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Newspaper
Washington Post
Location
Washington, Washington Dc, United States of America
Date
Dec 23, 1910
Page
4
Republican Senator says Payne law is on trial and must be enforced to curb alleged undue discrimination in Germany potash tax dispute. Taft and Knox urge calm while negotiations stall. experts warn a tariff war looms if maximum duties are imposed before contracts expire.
The long conflict between Galician refiners and Vacuum Oil Company leads to refinery shutdowns as government action pressures the firm to stop crude purchases. Oil producers fear losing their largest customer and urge the government to withdraw measures.
In a political scene from the Dakotas, Senator Hubert Jackson Gamble praises Republican strength in South Dakota citing a Republican legislature and population growth. He notes no new senator this coming session, predicts a third Republican member with census gains, and recalls historical party steadfastness amid nationwide GOP troubles.
Mark H. Davis of the State Department met in Vienna with Ambassador Richard Cherens amid a dispute between the Austrian government and Vacuum Oil Company. The Austrian foreign office said negotiations would not continue, asserting the issue is an internal matter outside diplomacy.
Senator Shelby M. Cullom aged 84 from Clinoin, one of Congress' oldest members, told colleague Senator Hale he will not join the fire department. Reading reports of deadly Philadelphia and Chicago fires, he said the incidents reinforce his resolve to retire from public service after his career.
The census bureau sent a detailed statistical statement to the House committee on the census showing 440 as the smallest possible House membership under the Method of apportionment. The document outlines the exact effect for any proportion of representatives to population based on the thirteenth census returns.
A Adams county grand jury indicted 122 more individuals for alleged vote selling. Fifty indicted yesterday pled guilty, were fined 25 dollars plus costs, and sentenced to six months in the work house with five years disfranchisement. sentences suspended for some. W F Maines editor of the Manchester Signal cited for contempt, fined 50 dollars and three days in jail.
Merritt O Chance, auditor for the Post Office Department, is transferred to the White House to act as secretary of the economy and efficiency commission. He previously served on the Treasury reorganization board and is regarded as an authority on business methods.
The United States ship Detroit, deemed obsolete for modern naval warfare, will be sold by the Navy Department. The high bid came from R I Corbett of Newark, who offered $0,000 for the vessel.
A Berlin dispatch claimed U S battleships would visit German ports in January, but Navy officials say orders for the Atlantic fleet have not changed. After current operations at British and French ports, the ships will head to Guantanamo Cuba in January, with a possible German cruise planned for next summer. Lord Northcote presided at a dinner in London honoring the Fourth division officers at Gravesend.
Buffalo Democrats urge William F. Sheehan to run for the U S Senate to succeed Depew. A letter signed by Mayor Fuhrmann and Buffalo’s living ex mayors plus bankers and business leaders calls him admirably qualified to serve New York in Washington. Tammany Hall delegates back J Sargent Cram for the same Senate race.
Governor elect Woodrow Wilson of New Jersey and five Democratic assemblymen held a six hour conference in New York on December 2 to discuss selecting a United States Senator to succeed Kean. Wilson and the assemblymen declined to discuss results or take questions. The governor elect backs James E Martine while the assemblymen favor James Smith Jr. Attending included Backus, Leveen, Brackes, Phillips, and Chalvey. McGowan did not appear.
Special to The Washington Post reports Fort Leavenworth soldiers, aiming to prevent typhoid epidemics like two years earlier, are voluntarily undergoing vaccination. Since experiments began months ago, nearly all troops, especially infantry and engineers bound for the Philippines, have received the shot. One engineer company includes three officers and 108 enlisted men. none are ill. The germ is killed and injected in the arm. soreness is minor from pin-pricking.
Army orders grant leaves of absence to First Lieutenants Adelno Gib Bon Nathaniel P Rogers Jr Gilbert Van B Wilkes and Francis D Harrington, plus Captain Edgar Rich Noy and Colonel Tillson. Transfers within coast artillery and engineering units, board meetings at Fort Sill, and retirements noted. Movements of naval vessels and key strategic points for coal depots urged by Secretary Meyer for a $1,060,000 appropriation with emphasis on Puget Sound Pearl Harbor Corregidor Guantanamo Boston Norfolk and Hamp ton Roads.
Acting Secretary Winthrop christens six torpedo boat destroyers Nos 37 to 42 after naval figures Beale Jouett Jenking Fanning Jarvis and Henley. Names honor Edward Beale James Jouett Thornton Jenking Nathaniel Fanning James Jarvis and Hubert Henley for service in wars and battles from Mexico to Lake Champlain. High name will be borne by destroyer No 38.
Annapolis Md December 22 Special to Tha Washington Post the Christmas and New Year s day liberty of the midshipmen has been issued All drills and practical exercises will be suspended from Saturday December 24 1910 to January 8 1911 at 3 30 p m Study hours and recitations will be suspended from the second period on Saturday December 24 to evening roll call on Monday December 26 and from the second period on Saturday December 31 1910 to evening roll call on Monday January 2 1911 Four first class members may be absent from Annapolis during the Christmas holiday if guests of friends Promenade concerts will be held on the afternoons of Tuesday Wednesday Thursday and Friday next week The absence privileges are unprecedentedly liberal.
A board of inquiry found that coal gas ignited by a match struck by victim H Evang, a coal passer who died from burns, caused the North Dakota disaster at Port land England on December 4. Evang entered an improvised bunk to nap for light and struck the match that ignited accumulated gas in the bunker. the rest of the ship’s bunkers were normal.
The United States offers to transport Senor Don Anibal Cruz, the late Chilean minister, by an American warship. Senor Yoacham, Chilean charge d affaires, formally accepted the arrangement and conveyed gratitude to President Taft. The body will depart Washington around February 1 and travel by ship to Valparaiso via Hampton Roads, then around the continent to arrive about March 15.
Lee McGiung elected president of the Yale Alumni Association of Washington at the annual meeting in Union Trust Co board room. Huntington Wilson and Frederick H. Brooke named first vice president and treasurer. Upshur Moorehead secretary. Executive committee includes Mathewson Crocker Osborne Stauffer and Riggs. Planned Yale Dramatic Association show The Pan to be performed at Columbia Theater next Friday. Annual banquet to be held in February with Taft invited. Arrangements for two smokers at University Club this year with monthly likely.
The United States government faces a deadlock as contractors refuse revenue cutters under the eight hour labor rule. No bidders have come forward for two new cutters authorized by Congress, each costing about 100 dollars, with one to lie off the Florida coast and the other in the Pacific. Officials have not decided whether to proceed and may use government yards instead.
A San Antonio correspondent asks for the 1911 government expense estimates. Secretary MacVeagh’s office shows about 680 million dollars needed to run the government for another year. The correspondent replies with a dollar offering to “play it ten ways against the expenses.”
Assistant Attorney Gert eraj for the Interior Department left for Mexico City to meet with Mexican authorities on customs and other regulations to stop shipments of materials and outfits into Mexico for work on confining the Colorado River within its channel to prevent Imperial Valley flooding. The Chinese government awarded a contract to the New York Shipbuilding Company for a 2,600 ton training cruiser. State Department dispatch says the contract closed on Péking Wednesday.
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