Land tensions flare as cattlemen push range control
Senate hearing on public lands reveals fencing on vast ranges. Cattlemen defend self protection and government leasing while sheepmen warn of unrest. President Roosevelt endorses local control and warns against full scaling of fences.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Senate
Senate Committee On Agriculture
Cattlemen's Association
Tlocka
KE Blecqueles
American National Fare Stock Association
J M Boardman
Helena
Earthemens Association
Chairman Proctor
Mr Boardman
MW Gray
Gunnison
Colo
Colorado
Utah
Tony
Warren
Senate Debates Army Appropriation Bill and House Adjourns
After hours of debate the Senate passed the army appropriation bill while considering other matters. Senator Berry spoke in favor of a measure excluding Senator Smoot. The Senate plans to meet at noon today. In the House strict legislation dominated, an amendment to a street railway extension bill setting three-cent fares was adopted and then rejected. The House adjourned at 5:10 until noon today.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Criminal Courts of
Colorado
Gray
Hugh Ranges
Dolliver
C W. Merchant
Tarlsbad
N. Mex
California
Nebraska
Hubert Taylor
Abbott
Nebr
J M. Wilson
Douglas, Wye
T J Walsh
Helena
Mont
National Wool Growers’ Association
Senator Warren
Senate
Berry
Cat Jengih
Smoot
Penrose's Defense Develops in Brownsville Court-Marshal
Special to The Washington Fest from San Antonio Texas February 11 defense questions reveal plan to blame Mexican policemen in Brownsville for shooting up the town rather than Negro soldiers. Witnesses say police wore khaki uniforms similar to army, seven policemen on duty, and that all on duty were Mexicans. Mayor Combs testified he reported the outrage, Penrose questioned the claim. Captain Macklin recounts being asleep. Penrose urges him to take command.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
San Antonio
Tex
Maj. Penrose
H. Y. Dominguez
Brownsville
Col
Glenn
Penrose
Macklin
Capt. Macklin
Cannon Sits Out Lincoln Dinner Amid Illness
Speaker Cannon, still indisposed, left the chair and spent the afternoon in his room. Doctors advise against travel to the New York Republican Club Lincoln dinner, with a special car taking about a dozen Congress members to attend. The President sent several nominations to the Senate including naval officers, district judges, U S attorneys, revenue collectors, and postmasters in multiple districts.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Cannon
House
Lincoln
New York Republican Club
McCall
Massachusetts
Bonaparte at His Desk with Slinged Arm
Attorney General Bonaparte, with his left wrist fractured, remained at his Department of Justice desk despite significant pain. He fell on ice on Vermont avenue last Saturday, missing a Supreme Court dinner and a Lincoln Day address in Baltimore today, but preferred to work if possible.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bonaparte
Department of Justice
Vermont Avenue
Supreme Court
Baltimore
Post
Rodenberg
Queen Liliuokalani Appeals for Settlement of Lands Claim
Senate receives a second petition from former Hawaiian queen Liliuokalani seeking immediate action on her sovereign lands claim taken during U S annexation. House set to hear eulogies for late representatives Flack Adams Ketcham as rivers and harbors hearings proceed. Private bills move forward on three Saturdays under a Dalzell rule proposal.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Senate
Fairbanks
Liiuokalani
Hawaiian Islands
United States
Congress
Dalzell
Committee On Rules
Veteran Sergt Mingo Sanders testifies on Brownsville shooting
Former Army sergeant recounts the August 13 attack on Fort Brown from the town. He says bullets whizzed overhead as he ran to Company Barracks and describes racks being broken by an officer. He claims the firing came from the town and asserts no court martial.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Brownsville
Senate
Sergt
Mingo Sanders
Sanders
Fort Brown
Cuba
Philippines
B Company
C Company
Company
Trent
Lorison
Garlington
Army
Gen
Gen. Garlington
Warner
Maj
Penrose
Lyons
Senators Disagree On Indian Budget In House
Senate amendments to the Indian appropriation bill were disagreed to in bulk by the House yesterday and a conference was asked. Messrs Sheraman of New York Lacey of Iowa and Stephens of Texas were named as managers for the House. Michigan's New Senator Takes Oath. William Alden Smith yesterday took the oath as United States Senator to fill the unexpired term of former Senator Alger of Michigan.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Senate Committee On Commerce
Fulton
Taliaferro
Curtis
Senate
House
Messrs
Shera
Man
New York
Lacey
Iowa
Stephens
Texas
Michigan
William Alden Smith
United States
Alger
Mr. Smith
Bisa Beer
Ae Ee
Mr. Alger
Smith
Burrows
Fairbanks
Lattimer
South Carolina
Capitol
Palmetto
Knox
Pennsylvania
Bulkeley
Connecticut
Burkett
Nebraska
du Pont
Wolverine
Speaker Cannon Absent from Lincoln Dinner Over Doctor Hint
Heard at the Capitol notes Speaker Cannon’s health improving after grip. He cancels a speaking engagement at the Lincoln Club dinner in New York due to his physician’s warning of relapse. The piece also covers Sen William Alden Smith’s swearing in to finish Alger’s term and remarks from New York representatives on Kelsey’s resignation decision, along with chatter about party balance in the Senate.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Cannon
Capitol
Republican Club
New York
Joe
Washington
Grip
Uncle Foe
Speaker
Scott
Columbia
Frank Caldwell
Beyond the Klondike
Over the Long Dog Trail
Eli Smith
Arthur Smith
Sanders & Stayman
Boston Symphony Orchestra
Karl Mack
National Theater
Solol T
Olga Samaroff
T. Arthur Smith
Great Falls
The
Niagara
Great Gorge
Rapide
D. RE. R. Cars
Mets
Columbia Theater
Senate Passes Army Bill With $81 Million Impasse
The army appropriation bill carrying about $81.6 million passed the Senate after a day of debate on rail rate law tariff and Panama Canal issues. An amendment to grant reduced rail rates for troop transport was ruled out on a point of order. Senator Berry urged exclusion of Reed Smoot citing Mormon Church influence and polygamy.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
War Department
Spooner
Berry
Smoot
Senate
Lodge
Philippines
Aldrich
Rhode Island
Wisconsin
Tam
Tilimen
Post Office Department
Warren
Wyoming
Beveridge
Indiana
United States
Revival of Wacre Mentioned by Senator Berry
Senator Berry revived the Wacre episode citing Arkansas figures and his personal experiences. He asserted that Lee pledged peace after Appomattox but that the Mormons faced statehood conditions and that polygamy persisted among eight of twelve states. The Mormon church president defended the practice.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Wacre
Berry
Arkansas
Lee
Hiard
Appomattox
Roosevelt Urges Lands Bill For Intermarried Cherokees
President Roosevelt sent a message to Congress urging a bill to allow white citizens who intermarried with Cherokees sixty days to dispose of improvements on Cherokee lands. Sales will be to Cherokee members at appraised prices set by officials or the Interior Secretary. The move follows the Daniel Redbird ruling excluding intermarried persons from allotments or tribal funds to prevent hardship for those who relied on previous rights.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Roosevelt
Congress
Cherokee Nation of Indians
Secretary of the Interior
Supreme Court
Daniel Redbird
Delays Ohio Appointment Protests Over Longworth Ties
The Roosevelts avoid Cincinnati for a potential negro appointment to a major federal post in Ohio. Toledo is favored for a collector of internal revenue, or Cleveland for a collector of customs, with Cincinnati ruled out to protect Rep Longworth. Public sentiment views Toledo as likely, given district politics and pay scales, while Cleveland faces local opposition led by Mayor Johnson’s foes.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ohio
Toledo
Cleveland
Internal Revenue
George P. Waldorf
Charles F. Leach
Frank McCord
Cincinnati
Nicholas Longworth
Longworth
Roosevelt
Ninth
Sherwood
Tom L. Johnson
S. Goodfrend
New York
Leach Chemical Co
Mahogany Furniture Price List with Reduced Offers
A catalog of mahogany and oak furniture with reduced prices. Items include a mahogany china closet, sideboard, extension table, side table, roulette and froulette tables, weathered oak desks and cellarettes, and solid mahogany pieces. Notable discounts show substantial savings from regular to sale prices.
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Secretary of Agriculture
American National Live Stock Association
National Wool Growers Association
John L. Chatterton
George A. Bickner
District of New York
Louis M. Martin
Henry M. Clapp
George H. Green
Charles K. Darting
District of
Kasten Dietrich
Louisiana
Eugene D. Sanders
District of New Hampshire
Charles W. Holtz
District of Louisiana
Edward J. Leyburn
Haltimore
John J. Hall
Queen Lil
W. H. Flack
H. C. Adama
J. H. Ketcham
Lyebig Companys
Cthen
Lieut
Greer
Pleasant Thomas Chapman
Twentyfourth
Illinois
Chapman
Illinois State Senate
Albany
James W. Wadsworth
Otto Kelsey
Hughes
Wadsworth
Hampton
Board of Visitors
Kelsey
Mr. Kelsey
Gov. Hughes
G. P.O
Empire State
Licely
Washington Post
Ady
Hale
John Stark
Manchester
N. H
Nathanael Greene
Guilford Court House
N. C
James Schrivner
Midway
Carter
William H. Crook
Crook
Whites House
Taft
Sponer
Mr. Aldrich
Mr. Spooner
Republic
Jay
James H. Berry
Jeff Davis
Reed Smoot
Senator Berry
Mormon Church
Mr. Berry
Joseph Smith
Mountain Meadow
Friends of
Ment
W. B. Moses & Sons
F Street, Cor. Hth
Mansfield
Uume
Peer Gynt
Beau Brummel
William Gillette
Elmendorf
Scotland
James T. Powers
Blue Moon Company
Odets Tyler
Maud Powell
Sanders & ‘Rayman
Bartholdt
Secretary of the Treasury
Bureau of Enslaving and Printing
Columbia 'S
Daniel Frohman
Lawrance D’orsay
Mens Panter
Augustus Thomas
Earl OF
Paul Valadon
England
Ra Plesaaus Uu Ny RU Essai A Eo
Vaily
George Fuller Golden
Theresa Renz
Bessie Wysn
Carmen Gorma
West Emerson and
Baldwin
Sherman DE Forest
A& Jay
Melville Ellis
Bly
Majestic
JOE America
Bickel
Lyceum
Maraeva
Ane
Sam Devere
Boston Symphony Quartet
NEW Willard
Rudolph Ganz
Fulton’s
Nintic Street
N. W
Business College
Academy of Music
Atudenta
Oscar Gareissen
Rochambead
Berlitz
W. Crand Prices
St. Min
Cranial
Teatlan
Engin
Mlle
V. Prud Homme
Caer
Younglien
H. Randolph
E. Whitten Ladd
10Th ST
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