Senate Panel Deliberates Panama Canal Type and Governance
Four major Panama Canal questions faced by Congress include sea level versus lock design, construction by government or contract, Canal Zone governance, and Isthmian Canal Commission reorganization to three members. The committee leans toward contract construction, maintained Zone control by the President, and a three member commission with defined duties.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Panama Canal
Isthmian Canal Commission
Senate Committee On
Jta
Senate
Executive
Washington
Canal
Congress
Shonts
Shoats
Reorganized Commission
Glover Leaf Railroad
Bishop
Rehun
Joseph Bucklin
Canal Enterprise
Bishop Q
Vir
Adi
Canal Zone
Morgan
Republic of Panama
Senate Committee On Finance
Vir Aldrich
Canal Commission
Canal Committees Consider Panama Railroad Leasing Plan
The committee favors leasing the Panama Railroad and Steamship Line to the canal contractor who builds the canal, to operate the railroad for commercial business. Suits and claims exceeding 1000 dollars loom as Panama Railroad Company bears damages while Shonts faces questions on alleged mismanagement during the isthmus work. He will confer with General Manager Schwerin in Panama City to curb traffic congestion.
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Corps of Engineers
Panama
Shonts
Cor Frontme
Panama Railroad Company
United States
Charman
Panatre
Schwerin
Pacific Mail
Fortifying the Panama Canal Sparks Government Split
A heated dispute over fortifying the Panama Canal pits the Panama Canal Commission against the Army General Staff. The commission cites Hay-Pawnee foote treaty spirit against fortifications, while the Army plans elaborate coast defenses. The issue, with neutrality concerns, may go to Congress for resolution.
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Panama Canal
Panama Canal Commission
General Staff
Great Britain
United States
General Staff of the
Army
Army and Navy Board
Thme
Adinistration
Congress
Porto Rican Governor Defends Island Administration
Gov Winthrop faced charges from San Juan Mayor Todd on insular affairs. He admitted officials used government buildings as residences but tied it to initial McKinley appointments and the pink palace. He defended a Porto Rican coffee promotion and urged War Department harbor improvements and new piers for the island.
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San Juan
White House
Roosevelt
Gov Winthrop
Porto Rico
Committee On Insular Affairs
Todd
Winthrop
McKinley
Gav Winthrop
Supreme Court
United States
Oper
Lerrianga
Cooper
New York
Secretary of War
Typhoid Fever Outbreak Tops City Figures in April
Pittsburg reports twenty four hour total of 56 typhoid fever cases, raising the city total to 471. Physicians grow concerned as this peak matches the highest nine year period, with the bacteriologist blaming swollen rivers and rising waters before spring floods subside.
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Pittsburg
Pittsmrs Pa
Rainey Talks Tariff Mail Subsidy and Alcohol
The House discussed post office appropriations amid tariff debate as Rainey defended tariff revisions and denaturized alcohol. Speakers pressed for larger post office facilities, immigrant taxes, and railway mail subsidies while others urged budget cuts and wage increases for carriers. The day closed with Byrd addressing tariff policy and Republican protectionism.
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Kutehin
Rainey
Watch Trust
Calder
New York
McGavin
Chicago
Bennet
Newark
Wow Axterim
North Corona
Washington
Atlanta
Orleans
Kansas City
Newton Kans
Generali
Byrd
Mississipp
Republian
House
Changes in Insurance Bills Introduced by instrong Committee
Albany April 6 legislative committee hearing life insurance business introduced a new bill and amendments to old ones. The act expands eligibility for stock life policyholders to be elected as directors regardless of stock ownership. Amendments tighten joint stock corporations limits on political contributions, with exemptions for political-purpose bodies. Lobbying reforms require reporting promises to pay legislative agents, with fines replacing charter forfeiture. Amendments accepted. snail action likely next week.
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Albany
Charles E Hughes
Attack on Ohio laws in court aims to void saloon license act
A planned test case argues Governor Pattison was incapacitated when the Aiken bill passed and that the constitution required a governor's signature. The suit, led by Timothy McDonough, would also target the local option residence district law, tying the challenge to a constitutional provision on presenting laws to the governor.
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Cleveland Olne
Pattison
Olivo
Timothy McDonough
Cuyahoga County
General Assembly
Massachusetts Supreme Court
Command Changes Shift Military Posts in 1900s
Brg. Gen McCaskey is ordered to command the Department of Texas and Brg. Gen Bubb to the Department of Dakota. Col M B Hughes and Col O J Sweet had held those posts for months. Gen McCaskey now leads the Department of the Colorado in Denver. Bubb, promoted from colonel of the Twelfth Infantry, is in the Philippines.
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McCaskey
Texas
Bubb
Dakota
William McCaskey
Department of Texas
John W. Bubb
Department of Dakota
M B Hughes
Second Cavalry
O J Sweet
Twenty Eighth Infantry
Department of the Colorado
Denver
Coommand
Twelfth Infantry
Philippines
Washington Boy Passes Army Commission Exam
Bruce McGruder of Washington, a sergeant in the Eighty seventh Company Coast Artillery, will soon be commissioned as a second lieutenant after passing the examination at Governors Island. Through his efforts as captain of the Cadet Company of the MCA, that unit was mustered into the National Guards of the District.
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Bruce McGruder
Washington
Eighty-seventh Company
Coast Artillery
Governors Island
Young McGruder
MCA
National Guards of the District
Two Year Cruise Idea Opposed by Bonaparte
Secretary of the Navy Bonaparte does not approve a plan for midshipmen to complete a two year cruise before entering the Naval Academy as a hazing preventive. He doubts its value, saying discipline at Annapolis should improve under the new Congress passed hazing penalties and will not push further changes until the current measure proves effective.
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Naval Academy
Bonaparte
Iife
Naval Service
Secretary of the Navy
Congress
Annapolis
Navy faces exodus as 243 civil staff resign
The Navy Department confronts a public relations issue due to a surge of resignations and declinations in its civil branch. Secretary Bonaparte reports 243 war department employees resigned or declined appointments in the first three months of the year, a record high for the period.
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Navy Department
Bonaparte
Lieut Burbank Arrives Led Army Band in San Francisco
Sheridan arrived from Manila with prisoner Sidney Burbank formerly a lieutenant in the Sixth Infantry Trent Burbank was court martialed and censured for conduct unbecoming an officer and a gentleman He was discharged from the army and sentenced to fifteen months in Fort Leavenworth after renouncing his Filipino wife and reporting to the War Department that he was single.
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San Francisco
Sheridan
Manila
Sidney & Burbank
Sixth Infantry
Trent
Burbank
Fort Leavenworth
Kans
Henay
War Department
Army Orders and Promotions in 1908 Navy-Led Reassignments
Army orders list Captain Reginald McNally and others extended or assigned for several months, including surgeons and medical staff. It notes transfers to San Francisco and New York depots, chief surgeon duties in Department of the Lakes, and promotions from fleet to captain for Charles N. Barney. Also mentions a board at Fort Banks for Medical Corps applicants and routine duty reallocations. The piece closes with naval items: St Louis speeds, Midshipman Campbell resignation accepted, and Bonaparte memo on Philippine command structure.
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Abcence
Reginald McNally
Dave Fleet
Willan
San Francisco
Cal
Louis Brechemin
Col Brachemin
Nwill
New York City
William B Davis
Gol Davis
Wil
Chicago
Department of the Lakes
Charles N Barney
Reokna
Chamberlain Yee
General Hospital
Presidio of
Fort Logan Cole
Hexry
Webber
Medical Corps
Army
Fort Banks
Mars
Ernest Hinds
Artillery Corps
Army and Navy General Hospital
Hot Springs
Ark
Ata Fepper Station
Hubert K Spilier
Twenty Sixth Infantry
Newark
Wll
Philadelphia
War Department
Wi Department
Surkeon
Stephen M Long
United States Army
Philippine Islands
Port Bayard
Will Punish Hazers Calls on Admiral Sands
Secretary Bonaparte has asked Admiral Sands to come from Annapolis to Washington to discuss charges against thirty five Naval Academy midshipmen tied to hazing incidents. Two were court martialed, three arrested for court martial preparation, while the rest await possible discipline under the new act.
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Bonaparte
Jpiral Sands
Naval Academy
Annapolis
Washington
Academe
Jag
Fire Devastates Butler Georgia Business District
A large fire swept through Butler Georgia damaging fifteen storehouses and business establishments. The blaze began in a cotton warehouse and burned the Masonic Hall, with estimated losses around 55000 and insurance totaling 10000. The disaster occurred today in Macon and Buller areas, disrupting commerce in the city.
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Butler
Macon
Buller
Masonic Hall
Von Buelow Reels From Fainting to Resume Work
Berlin reports Chancellor von Buelow recovering after fainting in the Reichstag. He slept, woke refreshed, and declined reading papers on medical advice. He plans to return to official duties with rest expected to restore him fully.
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Berlin
von Buelow
Reichstag
Renvers
Foreign Office
Princess von Buelow
Germany
St Margherita
Rapalio
Genoa
Princess Minghetti
Baron Sternburg
French Strike Continues at Sellan Mines
Lens France April 6 miners delegates decide to resettle the companys offers and will continue the strike until demands are met. Salvage work goes on with no recruits as coffined bones are recovered from Sellan mines pits and some heartrending identifications occur while managers face threats from agitators.
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Sellan
Lens
France
Tt 13
Sallan
Beaten to Death by Robbers in Scranton Drayman Murder
Special to The Washington Post from Scranton Pennsylvania reports George Wisniewsky a forty year old Polish drayman with his own team was found dead near his yard early today. His head bore wounds from stones a goat lay nearby a belt with forty dollars was missing from his waist suggesting robbery. Wisniewsky lived alone and the assault is believed to have occurred just before dawn in an apparent robbery. In New York City the Bowery Methodist Mission project was reported as purchased by the New York East Conference to establish a mission for destitute men at a property on Bowery with the price not disclosed.
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Washington Post
Scranton
George Wispawisky
Wisenwisky
Methodist
Bowery
New York
New York East
Methodist Eiscopal Church
Brooklyn
Wat
Michigan
Fishermen Refuse to Pay Fine Over Newfoundland Seizures
Gloucester and Ansport fishermen rally around schooners A B Whyland and Elector after Newfoundland authorities seize them for alleged treaty violations within the three mile limit. Owners defer fines pending orders from home as Secretary of State Root is alerted. Hearing on John R Walsh tied to Cluesso National Bank case continues to April 16.
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Gloucester
Mase
State Department
Washington
Whyland
Elector
Newfoundland
Three Mile Hmit
Newfaynndland
Ansport
Five Million Claims Plotted in City Filtration Case
Philadelphia April city files equity bill against contractors and former officials over a municipal filtration plant. The suit seeks fifty thousand dollars allegedly retained improperly, naming Israel Durham James Nichol Nichol’s wife Daniel Nichol John Mack and others formerly with Daniel J McNichol & Co. William Hardeck Peter Coe and John W Hi are named as public works directors and filtration bureau chief. Mayor Weaver’s private counsel Kinsey and former Judge James Gordon swear to the bill.
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Philadelpha
the Common, Pleas Court
Cato
Kinsey
James G Gordon
Weavers
Israel
Durham
Elit
James FP
Nichol Ananstagia MeNichol
Daniel J Memechol
John M. Mack
Daniel J McNichol
Maper
Ins Comiss
City begins first visit tied to inquiry into filters
The document marks the initial audit by the city since the investigation into the filter construction commenced. Many statements align with the Nitrat ion Commission report signed by Cassius E. Griffith as a commission member before the November election.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
DF. McNichol & Co
Nitratior
Mau Cassius E Ghllette
Labor Problems to Top Agenda at Academy Meeting
The American Academy of Political and Social Science opens its tenth annual session in Philadelphia with labor issues set to dominate discussions. Commissioner Charles P. Nedi presided as speakers from unions and industry addressed trends in work life and arbitration, including Adolph Strasser, Frederick L Hoffman, James ONeill, Denis A. Hayes, and Robert Hunter.
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American Academy of Political and Social Science
Phiadelphia
Charles P Nedi
Frederick L Hoffman
Newark
Adolph Strasser
Cigdrmakers’ Union
Shicase James Oneill
Washington
International Association of Machinists
Denis A. Hayes
Philadelphia
Glass Bottle Blowers Association
Robert Hunter
iNew York
Jon Graham Brooks
Camb . Moss
H ~Reeland
New York City
Botasy Company
Samuel B Donnelly
Arbitration Board
New York Building Trades
George H Ejiis
Boston
United Typothetae of America
William B Prescott
Baltimore
International Tipoertphical Chion EE
Clark Cedit Rapids
Order of Railway Conductors of America
Beverly Smith
New York
Ure Lithographers Association
Rise Liars and Salute Your Queen
A fragment covers a satirical take on accuracy and belief centered around a teacher claiming Grape-Nuts is made from stale bread. It notes a spectrum of tribes and travelers who accept or reject the tale, then hints at a cattle ranch round-up and branding metaphor. The piece ends with a description of Grape-Nuts’ digestion properties and a serving method for infants.
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Ananiay
Brand Theas
Grape-Nuts and Postum Promotion Controversy
A letter-willed critique accuses teachers and demonstrators hired by Sanitarium affiliates of promoting products with false or questionable claims. It alleges coercive tactics, doctored endorsements, and a doctor issuing biased answers in a sponsored magazine. The piece references a New York incident and a $1000 gesture for a brave whistleblower.
Second Pasture Trade Papers and Brand Advertising Debate
The excerpt criticizes grocers trade papers and claims of slander aimed at Fostum or Grape-Nuts. It portrays tribe members demanding advertising in papers and suggests legal action to silence critics. It uses animal imagery to argue for maintaining control over branding.
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