canal Payroll Claim Disputed
A denial on Friday counters charges that women were taken to the isthmus under canal commission authority and given to laborers for immoral purposes. Secretary Taft says several preachers of different creeds are already on the isthmus in the commission’s pay.
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Sue
Lodge Tae
Senate
Am- Narain
Panamia
Canal Commission
Taft
Idaho to cede school sections to federal forest reserves
Washington reports a conference with Governor Gooding and President and Gifford Pinchott indicating support for a bill allowing Idaho to relinquish school sections within forest reserves to the federal government. If Idaho wants timber land, Gooding suggests taking a slice of the best timber from reserves.
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Idaho
Washington
Gooding
Gifford Pinchott
Northwestern senators receive committee assignments in Washington
Washington December 20 Northwestern senators were assigned committees today. Biles takes chair of coast and insular survey and joins interoceanic canals pensions territories Canadian relations and civil service examination. Heyburn retains his old committees and adds immigration and public buildings. Minority vacancies exist with assignments pending for Gearin, including forest reservations pensions industrial expositions national banks and claims.
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Washington
Northwestern
Biles
Heyburn
Gearin
Opposition to joint statehood bill affirmed by Bar association
At the Northern Arizona Bar association banquet in Prescott on December 20 a resolution was unanimously adopted opposing the joint statehood bill. The secretary was instructed to send a signed copy to Speaker Cannon and to Senators Foraker Flint Perkins and others, with strong speeches denouncing the measure.
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Prescott, Ariz
Northern Arizona Bar Association
Cannon
Delegat
Mark Smith
Hamilton
Tawney
Adams
Foraker
Flint
Perkins
North American Telegraph & Cable firm seeks transpacific cable
Senator Fulton introduced a bill authorizing the North American Telegraph and Cable Company to lay telegraphic cables from Washington coast to Alaska the Aleutians Siberia Manchuria China Japan and the Philippines with operation required within five years Among the directors are prominent Northwestern men.
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Alaska
Washington
Fulton Today
North American Telegraph & Cable Company
Aleutian Island
Siberia
Manchuria
China
Japan
Philippines
Abandon Malheur Project in Malheur County
Secretary Hitchcock urged the Reclamation service to explain why the Malheur irrigation project should not be abandoned. Observers believe this signals an initial step toward pulling engineers from the region and leaving Malheur county to private enterprise.
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Washington
Hitchccock
Reclamation Service
Malheur
Malheur County
Duty Free Ship Material Bill Introduced in Congress
Representative Williams of Mississippi introduced a bill to place on the free list beams angle irons rivets propellers castings and other materials imported for use in construction of American ships.
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Washington
Williams
Mississippi
House rejects black sand mineral value inquiry
Washington December 20. The house refused to consider a resolution asking the secretary of the interior for the results of experiments to determine the mineral value of black sand.
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Washington
House
Secretary of the Interior
Two Great Hudson Ferry Terminals Destroyed by Fire
Fire swept the new steel framed ferry terminals at West Twenty third Street Manhattan and quickly spread to the Central Railroad of New Jersey ferry house. Both structures were nearing completion when the blaze began and the Lackawanna terminal suffered severe losses. The conflagration followed a prior Hoboken terminal fire on the same railroad.
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New York
Delaware, Lackawanna & Western Railroad
Hoboken
West Twentythird Street
Manhattan
Central Railroad of
New Jersey
Lackawanna
Japan Will Pay Off Bonds in 1906
Uchida the Japanese consul general in New York received a cable from the Tokyo finance ministry stating that 50 million dollars of the fourth exchequer bonds at 6 percent interest will be paid off in three installments: 20 million in March 1906, 20 million in April 1906, and 10 million in May 1906.
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Japan
New York
Uchida
Tokio
Shanghai crisis seen contained by warships
The report says the situation in Shanghai is unsatisfactory but controllable by present warships. The main danger is possible interior unrest, with no troop deployment needed as the Chinese government curbs an uprising. The foreign office condemns the British assessor for confining Chinese women prisoners in a foreign jail.
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Shanghai
Foreign Office
Million Dollar Dowry Offered by Senator Clark
A San Mateo birth of Senator W. A. Clark’s grandchild prompts $1,000,000 dowry pledge. The baby is daughter of Charles W. Clark and Celia Tobin, with the Montana senator promising the gift following his own grandchild’s birth.
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San Francisco
W. A. Clark
Montana
San Mateo
Charles W. Clark
Celia Tobin
Senator Clark
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