Insurance publicity to cure evil at House session
The House heard speeches on life insurance immigration Russian oppression of the Jews football and hazing at Annapolis as the Panama Canal appropriation bill went to conference. Rep Landis urged full publicity for all DC insurance firms and warned constitutional issues while praising prompt disclosure and federal oversight to curb high executive salaries.
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Indiaman
District of Columbia
Naval Academy
Lfe
Panama, Canal
Annapolis
Sons
Tennessee
Mahon
Pennsylvania
Academy
Sulzer
House
Underwood
Alabama
Europe
Fred Landis
Indiana
Butler Amer
Massachusetts
Landis
Lunla
Department of Commerce
United States
Senate weighs punishment for a convicted senator amid debate
In a two hour session the Senate debated whether a senator convicted of misconduct may keep standing committee slots while his name remains on the Senate rail. House proceedings covered insurance probes, hazing at the Naval Academy, and a canal emergency bill sent to conference. Mr Landis urged federal control over insurers and attacked Wall Street magnates, calling for sweeping reforms and restrictions on corporate influence.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Naval Academy
Sims
Tennessee
Fred Landis
Con
Wall Street
Landis
Calvary
Parla
Tropics
Mr Hyde
France
John Paul Jones
Republic
Henry
Texas
Mahon
Pennsylvania
Hoe
Rules Committee
Lacey
Wachter
Ito
Army
Navy
IWIN DENE Congressman Denby and Insurance Reform Debate
Michigan congressman Edwin Denby born 1870 in Evansville pursued law at the University of Michigan and rose to Congress. The debate centers on insurance reform and a Massachusetts Rhode Island code to regulate insurers, plus immigration and hazing at naval and military academies.
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Iwin Dene
Michigan
Edwin Denby
Rvansville
China
Col
Charles Denby
Cleveland
Chinese Imperial Maritime Customs Service
United States
University of Michigan
Law
House of Representatives
Congress
Denby
Fred Landis Astonishes Old-Timers in Congress
Representative Fred Landis, youngest of four brothers all in public office, impressed veteran Members with his maiden House speech. The Indiana congressman, once a Washington journalist, won a strong nomination over Maj George W. Steele and was re-elected last year. His brother Charles B. Landis praised him yet warned he might lose his seat if Fred moved into his district.
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Stock Exchange
Harriman, Kuhn, Loeb & Company
The
McCurdys
McCalls
Perkinges
Pierpont Morgan
Captains of
Chasse Chadwick
Regiment
United States
Acker
Landis
Mfe
District of Columbia
Department of Commerce and Labor
Congress
Young
Indiana Statesman
Fred Landis
House
Charles B
Indiana
Kenesaw Mounon Landis
Umnols
Warren
Port Rico
Washington
George W. Steele
Charles B. Landis
Fred
President nominates five to Senate in latest slate
The President sent five nominations to the Senate yesterday. Names include Justice-Marshal Thomas J. Fislen of New Jersey, Interior Pennion agent in Detroit Oscar A. Jones of Michigan, Treasury auditor George Cabot Ward of New York, Rock Island customs surveyor Robert C. Paukee, Wilno, and Felicela district collector Frederex Kaos of Connecticut.
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Senate
Marahal
Thomas J.fisen
Fistriat
New Jersey
Pennion
Detroit
Mich
Orcar A. Jones
Michigan
Treasury
Island
Forte Rico
George Cabot Ward
New York
Rock Island
Til
Robert C Paukee
Cuatome
Felifela
Conn
Fredertex Kaos
Connecticut
Santo Domingo Seeks Key Changes in Dominican Treaty
The Santo Domingo government demands article VII changes to require its Congress to seek U S aid, and article II to let the United States fix and protect Dominican customs revenues. If failing, a majority Senate vote may still ratify, else a concession scheme or an American citizen collector could be arranged.
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State Department
Santo Domingo
Senate
Congress of
United States
Dominican Republic
Dominican ‘Congress
Santa Domingo
Dominican
Congress
Washington
Roosevelt
Germany
Samana Bay
France
Macoris
Bill Work Against Tariff Discrimination Warns Germany
Representative McCleary of Minnesota warns Germany over tariff discrimination as a House bill proposes a 2 percent duty on wares from any country found to discriminate against American products. The measure aims to secure equal treatment for all nations. Also noted is Charles G Bennett’s election as a trustee of the Kings County Sayings Institution in Brooklyn, a historic local trust.
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McCleary
Minnesota
Germany
United States
House
Bennett
Senate
Charles G. Bennett
Kings County Sayings Institution
Brooklyn
N. Y
No Report Until After Holidays On Hamilton Territory Bill
The House Committee on Territories will not report the Hamilton Territorial bill until after the holiday recess. It will be among the first measures considered in January. Cullom Appears in Senate. Mr Cullom of Hainots, chair of Foreign Relations, appeared on the floor yesterday for the first time since illness. He was congratulated by colleagues and denied reports of a flood of reciprocity petitions.
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Life Insurance
J. P Morgan & Co
Underwood
Committee On Immigration
Yiet
Europe
House
Senate
Meriwether
Annapolis
Sims
Tennessee
Academy
Prince
Linois
Roosevelt
Army and Navy
Rixey
Virginia
Naval Affairs Committee
Cooper
Pennsylvania
Loud
Michigan
Wachter
Maryland
Sulzer
New York
Wile Stigs
Sibley
House Committee On Territories
Hamilton
Cullom
Hainots
Committee On Foreign Relations
Gov Wright objects to pigheaded selfishness in tariff clash
Hearing on Philippine tariff reduction ends as Gov Wright denounces opposition to tariff cuts and warns against treating Filipinos as foreigners. Taft applauds the stance. Wellborn cites Philippine labor wages at about 26 cents daily, contrasting with sugar production declines in the islands.
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Gov. Wright
Philippines
W. C. Wellborn
Agriculture of
Samuel Bronaga Rea
Manila
F. FR. Hathaway
Taft
Adam
Wright
Hawaii
Wellbar
Mississippi Cornields
Reclamation projects expand under Interior approval in 1900s Texas and New Mexico
The Geological Survey bulletin reports Rio Grande reclamation approval by the Interior Secretary, bringing total projects to twenty four with eleven underway. It notes 1,403,600 acres to reclaim at 27 million dollars, plus construction costs of over 5.46 million by June 30. Funds reach 28 million with 37 million expected by 1908, while main canals and miles of distributing canals, ditches, bridges, tunnels, and earth moved accumulate. Labor shortages and contractor difficulties hinder progress, with eight hour work limits cited as a contributing factor.
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Geological Survey
Secretary of the Interior
Rio Grande
Texas
New Mexico
Carlsbad
Reclamation Service
Nominations Confirmed in Executive Session by Senate
In executive session yesterday the Senate confirmed nominations across several posts. Appointments include William Harrison Bradley consul at Manchester and William J. Milla chief justice of the New Mexico Supreme Court, plus various district attorneys receivers of land offices postmasters and other federal posts across states from Oregon to West Virginia and Minnesota.
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Senate
William Harrison Bradley
Ylinol
Comsul Kerem
Manchester
Wiliam J. Milla
Justiee
Supreme Court of
New Mexico
Clarence A. Hammett
Alatrict
Newport
R. I. Thomas Hull
Utah
Reena Elizeard
West Virginia
Barry J. Bone
Aistrict
Fandes
Marshall
Jimea ¥. Shaw
Nort Dakota
Charles D. Millert
George W. Elben
Portland
Oreg
Ton B. Calton
Verna
Henry 8. Chubb
Gainesville
Benjamin L. Eddy
Rossburg
Ores
Frank
Prescott
Los Angeles
Cal
George W. Fisher
Topeka
Hans
Robert J. Montague
Crootaton
Minn
Algarnon
Dyestat
Charles de Matey
St Vernal
Thomas V. Davis
Swanston
Wyo
Galen J. Dixon
Indepenience
Walter G. Robinson
St Gainesville
Pla
Alabama
Stephan C. Fitch
Bridgeport
Wiliam H. Woodrutt
Andsivala
George F. Sched
Meowton
Floride
Lodge Denies Immorality Claims Over Isthmus Passage
Senator Lodge told the Senate he expanded his denial of a charge that women were taken to the Isthmus of Panama under canal commission authority for immoral purposes. He cited a Taft War Department letter and correspondence, noting Taft and Panama Canal Commission officials deny any such foundation and that vouchers show payments only for laborers.
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Lodge
Senate
Panama
Canal Commission
Taft
War Department
Shonts
Col
Ernst
Jackson Smith
Bureau of Labor and Quarters
Panama Canal Commission
Waterway Proposed From Lakes to Gulf by Deepening Rivers
Representative William Lorimer of Chicago introduced in the House a bill to authorize a $1,000,000 appropriation to deepen the Des Plaines and Illinois rivers to form a continuous waterway from the Great Lakes to the Gulf. The plan would connect inland cities from Buffalo to New Orleans, highlighting the Mississippi Valley as rich in mines, fields, and forests and arguing that cheap transport would spur development in the hill states.
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Wiliam Lorimer
Chicago
Desplaines
Dinols
Great Lakes
Buffalo
New Orleans
Mississippi Valley
Hill States
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Ames
Moody
Landia
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Vnla Bil
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Congress Condensed
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Basi
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Landin
Ohio
Armstrong
Root
Adna R. Chaffee
Legion of Honor
Paris
William G. Gutter
Galveston
T. W. Symons
Moduas Vivendi
Belgium
Italy
Hollander
Gulf
Belasco Theatre
Tesen
Hedda Gabler
Ante Prall
Stromis Company
Uader
Robert B
Eseleview
Japan
W.B. Moses & Sons, F $t.,Cor
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Prerless
Barrie
Adams
Columbia Theater
Philadelphia Orchestra
Smith's
Ty P St NW
Sf Solomt
Metropolitan Opera
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Bischoff
Clarence Eddy
W. H. Shir-Cliff
Congregational Church
John F. Bilis @ Co
Pennsylvania Ave
Eateat
Fara
NEW National 2d
Burr McIntosh
Wr McIntosh
Hig Agstatante
Tlekate
T Arthur Smith
Sanders & Stayman
S. Esputa-Daly Music School
Washington College of Music
Sydney Lloyd Wrightson
Washington, D. C
America
Adolf Glose
Johannes Miersch
14Th St. N.W
Virgil Clavier
C Street
N. EL
Georgia E. Miller
Stuaro
Lois Gary Thompson
Royal Conervatory
Dresden
Oscar Gareissen
Katie Wilson-Greene
Biggio
Fiat
Phoge
Taminna Heinrichs
Jacques Grun
Rosnokes St
Buntt
Thomas Evans Greene
Phowas
Edith Pickering
Cine Massach Geet Wotvanny
B. Frank Gebest
Senkwenks
Stnaio
Peurtecath St
Orto
Werner Ey
National
Boston
Thomas Jefferson Gainline
Grover Cleveland
Clyde Fitch
Lafayette
Theatrical Trust
Mrs. Fiske
Manhattan Company
Leah Kleschna
Women’s Army and Wavy League
the Falcon
U. 3
Marine Band
Land OF Heart's Desire
Cavalry
Chase
Dida
le Clair
le Barpharat
Terry Corway
Tony Hart Gorman
Weathert Baona
Bert Coots
Zagell- Vernon Co
Joan Herr
Dice
Marsh
Theodore Kremer
Kernan
RTO
Matinee Daily
Clio
Williams
Columbia
Heart College
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