Washington Senate Fact Dispute Over Roosevelt Talks
A Senate exchange exposes a disputed written statement by Senator Tillman about President Roosevelt and Chandler on railroad rate bill negotiations. Tillman shares a March note and Chandler’s accounts. Roosevelt’s aides deny specific quotes and assert a false attribution about Knox Spooner and Foraker.
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Wrox
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Iman
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Letter from Booth invites Chandler to White House call
A dated White House letter from March 21, 1966 invites Chandler to call on the president at 8:30 p.m. that evening. Chandler told the messenger he would call as requested.
Chandler Reveals Plan for Rail Rate Regulation
Chandler recounts a presidential aim to gain Democratic support for a controlled railroad rate law. The plan centers on a court review limited to two questions: if the ICC exceeded authority and if carrier constitutional rights were violated. He opposes unlimited review and seeks united Senate action to pass the bill with minimal amendments.
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Knox
Spooner
Foraker
Bailey
Tillman and Bailey
Moody
Senate
Tillman
Political clash over court powers and senate stance
President backs limits on court authority while Tillman publicizes the dispute. Chandler defers comment as Moody and Schurz issues surface. Chicago wins a Marshall Field track meet against Wisconsin by a narrow margin.
Baseball Scores Across Leagues May 14 Summary
Chicago and other cities report Saturday and Sunday baseball results across the League American Association and Western leagues. Highlights include Boston defeating St Louis, Philadelphia beating Pittsburgh, New York overcoming Cincinnati in eleven innings, and Brooklyn besting Chicago 8 to 1 on Saturday with Chicago overcoming Brooklyn 4 on Sunday. American and Western games list multiple results with several shutouts and extra innings, including Minneapolis and Milwaukee scores and Denver games.
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Philadelphia
Association
Minneapolis
Louisville
Milwaukee
Toledo
St. Paul
Indianapolis
Kansas City
Scandal at Standard Oil Ties Corruption to Deceit
Chicago reports reveal across three days of Interstate Commerce Commission testimony that Standard Oil trained employees in deceitful tricks to undermine rival firms. Witnesses Hibbs and Annett described methods to devalue competitors’ oil, rig orders, and rig machinery damage as part of a broader campaign of covert manipulation.
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Interstate Commerce Commission
Standa ‘Oil
Wan
Astracted Tareks
Standard Gi
P. Hibus
Standard
Hibbs
Frank Bush
Peoria
Bibbs
A.C. Annett
Kentucky Judge and Editor in Fatal Shooting
In Nicholasville Jessamine county editor Louis Pitcher was beaten by Judge James Peet after an editorial attacked his private and public life. Pitcher drew a pistol and shot Peet twice, possibly fatally wounding him. Pitcher was arrested and held. Peet, once chief of police, faced rising tensions as friends on both sides took sides.
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Kentucky Democrat
Nicholasville
Jessamine County
Louis Pilcher
James Peet
Pitcher
Estcher
Peet
Indianapolis
Ind
rFrea L. Puedy
Indianapinils Sun
Tudge Fremont Alford
Marion County Criminal Court
Judge Alford
Robert Metzger
Stolen Property Located and Suspect Traced to Tunnelton
Recuses of stealing his wife, baby and exin of horses located in Tunnelton Hawkins, married to Msapnenveds, night of May. Mrs Maynard and her daughter joined him. Indianapolis papers carried an ad describing the stolen wife, baby and team. Hawkins was traced to Fortiner, then lost. Chief Meyers received a call from Tymnelton about the whereabouts of the eloners.
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Indianapolis
Roward
Riley Maynard
Kuetz
Tnd
Fortiner
Meyers
Tymnelton
Eloners
Blake locked in guard while seeking change of venue
Thomp son, Mich May 14 judge Parkingon refused change of venue in John Blake murder trial. armed guards line the hall as Blake, two attorneys and officers monitor him near the window. Other items include revolutions in Santo Domingo, a child burned in Chicago, a man attempting suicide in Knoxville, and a Romanian dynamite accident in Muncie.
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F.C. Badgley
T. G. Barkyworth
Valner
Blair
Global and Local News Snippets From Early 20th Century Dispatches
A rapid collage of events: Town State Agricultural College crushes Town University 93 to 38. Kansas Socialist convention nominates Harry Gillman for governor. Altona seamen vote to continue strike. Vienna building trades demand higher wages prompting a 50,000-strong lockout. Senator Fairbanks delays Washington tenure until railroad rate bill fate. International Brotherhood of Paper Makers opens in Dayton. funeral drivers strike in New York ends. Tabah dispute eased as key concedes. anthracite coal mines resume work broadly. Tidis Russia police uncover a bomb cache of 250 devices. Ben Hur tribe to convene in Crawfordsville May 1 and 17. ex-Gov R L Taylor of Tennessee nominated for US senator defeating Carmack. Des Moines hosts Presbyterian assembly May 17. Mrs TeRerson Davis improving after grave concerns in New York.
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Harry Gillman
Oswego
Cor
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Vienna
Fairbanks
Washington
International Brotherhood of Paper Makers
Dayton
New York
Tidis
Russia
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Gise
Supreme Tribe of
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R. L., Taylor
Tennessee
United States
Carmack
General Assembly
Presbyteriauchureh
Des Moines
TeRerson Davis
Russians Debating Amnesty Demand in Dim House
In St. Petersburg on May 14 the lower house of the parliament faced a sharp push from labor members for an immediate amnesty by telegraph to Emperor Nicholas. The move aimed to push May Day unrest into a formal political test, but Constitutional Democrats sidetracked it after a lengthy commission process and adjourned. Polish deputies pressed autonomy, arguing Poland’s status is unmentioned in Grundgesetz, while authorities prepared for potential May Day disorders with patrols on industrial streets.
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Fongship Wemen
Great
St. Petersburg
Nicholas
Kovalevsky
Moncemiseff
Feterhof
Finland
Poland
Brutal Crime Report Involving Hupfer Case In NYC
In New York on May 14 a powerful man entered August Hupfer’s home and throttled him, then raped his wife, killing her. James McPartland, a night watchman, was arrested on suspicion after the incident. Hupfer, ill, fears for his health as authorities pursue the case. A later report notes the assailant allegedly borrowed Hupfer’s revolver.
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August Hupfer
Hupfer
McPartland
Hopfer
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