Fifty third Congress actions on Hawaii Utah and state bills
The Senate and House diary covers routine sessions from Monday to Thursday detailing attendance, votes, and debates. It notes Hoar’s demand for Blount’s appointment authority, the push to repeal federal election laws, the Hawaii commission issue, and the Utah and New Mexico statehood bills advancing through committees and floor actions.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Senate
Colquitt
Georgia
Irby
South Carolina
Lindsay
Kentucky
Morcan
Alabama
Perkins
California
Augusta
Harris
Tennessee
Hoar
Blount
State Department
Hill
Committee On
Gorman
Wear
Hawaii
Lut
Collom
Frye
Committee On Privileges and Elections
House
Mitchell
Higgins
Chandler
War Department
Ford
Voorhes
Comittee
PE House
Wheeler
Utah
Dingley
District of Columbia
Nebrasa
Cuberson
Reed
Melhine
Arkansas
Secretary of the Interior
Fort Cummings
New Mexico
Rio Grande
Utah Territory
Meyers
Messrs
Kilgore
Sayres
X. Kilgore
Messrs. Rawlins
Moore
Messrs. Simpson
Committee On Naval Affairs
Myers
Louisiana
Powers
Vermont
Hitt
Harrison
Dockery
Catchings
Arizona
Coal Operators Meet In Roanoke And Rail At News
Forty leading Pocahontas coal operators gathered in Roanoke Virginia to discuss mining interests. Lyman resigns as Civil Service Commission president, Proctor named successor. Bennett returns to Paris after two months abroad with recovery from accident complete. Tennessee National Guard elects Major Ward over Brigadier Gen Carnes. Labor federation in Chicago declines tariff action on Bridgeport wag workers complaint after McKinley act and Wilson bill. Buffalo arcade fire destroys block including Robinsons Music and Shen’s concert hall. Verta building damaged. total loss about 1.5 million. Dazey case granted continuance in Nashville bank conspiracy trial due to notice and witness issues.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Pocahontas
Roanoke
Lyman
Civil Service Commission
Commission
Proctor
Paris
James Gordon Bennett
Riviera
Bennett
National Guard of
State of Tennessee
Nashville
Sam T. Carnes
Memphis
5. T. Carnes
H. ©. Ward
Supreme Courtroom
Ward
Carnes
American Federation of Labor
Chicago
Bridgeport
Buffalo
N. Y
Arcade
Robinson
Shen
New York
Verta
Faxen
Williams & Faxen
Sage
George A. Dazey
Frank Porterfield
Commercial National Bank
Dazey
Connecticut
Texas
Prendergast Trial Opens In Chicago Amid Agitation
Assistant States Attorney opened the Prendergast trial outlining the prosecution plan. Mr Todd praised Mayor Harrison and noted Lincoln Garfield assassinations as parallels. Defense attorney Wade to speak. Todd argued the defendant was sane at the murder and showed strong personal safety instincts during and after the shooting. Prendergast grew pale and shifted in his chair as the story was told.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Chicago
Prendergast
Todd
Harrison
Lincoln
Garfield
Wade
Farmers Congress Opens Annual Session in Savannah
The National Farmers Congress began its annual session in Savannah with fewer than fifty delegates present. Vice President Purse presided as Governor Meldrim and others welcomed attendees. Debates covered education, railways, waterways, and potential government railroad control, with Needham and Burkitt delivering addresses and a plan for railroad policy debated amid discussions of silver remonetization.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
National Farmers’ Congress
Savannah
Smith
Kansas
D. G. Purse
Georgia
P. W. Meldrim
Savaunas
C. B. Hounds
Maine
State Agricultural Society
J. T. Wade
Waddell
Daniel Needham
New England Agricultural Society
Colonel Needham
B. F. Clayton
Congress
Alabama
Florida
Ilinois
Indiana
Iowa
Massachusetts
Michigan
Mississippi
Nebraska
North Carolina
South Carolina
Pennsylvania
Rhode Island
Tennessee
Vermont
Virginia
West Virginia
Clayton
Purse
Farmers
Clute
Lake City
Fla., Agricultural Institute
G. W. Slaughter
Boston
Mass
West
General Burkitt
Professor Sauls
South
Colonel Needlham
Mr. Tewkesbury
Needham
Union Pacific
Australia
J. H. Slaughter
H. J. M. Stahl
Quincy, IL
Congress Urges Rural Delivery and Highway Plans
Leaders push for extended free mail delivery and faster service with minimal cost, urging no rate cuts until three deliveries weekly in each township over ten per square mile. They advocate a national highway system benefiting agriculture and all citizens, and announce officers for the next session to meet October 3, 1894 in Parkersburg West Virginia.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Taries
Gult
Atlantic
Congress
Post Office Department
Union
B. F. Clayton
Iowa
G. M. Ryals
National Capital Notes on Tariffs and Appointments
Government actions include a 5,000 pound smokeless powder contract awarded to California Powder Works in Santa Cruz. Changes to the Wilson tariff bill raise yarn, carpets, tin plate, knives, and buttons duties while clarifying ivory on the free list and appoint Judge Simonton to the fourth circuit.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
War Department
California Powder Works
Santa Cruz
Cal
House Committee On Judiciary
Bailey
House Committee On Coinage, Weights and
Charles H. Simonton
Cleveland
United States
State Department
Captain Picking
Rio de Janeiro
Corpus Islands
Encheda
Admiral de Gama
Burk
Pernambucco
Saxony
Wilton
Brussels
Carpenter appointed pension agent for the entire south
Knoxville dispatch reports Major D A Carpenter named pension agent for the entire south covering eleven states with annual disbursements around seven million dollars. He will assume the office January 1 after a weeks long expected appointment. Carpenter previously held the post during the latter half of Cleveland's first administration.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
South
Knoxville
Tenn
D. A. Carpenter
Carpenter
Cleveland
Bishop Lyman Dies at Raleigh Home
Rt. Rev. T. B. Lyman bishop of North Carolina died at his Raleigh home Wednesday morning of heart failure. Born in Boston in October 1815 he was eighty years old. He served as a priest in Maryland Pittsburgh Rome Italy and San Francisco and was consecrated assistant bishop of North Carolina in 1874.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bishop Lyman
T. B. Lyman
North Carolina
Raleigh
Boston
Maryland
Pittsburg
Rome
Italy
San Francisco
Is the Shadow of Death and a Passenger Tragedy
In a tangled tale a desperate woman Mildred Cleveland flees a house after a forged note, a perilous train ride ends in a deadly wreck killing a young woman and leaving Mildred badly injured. Eugene Cleveland discovers the tragedy as a mysterious assailant watches from a distance. The chapter introduces Oscar Slyme, the ambitious private secretary to Sherwood Elliston, whose duplicitous nature foreshadows deeper scandal.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mildred
Meta
Vernon
Eugene
Chapteer
Forty-second Street
Grand Central Depot
Riverside
Cos Cob
New Haven
Yen
Port Chester
Greenwich
Bunt
Ugene Cleveland
Jim
Sherwood Eilisten
Cora Elliston
Indy
Mildred L. Cleveland
Eugena Cleveland
Oscar Slyme
Grand Central
Sherwood Elliston
Mr. Elliston
Connecticut
Department of State
Washington
New York
Ingersoll School
United States Senate
Slyme
Elliston
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the Farmers’ Congress
Savannuah
Great Lakes
Alice P. Carriston
Indi
Erin
Bridget
Eugene Cleveland
Vernon House
Hera
Eugene Cleveand
Arkansaw Traveler
Charlie
Brooklyn
Uluzen
Yonkers Statesman
Puck
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