Press Agent Costs Spark Panama Canal Debate
Republicans join Democrats in demanding to know how the Panama Canal Commission spends money. The House debated an emergency appropriation bill with calls for an itemized, detailed accounting and questioned a $10,000 per year press agent amid broader scrutiny of canal expenditures.
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Joseph Bucklin Bishop
Bishop
House
Fitzgerald
New York
Ming
Clayton
Alabama
Hepburn
Commission
Bourks Cochran
Gardner
Michigan
Canal Commission
Treasury
el Presa
Mr. Pitzgerald
Col. Hepburn
Pittgerald
Weber
Jas Ed Waom
Phegerald
Tother
Cliften
Congress
Mrlayton
Panama Canal
Bourke Corkran
Bills Flood House Hopper as Session Opens
The House received a flood of new measures as the session begins. Bills include regulation of caizoad, merging third and fourth class mail under merchandize, limits on parcel weight, forest land entry under homestead law, funding for national park expansion, oleomargarine and dairy law updates, and a 1 cent per pound rate on second class matter sent to subscribers.
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Townsend
Michigan
N the Post
Henry
Connectet
Lacey
Iowa
Moon
Tennessee
Chittanonga and
Chickamauga National Military Park
Grosvenor
Ohio
Webb
North Carolina
Hepburn
Lows
Willy Hess
Otto Roth
Emuce Feria
Heinrich Ward
Willard
Viola Woloncella
Rhea Metcalfe
Annie Wilean
Creene
Robert Burns S.acez
Grace Dyer-Knight
Clarle
T. Arthur Smith
F Street
Procathedral Church OF the Ascension
Amendments to the Code Restraining Corporations
A House bill by Representative Goulden of New York proposes corporate formation rules requiring a certificate filed with the recorder of deeds, listing name, term, capital stock, directors, and office. a $10 fee for the first 1000 of stock. service of process on a director. and annual reporting. mentions other bills: judges retiring at 70 with full pay, civil service preference for old soldiers, inheritance tax constitutional amendment for estates over 50000, and a Baltimore return fare.
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New York
Recorder of Deeds
Smr Stephens
House
Congress
Deluged Senate Deliberates On Railroads and Campaign Bills
The Senate faced a flood of bills, from railroad regulation to tariff reforms and campaign contributions. Senator Foraker pushed a freight rate bill while Lodge proposed a tariff cap. Senator Newlands urged a study by the Interstate Commerce Commission on nationalizing railroads, arguing for unified national control to curb overcapitalization and stock watering. The chamber also released a resolution asking the Judiciary Committee to examine Congress's authority to supervise.
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Newlands
Interstate Commerce Committee
7 Nations
The Value of Charcoal in Health and Beauty
A promotional piece extols charcoal as a safe purifier and stomach absorber. It touts Stuart's Charcoal Lozenges as the best form, claiming improved health, complexion, breath, and blood with daily use. A Buffalo doctor endorses them, noting benefits to gas, liver, and throat. 15 cents a box.
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Stuart
Buffalo
Campaign Contributions Under Bank and Insurance Bills
Campaign contributions dominated Senate action with resolutions from Senator Tillman and a broad bill from Senator Culberson targeting banks and big insurance firms. The measures aim to curb funds used in elections for President, Vice President, and Congress, with heavy penalties and extensive prohibitions on officers of fire, marine, or life insurance companies.
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Congress
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Bryan
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Tre
Senate Committee On Privileges and Elections
Gallinger
Lodge
Culberson
Texas
Thiman
Culverson
New York
MacCalls
McCurdys
Alexanders
Hydes
Insurance Companion
United States
House of Representatives
United States of America
Nsurance Company
Perth
Congress of the Units
Audi
Marure
Mfe Insurance Company
Ghalso
Ife Insurance Company
Congress of the United States
Various Bills Move in Senate Upper Chamber
Senator Gallinger reintroduces a high protection bill for the President and successors and foreign diplomats. Senator Hale authors Navy Dept measures on justice administration and officer promotions. Burrows seeks pensions for remarried widows. Culberson proposes a land grant for a permanent public school fund in the Philippines. McCumber fixes grain standards. Latimer reintroduces good roads. Frye supports life-saving efficiency and mercantile interests. Heyburn moves to annex Santo Domingo and Haiti. Scott pushes service pensions and public building bonds. Dolliver reintroduces interstate liquor traffic bill. Fulton bills for a China district court and Alaskan fishing bans. misbranding salmon. Lodge amends Dingley tariff for max and min duties.
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United States
Congress
Navy Department
Hale
Burrows
Culberson
Philippine Islands
McCumber
Dingley
Hawley Pension and Government Oversight Bills Rise in Senate
Senator Bulkety seeks a $100 monthly pension for With A Hawley wife of Brig. Gen. Joseph R. Hawley. Senator Simmons proposes a five member annual government department commission with $5,000 for the chair and $4,000 for others. Senator Bailey calls for a National Apalachian Forest Reserve in the southern Appalachians. Senator Mallory backs Marine Hospital Service authority to set quarantine grounds and anchorages to curb disease spread.
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United States
Bulkety
With A. Hawley
Joseph R. Hawley
Connecticut
Simmons
Congress
Bailey
South Appalachian Mountains
Mallory
The
Marine Hospital Service
Legislation to Create Bureau of Insurance Debated in Senate
Senator McCumber of North Dakota introduced a bill in the Senate to establish a Bureau of Insurance within the Department of Commerce and Labor. It sets a commissioner at 5000 a year, a deputy at 3500, and a clerical staff. Insurance is treated as commerce, with interstate insurers filing charters and a 100000 deposit for policyholder protection within 60 days. regulations must be drawn within 90 days and approved by the secretary and the attorney general.
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McCumber
North Dakota
Senate
Department of Commerce and Labor
Bureau of Insurance
Bureaut of Manufactures and Corporations
Secretary of Commerce and Labor
Bonaparte Nomination Overlooked by Senate
In executive session the Senate confirmed Elihu Root as Secretary of State Robert Baron as Assistant Secretary of State and ex Senator Louis B. Me Comas as DC Court of Appeals justice. Charles J Bonaparte for Secretary of the Navy was not confirmed due to an oversight.
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Elihu Root
Robert Baron
Louis B. Me
Comas
Court of Appeals
District of Columbia
Charles J. Bonaparte
Navy
Hale
Naval Committee
Bonaparte
Colton to address on Santo Domingo affairs
Col George C Colton appointed by Roosevelt and Morales to supervise Dominican customs will address the Senate Foreign Relations Committee today. He will say American direction of the collection has eased revolutionary sentiment and that the best Dominicans favor ratification of the treaty as revenues double under his supervision.
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George C. Colton
Roosevelt
Morales
Santo Domingo
Senate
Senate Committee On Foreign Relations
Cotton
Republic
Proposed Soldiers' Home for Aged Negro Veterans
Senator Scott of West Virginia introduced a bill to erect a memorial national home for aged and infirm negro soldiers, sailors, and marines of the Civil War. The home would be maintained by an industrial farm, utilizing arrears of pay from estates handled by the Freedmen's Bureau and paid into the Treasury.
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Freedmen's Bureau
Treasury
Senator Scott
West Virginia
Scott
Bill Lays the Lives for Fight on Subsidy Bill
The Merchant Marine Commission outlines lines of attack in Congress on a ship subsidy bill. Chairman Gallinger presented the supplementary report and revised bill to the Senate, with Gen. Grosvenor introducing it in the House. The commission estimates revenue gains of about 1.9 million dollars in the first year from new tongue taxes, covering July 1, 1904 to June 30, 1907. The expected expenditures under the bill are outlined as well.
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Willams
Rules Committee
House
Will’ Jams
Littauer
Payne
Nepowm
Committee On Interstate and Foreign Commercy
Jon
Ways and Means Committee
Commission
Fitzgerald
New York
Mr. Fitzgerald
Congress
Merchant Marine Commission
Senate
Gallinger
Gen. Grosvenor
Navy subventions and costs for merchant marine plan
The report outlines three year projected expenditures for naval volunteer retainers, mail subventions to new lines, and increased subventions to existing lines totaling 3 83 200 in year one and rising to 3 517 000 in year two with added revenue from tonnage taxes estimated at 1 300 000. It notes a third year net cost of 3 313 000, potentially rising 600 000 annually, and includes a revised bill with targeted subsidies and compensations to Atlantic and Pacific routes plus a Dewey statement urging merchant ships as naval auxiliaries and a stance against discriminatory duties.
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Naval Volunteer
Treasury
Australasia
Europe
Cunard Company
Admiral Dewey
General Board
Navy Department
Frye Proposes United States University in Washington
Senator Frye reintroduces a bill to establish a United States University in Washington for post graduate work on Naval Observatory grounds. Board members named include Chief Justice and university leaders. George F Bamundas Andrew D White John Dalzell J B Henderson Simon Newcomb Hilary Herbert Merrill E Gates John W Hoyt and others. Vice President Fairbanks received a Mitchell resignation telegram from Oregon regarding Interoceanic Canals Committee. reorganization deemed urgent due to Panama Canal Zone financial emergency.
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Washington
United States
Regenta
Supreme Court
the Universalty
George F. Bamundas
Andrew D. White
John Dalzell
J. B. Henderson
Simon Newcomb
Hilary Herbert
Merrill
E. Gates
John W. Hoyt
Frank Nichols
Fairbanks
Mitchell
Oregon
Génais
Millard
Nebraska
Senator Platt
New York
Senate
Panama Canal Zone
Senator Proctor May Resign Rumor Circulates
Renewed interest in Vermont politics follows a rumor that Senator Proctor intends to resign from the Senate. The senator has not stated any such plan. it is believed he hinted at retirement possibly in March 1908, two years before his term ends, prompting chatter about a possible successor.
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Procter
Senate
Green Mountain
Proctor
Trade expansion study on Chinese Empire proposed by Senate
A five member commission would study China's commercial and industrial conditions to report on expanding American trade. An appropriation of 375000 is proposed. Commissioners named by the President would earn up to 6000 yearly. Other bills seek monuments in public squares including a Richard T. Cran funded Meigs monument and a 50000 statue for Maj. Gen. Ambrose Burnside.
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Fep
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Hopkins
Richard T. Cran
Chicago
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Cap~ton
Rhode Island
Ambrose HE
Burnside
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