Immigrant Bill Clash Sparks House Conference Action
Congress is stirred as Representative Gardner of Massachusetts introduces a resolution to discharge House conferees and recede from amendments. The move, a rare precedent, could empower the Senate or provoke contempt claims. Gardner, a noted fighter, faces questions about Lodge relation while lingering dispute over educational tests and immigration commissions persists.
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House
Massachusetts
Committee On Rules
Gerdner
Representative Gardner
House Land Senate
Thomas B. Heed
Crisp
Rules Committee
Senator Lodge
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Dal
Commission
Philippine Bank Favored by Senate Committee
Senate committee on the Philippines approved a favorable report on a bill to establish a bank in the Philippines to promote agriculture through loans. Amendments limit real estate holdings and provide that government receives a share of annual net profits from funds advanced.
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Islands
Senate Committee On the Philippines
Philippines
Senate considers Indian appropriation bill two hours
The Senate spent two hours yesterday examining the Indian appropriation bill. The Senate will meet at noon tomorrow. In the House general debate on the river soft harbor bill continued until 2 o'clock when eulogies were delivered for the wife of the late Senator Gorman of Maryland. The House adjourned at 4 o'clock until tomorrow noon.
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Senator Gorman
Maryland
Missouri Rep Murphy Pushes Anti-Tipping Bill
Representative Murphy of Missouri urges District Commissioners to report favorably on his anti tipping bill before the District Committee, aiming for House action before adjournment. He cites Washingtonians who support stopping tipping and vows to limit tips to workers' pay.
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Post Office Bill Expands Budget by Over Seventeen Million
House committee approves the largest post office appropriation ever totaling $209,180,56é, with the bill exceeding departmental estimates by more than $3,000,000 and raising salaries to $7,000,000. It includes clerks and carriers pay, cost cuts to railroads, rate reductions per weight tier, and weekly mail weighing to save about $9,000,000 annually.
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House Committee On Post-offices and Post-roads
Postal Service
Murdock
Kery
Sas
Exposition Loan Reduced by House Committee
Friends of the Jamestown Exposition opposed the House Appropriations Committee report that grants the exposition an $800,000 loan instead of the Senate’s $1,000,000. Critics insist the bill includes objectionable mortgage provisions and seeks to defeat the measure. Virginia delegates vow to push the Senate plan, arguing unequal treatment among expositions. The committee's substitute breaks the loan into staged payments: 300,000 on passage, 200,000 in February, 200,000 in March, and 100,000 in April.
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Senate
Virginia
Fayers
House Committee
Lawmaker Skeptical Of Chicago Gulf Waterway Plan
In the House Col Hepburn mocked a Chicago to Gulf waterway as utopian and chimerical, arguing a 4000 mile route with 200 foot granite walls would create too swift a current for upstream navigation. He cited river spending totals and contrasted freight gains from cities like Pittsburg with limited downstream tonnage on the Ohio, warning the project may not justify federal costs. An Ohio congressman proposed appointing a three engineer board before future river and harbor appropriations. The House adjourned after memorial services for Senator Gorman.
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Hepburn Gald Champ Clark
St. Louis
Cairo
United States
Mississippi
Republican Party
Phey
Pittsburg
South
Ohio
Keifer
Army Engineers
Gorman
Colorado River Confined by Senate Bill With Reduced Funding
The House Public Lands Committee backed a favorable Senate bill to confine the Colorado River to its banks with specified funds. They amended the bill to reduce appropriations to 1,000,000 and struck out a provision authorizing the Imperial Valley reclamation project. The report indicates the bill now authorizes three levees along the river.
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Senate
Colorado River
Reclamation ‘Service
Imperial, Valley
Trolley Fares and District Railway Returns
District street railway companies filed annual reports to Congress. Georgetown and Tennallytown posted a deficit of 6725 while City and Suburban showed a 31446 surplus. Brightwood Ine a 38447 deficit. Anacostian a 4068 surplus. East Washington Heights reports 14800 capital paid in, 7000 funded debt, 31210 floating. Washington Railway and Electric carried 41952715 passengers at 256 average fare, 1200186 receipts, total 1645396 expenses 1121775 surplus 523620.
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Georgetown
Tennallytown
Brightwood
Anacostian
East Washington Heights
Indian appropriation measure sparks Senate debate
The Senate opened consideration of the Indian appropriation bill amid added amendments from the special committee on citizenship property rights of the Five Civilized Tribes and mineral lands. Senator Curtis, newly moved from the House, participated, challenging an amendment and marking notable cross‑branch involvement. The chamber adjourned for a brief executive session and later paid respects to Rep William M. Flack, with a joint funeral committee named from several states.
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Curtis
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Kéan
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William M. Flack
New York
Depew and Platt
Kean
New Jersey
Bulkley
Connecticut
Dubois
Idaho
Newlands
Nevada
Rivers and Harbors Bill Seen as Step Toward Waterways
Capt J F Ellison, head of the National Rivers and Harbors Congress, arrived for discussions on the $83 million rivers and harbors bill. He notes the measure advances work already under way and pledges for $50 million annually for national improvements, with $26 million earmarked to finish existing projects.
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Ohio
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Memorial tribute to men in Congress sparks Gorman praise
In a House memorial, Speaker Cannon lauds the Senate and House as "picked men of the republic" and extols Senator Gorman’s integrity, industry, and public service. Champ Clark and others weigh in on the Cleveland Gorman feud as a turning point in national politics, with remarks on debate and conference room effectiveness.
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Missouri
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New York
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Georgia
Smith
Clayton
Alabama
Byrd
Mississippi
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Gill
Choctaw Chickasaw Coal Oil and Asphalt Lands Bill
Senator Clapp introduced a bill to create the Choctaw Chickasaw Coal Oil and Asphalt Land Company to manage and dispose of coal oil and asphalt lands for tribal citizens. The President would be ex officio head, with Interior and other officials on the board, and the company could explore mine refine transport lease and sell. The corporation would exist up to twenty five years and avoid taxation on capital and lands. Credentials of Jefferson Davis presented to Senate to succeed Senator Berry.
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Clapp
Leupp
Hitchcock
Choctaw-Chickasaw Coal, Oil and Asphalt Land Company
the Treasury and Commerce and Labor
Secretary of the Interior
Senators Smoke Behind Closed Senate Doors
Secret session exposes smoking in the chamber as a dozen Senators lit cigars while open doors awaited adjournment. Assistant sergeant at arms and pages tried to stop the cigars, but Sen. Lodge from Massachusetts continued smoking, provoking comic chase and final exit. The smoking rule, adopted for years, originated after Sen. Ingalls complained of smoke drifting in from corridors.
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Kansas
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Wkansar
Big Saving in Mail Haul Highlighted by Murdock
Representative Murdock points to a Post-office bill provision adopted by the House that would cut postal payments to railways by about six million dollars a year by changing the mail weighing divisor from seven to seven days.
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