Brownsville Inquiry Votes Fail as Senate Keeps President’s Power Debate Open
The Senate defeated substitutes and approved instructing the Military Affairs Committee to investigate the Brownsville affair of August 13-14 in Inez. The panel will study the facts without questioning the President’s legality, aiming to report after addressing other business such as Military Academy and appropriation bills.
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Brownsville
Senate
Inez
Mallory
Foraker
Bressis
la Follette
McCumber
Warner
Teller
Tillman
North Dakota
Senate Passes Brownsville Affair Compromise Resolution
The Senate approved the Republican compromise on the Brownsville affair after defeating Mallory Culberson and McCumber substitutes. Boutherland defended Smoot’s seat as debate highlighted constitutional limits on presidential power and pending investigations proceed. Foraker motion to audit expenses advanced after committee favorable report, shifting Brownsville from center stage.
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Senate
Brownsville
Mallory
Culbernon
McCumber
Boutherland
Wak
Smoot
Beveridge
Prayers For Flood Sufferers at House Opening
Chaplain Couden offered a moving prayer at the opening of the House of Representatives urging liberal river and harbor policy. He asked God to ease the Ohio River flood victims plight and to inspire lawmakers to avert similar calamities through future legislation.
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Couden
House of Representatives
Committee On
Patents Held by Officials Face House Probe
Representative Smith of Iowa introduced a joint resolution directing the Secretary of Commerce and Labor to investigate and report to Congress on what government officers or employees hold patents related to inventions or processes used by the United States. The inquiry seeks how such patents affect costs or hinder government use of patented articles or processes.
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House
Smith
Iowa
Secretary of Commerce and Labor
Congress
United States
Committee Calls End to Free Seed Distribution
The House Agriculture Committee recommended discontinuing free seed distribution. It will advise diverting the usual 250 000 dollar appropriation to purchase rare seeds for distribution by the Department of Agriculture in the agricultural appropriation bill.
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House Committee On Agriculture
Congress
Department of Agriculture
Senate commends Carmack for Brownsville speech in Tennessee
Special to The Washington Post. Nashville Tenn Jan 22 The Tennessee house of representatives unanimously adopted a resolution thanking Senator Carmack for his Brownsville affair speech and praising him as the ablest exponent of Southern sentiment in Congress. Other items note Calder bill to regulate common carriers limits stock or bond increases and require interstate justification. Rivers and Harbors bill ready with river appropriation to be imported to the House and Scroggy bill proposing 25000 to build a Grant monument at his birthplace Glermont Ohio. Culberson introduces bill to prohibit sending cotton futures information over interstate telegraph or mails.
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Mallory
Teller
Ledre
Colorado
Bacon
Foraker
South Carolina
Tillman
Senate
Washington Post
Nashville, Tenn
Tennessee House of Representatives
Senator Carmack
Congress
Calder
New York
Interstate Commerce Commisarn
Grant
Scroggy
Ohio
Gen . Grant
Glermont
Culberson
Blayden
Slayden
Defends Reed Smoot as polygamy charges denied
Senator Sutherland defended Reed Smoot amid charges of polygamy and being Mormon. He attacked anti Smoot witnesses as corrupt and argued the church abandoned polygamy, while noting Utah conditions improve yet remain imperfect. Smoot reportedly has never advocated polygamy and led a clean life.
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Sutherland
Smoot
George Sutherland
Utah
Reed
Senate
Sutherland Denier
Mormon Church
Church
Spain
Sutherlang
Urge Anti-Consumption Bill Prompts Senate Petition
Civic Center Council petitions Senate for SB 70d to require reporting consumption cases to the heart department like other contagious diseases and to provide free exams. Howard Alien Fay and Henry J. Har ing sign the petition, urging a hospital be available to treat consumptive cases in Washington, claimed to be the most backward city of its size in TB fighting equipment.
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Civic Center
Senate
Gallinger
Council of the Civic Center
Howard Alien Fay
Henry J. Haring
Heart Department
Washington
Congress urged to fund three powder plants nationwide
R Waddell a Peoria Illinois powder maker urged Congress to appropriate 9 000 000 for three powder plants in different sections. He proposed government control of the Bernadou Congverse patent for smokeless powder and licensing to manufacturers. Duponts currently produce smokeless powder under this patent. The report also notes the president approved a joint resolution allowing temporary leaves of absence for homestead settlers.
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Congress
R. &. Waddell
Peoria
Wos
House Committee On Appropriations
Duponts
Eee
Pay Of Post Office Employees Urged By Hitchcock
First Assistant Postmaster General Hitchcock urged salary increases for post office officers and clerks and for letter carriers to offset living costs. He testified before the House Committee on Post Offices and Post Roads, providing data and an estimate of needed funds. He calculations show 3 million dollars for officers and clerks and 2 million five thousand for letter carriers. No final decision has been reached by the committee.
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Hitchcock
House Committee On
Hattchcock
Clark proposes $100,000 for district playgrounds
Representative Champ Clark of Missouri revived hopes for a congressional appropriation to buy playgrounds for district schoolchildren. He introduced a bill setting aside 100000 dollars for the purpose, and was the sole objector when it was debated as an amendment, suggesting likely passage.
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Champ Clark
Missouri
Clark
Firm for Gatun dam site chief engineer's view on foundations
Isthmian Canal line chief engineer Stevens asserts the Gatun dam site has safe foundations for triple lock structures. He says he would endorse dam plans if paying himself and cites 127 boreholes over 1,200 by 1,200 feet confirming strong rock for walls. Senator Morgan questions soft rock as dam foundation. other committee members stay quiet.
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Stevens
Isthmian Gann
Gatun Dam
Interoceanic Canal Committee
Senate
Millard
Shonts
Canal Commission
Gatun
Morgan
Phon
Wisconsin Senator Seeks Withholding Of Public Mineral Lands
Senator La Follette introduced a Senate bill to withhold entry to all U S public lands known to hold coal gemstone or oil and gas The measure authorizes surface land entry and licenses for mineral rights with government royalties while prohibiting common carriers and certain corporate officers from licensees It includes government inspection and bans on child and female labor and was referred to the Public Lands committee.
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Senator la Follette
Wisconsin
Senate
United States
Secretary of the Interior
Committee On Public Lands
Pennsylvania Representative to oppose pension agency cuts
Representative Suze of Pennsylvania said he will organize a fight against abolishing nine of the eighteen U S pension agencies. The House Appropriations Committee backed a bill funding nine agencies citing economy. Dalzeil argues paying all pensions from Washington would be cheaper and that all agencies should go if any are cut for economy.
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Suze
Pennsylvania
United States
House Committee On Appropriations
Dalzeil
Washington
Cortelyou
New York
Cousins
Iowa
Foreign Affairs Committee
Smgden
Texas
White House
Mann
Dinos
Slayden
Bill to Enforce Card Tax Meant to Stop Tax Evasion
Representative Payne chairs Ways and Means as he introduces a bill amending a tariff act to close a loophole left by the Dingley law. It targets the tax on playing cards, pursuing manufacturers who evade the levy per Judge Thomas’s decision in the Southern District of New York. The measure requires payment of the tax by manufacturers.
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United States
Utah
Sutherland
Festo
Titah
Payne
Committee On Ways and Means
House
Thomas
New York
Senate panel backs plan to curb Panama Railroad control
The Senate Committee on Interoceanic Canals authorized a favorable report on Senator Morgan’s bill to abolish the Panama Railroad organization and place the railroad under the sole control of the Isthmian Canal Commission.
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Panama
Senate Committee On Interoceanic Canals
Morgan
Isthmian Canal Commission
Retiring National Bank Notes Bill Introduced in Senate
Representative Fowler, chairman of the Banking and Currency Committee, introduced a bill to amend the national banking act to permit retirement of up to 15 9400 of national bank notes monthly, replacing the current 3,000,000 limit. Credentials of Senators Presented for Michigan’s William Alden Smith and Maine’s William P Frye were presented in the Senate yesterday.
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National Bank
Fowler
Committee On Banking and Currency
Cesterday
William Alden Smiths
Michigan
Gen. Alger
William P. Frye
Maine
Senate
Consular Bill Passes Longworth Plea for Better Quarters
The House debated the diplomatic allocation with Rep Longworth urging $600,000 for improved ambassadorial quarters and pay, arguing foreign comparators justify higher salaries. Rep Mann opposed the amendment but the measure moved forward, with leaders praising nonpartisan aims while others criticized administration appointees and consular costs. The session adjourned after the diplomatic and consular appropriation bill and the military academy bill progressed.
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Longworth
United States
Congress
England
Heard at the Capitol notes on Congress and Hague talks
A Washington chronicle shares anecdotes about Representative John Fitzgerald of Brooklyn misdelivered mail, Gen Thomas Henderson’s ordnance duties, Senator Francis Warren of Wyoming, and the origin of the term Second Hague Conference. It recounts Bartholdt’s push for a second Hague conference, Roosevelt’s support, and aims to curb wars through Hague arbitration. It closes with a Tennessee deputy marshal case and a House vote over a killing compensation.
Deputy's Moonshine Arrest Leads to Government Suit
Larkin pursued a moonshiner in Haskine County mountains, resulting in a fatal shooting and his arrest. Tried twice, the first jury disagreed and the second acquitted him. He sued the government for 1700 dollars for time lost and attorney fees. the House reduced the award to 600 dollars.
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Haskine County
Larkin
Senator Gallinger Proposes Amendments to District Bill
In a Senate session Senator Gallinger of New Hampshire offered two amendments to the District appropriation bill. The first would fund 10,000 dollars for grading Albemarle Street east from Connecticut Avenue to Broad Branch road. The second would require that all land acquired for public highways be opened for public use, with the Commissioners removing any unauthorized obstructions as soon as practicable. The second amendment responds to protests from property owners over obstructions on Sixteenth Street extended.
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Gallinger
New Hampshire
Senate
Albemarle Street
Connecticut Avenue
Broad Branch Road
Sixteenth Street
Date for Peace Conference in May or June
Berlin reports Prof de Martens envoy for Emperor Nicholas and Ambassador Tower discussed the peace conference date. Tower will seek US views and report to Washington for approval, while the US may accept any date agreed by most powers. The government favors May or June as the conference window.
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Berlin
Jean
de Martens
Emperor Nicholas
Tower
United States
Washington
Europe
Prof
Americans Presented to Kaiser at Berlin Palace Reception
At the Berlin palace, a January reception drew more Americans than usual to be presented to the Emperor and Empress. Among those presented were Mrs. John T. Drexel of Philadelphia, Grace McMillan Jarvis of Detroit, granddaughter of Senator McMillan, and Elizabeth Agnew, daughter of Franklin Rowell Agnew of Pennsylvania. The crush made guests wait up to two hours for carriages as they entered. Afterward the Emperor conversed with Professor da Sartens and other diplomats.
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Berlin
Jan
Palace
Mia
John P. Wisser
John T. Drexel
Philadelphia
Grace McMillan Jarvis
Detroit
Senator McMillan
Elizabeth Agnew
Franklin Rowells Agnew
Pennsylvania
Annual Charity Ball for Children’s Hospital Charity Night
An annual charity ball to benefit the Children’s Hospital takes place tonight January 23 1907 in the Willard Ball Room. Tickets including supper are $3.00. A long list of patronesses and a floor committee with notable names accompanies details of the event.
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New Willard
Willard
Alger
Lodge
Aoki
Mow Mas
Mea
Andenried
Metcatt
Mra Becon
Mire. McCawies
Bre. Barney
Mra. McLean
Mra
Bonaparte
TM. Murray
Mca
Brewer
Nahe
Campheny
Oliver
Afra. Glover
Risa Patten
Crane
D.C
J. H. Merriam
Bre
Andrewe
Virginia Billie
G. i. Bradley
Mra. McClurg
John Briggs
Mra McMillan
Morgan Bulkeley
F.L. Moore
H.C. Corbin
Moora
Mica Carlisin
James Matton
Aire
C. G Dulln
Duncan McHin
C. H. Davis
J. J. Myers
H. Deland
Wac Mearns
Elkins
Noble
Stix
Prank Ettis
Rost Perry
T. B. Gale
John D. Patten
T. T. Gat
J. ¥. Rodgers
Mra Gherardi
S. 5
Mesan Hauthern
Wm. Corcoran Hi
J.M. Hayden
TW. Hears
W. B. Hibbs
George Howard
Buldekoper
Huldekoper
Richard Hooker
Pp. Hammond
Chandler Hale
Bext Hussey
Paul’ E. Johnson
Perry Johnson
Seut
C. T. Jewill
Victor Kai Mmann
Edward McLean
Edward “McCauley
Joan J. Merriam
Wm C.” Mc Tew
For McCoy
Francia G Newlands
M. E. Olmetead
Peachy
Myron M. Parker
R .W W. Parker
Arthur Peter
Francs B. Poe
Edmund Pendleton
H.R. Petry
A de Parr
John H. Poote
Rae
C. H Woodhull
Capt Nathan Wyeth
JF. Wilkins
H Ho Wescott
C B Wilson
Win Wheatles
E. B Wals
Thos. F. ‘Waleh
R.C. Wilkins
Herbert Wadmworth
W. A Whitaker
H. H Ward
W. H Raples
W. A. Mearns
J. Garfinkle
W. H. Moses
Charlee
WF. Gude
Z. D. Blackistone
T. Fer
BW Henderson
N. T. Burchell
Mr Uris
Mr. Ewing
J C. Walker
George Oyster
Dr. Sterling Hudin
James F. Oyster
Alexander Britton
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Geo. Bebsu
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Harry Plater
Loita ‘Dresser
Lawrence Grossmith
Lew Fields
Acors Platera
Blanche Bates
Grace Gartner
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Jack” Norworth
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Mayelte Amuzement Co
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