Currency clash delays Wilsons plan in Congress
Washington June 19 the administration banking and currency proposals were disrupted after a White House conference among the president Secretary McAdoo Senator Owen and Representative Glass. Owen pressed government issued currency backed by gold while Glass advocated asset currency issued by regional banks. The delay leaves the underwood bill fate uncertain as cabinet members and lawmakers weigh next steps. In Sandwich Michigan Eleazer Fisher aged 102 dies, a tobacco and alcohol abstainer who cast his twenty first presidential vote last fall.
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Owen
Representative Glass
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Glass
Treasury
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House Committee
Iis
Congress
Wilson
Central Board of Control
Sandwich
Eleazer Fisher
Lobby Plan to Control News to Fight Free Sugar
Senate lobby committee exposes correspondence by C. C. Hamlin of the United States Beet Sugar Industry Association detailing methods to defeat free sugar under the Underwood bill. Letters trace efforts since 1911 to influence newspapers, conventions, and congress, including a plan to gain Inter Ocean control with bonds through Hinman.
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Washington
United States Beet Sugar Industry Association
Senate
C. C. Hamlin
Republican Party
House of Representatives
Hamin
C. B. Warren
Michigan Sugar Company
Detroit
Chicago Inter-Ocean
Hamlin
Hinman
Middle West
Pomp at Burial of Vizier Mahmoud Shefket
Mahmoud Shefket, the Grand Vizier, was buried with great pomp in a mausoleum on the Hill of Liberty outside Constantinople. The funeral drew much of the city’s garrison, recalling the April 1908 operations that helped depose Sultan Abdul Hamid.
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Mahmoud Shefket
Liberty
Abdulah Hamid
National Day for Civil War Veterans at Gettysburg
Gettysburg Pennsylvania June 19 civil war veterans from both sides will meet the first week in July as guests of the nation. The government rents 20 acres near the park to host 6000 tents with 60075 horsepower lamps and provides 48000 cots 12000 wash basins 13000 lanterns 75000 candles 7000 water buckets and 50000 mess kits. A large camp hospital ambulance corps artesian wells and a mass meeting led by the chief justice of the United States will mark the event expected to draw about 40000 visitors and cost nearly a million dollars. Veterans may keep their issued gear as souvenirs.
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Culp’s Hill
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Uncle Sam
United States Supreme Court
United States
National Park
Dove of Peace
the Blue and Gray
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