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Newspaper
Washington Post
Location
Washington, Washington Dc, United States of America
Date
Feb 16, 1912
Page
9
The article surveys Irish Home Rule, parliamentary fate, and rising hopes for reform. It discusses US immigration policy toward China and Japan, warns on evidence from detectives, and hints at political gossip and sensational asides from a late 19th century newspaper page.
Lord Leitrim arrives in New York aboard the Carmenia to pursue the search for his missing brother Frank Clements the sole heir to the earldom of Leitrim. Frank, educated in the royal navy, vanished after seeking work in America with rumors of various fates, while the family maintains there is no distress or known address. The article recounts the earldom’s brutal historic feud and the notorious murder of the previous earl, framing a tale of bloodlines, exile, and ongoing inquiry into Frank Clements’s fate.
A heated session centers on naval budget fights and party lines. Democrats and Republicans clash over approving two battleships while Congress weighs economy, strategy, and national security amid broader European tensions.
A party of distinguished Southerners from New York will attend the drat an nusi banquet of the Southern Society of Washington at the Rabizh Hotel on February 2. Led by William Cumming Story and Oliver J Sands, the gathering includes Virginian Edwin Q. Quarles and notable Southern women such as Mrs Lurton and Mrs Bailey, with many acceptances received from Mrs Gellow, Mrs Owen, Mrs Lee Coulter, and others.
The legality of an executive order by Theodore Roosevelt, two days before leaving the White House, triggers a possible transfer of over 2.6 million acres of Indian forest land back from the forest service to the Interior Department. President Taft is expected to sign orders reversing Roosevelt’s action. The dispute centered on timber profits once deemed forest land, with Attorney General Wickersham ruling for the Indians and questioning the legality of Moosevelt’s order. Lands involved include parts of the Mescalero Apache, Zuni, Navajo, White Mountain, Tule, and Hoopa Valley reservations across New Mexico, Arizona, and California.
Senor Suares, Chilean Minister, tours the United States Bureau of Engraving and Printing facility. He plans two detailed reports on U S printing of paper money and stamps. Director Ralph accompanies the minister and explains machine operations and methods.
Attorney General Wickersham departed Wasnington for three Midwest speeches. In St Louis he will address Business and the Law, and at a Milwaukee luncheon he will discuss National Stability, focusing on the initiative referendum and recall. The Antitrust record will be outlined in Wilwaukee. Paris Deb 1% Dr Jean Charcot notified of Cullum gold medal by American Geographical Society for polar exploration. Rear Admiral Peary sent congratulations.
Army orders list leaves of absence and transfers across corps. Officers including Clayton Drake Wimberly Townsend Smith Brown Perry Van Duyne Barber Barber etc. will proceed to stations in St Louis New York San Francisco and Fort Adams with duties and reports to commanding officers. Some are detailed to the quartermasters department and others to infantry or signal corps. discharge and reassignment actions are noted for a variety of units.
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A roster of attendees includes Ambamador Reid Seater Guellenheim Colombo Senator Swanbon Virginia Avator Fouter of Loulatans Senator Joke Washington Baustoy Cranh Massachusetts Sanator Sers Montana Repromentativa Burleson Texas Representaive Smith Texan Representative McMorran Michigan Representative Dyer Missouri Representative Knowband California Representative Fordnfy Michigan Representative Campbell Kansas Representaive Olmsted Pennsylvania Representative Ruae New York Representative Simmons Newark Representative Austin Tennessee Representative Taylor Ohio.
The Senate advanced multiple measures including a nomination for ambassador to France and licensing private wireless stations while delaying the immigration bill. A pension and military funding debate arose as hearings continued on the Florida Everglades inquiry. House actions included a naval defense plan and a Niagara Falls ship canal survey with adjournment around 4 PM.
The New York Times notes aluminum's expanding role in U.S. industry from 1583 to 1910 with growing prospects. It highlights duralumin containing 99 to 90 percent aluminum, claiming high strength and lightness, and an aluminum copper alloy imitating gold, resistant to chemical action and easy to machine, roll, or draw into wire, suggesting a broad future for aluminum.
The Senate confirmed former Governor Guy Myron T Herrick as Ambassador to France by a large margin after a push by progressive allies of Taft. The vote was reported around 138 to 4, with support from Burlon’s bloc. Herrick is expected to replace Ambassador Bacon in Paris within about a month.
Washington alumni of the University of Chicago will meet next Tuesday night at the MCA to plan an alumni dinner in early March. Dr Herbert H Bunvel, Leroy T Vernon, Williams Broughton and Arthur Mianich are in charge of the gathering.
The bulletin describes unsettled Atlantic weather with gale warnings in the northeast and brisk to gale forces impacting the Gulf states and western regions. It notes strong winds from the northwest, shifting coastal conditions from New England to the southern Atlantic coast, and varying temperatures across locations with a predicted cold front moving in.
The cornerstone of the National Maine Monument was laid by Rear Admiral E H Leutze at the Gotdwmbua site entrance to Central Park New York. A copper box with Capt Charles D Blaebee s narrative and the naval court report was deposited. Attendees included Maj Gen Daniel Faichles Gen James Grand Wilson and Cuban officials. Memorial services marked the Maine disaster anniversary with Havana’s Spanish American War Veterans in attendance.
Washington suffrage activists lease the playhouse for Monday afternoon. The program opens with a feature by secretary writtten Burlson of Representative Burtrson of Texas. The event includes dances by 14 girls and testimonies supporting woman suffrage from Nettie Louisa Whiten and Mrs Husted Harper in the homes of Mrs Barber Parsons and Mrs Henderson.
An exhibition drawn in the cladding has a drill at Fort Myer on Washington March 5 with two and a half. There will be mounted pistol ball contests and special features by the archers and cavalry. A number of prominent society people are to attend as the process means comforts for the personnel at Fort Myer.
California leaders across manufacturing agriculture and labor voices unite for Taft renomination. Gov J Gillette in Washington reports strong California delegation support and belief Taft will secure the national ticket. Massachusetts and Washington factions show Democratic and Republican shifts as party leaders weigh primaries and possible nominees.
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