How Bills Enter Law In Parliament
The article explains legislative procedure for private members and government bills in the house and senate. It notes that in the house a bill requires permission or notice, while money bills must be authorized by a committee of the whole and only by a minister. Private member bills have very limited scope and rarely become law.
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Congress
House
Senate
House of Common
A. Maurice Law
Appleton
Beauty or Brains Four Literary Women Interviewed
The New York Weekly reports four literary women were asked if they prefer cleverness or beauty. Each favors beauty for its immediate social power, noting beauty earns attention and reverence, while cleverness may gain fame only after death.
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New York Weekly
Ireland Trade Aims for Crocodile Skin Link To U S
Ireland shows a strong trade surplus with imports of 268 million dollars and exports of 226 million in 1904, indicating a creditor nation with income from abroad. Butter exports reached 15 million, livestock and meat 114 million, whisky 20.5 million, crops and fruit 8.38 million, while manufactured exports were 48.3 thousand only. imports of manufactures were 87 million. A Calcutta trade note urges India US crocodile skin trade, India’s leaky transport hinders Brazil farmers hope? professor William T. Foster Bowdoin English professor, earliest education and early college funds.
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Ireland
Baltimore Sun
Reland
William T. Foster
Bowdoin Collage
Multiple Iowa incidents report from Keokuk to Nevada
A roundup of local Iowa items notes T J Farmer wrecking a Keokuk saloon, Percival and Lock. Ray Wyatt injured near Voorheis. Edgar Skinner killed in Cheroksa while coupling. Mrs Mary Peterson at Waterloo in critical condition after finger wound. a Panama City water tank fire from an old stove. J J Brown of Kansas filing saloon suits in Council Bluffs. Martin Schreiber injured by acetylene blast in Sibley. and a boy near Atlantic injured coasting. Additional notes cover legal actions, indictments, salvage cases, a Burlington murder confession rumor, and various accidents and outstanding warrants.
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Keokuk
Percival & Lock
Ray Wyatt
Voorheis
Bill
Edgar Skinner
Ilinois Central
Cheroksa
Mary Peterson
Waterloo
Panama City
J. Brown
Kansas
Council Bluffs
Brown
First National Bank
Sibley
Martin Schreiber
Sioux City
Guy Gaskill
Wiliam Gassill
Atlantic
Hichelberger
Centerville
Adlai Stevenson
Reform School
Eldora
Earl Stevenson
Albert Stewart
Wyckerff
Earl
Grand
Clayton County
Dittmer
Citizens’ Gas and Electric Company of Waterloo
Canfield Lumber Company
Canfields
Gs Company
Canfisids
Justice Court
Milton Ward
Caillicothe
Albia
Dr. Ward
Wapello County
Ottumwa
Lovell Construction Company
Calking Water Mains
Ward
Burlington
John Gavin
New London
Henry County
Mount Pleasant
Itas
Zimmer
Marengo
T. E. Coover
Ben
Thompson
Tha Oharge
Burlington Ayer Noo
Suet
Mount Pleasan
Ayn Bi Thormpeon
Congress seeks probe of cotton exchange and blasts oil trust
A condensed national summary notes the House committee favors a Livingston resolution to investigate the New York cotton exchange by the commerce department. The Interstate Commerce Commission criticizes Standard Oil, while agricultural funds gain free seed distribution. Roosevelt faces attacks over constitutional reach, and rail, canal, and defense matters appear amid a wave of deaths, accidents, and political volleys.
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Livingston
New York Cotton Exchange
Department of Commerce and Labor
Interstate Commerce Commission
Standard Oil Company
House
Rayner
Maryland
Roosevelt
Wadsworth
New York
Agricultural Committee
California
Middle West
Mixed 1900s News Briefs Highlight Riots and Deaths
President Roosevelt praised Admiral Davis for aid to Kingston Jamaica and urged Navy thanks. Senator Perkins warned of an inevitable US Japan conflict. Edward Hipple, brother of a defunct trust president, died by his own hand in Philadelphia. Nebraska Senate killed an anti Christian Science bill. Harrisburg fire destroyed eight central buildings with 250000 loss. Troy Waste Building burned with 800000 loss. Mrs Russell Sage donated 1000000 to Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute. Arctic navigator Capt Arthur Jackman died in St John’s aged 64. Ed Krause, Cleveland magnate, died of stroke at 62. Missouri Senate panel backed a 25 cent stamp tax on futures. Bastrop Texas school superintendent Col Edmonds assassinated. attorney Brooks arrested. Charles Everly pleaded guilty to embezzling 6000 from St Louis Union Trust. Large margarine seizure by St Louis agents, over 1000 pounds. Henry Magruder and Henry Bell died in Rome and Nashville respectively. McKinley birthday celebrated in DC and other cities. Tolstoi rumors denied by son. Two killed in a Fontainier Indiana powder unit blast. Behrens indicted for 42000 bank embezzlement in Germany. Portland poorhouse care for Bret Harte’s daughter noted. Seven thousand naphtha workers strike at Baku. Train collision near South River, Maine.
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P. A. Hipple
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Troy
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Mra
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