Senate to push Navy Bill amid Swayne case vote
As the Senate closes in on seven major appropriation bills with only five days left, leaders plan all night sessions. The Swayne impeachment trial will open the week, with votes expected to take about three hours before naval and other key measures proceed in order.
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Swayne
Legislative Executive
Judicial
Senate
Post-office
MoGormin
Senate Iil
Bwayneers
Canal Zone
Santo Domingo
Cullam
Senate Committee On Foreign Relations
Senate River and Harbor Bill Amendments Questioned
Senate committee remarks say reports of river and harbor bill amendments are inaccurate. Officials expect limited changes. no large increase in the bill, possibly around one million dollars, as meetings proceed.
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Senate Committee
Bill Bown
Commerce Committee
Senate
State Department Printing Dispute Over Liberty Book
House Appropriations Committee grills the State Department over $3 340 for printing the Liberate Volume of the History of the Signers of the Declaration of Independence and an extra 1000 copies. The panel questions authority and contemplates additional funding for remaining year printing. Also notes Santo Domingo protocol discussions and Freer collection visit by Angell Henderson Langley to the Smithsonian.
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State Department
Ithlette
Iin Boch Wis
Armatels
Freer
de Rot Mieh
Alexarter
Belt
Washington
Times B Angell
University of Michigan
J B Henderson
Wissouri
SFP
Langley
Smithsonian Institution
Charles I. Freer
Quarles Not Yet Eligible for District Judge Nomination
Wisconsin Senator Quarles cannot be named to a district judgeship until after Saturday. The Constitution bars any Senator or Representative from civil office during their elected term, and Congress has raised judge salaries, placing Quarles within that prohibition until he leaves the Senate. After Saturday he becomes a private citizen, from which the President may nominate him and the Senate will likely confirm.
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Wisconsin
Quarles
Congress
President Roosevelt
Page Morris
Minnesota
United States
Senate
Sherman
New York State
District Appropriation Bill Conferees Endorse Increases
A conference report on the District of Columbia appropriation bill was agreed to after a lengthy session. Key items include raising the municipal building limit to 337,500, reinstating the Anacostia Bridge funding, debating Piney Branch Bridge, and limiting teacher pay increases. The plan reconfigures hospital subsidies, sets charity care guidelines, and finalizes total district funding at 317,000 with modest salary raises for officials.
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Anacostia Bridge and Hospital Fund
District of Columbia
House
Senate
Allison, Gallinger
McCleary
Burkett
Senate Committee On Appropriations
Piney Branch
Cilins
Sou Guo
Business
Board of Charities
Womens Clinic
Washington Home For Incurables
House Confrees
Rock Creek
Superintendent of Roads
Canada to curb United States silver coin circulation
Canada may act to regulate the circulation of United States silver coins. Bank of Commerce in Toronto plans to address the issue with the finance department and arrange for profits from minting while American silver will be valued at face value in Canada. In Plattsburg New York a Delaware and Hudson Railroad meeting urged against any hurried railroad rate legislation, arguing stronger enforcement would provide relief.
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Canada
United States
Toronto
E Walker
Bank of Commerce
Finance Department
Cardola
Liery
Plattsburg
Culver
Delaware and Hudson Railroad
Citzens
Dryden Pushes Federal Regulation of Insurance as Interstate Commerce
Senator Dryden will present a Senate bill to regulate insurance by the federal government, aiming to classify policies as interstate commerce and grant licenses to firms. The measure seeks increased policyholder security, lower premiums, reduced taxes, less clerical burden, and curbs on fraudulent insurers, while inviting criticism and further refinement. Also noted is Miss Carrié Peyton Wheeler named sponsor for the South at the Confederate reunion.
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Dryden
Senate
Supreme Court
Ufe
Charades
American Life Insurance Companies
Wisconsin Insurance Department
North Carolina
Miss Wheeler
Louisville
Stephen Lee
The
United Confederate Veterans
Carrié Peyton Wheeler
Joseph Wheeler
Henry White Returns Home From Southampton
Henry White, newly named Ambassador to Italy, arrived in New York from Southampton aboard the Philadelphia. He declines talk of peace negotiations and cites a sixty day leave for rest and private business as he prepares for a potential posting to Rome by April first. Also aboard were Rear Admiral Chadwick and Mrs Chadwick and Bishop John Shanley.
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Rome
New York
Henry White
United States
London
Italy
Philadelphia
Southampton
Fbe
Chadwick
John Shanley
Fargo
N Dak
White
Mr White
Washington
Russia
Brooklyn
John M Hawley
Rio
Hepburn Captures Adams County Meeting With Roosevelt Letter
Representative Hepburn returns from Iowa to calm fears over railroad rate policy. He reads letters from President Roosevelt and Attorney General Moody to the Adams County gathering, subduing rival editor Henry Wallis and easing tensions with the butchers' association. Hepburn departs for Washington amid unified support and renewed backing of interstate railroad regulation.
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Roosevelt
Moody
Hepburn
Adams County
Col
Pete’ Hepburn
Iowa
High Feather
Cass County
Col Hepburn
Col ‘Pete
Congress
Henry Wallis
Pete 5
Interstate Commerce Committee
Esch and Townsend
Wallis
Walls
Pete
Hom
White House
Adams Grounty
Col Fete
House of Representatives
Washington
Peter Hepburn
Half Million to Found College in Memphis
Court of Appeals upholds the will of W A Goodwin, the Nashville capitalist, directing about half a million dollars to establish the Goodwin Institute in Memphis after his widow’s death. The Memphis institution memorializes their deceased children, while relatives of Mrs Goodwin contest the will seeking a different distribution.
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W. A Goodwin
Nashville
Tenn
Court of Appeals
Goodwin
Goodwin Institute
Memphis
A Goodwin
Nashville Capitalit
Man Counts Dyspepsia Tablet Users Among Travelers
An advertising agent observed 23 traveling men in a Pittsburg restaurant and hotel office. He found nine regularly used Stuart’s Dyspepsia Tablets after meals, with stories of meal flexibility, relief from gas and indigestion, and safer relief than sodas. The ad touts pepsin diastase nux hydrastin yellowParila as a radical cure and notes tablets sold by druggists.
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New York
Pittsburg
Stuart
Tribute in the House Honors Three Late Congressmen
The House paid eloquent tributes to William S. Mahoney Norton P. Otis and George W. Croft, lauding their lives and service. Speakers shared biographical details from Chicago Yonkers New York and Aiken South Carolina while noting their dedication to city state and nation across eras and battles.
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Spain
Union
South
Carona
Pinky
Croft
Lever Johnson Legate
Aiken
South Carolina
S’rench
Idaho
House of Representatives
William S. Mahoney
Illinois
Norton P. Otis
New York
George W. Croft
Hepburn
Cannon
Mann
Ofllinois
Congress
Boutell
Illings
Mahoney
Sulzer
Hay
Virginia
Williams
Linos
Foss
Tlinois
Wus
Representative Smith
Currier
New Hampshire
Goulden
Rider
Bonynge
Colorado
Cooper
Pennsylvania
George William Croft
Finley
Newberry County
South Carolina Military Academy
Corps of Cadets
University of Virginia
Austin
Houston
John Calhoun
Mexico
Pierce Butler
Scott
Vera Cruz
Federal tax cut upheld on post July 1 deaths in Brittan estate
New York Feb 26 Circuit Court of Appeals sustains judge Tacombe ruling that federal legacy tax cannot be imposed on estates of those dying after July 1902. Case involves United States internal revenue collector for this district against executor of F W Brittan. Other similar cases await decision and may involve large sums. Rich placer discoveries reported at Clearwater stock on the Stikine district in Victoria British Columbia, February 28.
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New York
Circuit Court of Appeals
Tacombe
United States Circuit Court
United States Internal Revenue Collector
F W Brittan
Mi &Rittan
Brittans
Victoria BC
Stikine
Rew
Another Cure by Cuticura Told by Mrs Cable
Mrs Caroline Cable of Waupaca Wisconsin writes of her husband suffering from rhenum a severe skin ailment on his hands and crediting Cuticura Soap Ointment and Pills for a complete cure after prior failures. The letter hopes to aid other sufferers seeking relief.
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Caroline Cable
Waupoca
Wis
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United States Warine Band
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Afayette Opera House
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Order of Eagles
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Sfat Sale
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Ira
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Mirs Foraker
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Hiawatha
First Constu Cational
Lives of Vision
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