Congress Debates 60-year Bond Authority for Panama Canal
The tariff conferees discuss authorizing treasury bonds to cover Panama Canal costs, repealing Spooner act limits. Estimated total cost is about 375 million dollars with bonds up to 290.6 million at 3 percent. Woolen schedule revisions cut duties on women and children’s dress goods and yarns. Washington July 12. House passes income tax constitutional amendment with 817 to 14, sending to the president for signature. Republicans vote no.
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Secretary of the Treasury
Panama Canal
San
Washington
House
Senate
Payne
Committee On Ways and Means
Senate and House Reach Near Tariff Accord in Key Proposals
Washington reports that conferees are close to a substantial agreement on the tariff bill within a day, aside from five main issues iron ore coal hides oil where the president demands sharp cuts or abolition. Today silks and woolens rates were settled with senators prevailing on silks and a new wool tops classification. The tops duty remains prohibitive and will likely stay high after reductions.
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Washington
Senate
House
Tariff Conferees Debate Cotton and Lead Duties
On July 15 in Washington the tariff conferees examined cotton goods and lead products. House members refused Senate amendments to the cotton schedule aiming to restore Dingley rates through ad valorem changes, while Senate conferees argued the law has been misinterpreted.
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Washington
House Conference Committee
Senate
Tariff conference sees tax amendment in doubt and delays
Reports of dissatisfaction in the tariff conference over the corporation tax amendment prompted Aldrich and Payne to visit the White House. The house provision allowing a draw back on internal revenue tax for domestic alcohol used in cosmetics was tentatively accepted, while broader rate fights were deferred to subcommittees to avoid delays. The senate maximum and minimum provisions were tentatively approved except for tariff expert employment, with House and Senate committees to probe tariff matters.
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Washington
Identiaft
Aldrich
Payne
White House
House
Senate
Ways and Means Committee
Senate Finance Committee
Tariff conferees complete first vote on bill amid delays
On Tuesday July 13 the tariff conferees finished the first consideration of the bill. Tomorrow's session will open a clash over senate house differences. Raw materials questions were deferred after brief talks as the group adjourned at 9 45 to prepare for a 10 o'clock session. By passing over cotton and woolen schedules the conferees disposed of about 400 senate amendments.
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Washin
Senate
House
Taft Receives Six-Foot Big Stick From Kansas Donor
J. E. Forbes of Ottawa Kansas sent President Taft a six foot bludgeon resembling Roosevelt’s big stick with a note saying it should help him swat the tariff bill and other schemes of criminal extortion. The gift signals playful pressure on Congress during the tariff debate.
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Taft
Washington
J. E. Forbes
Ottawa
Kan
Crane Chosen as Minister to China by Taft
Prominent Chicagoan Charles R. Crane, vice president of the Crane company, has been selected by President Taft to represent the United States as minister to China, succeeding W. W. Rockhill. Crane's acceptance is anticipated as formalities await exchange. the post is deemed pivotal in Oriental policy. The July dispatch notes Taft’s difficulty in appointing the right man and Crane’s business and political study.
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Washington
Charles R. Crane
Chicago
Crane Company
Taft
United States
China
W. W. Rockhill
Russia
Crane
Government Approves Prairie Oil Pipe Line Toward Arkansas
Washington July 16 Acting Secretary Pierce approves a right of way for Prairie Oil and Gas to build an eight inch pipe line from Tulsa County Oklahoma through Crook Cherokee and Choctaw nations to the Oklahoma Arkansas line, 151 miles, then to Baton Rouge Louisiana. The line extends from Standard Oil subsidiary aims after amending gas regulations removing common carriers and confiscatory clauses.
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Washington
Prairie Oil & Gas Company
Standard Oil Company
Tulsa County
Okla
Glenn Pool
Okalhoma-Arkansas
Terror Pierce
Baton Rogue
Bollinger
Taft Plans Three Day Yosemite Valley Visit During West Coast Trip
President Taft will spend three days in the Yosemite Valley on his fall Pacific coast tour. He has asked Needham of California to arrange details. Two days will be devoted to a stage ride and a third to a horseback journey. Exact dates to be set after Western itinerary is mapped.
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Washington
Taft
Yosemite Valley
Pacific Coast
Needham
California
Yosemite
Taft Diaz Meet Planned On Rio Grande Bridge
Secretary Knox and the Mexican ambassador outlined plans for a Taft Diaz meeting in mid October at the bridge center over the Rio Grande between El Paso Texas and Juarez Mexico with the two presidents to confer.
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Washington
Taft
Diaz
Knox
Rio Grande
el Paso
Texas
Juarez
Mexico
Snake River Bridge Authorized in Oregon and Idaho Plan
The omnibus bridge bill introduced in the house today authorizes a bridge over the Snake River at Ontario Oregon. It grants authority to Malheur County commissioners the Ontario Chamber of Commerce and Canyon County Idaho commissioners to manage construction and oversight.
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Snake Bridge
Snake River
Ontario
Malheur County
Chamber of Commerce
Canyon County
Idaho
Professor Simon Newcomb Dies in Washington at 74
Professor Simon Newcomb, renowned astronomer and mathematician, died at his Washington home early today at age 74. He was celebrated as a leading American scientist since Franklin and one of the world’s greatest minds in his field.
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Newcomb
Washington
Simon Newcomb
Benjamin Franklin
President Taft's Western trip request flood telegrams and letters
Since the announcement of Taft's tentative itinerary for a Western tour the White House has been flooded with telegrams and letters asking to extend the trip to include additional states and cities not on the official list.
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Washington
Taft
White House
Shake-Up in Commerce and Labor Overloafing Firings
Washington reports a departmental shake-up as about 100 employees were reduced and another 10 had reductions due to loafing on the job. The action reflects enforcement against idleness within the Department of Commerce and Labor.
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Washington
Department of Commerce and Labor
Corea Accepts Change Transfer of Courts to Japan Quietly
July 16 dispatch notes public misapprehension over disbanding Corean war office guards. Guards not discharged but placed under the emperor’s aide-de-camp. Convention for transfer believed signed July 12. Document provisions include Corean prison control by Japan.
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Arta
Corean War Office
Corean
Earthquake Strikes Elis Province Greece
A Greek earthquake in Elis Province causes extensive destruction across several villages. Initial reports indicate a substantial loss of life with about twenty dead and around one hundred injured, with additional villages sustaining heavy damage. Further details were expected as reports continued to arrive.
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Athens
Greece
Elis
Burgos
London
Seven Die as Building Collapses in Market Street Fire District
Seven men were killed and a man missing when a five story brick building at Eleventh and Market collapsed during remodeling. Twenty four workers were seriously injured and one is fatally hurt. Authorities suspect removal of a girder triggered the catastrophe in the business district.
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Philia
Eleventh and
Market Streets
Lost Ship to Be Sought by South Pacific Search
Victoria July 16 semi officially announced that H M S Algerine will be dispatched to cruise the South Pacific in search of survivors or news of the Australian missing at Lloyds and overdue at Sydney from Mazatlan. Ful ton owners have petitioned the admiralty for a search of islands and atolls along her route.
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B. C
Algerine
South Pacific
Greenock
Lloyd’s
Sydney
Mazatlan
Fulton
Admiralty
Royalist surrender talks open with Nationalists in Tehran
In Teheran on July 16 the Russian secretary proposed a ceasefire and a pathway to integration. The Cossacks would surrender but remain in service under a future Persian government with guaranteed safety, a plan reportedly agreed upon by both sides.
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Shah
Teheran
Washoe Smelter to Favor American Labor Policy
E P Matthewson superintendent of the Washoe Smelter announces the company will employ American labor before alien labor. He also states additional details of the policy and its intended impact on the local workforce in Butte Montana on July 16.
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Butte
Mont
E. P. Matthewson
Washoe Smelter
Matthewson
April and May in the old fashioned countryside ritual
A lyrical piece evokes April’s arrival with daffodils and spring woodland sounds, then shifts to a dramatic tale from Waverley Magazine about the Old Tartar locomotive and a thwarted hijacking on the railroad. The narrator recalls a near collision and a later ditching by a crew member, ending with a question of whether it was a miracle.
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Armine Thomas Kent
Scully
Waverley Magazine
Was It a Miracle at the Train Station
A railway station tale recalls a chance encounter with a veteranUM agent who speaks of miracles. The narrator, waiting for a train, listens to a story about a six mile west Bartson and ten miles east Dawson route told on a cold evening as the sounder clicks at five thirty. The speaker hints a remarkable event seven years ago.
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Kendor
Mod River
Dawson
Hines
Cremation of Prof Strobel Noted by Siamese Royal Honors
The Harvard professor H. Strobel died in Bangkok January 15 1908 while serving as adviser to the King of Siam. His cremation occurred February 5 1900 with royal ceremony and US diplomatic presence. The Siam Free Press account describes the cortege at Dat Wat, flag and US emblem on the catafalque, and the King igniting the pyre with a Christian service.
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Harvard
Bulletin
H. Strobel
Bemis
Bangkok
Spain
Harvard Bulletin
Nis
Siam Free Press
Edward H. Strovel
Dat Wat
Catafalque
United States
J. I. Westengard
Diplomatic Corps
Consulte Corps
Aunt Jane and Hamlet Provoke Boston Theatre Visit
Mrs Eliphalet Howe of Centerville recalls her first Broadway visit to see Hamlet with her niece and husband. She says the performance felt like hard work and the actors looked ill while the crowd reacted with fainting semble.
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Nettle
Hamlet
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