Democrats Split On Tariff Policy In Incoming Congress
Democratic leaders face a chaotic debate over tariff plans and committee selection as they approach a caucus. Some demand tariff for revenue only, others seek protection, while southern members push for some free trade. A plan to shift committee power to the rules committee is debated, with Williams proposing a caucus led by a party leader in addition to the Speaker.
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Williams
Democratic Party
House
South
Senate
Congress
Witherto
Hlve
Champ Clark
Clark
Bryan
Denry Watterson
John Sharp Williams
Wiliams
Ways and Means
Rules Committee
Ttm 9
Ag Woodrow Wilson
New Jersey
Dr Wilson
Wilson
Committee On Committees
Taft
West Virginia Republicans plot for stronger 1912 turnout
A Washington meeting of Second district Republicans led by Scott Beckord gathered to plan deeper statewide organization for the national campaign. Participants included Charles Teter W. H. Somers Cauley Charles and others as they push for a solid delegation and a Republican senator at Elkins term’s end.
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West Virginna
Heliin
Washington
Congress
Scott
Charles Teter
Philippi
W. H. Somers
Berkeley County
Cauley
Kingwood
G. H Charles
Harpers Ferry
W. J. George
Bradley
Charlestown
Tracy L. Jeffords
West Virginia
Elkins
Teachers' Pay at Stake in Substitute Arrangements
District auditor Alonzo Tweedale asked the comptroller to rule on paying substitute teachers who fill regular teachers’ absences. The law gives no clear warrant for salaries after 60 days, as names are dropped from payrolls, yet substitutes act as temporary teachers.
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Alonzo Tweedale
Comptroller of the Treasury
Tweedale
Katherine Reed
Florence Jenkins
Fire Marshal Job Promoted After Yards Disaster
Chicago announces First Assistant Fire Marshal Charles Seyferlich is named fire marshal, replacing James Horan who died in the stock yards fire last week. Mayor Busse says merit records will guide future promotions.
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Chicago
Charles Seyferlich
James Horan
Stock Yards
Seyferlich
Horan
Busse
Infantile Paralysis Claims Jefferson School Headmaster’s Infant
Special to The Washington Post from Charlottesville Va on December 28 reports another death from infantile paralysia. Dr E Reinhold Rogers headmaster of the Jefferson School for Boys lost his infant son George Frederick Rogers who was less than a week old.
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Charlottesville
Washington Post
E. Reinhold Rogers
Jefferson School For Boys
George Frederick Rogers
O'Donell's Digestor Ad Claims Quick Relief
Rogers' Digestor promises relief from indigestion and stomach troubles with a large bottle guarantee. If it fails to ease indigestion, customers may receive a money back refund. Located at 904 F St.
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Rogers’ Digestor
Secretary Meyer denounces Maxim on smokeless powder
Secretary of the Navy Meyer says Sir Hiram Maxim is ignorant of U S smokeless powder and that gun accidents in the Navy are not due to the powder. A memorandum from Brig Gen Crozier supports Meyer, noting few explosions since smokeless powder’s adoption and countering Maxim’s claim of powder flaws.
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Taft
Hiram Maxim
United States Army
Navy
Meyer
White House
William Crozier
Engineering
London
Hiram
Hiram Manzim
United States
Bir
United States Navy
Naval Torpedo Station
Newport
R. I
Naval Service
Sir Hiram Maxim
Ala
Purse snatching in downtown by unknown Black man
Nurse Antoinette Montfenand of the Naval Medical School Hospital was robbed on F Street Northwest around 9 pm. An unidentified Negro, about five feet five or seven inches tall, grabbed her purse containing $2 and change and fled. She alerted police after calling from a nearby phone.
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Antoinette Montfenand
Naval Medical School Hospital
F Street
Masons pledge to ban profanity at St John’s banquet
Some 900 Free Masons at Cedar Rapids celebrated St John’s day by vowing never to use profanity again. Grand Master Frederick Craig of Des Moines led the midnight pledge at the first gathering in the new consistory temple, a building completed at a cost of 50 000 dollars.
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Spedal
Washington Post
Cedar Rapids
Iowa
New Consistory
Frederick Craig
Des Moines
Hotels Guests by City Listed in Elusive Directory
A fragmented passage lists hotel guests by city including Boston Philadelphia Pittsburg Connecticut Georgia Maryland Massachusetts New York New Jersey Washington Virginia and Virginia entries. Names such as I L Holstein Harold Herts and many others are shown with hotel affiliations like St James Ebbitt Shoreham and Willard indicating a passenger or guest directory style notice. The list includes multiple spouses and varied locations suggesting a social register snapshot from a city hotel scene.
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Boston
I. L Holstein
St. James
L. K
Thurlow
Paul Ti
Thussow
Raleigh
G. Parisa Parsons
John Dlish
Nelson Slater
Wilard
Thicago
F. C. Grunttser
P. Brows
Ebbitt
New York City
Harold H. Herts
Harry Byers
George W. Herzig
George Mould
J. Hartman
Mrs. B. Byck
B.rosenfeld
F. W. Hillard
James S. Graham
A. L Lee
William
H. Israel
J. Murray
Allen Thompson
Haleigh
H. Greas
E.R. Newton
Harold Binndy
A. L. Hines
George H. Magnars
Willard
H. A. Hawking
Mauls
Mise
Florence D. Buchanan
N. Gate
HL . Schuyler
G. D. Brewster
Henry G. Stevenson
George van Sternburgh
E. Wilson
Shoreham
Pittsburg
H. Mace
Connecticut
H. G. Graeber
Moride Bt. James
Georgia
Robert Burgess
Atlanta
Maryland
Mrs. Jamea Ft. Richards
Misa Iyr
Clarke R. Roe
Great Neck
Mipnitz
Mise Rebecam V. Currison
Annie Cushier
Rye
Th. Carey
Brooklyn
Storeham
New Jersey
C. M Lyon and Wife
Newark
M. McDonald
Jersey City
M. McDonal
N .Herg
Allentown
Misa Rene Lions
Helen Korua
Boma Cannee
Paterson
Arlington
William H. Gummer
Baker City
LH. Grodman
Cleveland
Pennsylvania
R. W. Lynch
J. W. Holyoke
Meyerdale
St James
Three Cities Vie for Next Dental Pedagogics Convention
Three cities Buffalo Chicago and Pittsburg compete to host the next annual convention of the Institute of Dental Pedagogics. The session ends in Washington this afternoon with elections to follow. Conald M of Chicago is favored to become president. A smoker reception for visiting dentists was held at the New Willard Hotel with talks from Dr Charles Lamb and Dr Aies M Hrdlicha. Delegates will lunch at 1 PM then tour the Smithsonian Institution and National Museum.
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Buffalo
Chicago
Pittsburg
Institute of Dental Pedagogics
Washington
Conald M. [Gaits
John Q. Byram
Indianapolis
District of Columbia Dental Society
New Wi Lard
Charles Lamb
Aies M. Hrdlicha
Army Medical Museum
Smithsonian Institution
National Museum
Wilson Adviser Denies Emissary Claim Over Senate Pact
Newark December report cites Gov elect Woodrow Wilson reaffirming that an emissary from ex-senator James Smith Jr told him before the election that Smith would not seek the Senate seat. Smith denies sending any envoy and challenges Wilson to name the man. Wilson says he will not reveal the informant and frames his statements as moral guidance to Smith, denying any compromise or favoritism.
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New Jersey
Senate
Newark
N. J
Woodrow Wilson
James Smith
Mr. Smith
Washington
Mr. Martine
Firat
Democratic Assembly chooses Kenny speaker and Matthews floor leader
Democratic members meet in caucus at State headquarters and select Edward Kenny of Hudson for speaker and John J. Matthews of Hunterdon for floor leader. Kenny faced no opposition while Matthews drew sixteen votes from Assemblyman Boettner. Steering committee limits patronage to legal levels and reduces staff from nineteen doorkeepers to twelve and pages accordingly.
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Edward Kenny
Hudson
Newark
N. J
Hcoming Assembly
Tefay
Hudson County
John J. Matthews
Hunterdon
Kenny
Matthews
Boettner
Essex County
Mail Poll On Senatorship In Connecticut Vote
New Haven Dec 28 State Senator Charles S Peck of Danbury will decide how to vote on the succession to Senator Morgan G Bulkeley when the legislature meets January 17. Peck has conducted a poll of Republicans in his district. Of 200 replies received today 18 favored Governor George P McLean. Peck says he will be guided by this expression unless something unforeseen develops.
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New Haven
Conn
Charles 8. Peck
Danbury
United States
Morgan G. Bulkeley
Gaina
Hig
George P. McLean
Benetor Peck
National Union Banquet Held
One hundred fifty members of the local councils of the National Union were banquet guests last night of the District cabinet at the National Hotel. The event honored the initiation of a class of more than 36 members. W. D. Brown presided, F. H. Ferguson acted as toast master and introduced speakers from multiple cities and the bureau of engraving and printing. Committee included F. E. Verguson as chairman with T. B. Lear, A. Girouan, and J. A. Jones.
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National Union
The
National Hotel
W. D. Brown
F. H. Ferguson
J. B. Colton
Washington
Eb, C. Stahl
Trenton
Ralph
Bureau of Engraving and Printing
W. TF. Campbell
W. 8. Norris
Baltimore
C. T. Hendler
Elmer Johnson
T. H. Dawson
EB. C. Ford
F. E. Verguson
T. B. Lear
A. Girouan
J. A. Jones
Radley Wins Aero Derby In Los Angeles Field
England and France defeated the United States in the first aeroplane derby at the Aviation Field in Los Angeles. James Radley in a French Bleriot monoplane beat Eugene Bly in a Curtiss racer and Phil Parmareé in a Baby Wright over 8 3/4 miles. Radley set a new record with 9:13 1-5 for 8 3/4 miles, averaging about 67 mph. Bly 10:02 4.5, about 52 mph. Parmareé 10:35, about 49 mph.
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Aviation
Los Angeles
Cal
England
France
United States
James Radley
Eugene Bly
Phil Parmareé
Wright
Bly
Parmaree
Radley
Glenn H. Curtiss
Aerial tragedy in France claims two lives
In Issy les Moulineaux on December 28, French aviator M Laffort and passenger M Pola were killed when Laffort’s craft fell 50 feet after a steering gear jammed. He had planned a Paris to Brussels return for Aero Club prize flight. A large crowd witnessed the ascent before the crash and fatalities.
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Laffort
Issy-les-Moulineaux
France
M. Laffort
M. Pola
Brussels
Aero Club
Paris
Aoth
Balloon May Cross Ocean In March Or April Voyage
Berlin dispatch reports Joseph Brucker plans to cross the Atlantic in the airship Suchard from the Cape Verde islands toward Barbados or Trinidad. The craft will have two 100 horsepower motors and a six man crew, with a nonginkable lifeboat and a water sprinkler cooling system using ocean water drawn in torpedo shaped cylinders. The voyage is hoped to last four to five days and nights, aided by favorable trade winds.
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Berlin
Joseph Brucker
Atlantic
Cape Verde
Barbados
Trinidad
Suchard
Brucker
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Price People's Drug Store
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the Luttrell Co
Symenneer Avenue
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14Th
Oppo
Atte New Willard
International Auto Sightseeing Transit Co
Tourog
Pa. Ave. N.W
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John Drew
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Belasco Fin
Lieblerr & CO
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Tully Marshall
Stuwa
Reno & Co
Veo & Tierney
Harry Fox
Millerauip
Onge & Co
Cens
Columbia Theater
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