Senate Rejects Morrison Bill Amid War Convernstrations
Hartford February 26 the senate rejected the Morrison educational bill on an unfavorable committee report. Senator Hazen urged closer town to state ties and a spring conference between town delegates and the state board of education. The day also saw roads and highway salary bills advancing along with numerous calendar items and municipal charter adjustments across Connecticut.
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Hartford
Senate
Morrison
Education Committee
Hazen
Committee On Education
State Board of Education
Committee On
Committee On Appropriations
House Proceedings Spotlight Births and Bills in Connecticut Chamber
The house chaplain marked Rep Eli C Birdseys seventh birthday as his desk stood with flowers while members congratulated him. The chamber rejected an unfavorably reported bill allowing Mechanics Bank of New Haven to raise capital and loan to directors and another bill mandating a three quarter hour lunch break for women and children workers. He also noted conferees Healey and Huxford on the detectives pay bill. Petitions to restore rights for Karl Deib and Daverne Landa no were unfavorably reported with leave to withdraw. Hearings for the woman suffrage and labor committees were set for March 4 and 6. Higgins boasted best day since session began as most members avoided smoking. The cities and boroughs panel backed a measure to consolidate Naugatuck town and borough. The house voted to adjourn tomorrow until Tuesday after motion by Mr King.
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Eli C. Birdsey
Meriden
Mechanics Bank of
New Haven
Healey
Waterbury
Huxford
Stamford
Senate
Karl J. Deib
Norwich
Daverne Landano
House Chamber
Woman Suffrage Committee
Labor Committee
Higgins
Coventry
Cities and Boroughs
Naugatuck Town
House
King
Windham
Hemenway’s Red Flag Bill Passes After Amendment
Hartford Feb 26 Senator Hemenway secured the final attack on the red flag bill and saw an amendment adopted aligning it with federal law. The measure, now broadened to cover any colored flags or symbols likely to incite disorder, was passed despite opposition from Senators Klett and Deming. Penalties include 200 dollars and six months imprisonment.
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Hemenway
Hartford
Senate
Klett and Deming
Clemenceau Cleared To Go Out In Paris
Paris reports Premier Clemenceau's health improved enough for doctors to permit him to go out. The February 26 note notes his condition as stabilizing and his physicians lifting restrictions on his movements as he recovers.
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Clemenceau
Paris
Clemencescu
Bolshevism Will Lose in England
London reports that Bolshevism will not prevail in Britain despite unrest. Observers cite public memory of Russia, a minority radical element, and government resolve to use force backed by unions to curb disruption. The piece notes planned housing, schools, farms, and unemployment reforms, with strikes likely until labor gains are assured. Pr L Caulkins and wife return from Florida on the 1:36 train.
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London
Great Britain
British Isles
Russia
Paris
America
England
Labor Party
House of Commons
J. R. Clynes
G. H. Robert
Will Adamson
Freedom of Sea Issue Settled by League Plan
Washington February 26 President Wilson will tell the Senate and House foreign relations committee at a White House dinner that freedom of the seas is no longer a universal issue. He will say the matter faded when the league would include all nations, removing neutral status and the threat of naval armament. Administration sources expect rapid crystallization of the League’s fate after tonight’s dinner, with no immediate congressional enc sements sought. The life of the present Congress expires next Thursday, and endorsement would have little value. The president will outline that Europe is war weary, a League is needed to end wars, and allied powers agree the league must be created. He will also discuss that the league does not violate the U S constitution and that the public will support ratification. He aims to explain the drafting process and the necessity of united action among nations.
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Robert J. Prew
Aren
Wilson
United States
League of Nations
Lloyd George
London
Eniai
Russia
Germany
Marshal Foch
John O'Kelly
Sinn
O’kelly
Paris
Ireland
Europe
Greece
Mr. O'Kelly
Rts
de Valera
Sinn Fein
Sean O’callaigh
America
Samuel
American Tion of Labor
Imoll
Gompers
France
Washington
Senate and Hous Foreign Relations Committee
White House
League
Congress
Broad
Italy
Senate
Ndt
Sper Biel Lang
Great Britain
Cummins
Law
Turkey
Homer S Cummins Named National Democratic Chairman
Homer S. Cummins of Connecticut was elected chairman of the national Democratic Committee succeeding Vance C. McCormick who resigned months ago to go to Europe. The committee also named J Bruce Kreiner and Samuel S Amidon as vice chairs, with E G Hoffman as secretary and W R Hollister as executive secretary.
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Washington
Homer S. Cummings
Connecticut
National Democratic Committee
Wags
Vance C. McCormick
Europe
Cummins
J. Bruce Kreiner
Butte
Mont
Samuel 5. Amidon
Wichita
Kan
E. G. Hoffman
Fort Wayne
Ind
W. R. Hollister
Jefferson City
W. D. Jamieson
Shenandoah
Wilbur W. Marsh
Waterloo
Col
John I. Martin
Militants in Boston Cry Out Over Hunger Strike Abuse
Boston reports say militant suffragists on hunger strike in jail face outrageous treatment and deteriorating health as sister members of the National Woman's Party protest arrests and demand action. An appeal to President Wilson is sent urging swift passage of the suffrage amendment before Congress adjourns.
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Boston
National Woman’s Party
Peters
Bolster
Massachusetts
Wilson
Vote On Strike Question By 15000 New England Telephone Workers
Fifteen thousand telephone workers in New England voted today on whether to strike to press for higher wages and to restore collective bargaining with management. Ballots will be counted Friday at a meeting of the New England joint council of electrical workers in Boston. The circular from Miss Julia S. O Connor urged members to vote, noting a nationwide strike could follow and involve organized and unorganized workers, with an audience with President Wilson sought.
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New England
Boston
New England Joint Council of Electrical Workers
Julia S. O’connor
Boston Operators Union
Wilson
Markets Bureau Reveals Wheat Stocks At 223 Million Bushels
Washington February 26 Nearly triple last year’s holdings stockpiles amounting to 22397556 bushels of wheat in elevators warehouses and grain mills from 11 529 firms. Figures show other cereals corn oats barley and rye totals with specific bushel counts.
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Markets Bureau
Washington
Feo
Bureau of Markets
Department of Agriculture
Wallace Wallace Wallace New Ambassador to France
President Wilson named Hugh Campbell Wallace of Tacoma Washington to be ambassador to France, to succeed Ambassador Sharp. The nomination was sent to the Senate from Washington as Wilson returned to the United States aboard a George Washington message.
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Wilson
Tacoma
Sharp
Washington
Hugh Campbell Wallace
F Rance
Senate
Wallace
Wash
Washington, D. C
George Washington
United States
Turmoil in Dusseldorf Amid Conflicting Reports
Conflicting dispatches from Dusseldorf indicate ongoing street fighting as government troops arrive. Spartacists resist surrender, seizing telephone and telegraph offices and severing communications, while other reports claim disorder is abating.
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Dusseldorf
London
Spartacides
Bankrupt Block case vs Terryville mortgages in court
In Waterbury on February 21 Judge Peck presided over Louis Block bankruptcy proceedings. Oscar R. Haase of Terryville Coal & Wood and State Comptroller Morris C. Webster, holding second and third mortgages on the Block farm, indicated readiness to present evidence that the mortgage was a bona fide transaction.
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Waterbury
Louis Block
Terryville
Carleton B. Hoadley
Peck
Oscar R. Haase
Terryville Coal & Wood Company
Morris C. Webster
Block
Land Reclamation Bill Reported For Soldiers’ Land Return
Washington reports that the Senate Public Lands Committee favorably reported Secretary of the Interior Franklin K. Lane’s bill to appropriate 100 million dollars for land reclamation for returning soldiers. The measure aims to aid veterans by securing and developing land for settlement and home ownership.
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Washington
Secretary of the Interior
Franklin K. Lane
Senate Public Lands Committee
Democrats To Push Appropriations In Senate
Washington February 26 Democratic members of the senate in conference today decided to push all actions through the senate to close the present session of Congress.
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Washington
Senate
Cummins Sets Substitution Plan Against Paris League
Washington, Feb 26 senator Cummins spoke against the Paris league proposal. He warned it would bind the United States to humiliation and disaster, especially the mandatory powers over Turkey. He outlined a substitute plan emphasizing arbitration, universal consent, moral influence, ostracism for noncompliance, and disarmament as paths to lasting peace.
Ranger Will Case Confession Ties Cunningham to Fraud
Judge Lockwood testified in Miss Edith Ranger's trial that Richard H. G. Cunningham of Stamford confessed to drafting a fraudulent will copy aimed at seizing the $300,000 Ranger estate. The testimony detailed Cunningham's January 31, 1918 confession and related affidavits and conversations involving Charles Wexler, Mrs. Louise Godberg, and executor Charles Phelps.
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Lockwood
Cunningham
New York
Richard H. G. Cunningham
Stamford
Conn
Edith Ranger
Henry Ward Ranger
Miss Ranger
Charles Lockwood
Charles Wexler
Wilson anxious for retention and labor service support
President Wilson seeks to safeguard retention of the eminent labor department service and push oil lands leasing and Kenyon reclamation measures. He may address Congress before sailing, and officials say no confidence vote is needed as the League of Nations remains tied to the peace treaty. Congress actions on water power and related bills are uncertain amid adjournment risks.
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Washington
Wilson
Congress
League of National Administration
Senat
J. Hamilton Lewis
League of Na
Cation
Senate
House
Department
Labor
Kenyon
France
New York
State of Siege Declared at Munich in Bavaria
The cabinet declared Communist headquarters at Munich in a state of siege amid martial law already in force. Prussia was held back from sending troops against the Spartacides in Munich due to anti-Prussian sentiment in Bavaria, while Bavarian delegates to Weimar were intercepted at the Prussian Bavarian frontier.
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Munich
Weimar
London
Eee
Atunich
Bavaria
Communists plan uprising with Eisner funeral
Berlin reports via London that radicals intend an uprising tomorrow coinciding with the funeral of Kurt Eisner, late Bavarian premier. The Abend Express claims an attempt to force soviet ism on Prussia, though the paper is considered unreliable.
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Berlin
London
Kurt Eisner
Prussia
Senate probes Palmer Alien Property Custodian
Washington February 26 Senate commerce committee faces investigation into the administration of the Alien Property Custodian A Mitchell Palmer. The resolution was introduced in the Senate this afternoon amid calls for scrutiny of Palmer’s handling of alien property affairs.
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A. Mitchell Palmer
Washington
Office of Alien Property
Commerce Committee of
Senate
Two Expected To Die As Result At Gun Battle
Chicago February 26 Steve Ki organizer for the Moving Picture operators Union and J H Smythe business agent of the Journeymen Plumbers Union are wounded in a revolver fight at a Chicago labor meeting. Smythe back wound and Hollister three wounds in back neck and thigh are hospitalized unable to talk. Charles Bubal a Plumbers Union member was shot in the hand. Four hundred men were searched and questioned, police linking the incident to rival federations planning a local split.
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Chicago
Steve Ki
Moving Picture Erators
J. H. Smythe
Journ
Plumbers Union
Chicago Journeymen Plumbers’ Union
Smythe
Helliher
Charles Bubal
Plumbers’ Union
Who
Maurice
President Won’t Call Extra Session Until After Europe
President plans no extra session of Congress until after his return from Europe. Senator Martin of Virginia, after a White House conference, stated it would not likely occur before June 1.
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Washington
Wilson
Congress
Europe
Martin
Virginia
Senate
White House
Soviet for Saxony Declared as Berlin Dispatch Urges Soviet
Copenhagen reports rad icals in Saxony prepare to proclaim a soviet bolshevik to Berlin police today. Quiet otherwise, riots seen in Bavaria. Communists in Ruhr district refuse to surrender weapons as government troops move in to arm them.
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Saxony
Copenhagen
Berlin
Bavaria
Ruhr
Rhenish
Prussia
Winchester Hearing Adjourned in New Haven Meeting
The adjourned meeting of the Wine Repeating Arms Co in New Haven was pushed back one week due to the pendency of a temporary injunction case brought by Jersey stockholders. A motion to lift the injunction was heard in federal court here.
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Winchester
New Haven
Wine Repeating Arms Co
Jersey
Holcomb Can Attend Hartford February 26 Statement
Hartford news service reports Governor says he can attend events, despite uncertainty about his appearance. officials note Holcomb referenced scheduling constraints and potential travel issues while confirming his participation in planned engagements in the city.
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Holcomb
Hartford
Govermorgh Comb
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