Dingley Opens Tariff Debate In Long House Session
The House spent over two hours on the tariff bill with Speaker Dingley outlining revenue gaps and protection aims. He argued for a practical tariff remedy to restore employment and prosperity, detailing sugar and wool duties and the need to raise revenue while boosting domestic industries.
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Lodge Immigration Bill and Senate Actions Reported
The Senate approved a resolution requesting information on Dr. Ruiz’s death in Cuba. It reported the Lodge bill restricting immigration and Pettigrew’s free-homes bill on public lands, with action promised soon. Additional Indian and land bills were placed on the calendar, Chandler introduced alien anarchist exclusion. Executive session confirmed Powell Clayton as minister to Mexico and several other appointments.
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Cuba
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Frye
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Mexico
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London
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Paris
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Ohio
Sylvester Peterson
Ada
Minn
Presidential nominations sent to Senate March 22
The president transmitted nominations to the Senate including Joseph L. Bristow for assistant fourth postmaster general in Kansas Interior Binger Hermann of Oregon as commissioner general land office Justice J. P. Elliott district attorney of South Dakota Treasury Ernest G. Timme of Wisconsin as fifth auditor Navy Commodore Joseph N. Miller to be rear admiral Also note on forest reserves the sundry civil bill amendment is seen as largely powerless. cabinet meeting to consider revocation or suspension.
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Oregon
Land Office
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Wilson
Interior Department
Nomination Favorable for Willis Van De Vander
The senate judiciary committee reported favorably Willis Van De Vander of Wyoming for assistant attorney general in the interior department. The action comes as Washington notes the nomination moving ahead tonight.
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Willis van de Vander
Wyoming
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Cyclone Rips Through Appalachiol Valley Killing Children
A Gulf of Mexico cyclone struck the Appalachicola valley near Arlington and Blake ly causing widespread destruction. In Arlington academy a group of about 30 pupils sheltered with two cabins lifted and debris crushed several children and killed many including Ollie Parramor Claude Roberts and Maude Johnson. as rivers rise in Henry county Alabama floods devastate farms and drown Richard Manson and his family of six.
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Terrible Breaks in the Levee and Flood Distress
Mississippi River at Memphis falls slowly as Carruthersville and Sans Souci levee breaks worsen distress. Drowned reported near Horn Lake. Refugees housed in Memphis with tents sought from Secretary of War. Spillover along Illinois Central and Iron Mountain lines improves rail service while other towns face rising waters. Ice gorge on Missouri threatens further overflow and Sioux City reports danger abated.
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Rivers begin to drop after high water flood
The rivers are receding with waters going down and ice cleared, though ice gorges remain on the Missouri. Rail traffic has resumed from Sioux City except the Milwaukee line crippled by lost bridges and washed out tracks. Twelve bridges swept away near Sioux Falls as the Sioux River rises higher than the 1881 flood.
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Delicate Question of State and Cuban Debt
The United States faces a delicate issue in Cuban relations as debt collection resumes. After the Spanish government suspended creditors a year ago to protect planters, Washington issued a formal protest. Now that the decree has expired and debt laws are back in effect, American planters fear foreclosures and loss of sugar operations, complicating a second protest without weakening the first.
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State Department
Direct Trade Brings Cattle to Liverpool From Galveston
Galveston inaugurates direct cattle trade with Liverpool as steamship Cuban sails with 80 head. Boston capitalists promote the venture, asserting Galveston could export 100,000 cattle a year and sustain regular Gulf to Europe steamers. Chicago cattlemen doubt Gulf export will rival New York shipments.
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Power selected to lead Montana Sheep Commission
In Helena on March 22 ex-Senator Thomas C power was chosen as president of the Montana Sheep Commission organized under a new law. A state veterinarian will inspect sheep across Wyoming Utah Idaho and Dakota for infectious disease control and import readiness. Governor Smith named ex-Senator David E Folsom to the Capitol building commission, replacing R S Ford who declined. Elizur Beach also declined, and the governor struggles to fill several removed commissioner posts.
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Board of Sheep Commissioners
United States
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Capitol Building Commission
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Armenians Killed in Church as Crete Blockade Fails
Constantinople reports a failed Crete blockade with Greek troops well supplied. Turkiye shifts, Edhim Pasha halts reinforcements due to scarce provisions. In Tokat Armenians attacked in a church, fifteen killed, raising fears of renewed massacres.
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Gallipolis
Tokat
The Profits On Bryans Book Half To Bimetallism Cause
In Lincoln Nebraska on March 22 Hon W J Bryan pledges one half of royalties from his book The First Battle to the bimetallism cause and forms a committee to allocate funds. The distribution includes 400 to James K Jones 1500 to J A Warner 1500 to W V Allen and 500 to H M Teller. Bryan based the division on the vote from the four parties represented by the committee members.
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James K. Jones
Arkansas
Henry M. Teller
Colorado
Wm. V. Allen
Nebraska
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Mr. Bryan
Stuart Still in Fight Business in Carson
Carson March 22. Dan Stuart has not ordered tearing down the arena for the Corbett Fitzsimmons fight. R A Livingston denies rumors of selling lumber or exiting the fight business. Stuart plans to use the arena again in September or October for another carnival with fights and other attractions. He will return in May to begin advertising the autumn carnival.
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Dan Stuart
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Stuart
Martin dies in Las Palmas after marrying Victoria Woodhull
Mrs Woodhull Martin widow of London reports her husband John Rudolph Martin died Saturday in Las Palmas Canary Islands. The couple had married Victoria Claflin Woodhull.
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Canary Islands
Women’s Christian Temperance Union seeks ban on kinetoscope Corbett fight
A 300000 member WCTU petition to President calling on Congress to prohibit kinetoscope showings of the Corbett Fitzsimmons bout in DC and territories. Frances Willard urges morality backed by governors, state officials, and purity departments to suppress such exhibitions nationwide.
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United States
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District of Columbia
Frances E. Willard
Katherine Lente Stevenson
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Woman’s Christian Temperance Union
Judge orders cancellation of consolidated mortgage bonds
Judge Jenkins directs Special Master Carey to cancel 574000 of the Northern Pacific Railroad Company consolidated mortgage bonds. The bonds, belonging to the new company, are to be delivered to the Northern Pacific Railway. The new company waives its share in 2000000 of bonds pledged with Northwest Equipment Company. Remaining 4762000 in bonds were pledged to secure receivers' certificates now owned by the new company.
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Archbishop Ireland Opposes Kinetoscope Fight Exhibition
Archbishop Ireland in Washington denounces a planned kinetoscope display of the Corbett Fitzsimmons bout as barbaric and corrupting. He condemns prize fighting as a disgrace to Christianity and civilization and urges leaders to block its exhibition nationwide.
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Washington
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Estates
United States
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St. Paul
Corbett and Fitzsimmons Quietly Social in San Francisco
In San Francisco on March 22 Corbett and Jim Fitzsimmons avoided direct confrontation in a Baldwin cafe as Mrs Fitzsimmons, aiming to protect her husband’s reputation, kept them apart. Brady and Stuart’s manager Wheelock discuss kinetoscope profits and a four-person Vasc scope company tied to the fighters.
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Unknown Man Found Dead Near Tacoma Clump of Bushes
A decomposed body was found a mile from Tacoma. The man hid his identity. letters O T F were found on underwear. An empty whisky bottle and a two ounce bottle with cork out lay beside the body. Authorities deem suicide probable.
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Wash
Senator Wilson's Homecoming and Appointments Policy
Senator Wilson plans an April visit to discuss federal appointments with Republican leaders across counties. He aims to secure unified recommendations for the new McKinley administration and to strengthen party organization for the upcoming general election victory. If factions disagree on a candidate no appointment will be made.
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Wilson
Republican Party
McKinley
Centenarian recalls Battle of Champlain and Lincoln era
March 22 at La Grange a 100 year old neighbor, born in Newton Falls Vermont, recalls the Lake Champlain fight from age 15. He was a friend of Lincoln who first appointed him to a lucrative New York state post office. He chose Rockford's path over Chicago’s rapid growth despite offers of land and vast surrounding property.
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la Grange
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Littl
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In On It Mining Dispute Heads to Court in Victoria
A mining appeal in Victoria BC examines the slang phrase in on it. F A Wells said to be in on a galena find near Three Forks but Petty claims Wells was left out. Four judges hear whether the promise of a half interest forms a partnership.
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B. C
F. A. Wells
Three Forks
George Petty
Petty
Wells
Extradition Granted for Mexican Prisoners in Gomez Case
Washington reports the secretary of state has granted Mexico’s extradition request for Pablo Gomez. The case stems from four years ago when Mexican filibusters led by Benavides were arrested in the United States on charges including murder robbery and other offenses in Mexico. The Texas Supreme Court later reversed Judge Maxey’s ruling that the prosecutions were political, and the secretary approves the extradition requests for the men.
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Secretary of State
Pablo Gomez
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United States
Mexico
Maxey
Supreme Court of Texas
Representative Phelps Accused of Withholding Petition
Stevens County residents charge Representative Phelps refused to present a petition signed by more than 450 citizens seeking Stevens County division and a new county. They allege he replied as tax author that he was not in favor and wrote letters urging remonstrances to be sent for presentation with the petition.
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Wash
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Pereone
Governor Rogers appoints two to state dental board
Dr Lee Baker of Port Townsend and Dr T L Burkhart of Tacoma named to the state board of dental examiners for the term ending March 4, 189. They succeed Dr B S Scott of Ellensburg and Dr Hicks of Tacoma. The new members favor a charter for a new dental college in Tacoma.
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Wash
Lee Baker
Port Townsend
T. L. Burkhart
Tacoma
State Board of Dental Examiners
BS. B. Scott
Ellensburo
Hicks
Sailors Blessed by the Pope in Rome Mass
A detachment of 100 sailors from the cruiser San Francisco arrived from Naples to attend the pope's mass. After the service the pope blessed them and expressed deep appreciation for their homage. The Rt Rev. Gabriel D D bishop of Ogdensburg, New York, has arrived.
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Greece and Turkey urged to resolve Crete crisis
Athens reports gale across the Aegean complicating a blockade as Turkish troops remain on Crete. Admrials refrain from stopping provisions cargoes and Greeks insist only removal of Turks will prove Europe’s sincerity. Muslims and Christians in Palestine brace for possible war as British troops loom.
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Greeks Arm While Crete Braces for War Across Aegean
Dispatches from Constantinople and Athens report Greek islanders arming and drilling as war looms. Turkish camps in Flassona see spies executed. Greek sharpshooters clash near Pramada. Crete faces blockade and possible shortages as Vas sos’s forces strain to hold. Salisbury ministry faces pressure amid Crete anxieties and Gladstone’s letter impact.
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Vassos
Turkish Forces Massed at Elassona and Veria Report
A party entering Elassona reports Turkish forces totaling about 35 000 with 160 field guns and another hundred at Veria. Greek and Turkish outposts atop Melouna pass fraternized while rumors spread of Prussian officers arriving. Athens hints at Crete purchase with palace linked mediator visiting Colonel Vassos with secret instructions.
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Durrant Builds Case for Supreme Court Rehearing
Theodore Durrant remains in critical condition as counsel George A. Knight joins efforts to file a Supreme Court rehearing petition for a new trial. The filing will be submitted without argument, aiming to avert execution if denied by the district attorney. If federal courts do not intervene, only the governor can halt the gallows.
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Figld
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Fitz Dodges Ex-Champion as Corbett Chooses Route to Fame
In San Francisco Corbett sought Fitzsimmons at his hotel but was dodged by a side-door escape. Corbett states he will not fight anyone if a rematch with Fitzsimmons cannot occur. He mentions an offer to manage a New York athletic club at a handsome salary and may accept if his stage plans progress.
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Referee Siler in a Smash-Up
Green River Wyoming March 22 eastbound Union Pacific passenger train struck the rear of the freight at 2 35 in the morning injuring three men George Siler Louis Housman Jim Wakeley and others returning from the fight at Carson were shaken up but none suffered serious injuries
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