Appropriation Session Nears End With Large Anticipated Totals
The Washington special notes this short session focusing on appropriations likely to exceed 1.008 billion dollars, with only one of fifteen general bills having reached the President. It highlights Roosevelt era political debates, vetoes, and major statutes including opium prohibition and Calaveras tree preservation, plus penal code revision and statehood limits.
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Washington
Congress
Secret Service
Panama Canal
Senate
Brownsville
Tennessee—Coal and Iron Company
Theodore Roosevelt
Civil Service
Calaveras
California
United States
South America
Japan
Asia
Philippines
Australasia
Congress Record Highlights Two Session Outcomes
The piece reviews sweeping policy notes from the Sixtieth Congress including stalled bills such as Burke wireless and Weeks forest reserve, plus a $500 million waterway bond. It notes an agreement with Great Britain on boundary waters and the rise of calendar days for bills. It cites totals of introduced bills, enacted laws, and key fiscal and regulatory actions.
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Currier
Isthmain Canal Zone
Senate
Great Britain
United States
Canada
House
UNCLE REMUS FARM TO BE MEMORIAL IN ATLANTA
In Atlanta the Snap Bean Farm and the Sign of the Wren's Nest will be bought by friends of Uncle Remus for a public memorial to Joel Chandler Harris. The memorial association's ladies auxiliary aims to raise funds. A library room will hold Harris writings, another will house his personal effects, and a third will display colonial, Revolutionary, and Civil War relics.
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Atlanta
Joel Chandler Harris
Friends of
Uncle Remus
Uncle
Harris
Bloody rioting at the Lisbon carnival reported
Cable notes violent carnival scenes in Lisbon last week with police clashes. Simulated assassinations of King Carlos and the Crown Prince were staged with coffins and skeleton figures amid blasphemous songs. Police charged rioters, troops summoned as arrests reached about 200.
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Lisbon
Carlos
Amelie
Manuel
Leota
Buissa
Roosevelt proposes new naval reorganization plan
Washington Special reports President Roosevelt's naval commission presents a dissenting yet conservative reorganization plan. The report to Congress emphasizes civil supremacy over military authority and aligns with American policy principles.
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Washington
Special
Roosevelt
Commission On Naval Reorganization
Congress
Naval Administration Plan Outlined for Congress
The document proposes a Congressional act reorganizing the naval department into five divisions. A general council and a military council would assist the Secretary. Division chiefs would form a grand council, with an assistant Secretary, three flag officers, another flag officer, and a naval constructor or technically trained civilian among the senior ranks.
Notable Deaths and Disasters Across Nations
Carroll D Wright, Clark College president and former labor commissioner, dies at 69. Various global and U S events include fires in Jacksonville and a fatal railway fall in Ecuador, plus diplomatic and political notes from Washington and abroad.
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Carroll D. Wright
Clark College
Bona Alexander
Mecklenburg County
N. C
Caldwell
Sylvia Green
Hetty Green
New York
Matthew Astor Wilks
John Jacob Astor
Kluttz ‘and Linn
Spencer
William T- Bull
Wemberly
Isle of Hope
Savannah
Jacksonville
Fla
Lillinokalani
Charles H. Benglish
San Francisco
Congress Deliberates on Appropriations and Mace Incident
Senate debates the agricultural and sundry civil bills with significant amendments while the House approves a range of measures including pension and river and harbor funding. The session features eulogies for late lawmakers and a mace dispute between Speaker Cannon and Mr. Gaines. A joint resolution reduces House size, and forestry and water power provisions face uncertain futures amid partisan motion and conference reports.
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Senate
Forestry Service
Carter
Hepburn
House
Cook
Colorado
St. Mary’s River
Michigan
Latimer
South Carolina
Representative Powers
Maine
Wiley
Alabama
Meyer
Louisiana
Brick
Indiana
Granger
Rhode Island
Twenty-fifth Infantry
Brownsville
Tex
Texas
Cannon
Gaines
Tennessee
Uniform Child Labor Laws Desired For South
Baton Rouge La Special The call of Governor Sanders of Louisiana for a Southern States child labor conference to be held in New Orleans March 29 30 and 31 has brought favorable responses from the Governors of Kentucky Tennessee Mississippi and North Carolina who have forwarded a list of delegates appointed by them to attend.
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Baton Rouge
Sanders
Louisiana
New Orleans
Kentucky
Tennessee
Mississippi
North Carolina
War on Chinese Mothers-in-Law
A New York Press item notes Chinese women organize anti mother-in-law clubs to curb mother in laws who meddle in married life. It forecasts the mother-in-law losing power as wives resist intrusion while accepting spousal guidance. The piece treats the revolt as a societal reform with serious implications despite humorous surface notes.
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Rothers
Celestial Kingdom
New York Press
New York City Population Grows by 33 400 Families
The city reports an addition of 33 400 families to its population over the last three years. Officials cite steady migration and housing expansion as drivers of growth, with implications for services and urban planning.
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New York City
New Inventions and Discoveries Highlight Early 20th Century Science
A French chemist develops a tablet to purify air when dissolved in water, while a turpentine solution aids newspaper clipping transfer. Dr Schlick’s gyroscope device on the Lochiel shows reduced ship roll from 10 to 3 degrees. Piorkowski reports a blood test differentiating species, and S P Verner notes chimpanzee fossils in Africa, suggesting ancient anthropoid presence and possible in situ preservation.
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S. P. Verner
Africa
Sharks and Fruit Trees
Report notes fish fertilizers show promise for apple crops in Tasmania while fish scarcity and high prices limit use. In waters near the coast large catch volumes inspire many growers to apply fish, oil, and ground waste as fertilizer. a company forms to process the byproducts for commercial fertilizer.
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Tasmania
A Woman S Query Why Have We Stopped Captain
A fragment shows a maritime scene with a woman asking why they halted and a captain replying about a possible boiler issue. The excerpt reflects dialogue about progress and danger aboard a vessel as tensions rise.
Must Be Bossed. 7 There are men who just learn bossed.
Fragments discuss men who learn to boss, remarriage, and a note on pure beer made with hops and then terms.
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Mexico
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Fitzhugh Lee
U. S. Senate
Hutchins
George Gray
Hague
Twenty-first Infantry
Bacon
Panama
Henry T. Rainer
Stewart Douglas Robinson
Harvard College
Frances Caspari
Baltimore
Asy
Stuart McNamara
Tula
Russia
Hamburg
Higher Federal Court of
Venezuela
Cipriano Castro
Francisco de Barre
Diaz
Presidente Roca
Rio Bambo
Ecuador
Tariff Commission
White House
Foraker
Rico
Clay
Committee of Appropriations
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Kitchin
Appalachian Park
Messrs
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Thomas
Secretary of Agriculture
South
Piorkowski
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