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Newspaper
Washington Post
Location
Washington, Washington Dc, United States of America
Date
Jan 23, 1909
Page
9
City measures move to subcommittees with several proposed laws aimed at liquor traffic and the district awaiting action. Key items include creating a Public Utilities Commission and others affecting the capital area.
Senate passed bills to acquire park tracts near Carpenter and Pennsylvania Avenue Heights. Introduced proposals cover extending Franklin Street to Bladensburg Road, locating a railroad substation, prohibiting District officials from owning public service stocks, and creating a municipal code. District bills include road, gas, and public safety provisions with numerous committee actions and references to the House.
The Senate adjourned to Monday after noting the urgent deficiency appropriation bill. President transmitted the Treasury expenditures from the 28 million emergency fund. The House passed the naval and district related bills, with key items including two new battleships and a public school retirement fund plan. Committee rosters for District affairs and labor, health, and public utilities were announced.
Representative Sims of Tennessee reintroduced a bill to bar District government and Congress members from owning stocks and bonds in public service corporations within the District of Columbia. The House Judiciary committee tabled the measure after debate. Senators Gallinger and Platt proposed related actions including street extension, Lincoln portrait purchase, and public land deals connected to a rail project.
The House committee on appropriations reports a fortifications bill with an appropriation of 7,920,111 for the next fiscal year, down from higher estimates. The largest coast battery allocation sits at 17,000 for sea coast batteries in the Philippine Islands and modest sums for U S fortifications, with aeronautics funding cut substantially.
About a dozen distinguished men from several States face potential fines of 1000 dollars each as messengers carrying the President and Vice President electors votes to Washington. States must send two copies, one by messenger and one by mail, with Arkansas Mississippi and North Carolina noted as departures. Most ballots have arrived by mail. Mississippi is the only state lacking arrival by either method.
A presidential message urges repeated calls for waste reduction and atoning the homestead act, proposes separate disposal of surface, timber, and mineral rights, withdraws coal oil gas and phosphate rights from entry, and favors favorable leasing. It backs a bureau of mines, cites 1907 mineral production and losses, and advocates vast land policy reform to conserve water, forests, and soil while boosting farm yields and mineral longevity.
After a Senate session, Dick's proposal to honor Lincoln with a February 12 centennial holiday passed but expanded to memorial ideas. Knox's amendment directed a highway project named The Lincoln Way from Washington to Gettysburg, sparking opposition and further amendments.
Professor John Joly of University of Dublin proposes a radical new theory in Harper's February issue. He argues radium drives the earth's heat and will present his position in detail, signaling a major shift in geological science.
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