Democrats Score Administration on Wool Bill Report
Washington June 6 Democrats in the ways and means committee submitted a report on the Underwood wool bill crit icizing President Taft and the tariff board. The document argues the presidents earlier public admissions would have helped the people and accuses him of responsibility for tariff revision failure. Debate to start in the House tomorrow with Republican opposition led by Payne and signals a stubborn fight ahead.
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Underwood
Taft
Tariff Board
Washington
Republicans
House of Representatives
Ways and Means Committee
Congress
Steel Trust
House
Payne
New York
Lorimer Inquiry Resolution Introduced in Senate
Senator Dillingham introduced a resolution by the senate committee on privileges and elections to appoint an eight member special committee to reinvestigate the Lorimer charges. Senator Culberson objected to immediate consideration and the measure was laid over. The named senators are Dillingham Gamble Jones Kenyon Johnson Fletcher Kern and Tea. Canadian Reciprocity follows with administration hoping for finance committee report.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lorimer
Washington
Senate Committee On Privileges and Elections
Dillingham
Senate
Culberson
Gamble
Jones
Kenyon
Johnson
Fletcher
Kern
Tea
City council maps southern extension of ditch to Portneuf River
The city council acts on extending the east side ditch to the south limits to outlet water this year. Property owners south of town may extend the ditch at their expense to gain surplus water. If not, a waste canal will be built to the Portneuf River.
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Portneuf
Congdon
O’malley
Bistline
Brown
Red Hill
Rothas
Gas Plant Head Seeks Water Franchise for Pocatello
J A Jones head of the Pocatello Gas and Power company presented an application for a second water system in Idaho's Gate City. He asked for a conference committee to negotiate terms, claiming rates 30 to 40 percent cheaper than the existing Pocatello Water company. He cited reservoir site plans and government approval to locate on forest reserve, and noted talks with Pocatello Water's owner ended at a prohibitive price.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
J. A. Jones
Council
Pocatello
Weidemann
Rothas and Hutson
Jones
Idaho
Pocatello Water Company
Gate City
Mr. Jones
J. A. Murray
Butte
Murray
Captain Winter
Millionaire Visitors Tour Idaho Under Governor Brady
Close to fifty millionaires visited Pocatello as guests of former Governor James H. Brady president of Western Development association. The party included C F Kounts F H Davis and John T Burke and W C Ross of Omaha. They toured American Falls hydroelectric plant and Gate City, then Idaho Falls and Boise, expressing admiration for Idaho’s growth and forecasting Pocatello as a future major intermountain city.
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Omaha
Pocatello
American Falls
Idaho
Brady
First National Bank of Omaha
James H. Brady
Western Development Association
C. F. Kounts
F. H. Davis
First National Bank of
John T. Burke
W. C. Ross
Governor Brady
July Wheat Closes at 91 Percent in Market
Trading notes report July wheat closing at 91 percent of a standard reference on June 6, with only partial context from the day’s transactions.
Expert to Attend Big Good Roads Gathering in June
J H Dodge, top American good roads expert, will attend the second annual Inter Mountain Good Roads association meeting in this city June 22 to 24. Secretary William Wallin says Dodge will represent the Bureau of Roads in the Department of Agriculture after Congress and senators urged his dispatch. A jewelry factory sample of association buttons arrived by express, and Wallin plans to confer with Utah executive committee member Robert Shelton in Salt Lake to arrange Governor Spry’s address.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
J. H. Dodge
America
Inter-Mountain Good Roads Association
William Wallin
Association
Paul D. Sargent
Bureau of Good Roads
Department of Agriculture
Washington
Heyburn and Borah
French
Mr. Dodge
Bureau
Wallin
Salt Lake
Robert Shelton
Utah
Shelton
William Spry
Revenue problem puzzles council as funds vanish
Ordinances require city to construct 35770 dollars worth of concrete walks corners and street crossings but no money exists. Plan to recall part of sewer bond issue and reissue improvement bonds to be investigated.
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John P. Congdon
Congdon
Ecouncil
Pocatello
Commercial Club
First Avenue
Nampa
Caldwell
Weiser
Idaho Falls
Twin Falls
City Dads Pass Long Meeting on Ice Cream Ordinance
City council held a prolonged adjourned session to address a new ice cream manufacture and sale ordinance and its first reading. Quorum was tight with several aldermen absent and Alderman Hutson the lone vote against a permit for waste paper cans on principal street corners.
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Halliday Street
Martin
Trapp
Doty
Harry Wade
Farmers & Traders Bank
Warren L. Dull
Dull
Earle D. Jones
Alderman Hutson
Hutson
North Main
Lander Street
M. Nixon
Lincoln Avenue
Pocatello Urges Site for Mrs Harriman Memorial University
The Pocatello city council adopted a resolution urging Mrs. E H Harriman to consider the city as the site for a technical university in memory of her late husband. The council planned to send the resolution to the Commercial club and to W H Bancroft of the Short Line for transmission to Mrs Harriman during her summer visit to the Island Park area.
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E .H. Harriman
Gate City
Pocatello
Technical University
E H. Harriman
Intermountain
Idaho
Pocatello Commercial Club
W. H. Bancroft
Short Line
Harriman
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Democrats
Finance Committee
Highway and Light Committee
Charles D. Hilles
New Yorker
Philip P. Campbell
Kansas
Canada
American Press Association
Idaho Consolidated Power Company
E. C. White
Boise
Kouitz
Middle West
Uncle Sam
John Chipp
Chipp
Ogden
United States
Turner
Andrews
Leavenworth
Mrs. Clipp
Sam
Bureau of Roads
Department of
J. W. Jenson
Utah Agricultural College
Logan
Utah State Highway Commission
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