Ballinger clash at hearings over reclamation service fate
Washington March 12 chief engineer Davis testified before Ballinger Pinchot investigators, denying Ballingers charges and warning the reclamation service faces disintegration under Ballingers policy. He said Perkins was paid by Harriman lines and pushed lands for restoration, while Ballinger urged slow action and mishandled promotions prompting unity of dissent among engineers.
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Washington
Ensineer Davis
Reclamation Service
Ballinger
Taft
Ballinger-Pinchot
Davis
Harriman Lines
E. T. Perkins
Chicago
Perkins
Harriman Ines
WithArthur P. Davis
Congressional Committee On Investigation
Mr. Davis
Garfield
Director Newell
The
Weather report and astronomical notes amid public feud
Fair tonight and Sunday with warmer conditions. 7am temperature 31, max 50, min 31, wind 1 mph, no precipitation, humidity 68% at 7pm and 97% at 7am. Astronomical events list sun set 5:59, moon perigee at 9:37pm ET, Saturn conjunction at 6:06pm ET. Feud between reclamation service and geological survey cited in testimony over power site withdrawals.
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J. M. Sherier
Perigee
Earth
Saturn
Argentine Meat Here and Economic Headlines
New York March 12 Argentina Republic plans to ship large beef quantities to New York markets to ease U S price levels as European demand grows. The report follows Washington March 12 noting tax returns from about 300 000 corporations and an expected rise to 325 000 with overall 25 000 000 dollars in revenue. meanwhile the Supreme Court prepares for a three day hearing on Standard Oil dissolution and shale company monopolies.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Internal Revenue Bureaus
United States
Supreme Court of the United
Taft orders action on DC retrocession constitutionality
President Taft directs Attorney General to draft a joint resolution for Congress to decide if the 1846 act retroceding part of the District of Columbia to Virginia was constitutional. If Congress adopts the resolution, the president will sue in the Supreme Court to settle the constitutional issue. Fr Mayer, Arlington and Alexandria lie within the formerly embraced territory.
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Washington
Taft
Wickersham
Congress
District of Columbia
Virginia
Supreme Court
Mayer
Arlington
Alexandria
Awaiting Outcome of Peace Projects in Philadelphia and Trenton Strike
Philadelphia on March 12 shows no change in strike mood awaiting the peace movement result. In Trenton, the Street Railway employees ended a two day strike late yesterday with a settlement granting most demands, including an 18 to 23 cent hourly raise.
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Philadelphia
Trenton
N. J
Trenton Street Railway Company
Hogs at Chicago Hit Eleven Dollars A Pair
Chicago March 12 hog prices climbed to eleven dollars for five hogs in steady trading. Passes Away Suddenly While Presiding Over New Jersey Conference Atlantic City N J Bishop Spellmeyer of St Louis died of heart disease while presiding over the annual New Jersey Methodist Episcopal conference. He was ill the day before and missed this morning. The door was forced open to find his body partly on the bed and partly on the floor. It is believed he suffered a heart attack while summoning help.
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New Jersey
Atlantic City
N. J
Spellmeyer
St. Louis
New Jersey Methodist Episcopal Conference
Four Bleached Cases Dropped by Government
Council Bluffs Iowa March 12 Pierce Butler of St Paul special counsel for the government today dismissed four bleached flour cases in the federal district court here The government did not want to consider the cases as test cases Butler said in St Paul Minn March 12 reaffirming the dismissal due to lack of test case intent
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Council Bluffs
Iowa
Pierce Butler
St. Paul
Special Council
Federal District Court
Minn
Standard Oil Appeal Faces Most Serious Legal Battle
The government seeks to dissolve Standard Oil of New Jersey for illegal combination and monopoly in restraint of interstate commerce. Key figures include John D. Rockefeller and seven others, with attorney generals Wickersham and Kellogg arguing for the state. The 1899 stock exchange gave NJ control of a majority of 19 companies and their successors in the oil industry.
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Wickersham
Frank B. Kellogg
Minnesota
Charles B. Morrison
Chicago
Standard Oil
Standard Oil Company of New Jersey
United States Circuit Court
District of
Missouri
New Jersey Corporation
Circuit Court
John D. Rockefeller
William Rockefeller
Henry M. Flagler
Henry H. Rogers
John D. Archbold
Oliver H. Payne
Charles M. Pratt
Standard Oil Company of
New Jersey
Argentina beef exports eye United States market
Jacinto I Villegas now first secretary of the Argentine legation in Washington says Argentina is making great strides in exporting beef. He notes much beef used in England last year came from Argentina and US prices show a strong market here, with plans to export in large quantities forthcoming.
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Jacinto I’villegas
New York
Washington
Villegas
England
Argentina
United States
Roosevelt declines political statement during Wellman visit
Walter Wellman reached Colonel Roosevelt in Chicago on March 12 as the first correspondent. Roosevelt said he would make no political statement of any kind whatever when asked about U S questions.
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Roosevelt
Chicago
Walter Wellman
Wellman
United States
B and C Strike Averted in Baltimore Wage Dispute
Baltimore March 12. Commissioner Neill mediated the wage dispute between the Baltimore and Ohio railroad and its conductors and trainmen, announcing there will be no strike. The mediator’s effort secured an agreed settlement, averting a railroad walkout.
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Neill
Baltimore
Baltimore & Ohio” Railroad
Governor Deneen Vetoes Miners and Mechanics Institute Bill
Springfield Illinois March 12 Governor Deneen vetoed the bill for miners and mechanics institutes under the direction of the University of Illinois.
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Springfield
Deneen
Mechanics’ Institutes
University of Ilinois
Bank Looted in Virginia Nebraska with 7000 Dollars Stolen
Robbers entered the State Bank of Virginia at Virginia Nebraska last night and escaped after securing 7000 dollars and exchanging shots with citizens. Separate item notes former Vice President Charles W Fairbanks and Mrs Fairbanks sailing for New York today on the Mauretania aboard the Liverpool bound Mauretania.
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Nebraska
Virginia
Neb
State Bank of
Fairbanks
Liverpool
Charles W. Fairbanks
New York
Work of Day in Congress Washington March 12
Senate session under an hour with no business, adjourned to today. House passed several pension bills and began consideration of the legislative appropriation bill after a five hour session, adjourning to the caucus. Representative Perkins of New York is mentioned in a rerun of the proceedings.
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Washington
Houses
Congress
Senate
HOUSE
Puermcky
Perkins
State Department Expenses Revealed After Fight
Special Correspondence of The Argus reports 1909 state department costs including 140 for street car tickets 23766 for horseshoeing and 42955 for soap and brushes. The disclosures followed a House expenditures committee meeting, the first since Republicans took power. The panel reviews accounts expenses method of keeping records economy and accountability in government.
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TAV
the Argus
Washington
State Department
Republican Party
State
Treasury, War, Navy
Post Office
Interior and Agriculture
United States
Big Shoeining Bill Sparks House Debate in Missouri Stocks
Washington March 12 The state department spent 237 66 last year for shoeing horses Representatives Hamlin and Clark of Missouri called the expenditure extravagance but failed to curb the appropriation Mr Mann of Illinois questioned curtailment while Mr Burke Pennsylvania closed the debate noting 10000 a day to rap this house and 2500 worth of time on horse shoeing costs
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Washington
State Department
Hamlin and Clark
Missouri
Mann
Ilinois
Burke
Crew Experienced Awful Privations in Rescue Reach
A Tacoma wireless from Seward, Alaska reports the rescue of a boat crew sent six weeks earlier to aid survivors of the wrecked steamer Fap allon. They endured fierce winter storms, near freezing conditions, and extreme starvation, barely able to recount their ordeal.
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Seattle
Wash
Seward
Alaska
United States Revenue
Tacoma
Death of Taft's brother-in-law Thomas Laughlin in shooting
Pittsburg March 12 The November report gives the cause of death of Thomas K Laughlin brother-in-law of President Taft as death by own action by shooting He was son of Major George M Laughlin born March 16 1875 Yale 97 St Pauls School Concord NH married in Cincinnati 1902 to Miss Herron sister of Mrs Taft Father, husband to Mrs Taft, two sons. Laughlin held posts at Jones Laughlin Co bank director and club member. Taft to attend funeral tomorrow.
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Pittsburg
Thomas K. Laughlin
Taft
Laughlin
George M. Laughlin
Cincinnati
Misa Herron
Jones & Laughlin Company
Yale
St. Paul's School
Concord
N. H. Washington
New Twist in Taft Rail Bill Sparks Merger Debate
Washington March 12 A radical amendment to the administration railroad bill would require interstate commerce commission valuation of railroad properties before any merger or reorganization. It aims to hinder consolidations like the Harriman union with Southern Pacific and would limit stock or bond issuance to the par value of combined properties, while seeking to end stock watering. Democrats back McCall contribution bill. Senate debate on the railroad measure shapes up with Cummins and Clapp opposing. Insurgent senators and many Democrats align on amendments.
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Washington
Administration
Interstate Commerce Commission
House Committee On Interstate Commercce
Harriman
Union
Southern Pacific
House
Senate
Cummins
Clapp
Aged Couple Die After Poison Pact in Philadelphia
In Philadelphia on March 12 a 73 year old doctor, Charles C. Benson, and his 67 year old wife Isabelle drank poison at their breakfast table and died soon after. A note left by the pair said they had agreed to die by their own action.
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Philadelphia
Charles C. Benson
Isabelle
Morgan laughs at rumor of sudden market takeoff
Rome reports J P Morgan dismissed circulating tale of a sudden financial seizure as a prank intended to sway the market momentarily. Morgan said he found the claim humorous and clearly untrue.
Member of Commons Dies O Connor Treasonous Past Highlighted
James O Connor, 74, longtime nationalist and former Irish People staffer, dies in London. In 1865 he and Luby O Leary Kickham were convicted of treason and felony, sentenced to seven years penal servitude, later released and linked to various journals.
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Mes O'Connor
England
London
James O'Connor
Commons
O'Connor
The
Irish People
Luby
O'Leary
Charles Kickham
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Newell
Thomas BE
Will
Mr. Garfield
Geological Survey
Preme Court
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Indiana
Alter District OF Columbia
Bishop Spellmeyer
Cnue
John G. Johnson
John G. Millburn
D. T. Watson
Elba
Mine Institute
Bill
Member OF Commons
Patten
James A. Patten
Manchester
Liv
Manchester Exchange
McKinley Peak
Selmore Brown
Mount McKinley
Dr. Cook
Tacome
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