Unholy Alliance Moves Tariff Agenda In Congress
Democratic leaders in caucus approve adding iron and steel schedules to the cotton tariff bill. Senate action expected today with adjournment in Senate hands as Underwood signals readiness to proceed. La Follette may offer a substitute, while a veto on wool remains anticipated.
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Congress
Rep
Penanorial
Underwood
Ays and Means
House
Supreme Court
Bih
Simmons and Overman
North Carolina
Foster and Thornton
Louisiana
Johnston and Bankhead
Alabama
Willams
Mississippi
Ways and Means
William J. Bryan
la Follette
un+ hety
Caucus
le Follette Hus
Senate and House Debates on Tariffs and Cotton Bill
Senate debates on Hourne's plan to seize the unarimony vote and the cotton schedule dominate the session, with Overman urging caution on tariff reductions and a later clash over free list amendments. The House moves on Birmingham Power rights, marriage law uniformity, and an industrial commission bill as conference talks proceed amid party dissent and veto expectations.
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Senate
Hourne
Supreme Act
North Carolina
Committee On Territories
House Committee
Democrata
House
Birmingham Power Company
Black Warrior
Judiciary
Shepard
Texas
Conference of State
Littleton
Bacon
Bankhead
Alabama
Senator Johnston
Johnston
Bristow
Overman
Simmons
Monument to Union Navy in Vicksburg Set for April 16
A granite obelisk memorial in the National Military Park at Vicksburg Mississippi is planned for dedication on April 16 next year. The 202 foot monument features four bronze statues of Farragut Porter Foote and Davis, costs 200000 dollars, and commemorates the naval command during the siege of Vicksburg. A separate proposal seeks a Confederate navy monument in the same park.
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National Military Park
Vicksburg
Miss
Admiral Porter
Farragut
Porter
Foote
Davis
Congress
Stephenson's Judges Named for Wisconsin Election Probe
Senators Heyburn Sutherland Bradley Paynter and Pomerone were named yesterday to a subcommittee to investigate Senator Stephenson of Wisconsin. The panel will organize today and set a date to begin hearings likely September 25 or October 1. Aims include expediting a report to Congress at the next session.
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Heyburn
Sutherland
Bradley
Paynter
Pomerone
Stephenson
Wisconsin
Congress
Veto boosts delay stance on Arizona New Mexico statehood
Amid praise for President Taft's veto on the Arizona recall provision, New Mexico citizens telegrammed support for delaying statehood. Senate and House committees pursue a joint resolution to admit Arizona and New Mexico, with talks focused on excising judicial recall and possible NM constitutional amendments.
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White House
Taft
Arizona
New Mexico
Union
Republican Party
Senate
House
Congress
Wiliam Alden Smith
Senate Territories Committee
Territories
Flood
Smith
Army Orders Outgoing Leaves and Transfers
Army orders list several leaves of absence for Maj Charles H McKinstry Capt Albert N McClure Maj George H Sands Maj James W Van Dusen Maj John C Gilmore Jr Capt William F Clark First Lieut Walter Harvey and others with duty moves to San Francisco Fort Oglethorpe Columbus Ohio and Fort Monroe along with transfers of chaplains and promotion examination duties for multiple officers including Capt John D L Hartman Capt Robert Lu Howze Capt Guy T Preston Capt Edwin M Suplee and others. The document also notes the relocation of officers to join their regiments and posting of medical corps personnel for examining board duties in Washington DC and Fort Leavenworth.
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Charles H. McKinstry
Corps of Engineers
Albert N. McClure
Fourth Cavalry
George H. Sands
Tenth Cavalry
James W.van Dusen
Medical Corps
William F. Clark
Walter Harvey
Twenty-second Infantry
John ¢. Gilmore
Coast, Artillery Coross
San Francisco
Cal
Western Division
Coast Defense
George B. Davis
Columbus
Ohio
George T. Langhornt
Eleventh Cavalry
Fort Oglethorpe
Joseph H Sutherland
Twenty-Third Infantry
Twelfth Infantry
John E. Dallam
William F. Halr
Coast Artillery Corps
William P. Kendall
Fort Riley
Kany
John D. L. Hartman
First Cavalry
Robert LU Howze
Cavalry
Guy T. Preston
Thirteenth Cavalry
Edwin M Suplee
Naymaster
John P. Ryan
Sixth Cavalry
William T Littebrant
Fifteenth Cavalry
Michael M McNamee
Leonard J. Mygatt
Iantry
Hhis
Frederick P Reynolds
Henry P. ‘Birmingham
Army Medical Museum Building
Washington, DC
Robert N Getty
Infantry
Naval Orders and Vessel Movements Report
The report lists Lieut Comdr T Constien and Lieut H Powell assigned to duties in Maine and South Carolina. A H Walsh and A J Menocal are posted to Cavite naval stations. Movements include ships arriving at Sag Harbor Astoria Buffalo Sitka Guantanamo Boston Provincetown and Nagasaki to Hakodate Portland to Astoria Shanghai to Hakodate Port au Prince to Guan tanamo and Boston to Provincetown with several vessels named Ammen Mayrant Lawrence and Rowan among others.
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Maine
H Powell
South Carolina
Nevel
A. H Walsh
Cavite
A J. Menocal
Naval Station
Octopus
Sag Harbor
Lawrence
Rowan
Astoria
Buffalo
Sitka
Chester
Guantanamo
Ammen
Wagrant
Boston
Masrant
Provincetown
Salled
Abarenda
Nagasaki
Hakodate
Albany
Tamanoura
Rocket
Norfolk
Washington
Portland
Yambridge
Viaris Dale
Decatugy
Shanghai
Cheater
Port Au Prince
Mayrant
Publicity Bill Moves to Taft for Signature
The Senate passed the conference report on the campaign publicity bill and sends it to President Taft for signature. It includes a provision that no senator may spend more than $18 and no representative more than $1,000 to secure reelection.
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Underwood
Canada
la Follette
Senate
United States
House
Mann
Taft
Tariff Board
Cassidy
Cleveland
White House
Ralph Cole
Political maneuvering roils Ohio and West Virginia races
Ohio and West Virginia Democrats and Republicans wage behind the scenes battles for governor and congressional seats. Harmon Wilson Dix and Marshall plan influence at Spring Lake governors' meeting. West Virginia contenders Conley Sutherland Montgomery Jeffords and others seek House seat amid intra party friction while Garfield and Foraker factions maneuver in Ohio.
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Dom Washington
Ee Allen Nacht
Wugh
T Aimon Frese Nt
Aten Nighots
Monda ‘Chi
Ohio
Hannon
Convention of Governors of States
Spring Lake
N. J
Guy Wilson
Harmon
Wilson
Gov. Dix
New York
Gov
Marshall
Indiana
Congress
Allen Nichols
Washington
Cox
Dayton
Sharp
Elyria
Denver
Wilmington
Ito
Young Nichols
Columbus
Hanna
Sturglas
William G. Conley
West Virginia
Charleston
Kingwood
Conley
Howard Sutherland
Elkins
Sutherland
Sam B. Montgomery
Sam
Tracy Jeffords
Harpers Ferry
Foreman
Grant County
Senate
Glasscocks
Morgantown
New 250000 Normal School Plans Face Eleventh Street
District officials clash over site size for the Eleventh and Harvard streets normal school. The deed limits building within 30 feet of the street line, prompting a possible change to face Eleventh Street and adjust the assembly hall. Plans face renewed scrutiny as legal questions await Captain Brooke and Counsel Thomas review.
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Board of Education
Eleventh
Harvard Streets
Eleventh Street
Ashford
Harvard Street
James F. Oyster
Hazen
Capt
Mark Brooke
E. H. Thomas
Thomas
Hammond Returns From Coronation Refuses Politics Talk
Boston August 16 John Hays Hammond arrives on the Franconia after serving as special American envoy to the King George V coronation He declines to discuss foreign matters cites official duties While denying a sensational nudge tale he says the report is absurd He approves Taft veto of the Statehood bill and notes mixed sentiment on Canadian reciprocity in parliament American securities are viewed as good in England.
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Court of St. James
George V
John Hays Hammond
Franconia
Hammond
Taft
England
House of Commons
Miss Force Nervous After Engagement Publicity
Special to The Washington Post Miss Madeleine Force fiancee of Col John Jacob Astor remains confined to her room at her father's home 37th street New York under physician care. An automobile arrival by Astor was noted and a lawyer travels to Newport Rhode Island to discuss nuptial finances as Astor seeks a settlement for Miss Force in line with Astor family custom.
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Bird
Coler
New York Democratic Organization
Washington
New Mexico
Arizona
Col
William N. Coler
Stwitzerland
California
United States
Mount Vernon
Ohio
George W. Morgan
Congress
Col. Coler
Champaign
Ill
Stephen A. Douglas
Abraham Lincoln
Lincoln
Douglas
New York
Colter
Eeac
Washington Post
Madeleine Force
John Jacob Astor
Thirty-Seventh Street
Force
Miss Force
Col. Astor
Astor
Newport
R. 1
Madeleine Talmage Force
Lewis Cass Woed
Baltimore Rep Linthicum Introduces Federal Highway Bill
Representative Linthicum of Baltimore introduces a bill to create a Federal highway and automobile commission. It calls for state federal cooperation in highway construction and maintenance, sets interstate licensing, and imposes a registry fee of 25 dollars per vehicle with a 25 million dollar appropriation.
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Linthicum
Baltimore
Federal Highway and Automobile Commission
Maryland Automobile Commission
Flees Convent To Marry Notre Dame Bride Elopes
A French refugee, Miss Roma Romineva, 38, ran away from the Notre Dame convent at Marshall Missouri two weeks after meeting Dr. Beecher B. Baldwin of Elkhorn Nebraska. They wed in Omaha and left for a trip abroad. The elopement followed an illness that brought the couple together.
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Omaha
Nebr
Wey
Notre Dame
Marshall
Mias Roma Romineva
Beecher B. Baldwin
Elkhorn
Baldwin
Vouched for Dick Ryan in Senate document dispatch
Washington dispatch reports Richard S. Ryan, alleged author of the Dick to Dick letter, vouched by Frederick B. Jennings of Stetson Jennings Russell for attorney Morgen to the President. Advance copies of documents to be sent to the Senate were shown. a few senators received them. Full reports and maps will be released within ten days.
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Washington Post
New York
Washington Dispatch
Richard S. Ryan
Frederick B. Jennings
Stetson, Jennings & Russell
J. P. Morgen
Yatt
Senate
Mapa
Bryan accuses Roosevelt of yielding to steel trust pressure
Urbana Illinois August 16 William J Bryan told a chautauqua audience that former President Roosevelt was intimidated by the steel trust into approving the Tennessee Coal and Iron Company merger. He contended the trust could pressure the President with fear of a panic to push its designs.
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Urbana
Ill
William J. Bryan
Chautauqua
Roosevelt
Steel Trust
Tennessee Coal and Iron Company
Bryan
Congressional Investigation Committee
United States
Birth of Christopher Columbus Wilson Jr. in New York
Announcement from New York on August 16 reports the birth of a son to Mr. and Mrs. Christopher Wilson. The infant will be christened Christopher Columbus Wilson Jr. The 73-year-old father, head of United Wireless Telegraph Company, faces a three-year sentence in Atlanta penitentiary with his 19-year-old wife, formerly his stenographer, who married him last August shortly after his indictment.
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New York
Christopher Wilson
Willson
United Wireless Telegraph Company
Atlanta
Christopher Columbus Wilson, Jr
Pacific Fleet to Cruise Toward Hawaii and Return
Four armored cruisers led by Rear Admiral Richard Wainwright will cruise from the Pacific coast to Hawaii with destroyers, leaving San Francisco around September 15 and returning to San Pedro about November 3 for target practice. Wainwright will also plan the Atlantic battleship fleet cruise next winter after the fall exercises.
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Colorado
California
South Dakota
West Virginia
Pacific Coast
Hawaii
San Pedro
San Francisco
Richard Wainwright
Boy Finds Man's Body Near West Point Wood Rack
In the woods near the West Point Military Academy a young man’s body was found hanging from a stake used to support cordwood by 9-year-old Charles Corley who alerted forester Charley Knowles. The body was later brought to town, a towel bearing the Hendrik Hudson steamer name around the neck, and checks payable to Herbert Livingstone of New York were found in the gray suit pockets.
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Washington Post
Murdered butcher Schwabeland identified in Patapsco body
Baltimore August 16 officials identify the body recovered from the Patapsco River Sunday as Charles W. Schwabeland a 24 year old butcher of 82 Garrigan Lane. Police arrest William Sherwood of 1208 Battery Avenue after bloodstains are found on his clothing. Six sailors fined for disorderly conduct in connection with a related fight near Spring Gardens where the body surfaced. Detectives seek Stewart J. Lentz once with Schwabeland on a river trip. Lentz left for Chicago Saturday.
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C. W. Schwabeland
Washington Post
Baltimore
Charles W. Schwabeland
Garrigan Lane
William Sherwood
Battery Avenue
Sherwood
Shewards Point
Stewart J. Lentz
Pennsylvania Avenue
Schwabeland
Lentz
Chicago
Spring Gardens
Chief of Police Murdered in Williamston
Chief W. R. White of Williamston North Carolina was shot by ambush as he returned home. The suspect Brad Bagley recently jailed for liquor selling is held in Martth county jail charged with the crime. A crowd muttered of lynching but tensions remained calm. White is survived by his wife and four children.
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N. C
W. R. White
Brad Bagley
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Mar‘tth
Bagley
Prof Graybill Dead Roanoke Educator and Alderman
Roanoke Virginia August 16 Professor William Graybill died at his home from apoplexy. A renowned educator he served as Roanoke County superintendent and city graded schools principal. He later led Rogersville Synodical College and returned to Roanoke with the National Business College. He was a member of the board of aldermen.
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Roanoke
Washington Post
William Graybill
South
Roanoke County
Rogersville
Tenn
New Target for Navy Caisson in Simulated Battle Ship Test
Norfolk Va Aug 16 Work near completion on an experimental steel caisson to be used as a target for big guns. The 30 foot deep unit mimics a battleship on one face and a cruiser on the other with armor plate, bulkheads, two bottoms, a funnel and coal stores to test resisting power behind armor.
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Washington Post
Norfolk
Navy Yard
Eighteen Skeletons Found Near Woodstock Civil War Remains
Workmen uncover eighteen skeletons during abutment excavation near Woodstock on the Shenandoah River. It is believed they are Civil War soldiers, but their side is unknown. The finding sparks local speculation about the burial site and historical context.
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Woodstock
H. B. Chapman
Shenandoah River
Woman Killed by Lightning in Cape Charles Virginia
Cape Charles Virginia August 16 a 22 year old woman Mrs Leigh Mears was struck by lightning while seated by a window in her Wacha preague home and died instantly She clutched her 17 month old baby in her arms as the room shattered with flying glass the child being badly cut by the debris The room suffered severe damage due to the strike
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Washington Post
Cape Charles
Wachapreague
Leigh Mears
Lodge Treasurer Arrested in Parkersburg W Va
C C Young a prominent lodge figure was arrested on a warrant charging him with embezzling funds from the Paran Encampment of Odd Fellows. He waived examination and will appear before the Weed County grand jury next term.
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Parkersburg
W. Va
C. C. Young
Paran
Odd Fellows
Young
Weed County
Washingtonians Wed in Rockville Ceremony
Mrs Alice B. Scott of 815 Fourth Street Northeast Washington and Harry Albert Rowe of 204 Eleventh Street Southeast Washington were married in Rockville yesterday by Rev William D Keene. The groom was 26 and the bride 23. Post Want Ads Are Free in The Post.
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Alice B. Scott
Fourth Street
Harry Albert Rowe
Eleventh Street
Washington, D. C
William D Keene
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