Taft's Stand on Liability Law and Carrier Compensation
President Taft transmits the employers liability and workmen's compensation commission's report. The proposed bill provides exclusive remedies for injuries to interstate railroad employees, with medical care, notice, adjustment, and court review. It limits attorney fees and offers annual or life payments, arguing constitutional validity under commerce and due process. Three objections are reviewed, including interstate commerce scope and jury trial guarantees. Taft hopes the measure passes as progress in employer employee conflicts.
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Senate
House of Representatives
Employers
Congress of the United States
Supreme Court
Pitney Nominated to U S Supreme Court to Fill Harlan Vacancy
President Taft sent to the Senate the nomination of Mahlon Pitney chancellor of New Jersey as associate justice of the United States Supreme Court to fill the vacancy caused by the death of Justice Harlan. Pitney, born 1858 Morristown educated at Princeton, served in New Jersey politics and on the state supreme court.
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Taft
Senate
Mahlon Pitney
New Jersey
United States Supreme Court
Harlan
Pitney
White House
John W. Griggs
United States
Judge Pitney
Pitney Tous
Morristown
N. J
Princeton University
Morris County
New Jersey Supreme Court
Widow of James J. Fisk Jr. Dies in Boston at 76
Mrs. Jas J. Fisk Jr, widow of the Broadway hotel shooting victim, dies at 76 in South Boston. The Fisk tragedy occurred forty years earlier when James J Fisk Jr was shot by Edward S Stokes over Josie Mansfield.
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Boston
James J. Fisk, Jr
Broadway Central
New York
Edward S. Stokes
Josie Mansfield
Stokes
Fisk
Fred B. Bowker
Foltz Announces Cali State Senate Candidacy
Mrs. Clara Shortridge Foltz a Los Angeles lawyer and suffrage leader announces a bid for California State Senate from a Los Angeles district. She pledges to introduce a bill to create a public defender office elected like the district attorney if she wins.
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Los Angeles
Cal
Clara Shortridge Foltz
State Senate of California
Foltz
Office of Public Defender
Knox Route Unchanged After Colombian Protest Letter
Washington reports no change in Secretary of State Knox's Central America itinerary after a protest letter from the Colombian minister. The State Department will await direct word from Bogotá before altering plans.
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Washington
Knox
Central America
Bogota
Supreme Court Decisions Slice Through Intricate Law Questions
The United States Supreme Court handed down several rulings. Heirs of executed criminals cannot recover on life insurance. Oklahoma’s gross revenue tax on corporations is invalid. Texas medical license law upheld. Colorado tax law invalid. Minnesota gross revenue tax upheld as fair. Carmack amendment reaffirmed for carrier liability. Immigrant return passage law declared illegal. Italian estates case limited by state laws. Unset pearls admitted with 10 percent duty. refund $110,000. Cincinnati case over railroad tracks in parks lost. Assault convictions can lead to homicide trial. Sponge bed conservation law deemed unconstitutional but seizure rights upheld.
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Oklahoma
Texas
Colorado
Minnesota
United States
W. B. Leeds
City of
Cincinnati
Louisville and Nashville Railroad
Falls heir to $1 000 000 heiress in New York
Miss Mary Chase a New York maid employed by Mrs. G. W. Allen inherits from her uncle Hiram Chase a fortune near one million dollars. Chase a forty nin er died recently in the west leaving the heiress as his niece.
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New York
Mary Chase
G. W. Allen
East Firthy Sixth Street
Hiram Chase
West
Pioneer settler Jason Lathrop dies in Kenosha
Jason Lathrop longtime pioneer settler of southern Wisconsin and for fifty years county surveyor in Kenosha died in the city on February 20.
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Wisconsin
Kenosha
Wis
Jason Lathrop
Eurveyor
Tennessee mob kills three in courtroom lynching
A Nashville area lynch mob storms the jail after shooting down three Black defendants during a circuit court preliminary examination of a murder case linked to Special Officer S. W. Everson. Deputies free the bodies into the jail as tension rises and fear of further bloodshed mounts.
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Shelbyville
Tenn
S. W. Everson
Coalition of Japan and China Against U S Threat
The Pall Mall Gazette reports Japan and China may unite to oppose American racial exclusions. Osaka Asahi Shimbun cites growing prejudice against Japanese in the United States and contrasts it with Japan’s openness to Americans. Washington debate on Senator Isaac Stephenson's seat continues with a minority urging vacancy.
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Pall Mall Gazette
United States
Japan
China
America
Osaka Asahi Shimbun
Europe
the Gazette
Manchuria
Washington
Isaac Stephenson
Wisconsin
Senate Committee On Privileges and Elections
Senate
Stephenson
Kenyon
Clapp
Jones
Lea
Kern
Pinkerton Detective Details Plan To Free Brandt With Money
John Rogers testified that Mortimer L. Schiff officials planned to pay Brandt to leave the country instead of sending him to jail. He described brain tests by alienists and a prewritten confession signed by Brandt under coercion, while noting the scheme as a frameup.
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John Rogers
Pinkerton
Mortimer L. Schiff
Foulke B. Brandt
Schiff
Grand Jury
Brandt
Rogers
Mr. Schiff
Macon
McDonald
Brand
China’s new republic flag raised in Europe
In London on February 20 the new Chinese republic was physically recognized as legations across Europe replaced the imperial flag with the republic’s. Chinese diplomats will attend court events in formal dress and European barbered hair as the new standard.
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London
Europe
Fire fatality at Sapulpa farmhouse destroys children
A farmhouse near Sapulpa Oklahoma burned killing two children and likely fatally burning three others. The blaze started at the Fred Clark residence and investigators were unsure of the cause.
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Sapulpa
Okla
Fred Clark
Hearst Backs Champ Clark for President Nomination
Hearst openly supports Speaker Champ Clark of Missouri as the Democratic nominee for president, declaring his stance from San Francisco on February 20. The endorsement signals a clear alignment with Clark in the race for the White House.
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Hearst
Champ Clark
San Francisco
William Randolph Hearst
Missouri
United States
Boyce Fights for Mother in Snead Trial Scene
In Fort Worth on February 20, Lynn Boyce burst toward the defense examiner after his mother, Mrs Boyce, testified for the state in John Heal Snead's murder case. Six men had to separate him from the courtroom scene. A second item notes London reports a pending miners strike with expectant wage actions and factory and hotel stockpiling.
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Fort Worth
Tex
Lynn Boyce
Snead
Boyce
Supreme Court rules on initiative and referendum power
The Supreme Court invalidates direct legislation challenges and dismisses cases seeking to test initiative and referendum in Oregon. Justice White warns that judicial power cannot override republican government, leaving Congress with final say on state constitutional questions.
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Coast Telephone and Telegraph Party
Oe Legisia
Frank Kiernan
Portland
Wet Publican
Justice White
Congress
Oregon
Ultmately
Rumors of Manchuria Uprising Stirments in China
Reports from Peking claim rumors of a general uprising in Manchuria to establish a constitutional monarchy. The supposed revolt might be led by Viceroy Chao Ehr who defied the republican government. President Yuan Shi Kai warned of the harshness there but would not deploy the army except as a last resort.
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Peking
Manchuria
Chao Ebhr
Yuan Shi
Powers Make Agreement on Spanish Zone Expansion
Madrid reports a tentative agreement to widen the French influence in the Spanish sphere and to increase French control in exchange for Spain’s compensation to France for sacrifices in Morocco. The division references the 1904 treaty limits between France and Spain.
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Madrid
France
Morocco
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