Tariff Bill Cuts Duties and Seeks New Revenue Measures
The house bill introduced by Representative Serena E. Payne proposes downward revisions to duties, a 20 percent average tariff over the present rate, and a revenue rise from 40 to 50 million dollars. It includes inheritance tax support, free sugar and tobacco from the Philippines, Panama Canal bond issuance, and higher cigarette taxes with selective removals and reductions across metals, leather, glass, wool, and pulp.
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House
Serena E. Payne
Ways and Means
Taft
Philippines
Treasury
Mann Committee
Payne bill cuts duties and sets reciprocity in tariff plan
The proposal reduces duties on refined sugar and dextrin, starch, and zinc ore while lowering pig iron rates and raising levies on lemons cocoa and coffee substitutes. It includes maximum and minimum rates, broad reciprocity with coal and agricultural implements, and a tiered inheritance tax. The bill also outlines patent rules for aliens and expands drawback provisions. House Ways and Means to meet today to review the measure with plans for quick reporting. Senate Finance to begin immediate consideration by Republican members.
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America
New York State
Great Britain
House Committee On Ways and Means
House Committee
House
Payne
Champ Clark
Aldrich
Senate Committee On Finance
Senate
Committee
Finance
Murder of Petrosino Ignites Nationwide Mafia Crackdown
The killing of Joseph Petrosino spurred a countrywide police response against Black Hand and Mafia gangs. In New York City wholesale arrests followed and the immigration service launched strict checks on aliens arriving at Ellis Island. Petrosino had worked to shield honest Italians here from blackmail by Camorra and mafia factions.
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Joseph Petrosino
Palermo
Sicily
New York City
Immigration Department
Hillis Island
Petrosino
Black Hand
Camorra
Italy
York
Subcommittee Appoints Members to Review Payne Bill
Aldrich Burrows Penrose and Hale named to a subcommittee to study the measure. Hale argues the bill harms Maine pulp and paper and vows to resist. House debate expected with long sessions and potential early Senate report after House passage. The Payne bill adds a broad drawback provision and changes in inheritance tax exemptions and rates.
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Messrs
Aldrich
Rhode Island
Burrows
Michigan
Penrose
Pennsylvania
Hale
Maine
Senate Committee
House
Senator Hale
Elephant Ready for Roosevelt
Mombasa March 18 Baron Tallyan de Vizent reports splendid sport with hippopotami on the Upper Tana river. Eland gin and oryx stalking is good though rhino interfere. A Transvaal Boer leader was mauled by a lioness at Nairobi. Entebbe hosts Theodore Roosevelt who will be shown a trained elephant to aid travel amid tsetse fly infestation.
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Tallyan de Vizent
Nairobi
Mombasa
British East Africa
Baron Tallyan de Vizent
Tana
Entebbe
Uganda
Theodore Roosevelt
H. Hesketh-Bell
Uganda Protectorate
Bell
Toosevelt
Keepers' Guilty Proven in Ellis Island Escape Case
Ellis Island detentions chief says guards connived with Francis Louis Boissonade to escape last August. After sixteen hours of sawing steel bars with improvised knives, Boissonade abandoned a renewed escape bid. Watchorn vows action and says several island employees under suspicion will be discharged.
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New York
Francis Louis Boissonade
Ellis Island
Boissonade
Robert Watchorn
Liberty
Watchorn
Washington
Unnamed dream aircraft surpasses Wrights in size strength
The piece claims a futuristic plane is wider and longer than the Wrights’ craft, twice as strong and high, with two more propellers, yet cannot fly. The quotation appears in the Houston Post reflecting speculative aviation talk.
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Wrights
Houston Post
Women to Appeal to Taft in Suffrage Petition
At the Indiana Woman's Suffrage association annual meeting in Logansport on March 18 a petition to President Taft imploring the right to vote was started. The group plans to circulate the petition through every state with other affiliated organizations.
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Indiana
Logansport
Ind
Indiana Women’s Suffrage Association
Taft
Carriers Join Strike Halting Paris Telegraphs and Posts
Paris reports a broad strike as letter carriers join telegraph operators and mail clerks in a post office department walkout. The movement spreads across the city and France, isolating Paris from the outside world, with eight thousand strikers pledging to continue the fight to the end.
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Paris
Marcd
Post Office Department
France
Naval Y M C A Building at Norfolk Dedicated
Norfolk Va March 18 The naval Y M C A building funded by John D Rockefeller has been dedicated. The $300000 structure provides club like comforts for enlisted men and contrasts with officer facilities. Weather forecast lists rain in Illinois Indiana colder tomorrow.
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Rockefeller Y. M. C. A
Norfolk
Naval Y. M. C. A
John D. Rockefeller
Ilinois
Indiana
Lower
Michigan
Wisconsin
Iowa
Despondent Investor Commits Suicide in Zion City
New York March 18 Despondent over losing five thousand dollars of life savings in Zion City New Jersey Ludwig Augusti seventy one years old killed himself by hanging.
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Dochelle
New York
Zion City
Ludwig Augusti
Taft Accepts Gridiron Club Spring Dinner Invitation
President Taft has accepted the invitation to attend the Gridiron club annual spring dinner set for April 17 in Washington.
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Taft
Washington
The
Gridiron Club
Death at the Gate The Torch on a Heretic
In a stark line the executioner declares high stakes as he applies the torch to the condemned heretic. The Yale Record frames a brutal scene of public punishment underscoring the era’s harsh penalties.
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Yale Record
Chicago Market Hogs Cattle Sheep Report March 18 1909
Markets show hog receipts 28000 with mixed prices from 6 30 to 6 90 for heavy shipping grades and rough hogs. Cattle 3500 weak. sheep 14000 steady. Estimated receipts 28000 tomorrow with declines and varied hog and beef values across bulk light mixed packers and western cattle. Furnished by Beach Wickham Grain Co. Chicago.
Train Plows Through Wall Near Station After Boiler Burst
Four dead and thirty injured in a Canadian Pacific Boston Montreal express wreck three miles from Montreal station. The locomotive broke a washout pipe causing scalding steam to fill the cab. the engineer and fireman leaped clear as the train demolished a granite pillar and roared into the women's waiting room.
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Montreal
Canadian Pacific Railway
Alcohol labeled as having no clear medical value at meeting
Washington report on the semi annual meeting of the American society for the study of alcohol and other drug narcotics notes medical scientists split on alcohols therapeutic uses with some saying few or none and others cautioning unknown dangers from its beverage and medicinal use led by Henry O Marey and Howard A Kelly remarks warn of social and health perils from alcohol use.
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Washington
American Society For the Study of
Henry O. Marey
M. D
Poston
Mass
American Medical Association
Howard A. Kelly
Johns Hopkins University
Five Insurance Firms Sued Over Doctor’s Death Conspiracy
The widow of Dr. Frederick Rustin of Omaha sues five accident insurers in Louisville claiming Dr. Rustin and an Omaha woman conspired to have him killed. Policies total about $40,000.
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Louisville
Frederick Rustin
Omaha
Austin
Ex Governor Taylor Dies in Madison at 89
Former Wisconsin governor William R. Taylor died in Madison at age ninety eight? Actually eighty nine years old. Elected governor in 1873 during the granger movement, leaving a mark on state politics.
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Taylor
Madison
Wis
William R. Taylor
Wisconsin
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W. J. Nixon
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