Taft press on Congress as White House urges action
President Taft reportedly grows impatient with Congress pace on the party platform program and wants quicker work rather than skirmishing. He favors timely start on Ballinger Pinchot probe and indicates a committee should proceed at earliest opportunity. White Slave bill advances in the House as talks on conservation and power shifts unfold.
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White House
Taft
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House
Ballinger
Cannon
Judiciary Committee
Payne
Common Ways and Means
Underwood
Alabama
Immigration Committee
Explosion in Lower House Rushes Primary Bill
Springfield January 12 The lower house faced turmoil as it began work on the primary election bill. Minority Leader Browne accused Shanahan of moving a nonfriendly referent, while Sollitt chaired a committee motion to report the bill. Shurtleff restored order as members shouted for a roll call and a report.
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General Assembly
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Weather and political dispatches from Springfield
Snow or rain and colder weather persist with a near freezing low and 33 at 7 am. The day also carries political notices from Springfield including amending bills, primary procedures, suffrage movement actions, and a $50,900 Cherry mine disaster relief appropriation debated by Senate and House committees.
Bull panic in cotton market continues in New York
There was a renewal of the bull panic in the cotton market today with prices declining $6 to $7 a bale from last night’s close. The report notes a sharp market retreat as traders fear another decline and seek to limit further exposure.
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New York
Harris Denies Rumor Of Resigning From Burlington
Chicago January reports from Denver claimed President George B. Harris would resign and be replaced by Darius Miller. Both Harris and Miller emphatically denied the rumor saying Harris has not resigned and no discussion has taken place. The Wilard resignation is cited as a possible inspiration for the story.
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Chicago
Denver
George B. Harris
Burlington Railroad
Darius Miller
Road
Harris
Miller
Willard
Resolutions From National Live Stock Association Propose Broad Reforms
Denver reports that resolutions to be adopted call for railroad rate legislation, support for new interstate commerce powers but opposition to the interstate commerce court, and continued push against free hides. They endorse the Prachot forest service administration and urge grazing land use laws, with talks by S H Cowan and James Callen on politics and railroads, plus remarks by A D Melvin on sanitary live stock conditions.
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Col
National Live Stock Association
Inerstate Commerce Commission
Taft
Interstate Commerce Court
Forest Service
S. H. Cowan
Fort Worth
Texas
James Callen
Cattle Raisers’ Association of Texas
A. D. Melvin
Bureau of Animal Industry
Department of Agriculture
Jury Loaded for Sugar Men Who Are Higher
New York January 12 federal grand jury sworn in as investigators may seek to pin sugar underweighing frauds on higher authorities rather than the humble checkers jailed on Blackwell Island.
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New York
Blackwell's Island Penitentiary
Harmon Faults Trusts Over Food Prices Probe
Governor Harmon tells the legislature that high food prices demand investigation and suggests examining whether federal laws contribute to trouble. He cites belief in combinations to curb competition and notes wide gaps between prices paid to producers and those charged to consumers. He also mentions dealers allegedly fixing selling prices under threat of cutoffs.
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Columbus
Ohio
Harmon
Germany Backs Knox Plan for Manchuria Railways
Berlin Jan 12 The German government agrees with the Knox proposal for neutralization of Manchurian railways aligning with Britain. It acknowledges Great Britain's fundamental support for open door principles and equal rights for all, consistent with German policy in the east.
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Berlin
Great Britain
Germany
Taft Overlooks Physical Valuation Of Railroads
Washington shows Taft omits urging a government physical valuation of railroad property. Roosevelt policy feared lost with rate regulation debate. Experts say knowing real property value is essential to setting fair freight rates. current methods rely on watered stock and company valuations.
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Taft
TAV
The
Argus
Congress
Interstate Commerce Commission
Roosevelt
Supreme Court
Peace in the Republican Party At Any Price
President Taft seeks to end internecine war within the Republican Party. Government circles expect long negotiations for a final settlement while he aims to reassure the public there is no split. The House refused Senate amendments to the Pinchot Ballinger plan and named conferees for a conference.
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Smith
Iowa
Fitzgerald
New York
Jones-Humphrey
House Committee On Rules
Vienna Race Riot Fears After Murder Involving Three Negroes
Vienna Michigan January 12 militia and soldiers guard a jail housing three black men accused in the murder of Allen Clark on a passenger train near New Burnside. Sheriff Mathis and volunteers fortify the jail as Governor Deneen orders more troops to prevent lynching amid rumors of mob activity.
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Cairo
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Carrier Mill
Johnson
Saline
Deneen
Murderer James Pullman Sentenced for Life in Prison
Belleville Jan 12 Judge G A Crow of St Clair county circuit court sentenced James Pullman, who killed his one month old child, to life in the penitentiary.
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G. A. Crow
Circuit Court of
St. Clair County
James Pullman
Well Known Editors Die
Col Van B Wisker aged 75 longtime Sedalia editor and educator dies in Auburn California. Gen Rufus N Rhodes aged 54 president and editor of the Birmingham News and AP director dies in Birmingham Alabama.
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Sedalia
Rhodes
Birmingham
Pass
van B. Wisker
Sedalia Sentinel
Auburn
Cal
Ala
Rufus N. Rhodes
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Associated Press
Six Die in Gas Explosion at Nottingham Colliery
In Plymouth Pennsylvania a gas explosion in the Nottingham colliery shaft injures six and kills six workers during the sinking of the shaft. Five men and one boy died and six other men were badly burned. Most victims are foreigners.
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Plymouth
P. Wilkesbarre
Riise
Nottingham
Mrs Jarvis Hunt Weds Horace E Cole in Florida
In Jacksonville on January 7, Mrs. Jarvis Hunt and Horace E Cole both recently divorced Chicagoans were married in the county judge's office and now reside in Riverside. Also reported Otto Cornellison resigns as Great Western general superintendent and Francis J Heney opens arguments in the Her r Taann forest reserve case. Mediators in the Chicago switchmen dispute hold first session in Washington.
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H. M. Cole
Jacksonville
Fla
Jarvis Hunt
Horace E. Cole
Heney
Portland
Ore
Francis J. Heney
Binger Her.Taann
Forest Reserve
Washington
Chicagoistrict
Yale Man Named as Chief Forester
Washington January 12 President for this afternoon decided to appoint Henry S Graves head of the Yale school of forestry chief forester to succeed Pinchot in a move shaping federal forestry policy Graves has led the Yale forestry program and is noted for conservation work and scientific timber management
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YALE
Washington
Henry S. Graves
Sales School of Forestry
Pinchot
Insurgents Win Battle At Acoyapa In Nicaragua
Reports from Acoyapa say government forces were defeated by insurgents with no details available. General Chamorro telegraphs of a decisive battle and 3 000 provisionals with 20 cannons and eight rapid fire guns moving on Acoyapa.
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San Juan del Sur
Nicaragua
Acoyapa
Bluefields
Chamorro
Work of Day in Congress Washington Jan 12
Senate sessions exhausted the calendar after 55 minutes and the body adjourned for the day. In the House, Army appropriation carried to 295 200 000 for the final year of 2038, and debate continued on a bill aimed at felony for resisting another to a different state for prostitution, raising constitutional state rights questions. bill remained under consideration when the House adjourned at 4 20 p m.
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Congress
Senate
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