New Tariff Bill Becomes Law Ends Extra Session
Washington August 7 1910 the Senate adopted the conference report on the tariff bill delivering final passage. The vote 47 yays 31 nays with most Republicans supporting. president signs immediately. The bill imposes maximum and minimum duties with reciprocity provisions and broad tax changes across tobacco sugar metals and luxuries, plus creation of a customs court of appeals and Panama canal bond authority.
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Duty on yachts tied to American registry policy
The rule sets an 85 percent ad valorem duty on yachts or pleasure boats to qualify for American registry. The excise tax measure was adopted amid questions about the government's ability to enforce import duty collections.
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Cannon Names New Committee Assignments
Kennedy chairs mileage and river and harbor matters with Dawson on naval affairs and civil service reform, Pickett handles public lands railways and canals and Mississippi levees, Haugen oversees agriculture war claims food territories irrigation of arid lands, Kendall coinage weights and measures and Indian affairs, Hull chairs military affairs and militia, Jamieson Indian affairs Pacific railroads, Smith appropriations and rules, Woods Pacific railroads industrial arts expositions, Hubbard insular affairs justice expenditures, Martin public lands buildings and grounds, Burke Indian affairs and library.
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Cannon Names House Committees After Adjournment
Speaker Cannon named the house committees, reshuffling members and rewarding allies while penalizing insurgents. Kennedy receives key assignments on the mile age and rivers and harbors. notable chairs retained include Hull, Scott, Crumpacker, and Foss among others.
New House Chairmanships and Committee Appointments
The document lists new chairmanships across several committees such as Election No. 1 Knapp of Illinois on Levees and Mississippi River improvements and multiple state and territorial appointments. It notes members from both Republican and Democratic parties including Knapp, Campbell, Burke, Roberts, McCreary, Edwards, Hill, MecGuire, Graham, and others, with assignments to Appropriations, Judiciary, Banking and Currency, Interstate and Foreign Commerce, Rivers and Harbors, Agriculture, Military Affairs, Naval Affairs, Post Offices and Postroads, Territories, and a delegate from Alaska.
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Dent
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Naval Affairs
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Oil Well's Natal to Be Observed in Titusville
Titusville Pa Aug 7 The city prepares for the golden anniversary of the first world oil well drilled by Colonel Edwin W Drake on August 28 1859 near Titusville The initial flow was 40 barrels a day Cunandohta Chapter Daughters of the American Revolution plans a memorial on the Drake well site
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Cunandohta Chapter
Daughters of the American Revolution
Drake Well
Des Moines Plan Vindicated by State Examiners
Des Moines receives high praise from state municipal examiners M P Cox and F M Abbott after the first state examination of the commission form. They commend city management and urge councilmen to work together, stating Des Moines’ government would need no defense if harmony prevails.
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Mann for Governor Dominates Virginia Primary
Richmond reports indicate Judge William Brodges Mann won the Democratic state primary for governor over H St George Tucker by a margin between four and five thousand. R H Eaison for lieutenant governor Williams for attorney general and Kotner for commissioner of agriculture were also nominated.
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William Brodges Mann
H. St. George Tucker
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Kotner
Indians Have Share in White Earth Lands
St Louis Aug 7 Judge William Van Devanter ruled for the federal court of appeals that full blood and halfbreed Indians are entitled to shares in the White Earth reservation lands in Minnesota Those of less than half blood are barred from participation in the allotments.
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Federal Court of Appeals
William van Devanter
White Earth
Minnesota
Reflections of a Bachelor from the New York Press
A fragmentary textual excerpt humorously questions social norms about women and reputation. It references imagination influencing beauty hair and dress, a man’s supposed business insight, and general social banter with stray garbled phrases and an uncertain ending.
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New York Press
Extraordinary Wash ington red cedar logs endure centuries
An old Washington cedar log, buried under alluvium, yielded shingles cut recently for display. The log, once atop another cedar, had 750 growth rings implying 760 years age, yet remained unrotted and merchantable. Shingles from the 750 year old area were sound and comparable to fresh timber.
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Seattle Post and Intelligencer
Washington
Thia
Breaking Ranks and Yale Presidency Joke from Rogers
H. H. Rogers loved a self mocking joke as a favorite tale shared with friends including William C. Whitney. The anecdote recounts a Yale succession debate where Rogers quips he would own the buildings but not be president, a remark Whitney counters with humor.
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Detroit Free Press
Mr. Rogers
Yale
Henry
Mr. Whitney
Not So Prolific Cleric Baptizes Baby in Flushing Parish
A Flushing pastor received a young mother with her baby at his parsonage and offered to christen the child. During the baptismal paperwork he mistaken the date, asking if today was the ninth, only to be told by the mother it was the third. The report blends a light domestic scene with a clerical misnote.
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New York World
Flushing
L. J
Giller
Board of Health
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