Mail Train Pay Reform Debated in House Post Bill
Members of the House weigh an amendment to the Post Office appropriation bill to cut railway mail pay by 10 percent. Second Assistant Postmaster General Shallenberger defends current rates and proposes pay for space in apartment cars, sparking committee scrutiny over cost, service value, and railroad compensation across about 308 routes nationwide.
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House
House of Representatives
Congress
House Committee On Post Offices and Post Roads
Shallenberger
Mir Shailenberger
Tauit
Sugestien Fur
Suil
United States
al- Ugh
Heiwater
Mstminster
Post-office Department
Mr Shallenberge
Miagl Rey
Mail, Passenger, and Freight Trains Earn Distinct Rates per Mile
A railway commission examined earnings per train mile for mail, passenger, and freight trains on a route. Mail trains paid 92 cents per mile, through passenger trains 156 dollars per mile, and freight trains 1.49 dollars per mile. Car counts shown: mail 3.5, passenger 7.5, freight 2. The Burling ton hauled mail cars at 26.29 cents per mile, passenger cars at 13.86 cents, and freight cars at 5.94 cents.
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Commission
Kennett
Burlington
Bennett
Washington Railway and Electric Company year finances report
The company filed its annual report to Congress detailing year results. Total receipts $1,206,143 with net income from securities $362,063 and total income $1,568,662. Operating expenses $522,831, fixed charges $566,820, total expenses $1,089,662, yielding a surplus of $478,038. Dividends on preferred stock $425,000 and depreciation credit $50,700. Other railroads show varied surpluses and deficits: City and Suburban $328,384 surplus, Boghtwood $47,837 deficit, Georgetown and Tennallytown $315,945 deficit, Andcostia and Potomac $2226 deficit.
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Washington Railway and Electric Company
Congress
City and Suburban
Boghtwood Railroad Company
Defcit
Georgetown and Tennallytown Railroad Company
Andcostia and
Fpotomac Railroad Company
Senate confirms Mr West amid mild protest and other nominations
The Senate confirmed Henry Litchien West as a District of Columbia commissioner despite a brief challenge by Senator Scott who urged review of testimony from the DC committee but did not block the viva voce vote. Additional confirmations followed including fiscais such as F Cochran in South Carolina and J C Engel in Duluth. Postmasters for Oregon Pennsylvania Texas Alabama and other offices were also approved.
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Henry Litchien West
District of Columbia
Senate
Scott
Mr West
Warner Stutler
Viva Voce
F. Cochran
District of South Carolina
J. C. Herman Engel
Register of the Land Office
Duluth
Minn
Charles D. Ford
Denver
Col
William §. Graham
Surveyor General
California
Oregon
Merrilt A. Daker
Weston
Pennsylvania
George Lowash
Irwin
Claytord. Slater
Latrobe
John M. Carson
Homer City
Texas
Leon Wi. Barkley
Fort Worth
Alabama
William Moseley
Decatur
Wine Growers Address House Committee on Pure Wine Bill
The Ways and Means Committee heard leading wine makers from New York Ohio Missouri California and others urge a favorable report on the national pure wine law. Association officers Emerson Morgan Vance and others argued for safeguards against adulteration with Wiley expressing qualified support. Committee members indicated a favorable view and saw need for the measure to aid producers and consumers.
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Ways and Means Committee
House
J. Sidat Fassatt
New York
American Wine Growers’ Association
Ohio
Missouri
California
Edward R Emerson
Washingtonville
Percy T. Morgan
San Francisco
Cal
James Veel
Urbana
N. Y
Lee J Vance
New York City
Messrs
Emerson
Morgan
Vance
H. W. Wiley
Bills Affecting District Considered in Committee
The House District Committee reported without recommendation a bill by Representative Adams of Pennsylvania creating a wife beating punishment post in the District of Columbia. Ten votes for, three against. The full matter to be discussed February 12. The committee also heard the Wiley water purification bill authorizing chemical treatment, with Hazen citing filtration benefits costing about 10 000 annually. Other actions included extending the highway bridge deadline by one year and favorable reporting of a pharmacy practice bill along with Hayes bill restoring the name of California to Streets from Columbia Road to Massachusetts Avenue.
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House
Adams
Pennsylvania
District of Columbia
Wiley
Army
Allen Hazen
Board of Engineers
Capt. Crosby
Pennsylvania Railroad
Hayes
California
Columbia Road
Massachusetts Avenue
Will Discuss Woman Suffrage At Senate Hearing
Senator Bacon told Rev Olympia Brown of Racine Wis spokeswoman for the National Equal Suffrage Association that any Senator may discuss the question by submitting a resolution. Delegation members said they would instruct their friends. A general meeting on woman's suffrage is set for February 15 in the Senate marble room. A retirement bill for Life-saving Service keepers and surfmen with 30 years service or age 64 or disability has been favorably reported by the Senate Commerce Committee. The Department urged passage to recruit a high standard of men.
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Bacon
Olympia Brown
Racine
Wis
National Equal Suffrage Association
Miss Brown
Senate Marble Room
Senate Committee On Commerce
Dares Department
Chaffee
War Department
Secretary of War
Quarantine Bill Aims Federal Control Limited to Yellow Fever
A Southern shift seeks joint Federal and State authority over quarantine to curb yellow fever, limiting powers to maritime quarantine and interstate cooperation with Public Health and Marine Hospital Service. The plan raises legal questions but gains support, including from Representative John Sharp Williams, as it aligns with Chattanooga convention aims.
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Congress
Southern
Gulf States
Ganger Zone
Senate
Mallory
Public Health and Marine Hospital Service
Treasury
Secretary of the Treasury
United States
John Sharp Williams
Chattanooga
Senator Heyburn Ill With Appendicitis in Idaho Apartment
Senator Heyburn of Idaho is ill at his apartments with appendicitis and may not require an operation. The physician expects a prompt recovery with treatment. He previously had a more severe bout of appendicitis last September.
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Heyburn
Idaho
Hevburn
Hitt Now Out of Danger After Indigestion Attack
Illinois Representative R R Hitt, long plagued by heart trouble, is reported improved and nearly out of danger after an acute indigestion episode. He has been at home since Monday and, with care from Drs W G Morgan and Thomas A Clater, eyes a rapid recovery. Hitt, in his thirteenth term, chairs the Foreign Affairs Committee and will not seek another term, a decision he claims to have reached last November amid Friends’ protests. Born January 16, 1834, he has served Illinois since 1887 following earlier posts in Paris and State Department work.
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R. R. Hitt
Illinois
Committee On Foreign Affaires
Congress
Ohio
Hitt
Ilinois
KR. M. A. Hawk
Ute
Legation
Paris
Rock River Minery
Pigune Morris College
E Pauniversity
Ee Tow
Hazing Trials adjourned at Naval Academy hearings
Annapolis Md Feb 1 a court martial trying midshipmen on hazing charges paused for four weeks with Admiral James H Sands approving a Feb 13 reopening to avoid exam interference. The adjournment ensures first class members not yet tried graduate, though charges may follow. This morning the court verified yesterday’s fees and reviewed verdicts in Melvin of Geneva Illinois third class and Boyd Jr of Peoria Illinois second class.
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Annapolis
Morehan
Naval Road
James H. Sands
George H. Melvin
Geneseo
Til
William T. Boyd, Jr
Peoria
Secretary Bonaparte Recommends Pardon for Midshipman Miller
Secretary Bonaparte recommended pardon for Midshipman Miller of Kentucky, a top first class at Annapolis, after a hazing conviction deemed technical and mild. President Roosevelt, advised unofficially, may grant the pardon unless Congress blocks funding for the Naval Academy amid hazing tensions.
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Miller
May Grant II
Naval Academy
Kentucky
Annapolis
Department of Justice
Roosevelt
Congress
Academy
House of Representatives
Defense Plans Revised by Endicott Board Officers
A final meeting of army and navy officers appointed to revise the Endicott defense plan was held. The report will go to President Roosevelt via Secretary Taft. The board updated fortifications for insular possessions and the northern and southern frontiers, noting Canada and Mexico may be unlikely foes but stressing Great Lakes defenses.
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Board of Army and Navy
Endicott
Roosevelt
Taft
Board of Revision
United States
Canada
Mexico
Great Lake
Lakes
Wolverine
Michigan
Erie
Perry
Tranaimleston
Tennessee Leaves Cramp Yard For Government Trial
The armored cruiser Tennessee sailed from Cramp's shipyard for the government trial off the coast of Maine. Builders omit the usual Delaware capes run, citing confidence in meeting contract requirements. Captain W A Faulkner commands the vessel.
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Tennessee
Philadelphia
Cramp‘s
Maine
Delaware Capes
Pennsylvania
W. A. Faulkner
Bell Ranks for Chief of Staff and Bates Named Lieutenant General
President Roosevelt nominates Brig. Gen. J Franklin Bell head of the general staff as Gen. Bates retires in April elevating Bell to major general. Gen. Corbin will succeed in the Philippines and head the Northern Department after arriving in San Francisco March 2, with widespread talk of seniority adjustments among top commanders.
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Gen. Bates
Gen
Chaffee
Bell
Corbin Recommends Keeping Lieutenant General Post For Veteran Service
General staff chiefs versus highest army post unfold in St Louis history. Corbin urges reserving the lieutenant general title as reward for veteran service and to promote young, energetic officers to lead with modern warfare plans and execution. MacArthur to hold the rank till 1905, with possible retirement earlier to allow Gen Leonard Wood advance. Bates and Orbin precede MacArthur in line of succession.
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St. Louis
Sherman
Corbin
Will
Bates
Orhin
MacArthur
Leonard Wood
Army Orders Reach Officers with Leaves and Transfers
A string of army notices grants leaves of absence for several officers, including First Lieut Nathenm J Shelton and Second Lieut Frencis A Ruggles, with dates in 1906. It also records seven day and one month leaves, plus multiple reassignment actions within Field Artillery and Engineers, detailing transfers between batteries and stations and retirements and joint naval medical planning.
Troops Near Orient Stress Honolulu and Pacific Ports
Federal officials reportedly explore base sites in Honolulu to station 15 000 to 20 000 troops for tropical camp life or to be near the Orient amid potential China trouble. Advices from Victoria note fears of anti foreign rising in China with Chinese authorities slow to act and Japan opposing troop evacuations. The U S President sets aside lands near Diamond Head Kupikipiko and Punch Bowl Hill for military use pending surveys, but no major force is planned in Hawaii. Captain Benjamin F Montgomery of the signal corps is retired for disability after long White House telegraph service.
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China
Victoria
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Peking
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Shanghai
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Kupikipikio
Punch Bowl Hill
Hawai
Montgomery
Benjamin F. Montgomery
Army Signal Corps
White House
Day Montgomery
Pacific Coast
Secretary Bonaparte Confined to Home with Tonsillitis
Special to The Washington Rose Baltimore, Md Feb 1 Secretary of the Navy Charles 3 Bonaparte is confined to his home at Park avenue and Court Street with tonsillitis. He felt the attack yesterday in Washington and came to Baltimore last night. It was said he had a mild attack and would resume official duties soon. Baltimore reports an epidemic of tonsillitis, hospitals crowded, but expected he will recover quickly. Assistant Secretary Barry may handle naval affairs temporarily. Orders to Naval Officers include multiple retirements and transfers among officers. First United States Infantry sails for the Philippines via Kilpatrick and McClellan, expected Manila by April 4.
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Archipelago
Seventh Cavalry
Frederick Funston
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Otis
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Philippines
MacArthur
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Rell
Heil
Gag. Bell
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Department of the Week
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Orient
United States Infantry
Gdi
W. G. Dugcan
Kilpatrick
McClellan
Suez Canal
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