Stone Opposed All Amendments in Reciprocity Talks
Washington DC June 24 A dozen Democratic senators at an informal conference voiced opposition to all amendments to the reciprocity bill and to adding house free list provisions except meats and groin products. Senator Root is expected to oppose early vote amid plans to adjourn soon. Senator Stone rejects tweaks while Simmons of North Carolina sees a path to include tariff reductions in reciprocity.
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King and Queen review fleets at Portsmouth
King George and Queen Mary with foreign representatives attended the naval review off Spithead in Portsmouth. Seventeen nations sent vessels including ten British dreadnoughts and the visiting German Dreadnought Von Der Tann, while the American battleship Delaware led the first in line. The British contingent totaled 170 ships, with fleets spanning about eighteen square miles.
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Wage dispute blocks Joplin Pittsburg interurban service
In Pittssburg Kansas on June 24 strike by 10 percent of motormen and conductors on the Joplin and Pittsburg electric railway halted interurban service to Joplin Columbus Girard Mulberry Cherokee and twenty other towns and mining camps due to an unresolved wage scale dispute.
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Associated Press
Pittssburg
Kans
Joplin
Roosevelt Knew of Hines Story In Lorimer Probe
Associated Press reports that the Lorimer Investigation broadened as the Senate panel allowed questioning of International Harvester officials about motives behind Lorimer's bid. Henry for Lorimer called the Harvester claim that Edward Hines sought ten thousand dollars for the Lorimer fund a fabrication. Herman Kohlsaat testified Roosevelt knew of the tale last fall, shared it with Roosevelt before a Chicago dinner, and told LaFollette and Root by letter.
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Associated Press
Washington, D. C
Lorimer
Senate
International Harvester Company
Funk
Edward Hines
Henry
Theodore Roosevelt
Hines
Herman H. Kohlsaat
Chicago Record-Herald
Kohlsaat
Roosevelt
Chicago
Kohlsaar
LaFollette
Root
Governor appoints three to state capitol commission
Oklahoma City reports Governor Croce appoints Lon M. Frame Ardmore Z. B. Howard Tulsa and Eugene Morris Duncan to the state capitol commission. All serve until March 1 1915 with no extra pay beyond board salaries. Morris replaces Dr Lao F. Bennett Muskogee. After the $25000 first installment reaches the state treasury July 1 the commission will begin preliminary steps to erect the capitol.
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Oklahoma City
Lao FE. Bennett
Muskogee
Morris
Bennett
Capitol Commission
Circuit Court Declares Pacific Union Merger Legal
St Louis June 24 The merger of the Southern Pacific and Union Pacific railroads was ruled legal by the United States circuit court of the eighth district Judge Hook filed a dissenting opinion saying the government petition was well founded and should have been granted The government's suit in equity filed three years ago in Salt Lake City charged conspiracy and a Sherman antitrust violation
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Associated Press
St. Louis
Mercer
Southern Pacific
Union Pacific
United States Circuit Court of
Eighth District
Hook
Salt Lake City
Favorable Senate Action on New Mexico Arizona Statehood Plan
The senate committee on territories voted six to three to report favorably the house resolution admitting New Mexico and Arizona to statehood. The Arizona constitution’s recall provision would be resubmitted to voters. Light amendments to the house measure were approved.
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Associated Press
Washington, D. C
Senate Committee On Territories Today
House
New Mexico
Arizona
Death by own action a private affair says academy
A committee of the American Academy of Medicine in Los Angeles urges press restraint on publishing death by own action. It proposes a separate color page for personal crises, studies the link to suicides, and asks editors to test publication effects with coordinated monthlong bans and data sharing.
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Los Angeles
Cal
American Academy of Medicine
Press of America
United States
Entering Contracts With Two Negro Lawyers Questioned
Oklahoma City June 24 The contracts alleged between J Milton Turner a St Louis negro attorney and S T Wiggins an Ardmore negro attorney as Turner and Wiggins with Charles Cohee and other Chickasaw and Choctaw freedmen seek to obtain citizenship rolls for allotments. Turner sought $11 400 balance and $680 already paid. The freedmen deny contracts and claim signatures were forged. The case hinges on 1906 agreement to win tribal membership for freedmen via Dawes rolls.
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Liberia
Supreme Court
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T. Wiggins
Ardmore
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Charles Cohee
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Dawes Commission
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Freedmen's Organization
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Taft vows veto if any Canadian reciprocity bill amendment added
Washington June 24. President Taft said during a long distance call from Providence that he would veto the Canadian reciprocity bill if any amendment were attached. He spoke to several senators about the matter, confirming his firm stance at the capitol.
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Associated Press
Washington, D. C
Capitol
Taft
Providence
Geologist 10 Investigates Fertilizer Deposit in Oklahoma
Norman June 23 Oklahoma experts from the geological survey and agriculture board joined federal scientists to probe deep wells in western Oklahoma for potash and other fertilizing salts. A young Oklahoma University geology graduate will collect drill samples at Hooker and nearby sites to determine if dolomite gypsum and salts occur, with potential state wealth in the balance.
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Chemical Laboratories
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Ness City Fire Destroys Light Plant and Mill
Ness City Kansas on July 22 was struck by a large blaze that destroyed the electric light and ice plants and a sizable mill. Officials estimate the loss at about one hundred thousand dollars.
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Ness City
Associated Press
Kans
Oklahoma City and Vinita Postmaster Battles in Washington
Washington notes postmaster appointments and renewals in Oklahoma as Representatives Morgan and Gore navigate reappointments for Oklahoma City and Vinita. Taft may reappoint Butler at Vinita while Cherokee and Kingfisher cases stall in Senate action.
Hines Asked For Ten Thousand In Lorimer Aid
Washington, June 26 Funk, GM of International Harvester, testified before the senate Lorimer investigation committee that Edward Hines of Chicago sought a ten thousand dollar contribution toward Lorimer’s hundred thousand dollar election fund. Hines allegedly cited costs to secure Lorimer’s victory at Springfield and promised reimbursement with the aid.
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Washington, D. C
Funk
International Harvester Company
Senate Lorimer Investigation Committee
Edward Hines
Chicago
Lorimer
Hines
Springfield
Lines
Contempt Rule Issued Against Labor Leaders in Bucks Store Case
Washington June 26 Justice Daniel Wright in the district supreme court issued a rule against Samuel Gompers Frank Morrison and John Mitchell requiring them to show cause on July 17 why they should not be found guilty of contempt of court. The action follows a report by a special committee of attorneys appointed by Justice Wright to investigate contempt proceedings in the Bucks Store and Range boycott case.
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Washington, D. C
Daniel Wright
District of Columbia Supreme Court
Samuel Gompers
Frank Morrison
John Mitchell
Wright
Bucks
Captain Jarvis Commits Suicide in Seattle
Captain D. P. Jarvis, vice president of Booth Wisheries and former head of Guggenheim interests in Alaska, shot and killed himself in the Arctic Chub today in Seattle Washington on June 23.
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Seattle
Wash
D. P. Jarvis
Booth Wisheries Company
Guggenheim
Alaska
Arctic
Government Defeated Over Army Command in War Plan
Paris June 23 government defeated in chamber of deputies on the question of supreme army command in case of war. Minister of Premier Monla decided to resign.
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Paris
France
Chamber of Deputies
Monla
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