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Newspaper
Washington Post
Location
Washington, Washington Dc, United States of America
Date
Dec 11, 1905
Page
5
The House will organize committees today as Speaker Cannon prepares the Fifty ninth Congress. Williams the minority leader assigned Devastrats. committees will be set and subcommittees chosen. Few actions until after holiday recess as the Appropriations and Philippine tariff measures loom, with adjournment likely December 21.
Announcement notes that marriage and death notices inserted in The Washington Post will be carried at no extra charge and synchronized across newspapers including New York Times Boston Globe Buffalo Courier Chicago Record Herald Philadelphia Public Ledger Pittsburg Dispatch Providence Journal Rochester Herald Syracuse Post Standard St Paul Pioneer Press Minneapolis Tribune Cleveland Plain Dealer Cincinnati Enquirer
Perry Belmont announces a list of new appointees to the national publicity bill committee including governors Hanly Montague Cummins Blanchard Warford Dawson and others such as Samuel Gompers George Gray Charles W Eliot Edwin Alderman and John M Thurston. After holidays a national meeting will appoint committees and set order of business.
Republican members of Congress rail against a new rule restricting access to post office case papers. They will now examine records only by order of the Postmaster General or his First Assistant. The change ends a long standing privilege to inspect documents in personnel charges.
Lemuel Liytich, 21, recently from Morgantown, visited the home of Benjamin Rhoades in Bedford Ind. and was shot to the breast with a shotgun. Rhoades says Lynch tried to force entry after being warned off.
The exchange and currency committee reports receipt of 1,486,740 dollars in American gold coin from abroad for silver assets in the reserve fund. The mint will coin the gold into Mexican currency.
The youngest member of the Senate, Mr Burkett, was elected in six minutes according to papers of the time. He had served six years in the House after a Nebraska state legislature term and four years on the Appropriations Committee under Uncle Joe Cannon. His life has been busy and his creed is that greatness is measured by deeds.
Elmer Jacob Burkett, a Nebraska farmer turned lawyer and politician, was elected United States Senator in 1905 after a protracted campaign. The article details his rise from plowboy to state legislator, the Nebraska plan to nominate a Senator, and the political struggle against William Jennings Bryan and Fusionist forces. It notes Burkett's even temper and strong organizational skill that secured a Republican Senate majority and a largely Republican legislature.
President Moore and Secretary Jackson of the National Good Roads Association travel to Washington to confer with Congressmen on the Latimer Brownlow Good Roads bill proposing 4. 0000 in three years with half funded by states and territories and half by the government. Moore calls the bill crucial as the nation spends about 60 million on roads yearly with waste from lack of engineering and supervision. He notes the U S lacks maintained imperial road systems unlike Germany England and France. He reports a 12 000 mile tour across 12 states and 44 conventions, with plans to open headquarters in Washington in January.
The Panama Capel emergency appropriation and the $5,500,000 canal cut will dominate Senate debate this week with some arguing for possible quick passage, while others expect post holiday action. Merchant Marine and tariff issues may follow, and committee reorganizations are awaited before Thursday. Senator Mitchell’s death is reported but unlikely to adjournment.
American Tobacco Company announces the Weyman factory in Pittsburg will close after January 1, 1906. The extensive Dugiemeway buildings will be deserted as operations move to Chicago where a new plant will be built to serve markets in the Northwest due to high local freight rates.
Cincinnati, Dec 10. William Henry Reid committed suicide by shooting himself in a lumber yard. He had spent fifteen years preparing a book on religious and political economy and had just completed the work.
King Haakon and Queen Maud attended the Nobel Institute as Baroness Von Suttner of Austria was declared the Nobel peace prize winner. Ministers, diplomats, and ladies filled the gathering in Salem with solemn ceremony, noting the long prominence of the peace movement and Suttner’s role as a delegate to the Boston international peace congress.
An advertising piece extols Stuart's Dyspepsia Tablets as a substitute for a worn stomach. It claims the tablets digest food like natural fluids, rest the stomach, and aid recovery, citing a Chicago lawyer who credits the product with saving his work and keeping his fee. Short's Dyapepsia Tablets are offered for 0 cents a box.
Constantinople December dispatch reports Felim Pasha, head of the secret police, has been arrested after an investigation found the bomb attack on his coach Tan was prearranged by him. The Philippopolis dispatch notes the alleged pretense as part of a grandstanding ploy.
Newton Bloomer hanged himself in the Hotel Waldo last night, the act seemingly planned with the noose prepared. A woman's picture, Emma V. Whitehead of Covington Kentucky, was found on him and a telegram was sent to Justice Riley, though no definite reply is reported.
The battleship Louisiana, freshly completed at Newport News, anchored at Chesapeake Bay to weather a 48 mph northeast gale near the Virginia capes. She resumed movement as the storm abated, heading toward Rockland for her standardization trial next Tuesday. In Charleston, torpedo boats Porter through Dupont arrived from Morehead City to join Admiral Licking's squadron, enduring rough seas but reporting no damage or delay. Monitors Arkansas, Florida, and Nevada return from a squadron cruise early next week.
Secretary of State Root and Secretary of War Taft arrived in Gettysburg Pa with military escorts to survey the battlefield for a site to erect a tablet honoring Lincoln's immortal Gettysburg Address. The party returned to Washington later the same day. Atlanta Woman Kills Herself in Decisive act linked to health concerns and personal tragedy.
A group of international lawyers seeks Turkish government intercession for Edward Joris a Belgian condemned at Constantinople for alleged participation in the attempted assassination of the Sultan last July claiming treaty violations. The effort aims to press powers to spare him.
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