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Newspaper
Steele City Press
Location
Steele City, Nebraska, United States of America
Date
Apr 12, 1912
Page
2
Washington report says senators and representatives grow impatient over the tariff appropriations and other major bills held up in the senate. Leaders expect to move the house steel bill next week as unfinished business and push prompt action on remaining measures to facilitate an early adjournment.
Government engineers and state levee officials report two weeks of flooding in the Mississippi valley have inundated about two thousand square miles and displaced thirty thousand people. They estimate the financial loss at ten million dollars as they battle the river from Illinois toward threatened areas.
Political affiliations cited as motive as burglars broke into rooms of Governor Woodrow Wilson at a downtown Newark hotel Sunday and stole a suitcase filled with private effects and documents.
Through the state capitol hall thousands of people passed the senator's body as mourners honored him in Washington. Sunday ceremonies in Nashville followed with formal tributes and final honors reflecting a prominent political figure's death.
A report notes authorities ordered striking miners to return to work immediately, ending disruption and resuming production at the coal mines.
A sweeping bill creates a children’s bureau by a 172 to 17 vote. Saccharin use in foods becomes effective April 1. Taft sends a second economy message to Congress. Crawford’s bill backs an international inquiry into the cost of living. Senate approves $250,000 for a Lincoln anniversary Negro exposition. Henry of Texas seeks earlier inauguration action. Taylor of Colorado proposes voter recall of federal judges. North Dakota gets $100,000 for an agricultural station. Taft briefs Guggenheims on Alaska development.
A municipal initiative to close Dallas saloons at 7 30 p m was defeated. The vote reflected local attitudes toward liquor hours in the Texas city this period.
Fourteen of the twenty seven aspirants for congress in this state have at times served in the state legislature. Names include W. A. Selleck C. M. Skiles W. A. Prince Jess Gandy P. A. Caldwell Ben Baker H. H. Baldridge W. F. Stocker W. J. Taylor Paul Clark J. A. Donohue and others from 1903 to 1911 sessions. Three current congressmen also previously served in the legislature C. H. Sloan M. P. Kinkaid and CO. Lobeck.
Forty two Nebraska national guard members reported to Adjutant General Phelps explaining their absence from Major Julius A. Penns inspection. They cited long residence and severe snow as excuses. Attendance fell short of eight hundred, jeopardizing a $32 000 annual state appropriation. Graham Taylor denounced the state pen Lincoln as unsafe and inhumane, criticizing solitary cells, air conditions, and treatment of convicts.
The secretary of state notifies corporations to pay the annual occupation tax by July 1 each year to maintain a Nebraska permit to do business. Delinquent taxes incur a $10 penalty.
News notes summarize floods in West Point and Hartington mail disruptions, new Carnegie libraries in Ashland and North Platte, a Peru organ installation aided by Carnegie, and a Lincoln firm forming Crosby Company. Wary voter shifts, resignations in Wymore and Wood River, and court actions on murders tied to the state penitentiary are reported alongside civic club activities and upcoming drainages congress plans.
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