Senate to Help City Reconsiders End Half and Half Plan
A long Washington editorial argues the Senate should restrain House efforts to strike down the half and half provision of the District organic act. The piece cites federal property within the capital and urges national interest over aldermanic politics, predicting the Senate will defend Washington as a national city with shared federal and local governance.
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Senate
House of Representatives
District of Columbia
House
Congress
Businessmen oppose organic act changes in Washington
Washington business leaders voiced opposition after the House struck from the District appropriation bill the funds to meet interest and sinking fund payments on the funded debt. They argued that abolishing the half and half provision would justify federal taxes on federal property, noting estimates that the government owns roughly 53 percent of District property and private interests about 45 percent.
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Washington
House
Supreme Court of the United States
House of Representatives
Nurses Presented With Technical Talks At Corcoran House
Miss Helen Taft joined Washington's elite society at Corcoran House for the thirteenth annual report of the Instructive Visiting Nurse Society. Dr William C Woodward district health officer and other doctors delivered technical medical addresses. society officers and a large staff of graduates from leading hospitals were announced.
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W. C. Woodward
Helen Taft
W. Corcoran Eustis
Washington
Corcoran House
William Corcoran Eustis
William C. Woodward
W. H. Wilmer
S. Adams
James Mitchell
William Corcoran Evatis
Emily Tuckerman
William Grinnell
H. S Beale
Cornelia Adams
Whitman Cross
A. P. Gardner
Arnold Hague
Frederick Keep
Brown Miller
Richard Mulligan
Corcoran Thom
Maude Wetmore
H C. Ledge
Opposition to Abolition of District Half-and-Half Rule
District leaders and bankers oppose abolishing the half-and-half funding plan linking the District to the federal government. They warn a change would shift tax burdens, disrupt relations, and weaken local autonomy while Congress holds final power to reshape the system.
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Charles J. Bell
American Security and Trust Company
Clarence Rheem
William JD. Hoover
Natonal Savings and Trust Company
H. H. Thomas
Congress
Defense of Beach Heavily Witnessed in Court
Testimony described Mrs Beach suffering throat and chest wounds after an assault at the Beach cottage. The defense argued the blade could not have broken. witnesses and officials testified to footprints, evidence of a struggle, and jewelry findings. Court session noted Beach and his wife present with officials predicting possible early verdicts.
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Frederick O. Beach
Aiken
Beach
Spain
Hal
Taylor
A. E Lorenz
Holly
Herbert E. Gyles
Allten
Beaches
Gyles
D. Hastings Wyman, J Jr
Miss Margaret Howard Killed When Horse Falls in Rock Creek Park
Miss Margaret Howard daughter of B R Howard residing at 1410 Sixteenth street NW narrowly escaped injury when the bay horse she rode slipped on ice in Rock Creek Park near the Zoo gate and fell breaking its hip and dying shortly after. An auto party conveyed Miss Howard home as bystanders summoned the Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals.
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Margaret Howard
B. R. Howard
Sixteenth Street
Miss Howard
Rock Creek Park
Zoo
Society For the Prevention of Cruelty To
Animala
Controversial Tree Felling Case Divides Washington Society
Mrs. John B. Henderson faces a police court charge for destroying DC property after she supervised the felling of a dying sycamore on Sixteenth Street to prove the tree endangered pedestrians. The rector of St Thomas' Church criticizes park officials for ignoring protests while supporting Henderson's actions and preserving the felled tree as evidence.
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St. Thomas’ Church
John B. Henderson
Senator Henderson
Missouri
District of Columbia
Trea
Rector
Mra. Henderson
Pugh
Henderson
Lanham
Maryland
Iertia
S Cc. Ernhat Smifh
May Also Prosecute Girl In Riviera Case
Miss Mary Easterday bitterly accuses Castor Lino Riviera of tricking her with a mock marriage in Baltimore in 1910. With a birthday tomorrow for her older daughter, she awaits Riviera tonight in Washington to testify. Riviera was arrested Tuesday in Atlanta and Detective Cornwell leaves with him for Washington. Easterday claims she can prove Higlera took the other woman to Porto Rico and she wants both Riviera and the girl punished.
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Miss Easterday
Riviera
Mary Easterday
Castor Lino Riviera
Baltimore
Washington
Atllanta
Cornwell
Waashington
Higlera
Porto Rico
Fletcher Named Dark Horse In Congressional Club Vote
Mrs Duncan A Fletcher wife of Florida Senator was unanimously chosen president of the Congressional Club at a biennial election. Other officers include Mrs Frank N Briggs as first vice president and Mrs Thomas P Gore as second vice president. Mrs Pomerene received floor nomination but Mrs Cooper won third vice president by 76 to 51. Inauguration set for March 5 with terms beginning March 4.
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Duncan A. Fletcher
Senator Fletcher
Florida
Congressional Club
Nook
Claude Swanson
Senator Swanson
Virginia
Fletcher
Frank N. Briggs
W. A. Cullop
Thomas P. Gore
A. Hayes
Henry A. Cooper
Pomerene
John Sharp Wiliams
James T. Lloyd
Eugene H. Kinkead
R. P. Padgett
Afth
W. B. Francis
Florace M. Towner
Seth Sheppard
John H. Baker
Fred Dennett
Robert N. Page
Baker
Mra Pomerene
Ohio
Williams
Cooper
United States
Ernest W. Roberts
Edgar D. Crumpacker
Nfe
Frank Tf. Briggs
Social leader Mrs Bowers involved in crash with street car
Mrs Lloyd W Bowers widow of a former solicitor general and mother of Martha Bowers, after visiting her daughter at Garfield Hospital, drove home alone and collided with a Capitol Traction car at Tenth and U streets NW. Both vehicles were traveling slowly. she braked hard, the front of the auto smashed though she remained in the seat. Auto damaged about $100 and passengers were shaken. She later attended a dinner at Frank B Noyes's house.
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Lloyd W. Bowers
The
United States
Martha Bowers
Helen Taft
Capitol
Tenth and
U Streets
Gowers
Garfield Hospital
Frank B. Noyes
Vermont Avenue
DAR Congress to Debate Bill on Continental Hall Addition
The Daughters of the American Revolution opened its April congress with a dispute over a Senate bill and House bill authorizing a building project to honor American women of the Revolution as an addition to Memorial Continental Hall. Opponents say the measure could grant government supervision and question Mrs Scott’s authority. The group reported $99,000 saved last year and a current debt of $150,600 on Continental Hall. The Continental Hall Committee was to meet today.
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Daughters of the American Revolution
Congress
National Board of Management
William Cummings Story
John Miller Forton
Charles Bryan
Senate
Williams
House
Representative Towner
Matthew T Scott
Memorial Continental Hall
Continental Hall Committee
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County Court House
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W. T. Gallner
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Washington Board of Trade
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Change
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Dark Horse
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Ciristian Xander
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Dempert
Joseph Hall Chase Piano Company
G Street
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Shannon & Luchs
St.oow
Treasury Department
Office of the Comptroller of the Currency
Washington DC
National Bank OF Washington
Statutes of
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Murray
Currency
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Nationat
Hank
Columbia
Lawrence
Merchants’ Transfer and Storage Co
Corcoran Gallery OF Art
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Citizens Livines Bank
Chass White
Dolly Maedixon
Ballentine
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