Capital City Rail Opposes Two Cent Fare Plan Hearing
The Nebraska House railroad committee held a Tuesday night hearing on the two cent passenger fare and anti pass bills drafted by joint committees. P E Eustis W B Kniskern Gerritt Fort and Frank Nay spoke for railroads warning of service cuts wage reductions and freight rate pressures if enacted. They argued rail value not shown by stock and urged legislative caution for lean years. Knigkern cited Nebraska density versus Massachusetts to argue fares must reflect local conditions.
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Railroad Committee
House
P. E. Eustis
Burlington
W. B. Kniskern
Northwestern
Gerritt Fort
Union Pacific
Frank Nay
Rock Island
United
Representative Walsh
Douglas
Eustis
Mr. Knigkern
Nebraska
Massachusetts
House Rejects Quackenbush Max Freight Rate Resolution
Monday the house defeated Rep Quackenbush’s plan to direct the attorney general to enforce the maximum freight rate law. Quackenbush argued the existing statutes should be used and tested in court while E P Brown outlined the law’s 1893 origin and later unconstitutionality. The measure was indefinitely postponed on party lines 57 to 24.
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House
Quackenbush
E. P. Brown
Lancaster
United States Supreme Court
Gome
Board of Transportation
Garnishment Bill Introduced by Senator Thompson
Senator Thompson of Buffalo county introduces a garnishment bill allowing 10 percent of wages for heads of families before and after wages are due. Critics claim a conspiracy between wholesalers and retailers to push a bank sales law via such a garnishment. The charge is denied.
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Thompson
Buffalo County
Two-Cent Fare Bill Dominates House Debate
The house considered the two-cent passenger fare bill in committee of the whole, debating amendments from E P Brown to empower the state railway commission to raise rates up to three cents per mile. Cone of Saunders opposed granting such discretionary power. The session ended with the bill set as a special order for Tuesday and a Republican caucus planned for the interim.
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House
E. P. Brown
Railway Commission
Brown
State Railway Commission
Cone of Saunders
Commission
Primary bill would mandate statewide primary election
A joint committee drafted a new primary bill agreed Friday night and introduced Monday in both houses. The sub committee led by Senators Aldrich and Patrick and Representatives Dodges Brown and Mackey prepared a plan imposing a flat filing fee on candidates and a rotating ballot when more than five run. County candidates choose the county committee while state and U S candidates meet in Lincoln to draft the party platform and select the state chairman and central committee members biennially.
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Joint Committee
House
Senate
Aldrich
Butler
Patrick
Sarpy
Dodges
Douglas
E. P. Brown
Lancaster
Mackey
Custer
Lincoln
Employers' Liability Bill Aims at Railroad Service Workers
The judiciary committee reported 8. F. No. 5 by Gibson of Douglas with a recommendation to place on the general file. The bill, as amended, abolishes the fellow servant rule and lets railroad employees in train service or repair and construction choose relief from Burlington’s relief department or sue for damages.
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Gibson
Douglas
Judiciary Committee
Burlington Relief Department
State Buys Bonds From Omaha Broker Hoobler
The board of educational lands and funds purchased $100,000 of Alabama state bonds from Omaha broker Mr. Hoobler at a net Nebraska rate of 3.83 1-3 percent interest.
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Board of Educational Lands and Funds
Omaha
Hoobler
Alabama
Ship subsidy bill blocked by Speaker Cannon
Supporters of the ship subsidy measure in Congress attack Speaker Cannon for blocking floor time until general appropriation bills pass. General Grosvenor and others on the merchant marine committee press for a compromise, but Cannon remains firm, awaiting passage of appropriations, signaling limits to the bill this session.
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Congress
Joe Cannon
General Grosvenor
Committee On Merchant Marine and Fisheries
Gallinger
Committee On Rules
Mr. Dalzell
Uncle Joe
Williams
de Armond
Speaker Cannon
Representative Watson
House
Cannon
Agreement between Washington authorities and Schmitz party approved
A statement from A Oyama secretary of the Japanese consulate in San Francisco says the Japanese people would be pleased with terms reported in newspapers. He notes no official information but expresses confidence in President Roosevelt and asserts non-discrimination for Japanese people as secured by the Washington agreement.
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Schmitz Party
Washington
San Francisco
A. Oyama
Roosevelt
Health of Joseph Chamberlain Reported Weakened
A London statement on Joseph Chamberlain notes he is physically shattered yet mentally alert. He spends most time indoors at Highbury Birmingham, venturing outside briefly on fine days in the estate grounds, never staying longer than forty five minutes, with an invalid chair always nearby.
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Joseph Chamberlain
London
Mr. Chamberlain
Highbury
Birmingham
Norris bill advances to president creating Nebraska federal court seat
The Norris judicial bill moves through the Senate authorizing another federal judge for Nebraska and naming deputy clerks and terms of court in defined divisions. The House previously approved the measure. The act provides for appointment of deputy court clerks in the specified divisions.
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Nebraska
United States Senate
House
Bank cashier fatally injured in street car collision
R. B. Felton cashier of the State Bank of Underwood Ir. sustained fatal injuries after a street car collided with a string of Great Western freight cars in Council Bluffs. His right leg was mangled and amputated at the hospital, and he died soon after. He leaves a widow and one child.
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R. B. Felton
State Bank of
Underwood
Great Western
Council Bluffs
Felton
Warren Proposes Volunteer Army Bill for War Time
Senator Warren as committee chair introduces a bill to raise a volunteer army in actual or threatened war. The plan splits the military into regular army national guard and volunteer forces and allows presidential proclamation after congressional authorization. Taft notes limited current chances but aims to prepare for next session. Hull in the house also introduces the same measure.
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Warren
Senator Warren
Senate Committee On Military Affairs
United States
Regular Army
National Guard
Volunteer Army
Congress
Taft
House
Hull
Committee On Military Affairs
Wisconsin Railways Ordered to Flat Two and Half Cent Fare
The Wisconsin state railway commission ordered all railways in the state to charge a flat passenger fare of two and one half cents. It also recommended issuing 500 mile family mileage books for ten dollars. The decision follows an extended hearing where railway representatives debated rates and service.
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State Railway Commission of
Wisconsin
State Railway Commission
Oklahoma rails report bans passes and telegraph franks
The Oklahoma constitution convention approved a rail road report making it a crime to accept a railroad pass or a telegraph frank. It calls for direct election of a railroad commission and prohibits consolidation of railroad companies and ownership of mines and production agencies by railroads. Advocates seek reconsideration to separately submit the prohibition question for local option.
Delay on Battleship Nebraska Construction
Delay has delayed completion of the battleship Nebraska built by Moran Bros in Seattle. The ship, originally due March 1904, has seen three extensions. a further extension to April 1 is now requested. The Navy Department likely will grant the extension due to contractor difficulties.
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Nebraska
Moran Bros
Seattle
Wash
Navy Department
Tragedy at Mundell Home Ends in Murder Suicide
At Connersville Indiana Mrs J S Mundell thirty five kills her two daughters aged four years and seven months then takes her own life. Mundell was alone with the children. upon returning for lunch her husband found the house locked and blinds drawn. In a downstairs bedroom the woman and children lay with throats cut. The girls were dead.
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Connersville
Ind
J. S. Mundell
Helena strikes shut streetcars lights and phones
No cars lights or phones as Helena Montana workers strike. Motormen and conductors walk out in sympathy, followed by linemen and telephone girls from Helena Light and Power and Rocky Mountain Bell Telephone. They demand higher wages.
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Helena
Mont
Helena Light and Power Company
Rocky Mountain Bell Telephone Company
Explosion in La Conga Mine Kills Dozens in Mexico
Telegrams from Monterey report a gas explosion at La Conga mine No. 3 in Las Esperanzas district. About thirty dead with potential rise to seventy five as full details arrive. A defective lamp likely sparked the blast.
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Laredo
Tex
Monterey
Mexico
la Conga
Las Esperanzas
Rail derailment blamed as death toll rises in NYC wreck
Coroner reports motorman claimed schedule adherence and 70 mph speed before a spreading rail caused the New York Central train to derail at Webster Avenue. Twenty two dead, 145 injured, with eleven bodies found at the Webster station as investigators pursue the cause.
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New York Central
Two Hundred
Fifth Street
Webster Avenue
New York City
Flood
Schwannecke
Smythe
Associated Press
Rogers
Long Walk with Broken Knee Strands Newspaper Man
George R. Caldwell, a noted journalist, dislocated his left knee while walking from the Dudley Hale mine to West Bridge near Shoshoni. He dragged himself three miles to the stage road, lay in the snow for hours, then was taken to Shoshoni. He will be out of work for at least a month. He was alone when the accident occurred in a canyon five to six miles from the nearest habitation. He slipped on an ice covered stone and endured intense pain before the stage arrived.
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George R. Caldwell
Shoshoni
Dudley Hale
West Bridge
Caldwell
Mines to Close as Unionizers Reach Warren District
Eleven hundred miners were discharged by Warren district mine operators in Bisbee Arizona amid moves by the Western Federation of Miners to unionize the camp. Officials have not confirmed reasons, but closures are expected to extend across the district this week as the camps resist unionization.
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Warren
Bisbee
Ariz
Western Federation of Miners
Warren District
Western Federation
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Norris
Emergency Army
Wisconsin Railroad Commission
Oklahoma
Coroner
Denver
Arizona
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