Roosevelt Seeks Foraker Action as White House Visit Sparks Talk
President considers Brownsville case with Taft and Root as Senate moves to adopt the Foraker resolution for an investigation. Cannon and Longworth visit the White House, signaling potential legislation. Bonaparte notes Japan question not yet decided. Fulton of Oregon discusses coast interests. Nobel prize medal and diploma awarded to Roosevelt for peace efforts.
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Nobel
President Orders Appeal On Employers' Liability Act
President directs Attorney General Bonaparte to seek interpretation from the United States Supreme Court of the Employers' Liability Act ruled unconstitutional by Judge Walter Evans in Louisville federal court. The act, urged by the President, faced railroad opposition and touched on labor issues tied to a $2500 damages claim in the Southern Pacific case. The administration’s stance and a critical judicial remark have stirred debate in Louisville.
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United Sates Supremes Court
Walter Finns
LousiMe
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Louisville
Southern Pacific Railroad
Brooks
Evans
Congress
Judge Gvans
Carmack Bill Aims to Halt Interstate Whisky Shipments
A Senate Judiciary subcommittee with Senators Knox Spooner and Bacon debated Carmack's bill to end interstate shipments on arrival at state borders, granting state authorities immediate control of shipments as they enter the state. The measure faces constitutional questions and is under committee scrutiny.
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Senate Committee On the Judiciary
Knox
Spooner
Bacon
Carmack
Ita
National banks report 1906 gains and deep public debt changes
Treasury statements show last month surplus of 9.275 million and six months' surplus of 27.050 million while last year faced a 7.243 million deficit. National bank circulation rose 55.25 million in 1906 with total notes near 596.16 million and bonds backing circulation up 44.49 million. Public debt December 31, 1808 stands at 90.072 million after cash effects, with detailed breakdowns of interest bearing and zero interest components and a cash on hand of 385.997 million. Coinage in December 1903 hit 2.872 million, and December receipts exceeded expenditures by 9.275 million. The eight months of the current fiscal year show a 27.031 million surplus over disbursements, reversing a 7.243 million deficit last year.
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Simplus
United States
General Fund
National Bankc Gepositaries
Philippine Treasury
Mexico
Reorganization of Bureau of American Republics Leaders Named
At a Bureau of American Republics meeting a supervisory committee was chosen from top ministers and officials. Secretary Root was named permanent chairman with Leger Carbo elected vice chairman and Carbo as secretary. The panel will rotate yearly by lot per Rio conference rules.
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Root
J. N Leger
Halil
J. Domingo Obaldia
Panama
Felipe Pardo
Peru
Luis Betipe Crrbo
Ecuador
Rio de Janeiro
Lot
Senor Leger
Senor Carbo
Refuses to arrest Japanese editor in San Francisco
Secretary of Commerce and Labor declines to issue a warrant for Shigeki Oka a Japanese editor in San Francisco accused of anarchist writings. Immigrant Inspector North requested arrest but evidence deemed insufficient. Also notes yellow fever status in Havana with 53 cases from Sept 30 to Dec 28 and two cases outside Havana in Cruges and Nueva Paz.
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San Francisco
Secretary of Commerce and Labor
Shigeki Oka
Shigeki
Inspector North
Oka
Bureau of Insular Affairs
Slme
Havana
Havaza
Cruges
Nueva Paz
Brazil Keeps 20 Percent Tariff Break for Now
The State Department received dispatch from Ambassador Griscom in Rio stating Brazil’s congress, expiring December 30, authorized continued 20 percent preferential cut. The preferential rate remains, with linotypes and cash registers added to the typewriters category.
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State Department
Lioyd C Griscom
Rio
Explain car shortage remedy difficult to find
The Interstate Commerce Commission found the coal shortage in the Northwest stemmed from a glut of westbound traffic at lake heads and not a direct railroad conspiracy. It confirmed a coal dealers’ price fixing and boycotts existed, but found no proof railroads participated, while proposing a car pool and reciprocal demurrage as remedies amid broader rail and freight system reforms.
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North Dakota
Interstate Commerce Commission
Chicago
Minneapolis
Franklin K. Zane
Innvestigating Commission
Roosevelt
Lane
Duluth
Superior
Ellott
Northern Pacific
Hill
Great Northern
Universal Railroad
New Legislation Needed for Railcar Dispatch and Interchange
The report argues reciprocal demurrage alone cannot fix rail service. It calls for broader Congress empowered rules on open car supply and interchanges. It urges Interstate Commerce Commission authority to set interchange standards and enforce penalties to ensure adequate railroad service.
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Interstate Commerce Commission
Interstate Commerce Commission rules brick trade rate unjust
The ICC, in its first decision under the new rail rate law, ruled for Frederick Brick Works against Northern Railway and Pennsylvania Railroad. In January 1906 the Frederick shipment from Maryland to New Jersey carried 37 200 pounds of red brick at 380 dollars per ton. The carriers later lowered the rate to 2 78 per ton. The commission found the original rate unreasonable and improper and ordered reparations equal to the difference with the reduced rate.
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Northern Railway Company
Pennsylvania Railroad Company
Frederick
Elberon
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Gift for Mr Vreeland Honors Congressman's Aid in Stamp Law
Edward B Vreeland of New York receives a silver dinner service as thanks from silversmiths for helping secure the national stamping act prohibiting false marking of gold and silver ware. The gift, a chest of 135 pieces, bears an inscription of esteem from the jewelry trade. The act, approved June 14 1906, bans mislabeling and affects over ten million dollars in trade. Vreeland will speak at the National Association of Jewelers meeting in New York on January 2.
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New York
Congress
Weeland
Edward B. Vreeland
United States
Vreeland
National Association of Jewelers
Land Frauds Discussed by Lacey and Hitchcock
John F Lacey head of the Public Lands Committee met with Interior Secretary Hitchcock to discuss possible legislation on coal land frauds. A General Land Office report shows coal entries from 1878 to 1906 totaled 2,878 entries covering 406,270 acres, netting the government 36,169,554. Lacey warned the present law itself is not the fraud but misdeeds by individuals seeking titles in violation of law.
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John F Lacey
Public Lands Committee
House
Hitchcock
Interior Department
Lacey
General Land Office
United States
Griscom Starts for Paris as New Italian Ambassador
Lloyd Griscom, the American ambassador at Rio, left Brazil after a break with the government and sailed yesterday for Lisbon to reach Paris before taking his post as ambassador to Italy. Baron Rio Branco sent New Year felicitations to Mr Root yesterday.
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Lisbon
Paris
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Baron Rio Branco
Shonts Denies Report on Canal Labor Decision
Isthmian Canal Commission head Shonts refutes a Panamanian dispatch claiming no Chinese labor will be used. He says no decision exists on canal labor until after the canal contract is resolved. The President reappoints William H Mackey Jr as U S marshal.
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Isthmian Canal Commission
Mackey
William H Mackey, Jr
United States
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Political realignments threaten Roosevelt era delegates
Washington dispatch reports Speaker Cannon will back the administration, reshaping Senate alignments. Key senators and representatives favor antiRoosevelt strategies, targeting a 1908 national convention with Fairbanks amid shifting loyalties in New York and other states.
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Public utilities reform urged by Jersey City mayor
Mayor Fagan urged public ownership and regulation of utilities in a memo to street and water commissioners. He called for more trolley cars on key lines, a three cent fare, a public utility commission, cheaper electric light, and possible municipal ownership with a bid system. He also proposed leasing Belleville water works for an electric plant and building tunnels to New York to boost trolley efficiency.
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Captain John W. Furlong Wounded in Havana Explosion
War Department message from Havana reports Captain John W. Furlong wounded on New Year's Eve by a pyrotechnic bomb exploded at the Officers' Club. The blast damaged the building. fragments struck his calf. The injury is painful but not serious and he is said to be doing well.
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John W. Furlong
Col. Wotherspoon
United States
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Furlong
Fleet Off For Maneuvers Near Guantanamo HQ Cuba
Rear Admiral Robley Evans leads the Atlantic fleet from Hampton Roads with eight battleships for winter maneuvers to Guantanamo Cuba. The Maine Missouri Kearsarge Kentucky Alabama Iowa Indiana and Things sailed, with later additions including Connecticut Louisiana Georgia New Jersey Rhode Island Virginia Ohio Tennessee Washington and St Louis for target practice and evolutions near Culebra.
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Bell on His Way Home to Become Major General
Brigadier General J Franklin Bell, chief of staff, was in Cuba in command of the Army of Pac a tion and sailed from Havana to assume duties in Washington. Although not yet announced, Bell is expected to be promoted to Major General to succeed Maj Gen Jesse M Lee who retired under statutory requirements. War Department speculation continues on who will replace Bell as brigadier general after his arrival in Washington Friday.
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Lotarrveg
Arnold Shanklin
Panama
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Tansl
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Roosevelt
Les
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Washington
Army Orders and Navy Pay Changes Update
Army orders announce Capt Thomas M Anserson Jr relieved and reassigned within Colorado and elsewhere, Lieut Col James W Fone assumes deputy quartermaster duties in Atlanta, and other officers receive depots and court martial duties. Navy Pay Service changes remove Pay Director Leeds Kerr from duty, with Littlefield reassigned to pay officer at Boston Navy Yard. Movements of naval vessels list arrivals at several bases and sailings to Madeira Bay and other ports.
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Seventh Infantry
State Agricultural College of Colorado
Fort Colorado
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Atlanta
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Philadelphia
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Twenty-third Infantry
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Naval Orders and Discharges Include Pacific and Atlantic Movements
In a mixed set of orders two officers receive changes of assignment. Ensigns receive treatment at the United States Naval Medical School in Washington DC before a December 28, 1008, revocation. Mate A E Afoore detached from Lancaster Navy Yard to Fish Hawk. A family oriented Great Home Event promises entertainment next Sunday at Pont.
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