World Happenings Highlight Taft Knox Cabinet Plan
A broad digest notes Taft may appoint Senator Knox of Pennsylvania as secretary of state after a vote removing the constitutional bar on his salary increase. Roosevelts naval bill clash, Pacific fleet retention, and a repeal attempt mark a tense congress.
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Taft
Knox
Pennsylvania
Senate
House
United States
Pacific
Roosevelt
House of Representatives
Congress
la Follette
Cummins
Stone
Tillman
Hale
Rainey
Panama Canal
Cincinnati
Washington
Bryan, Davis, Carnegie and other 1909 headlines meet in brief
Willian Jennings Bryan has secured contracts for speeches in 1909 totaling 100000 dollars the amount he would have earned if elected president. Rev Dr O S Davis resigns as pastor to head Chicago Theological Seminary. Andrew Carnegie criticizes Congress for tariff delay urging a permanent bipartisan commission. William H aft departs New Orleans for Cincinnati amid cabinet talks. Charles O Charleston a Denver arrest for multiple check forgeries linked to past Chicago contracting success. Charles W Morse denied bail while appealing banking law conviction.
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Willian Jennings Bryan
O. S. Davis
South Congregational Church
New Britain
Conn
Chicago Theological Seminary
Andrew Carnegie
Congress
William H. ‘Aft
New Orleans
Cincinnati
Knox
Charles O. Charleston
Nebraska
Chicago Board of Aldermen
Denver
Charleston
Chicago
Charles W. Morse
United States Court of Appeal
Senate rule on Judaism and Mohammedanism in Russia
The Russian senate ruled Jews may adopt Mohammedanism but remain legally disabled. The tragedy aboard the Belgian steamer Australia and an unidentified vessel near Gibraltar left thirty dead in the Mediterranean. The National Civic Federation formed a committee to pursue uniform state laws. Missouri AG urged the state supreme court to enforce its ruling against Standard Oil. The company paid a sixty thousand dollar fine and faced further state action.
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Australia
Mediterranean
Gibraltar
National Civic Federation
Major
Missouri
State Supreme Court
Standard On
Des Moines Capitol Land Purchase and Office Plan
Deweys long expected bill in Des Moines provides for buying ground and building an office for state departments. A five member commission and 200000 appropriation fund the project, with plans for a building up to 300000 in cost to house Adjutant General Agriculture Board of Control Health Food and Dairy Commissioner Geological Survey Horticultural Society and Veterinary Surgeon. A meeting place for agricultural conventions is included. Educational bill creates state board of education to oversee colleges with a three member business committee.
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Des Moines
Dewey
Capitol
Executive Council
Adjutant General
Agriculture
Board of Control
Board of Health
Food and Dairy Commissioner
Geological Survey
Horticultural Society
Educational Board
Whipple
State Board of Regents
State Board of Education
Western Electric
Bridgewater
Upper
Mary Lezenhuber
Fort Dodge
Normal School
Cedar Falls
Thomas Oliver
Oliver Typewriter
Chicago
Knoxville
William Kruger
Portsmouth
University of Iowa
Iowa City
State Board of Health
Boards of Health
Michael McKinley
Unniversity of Iowa
Board of Control of Athletics
The
State University
Iowa
Linn M. Butler
Barlham
Marshalltown
National Bowling Association
Pittsburg
Rogers. Coal
Gypsum Cty
Absolute Prohibition Push in Iowa Senate
Senator George B. Cosson, chairman of the senate committee on suppression of intemperance, reports three petitions with hundreds of names urging the legislature to re-submit to Iowa voters the constitutional amendment for absolute prohibition.
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Iowa
George B. Cosson
Senate Committee On
University Asks Half Million in Iowa Senate Bill
The Iowa state university of Towa seeks 623000 for the campus project including 150000 for a new women's building and various improvements. The request breakdown lists 125000 for maintenance and 346600 for improvements. Senate committee action on jurors pay raises per diem from 2 to 2.50 and 10 cents mile may apply to sheriffs.
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University
State University of Towa
Senate
Iowa
White
Judiciary Committee
To Aid of Landladies in Sullivan Bill Passage
Rooming house keepers would gain power to seize trunks and baggage of nonpaying roomers if the Sullivan bill passes, a privilege now given to hotel keepers but denied to rooming house proprietresses under existing law.
Passage of Bills in Senate and House Actions
The senate passed bills authorizing eight mill fire taxes for second class cities and five mill tax for ten thousand populations, plus a tax vote for schools and churches and aid to hospitals and workers. Bills to admit dependent fathers to soldiers' homes and increase county aid, with several legalizing nets, were approved while New Auto Registers were killed. House members killed the Meredith act to print automobile lists for sale by the Secretary of State. Harding likely to amend the Blanchard anti-compact law. insurance bill would let the attorney general and insurance commissioner participate in setting a proposed uniform scale.
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Lawrence M. Jones
Kansas City
Dr. H. Garnett
Indianapolis
Muriel Matters
London
Westminster
Murphysboro
Turkey
Bulgaria
Austria
Sivas
Consul Moorehead
State Department
Washington
Acapulco
Mex
West Stanley
England
Maine
Havana Harbor
Racine
Jimmy” Morgan
First National Bank
Milwaukee
Pennsylvania
Altoona
Mogg
Arctic
Point Barrow
Port Townsend
South Carolina
Senate
Clarendon
Sea Breeze
Fla
Niagara Falls
Missouri Pacific
Omaha
Anti-Saloon League
Kentucky
Toledo
Cape Terawhit
Quessant
France
Edwin S. McCook
McCook
New York City
Yankton
Sotheby's
Col
Israel Shreeve
New Jersey
Wesr
America
Fargo
N. C
Root
Liberia
Booker T. Washington
African Republic
United States
Penguin
Union Steamship Company of Wellington
Cape Terawhiti
Secretary of State
Executive Council
Harding
House of Representatives Insurance Committee
Gates
Powers of Cities Increased in Iowa Senate Bill
A Iowa senate bill drafted by Robert O Brennan broadens city powers to borrow for public utilities and issue bonds up to five mills tax for twenty years plus 25 year private franchises for utilities. The bill aims to stamp out trusts with sweeping anti trust provisions and faces opposition from labor and local officials over costs and scope.
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Robert O. Brennan
Senate
Dowell
Polk County
Weaver Day Honors Gen James Weaver At Des Moines Banquet
Nearly four hundred attended a Hotel Savery banquet in Des Moines honoring Gen James B Weaver. William J Bryan and state officials attended. the portrait unveiling at the state house preceded a nonpartisan feast praising Weaver’s life and character. Bryan remarked on historical repetition of right policies while Weaver’s supporters praised his lifelong public service and his quiet wealth of service over riches.
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Des Moines
Cumming
General Weaver
State House
Iowa
Mr. Bryan
Charles Dupree Smith
Bryan
Weaver
Savery
State Historical Department
William Jennings Bryan
Negard
Mra. Weaver
Garst
State Historical Building
Movement aims to rename normal school in Cedar Rapids
A drive to change the name of the normal school in Cedar Rapids gains momentum. The article notes a past era when the college days of the institution were prominent and mentions staff changes including a mail and expressman at Rock Rapids who resigned to return to Wisconsin after twenty three years delivering mail.
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House of Representatives Judiciary Committee
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O. P. Stewart
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