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Newspaper
Washington Post
Location
Washington, Washington Dc, United States of America
Date
Feb 04, 1907
Page
4
Congress faces a doom for new laws with any opposition as pork barrels monopolize the remaining twenty four working days of the session. The Senate and House will push appropriation bills, debate Indian and army budgets, while Brownsville inquiry and rivers and harbors work create political friction.
Representative A R Webber spoke at Central Union Session praising prohibition and denouncing liquor traffic. He argued liquor imposes burdens on police courts workhouses and asylums, urging Congress to act and warning of costs to society and families. He claimed canteen would not be restored by federal action and accused hypocrites in church and Congress.
The steam yacht Virginia with Prof. A Agassiz of Cambridge Mass leads a three month expedition from South Brooklyn to the West Indies. The mission includes studying seismic disturbances around Kingston Jamaica and deep sea sounding. Stops planned at Charleston San Juan Puerto Rico and St Thomas with visits to leeward and windward islands.
President Roosevelt took his usual Sunday horseback ride in the north western suburb of Washington yesterday afternoon. He was joined by his brother in law Douglas Robinson of New York, a guest at the White House for several days. No visitors called at the White House during the day.
A Tennessee youth, Edward Ward Carmack, dodged expulsion by Prof. Webb at Cullacke’s Webb School. Carmack, later a U.S. senator, impressed as class orator despite regular trouble, delivering an impromptu graduation speech that earned him forgiveness and his diploma.
A Senate committee report from the Fifty-third Congress examined futures trading in cotton, finding it demoralizing and obstructive to trade. It details how delivery is often not contemplated, how exchanges fix prices, and how speculative contracts create an oligarchy of wealth that misaligns prices with supply and demand.
The article argues that futures dealings act as an insurance against price variations but are really gambling on future cotton prices. It contends such instruments do not control long run prices, yet can depress values, and asserts Congress has power and duty to abolish them.
The postal commission report aims to curtail second class mail by reducing periodicals used as advertising media and would affect big daily papers. House Post Office Chair Overstreet says no bill passage this session. Provisions to weigh mail for six months and to authorize a broad Congressional inquiry into Post Office business methods will be included in the general appropriation bill and not opposed.
The Bureau of American Republics announces Columbia University will dispatch Dr William R Shepherd professor of history to major South American capitals in summer 1907. The aim is to foster Latin American ties, promote American educational resources, and attract South American scholars to the United States while collecting material for lectures at Cooper Union. Leaders Roosevelt Root and Latin American diplomats support the mission.
Rev Henry N Couden House of Representatives chaplain spoke to Grace Methodist Episcopal Church Men's Club on Ninth and S streets NW urging active Christian service. The account notes his blindness and life in ministry, plus remarks on his past as a Sunday school teacher and his faith. It also mentions related items about spiritualist tales of Princess dAntinil, Marconi, and Mars messages.
Boston men Hanks and Harriman, named special investigators by the Interstate Commerce Commission, could not substantiate a theory that railroad rates south could be materially reduced without harming carriers. The forthcoming report to the Culberson resolution shows they were detached from payrolls, with the President's approval of the commission's overall work.
Since October a committee formed by Potomac Post No 1 has sought Confederate Memorial style aid to raise a monument for Mrs Mero L Tanner wife of Corporal James Tanner the past commander in chief. Funds arriving steadily will fund a simple shaft with hopes for a larger tribute. Mrs Tanner died June 29 1906 in a Helena Montana auto crash and was the first wife of a corporal buried at Arlington by order of President Roosevelt. She was a prominent Washington figure in patriotic and charitable work and led many associations.
New York reports a War Department finding of irregular scoring by Companies L and M of the Fifth Infantry at Platteburg Barracks. Gen. Grant ordered to erase their summer records and deduct past sums, citing a suspected deal to inflate marks for mercenary pay. Col. Heistand confirms internal proof of scoring irregularities and punishment. The Ohio at Hampton Roads Steamer Norfolk arrives. education contract ad appears.
Cortelyou signals a thorough overhaul of the Treasury after declining to discuss policy. The Treasury staff sees turnover with Charlies Hallam Keep leaving for Albany to head banking, Arthur H. Statter temporarily in, and Frank H. Hitchcock likely to join as Assistant Secretary, delaying a full transfer until July 1. James B. Reynolds will stay to run customs improvements. John H. Edwards may resign next fiscal year. Top posts including Comptroller of the Currency and Mint Director are filled by capable appointees, with invitations extended to remaining senior officials.
A middle aged stranger walked into the White House yesterday claiming to carry a personal complaint to President Roosevelt. After persuasion he was taken to a patrol box and then to the First precinct station as Andrew Ruse a Baltimore blacksmith. He will be examined today to determine his sanity.
A long OCR list records hotel guests and rooms in many cities including Baltimore Boston Chicago Philadelphia Pittsburg Richmond California Georgia Illinois Indiana Kentucky Massachusetts Michigan Minnesota Missouri New Jersey New York State Ohio Pennsylvania Rhode Island with numerous individual names and mix of hotels Metropolitan Ebbitt Willard Shereham Regent St James Riggs and others. The item compiles guest names and affiliations, showing widespread hotel patronage and interstate travel patterns.
Managua reports Honduran troops crossed into Nicaraguan land after Honduran rebels entered Nicaragua. Nicaraguan soldiers were killed and civilians harmed during clashes on the frontier. President Zelaya demands indemnity while Honduras offers arbitration. Nicaraguans insist on separate action for the invasion and killings.
The Merchants Tailors National Protective Association of America begins its fourth annual convention in this city. About 160 delegates are expected, with sessions at the Arlington Hotel from morning to afternoon and a Thursday officer election. Roosevelt will welcome delegates at the White House on Thursday afternoon.
Cincinnati Ohio February 3 fires raged through the Thomas Kell gall Company plant makers of office fixtures and billiard tables damaging nearby houses. Loss was 815 MW. The Day and Night Tobacco Company's plant was destroyed with a loss of 385,000.
An ad touts Stuart's Dyspepsia Tablets as natural digestive aids. It claims to restore digestion by supplying gastric elements, notes home chemical tests show no poisons, and cites wide physician support. A.U. Buart Co lists London and Marshall, Michigan, as contacts.
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