Lorimer Case Ends as Senate Debate Peaks in Forgery Claims
In a heated session, Smith and Jones clash over Lorimer’s seat with accusations of forgery and bribery. The debate pivots on Lea and Thornton’s elections and whether tainted funds influenced votes, as Senators defend or condemn public pressure and prior investigations.
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William Lorimer
Mll
United States
Certan
Benators J Hrsatan
Alabama
Jones
Washington
Mr Lorimer
Lea
Tennessee
Louisiana
Thornton
Maude
Johnston
Theodore Assell
Lorimer
Dittingham
Jord
Col Roosevelt
Taft
Wants a Pure Clothes Law In Congress
Representative Victor Murdock of Kansas introduces a bill in the House aimed at enforcing a pure clothes law modeled on the pure food and drugs act. The measure would criminalize shipping interstate or importing misbranded fabric from abroad and prescribes penalties. It details labeling for wool cotton and mixtures and was referred to the committee on interstate and foreign commerce for consideration.
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Victor Murdock
Kansas
Howard seeks Sunday closing across Washington
Rep Wilcant Ashley Howard of Georgia introduced a bill to shut Sundays down to all nonessential industries in the District of Columbia. The measure would exempt newspapers, drug stores, streetcar lines, and public utilities, arguing the day of rest should be observed and that government often violates it.
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Washington
Connery
Wilcant Ashley Howard
Georgia
District of Columbia
Howard
Berger
Wisconsin
Socialat
Howard University funding and construction notes
A compact report lists appropriations totaling for new buildings, utilities, and equipment. It notes $20,000 for new borne and storage facilities, $85,209 for a cement wall around Howard Hall, and authority to build a tunnel under W street to connect campus with Freedmen’s Hospital power plant. Equipment funding for the new science hall rises to $32,500, and staff salaries at the National Training School for Boys are adjusted, including a chief clerk at $1,000 and secretary-treasurer stipend to $900.
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Howard Hall
Howard University
Secretary of the Interior
W Street
Freedmen’s Hospital
Science Hall
National Training School For Boys
Board of Trustees
Treasury panel approves funds boosting city projects
Senate appropriations vote adds 225000 for the Tartt Board and funds for Montrose and Meridian Hill park improvements, Government Hospital for the Insane, and the Smithsonian. The bill lifts printing backs of securities and expands the Bureau of Mines, with a large overall package totaling about 114.94 million dollars. The Lorimer case delays final action.
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Plate
Joint Committee On Printing
Philippines
Bureau of Mines
House
War Department
Senate
Bureau
Alaska
Montrose Park
Meridian Hillark
Patent Office
Department of the Interior
Interior Court
Smithsonian
District of Columbia
Potomac Park
Government
Armory Gambling Allegations Stir District Guard
In juvenile court Mrs. Suals Mead charged that her husband John C. Mead of the District Guard gambles at the armory on Saturdays and at a Potomac gambling site. Mead admitted gambling, Judge DeLacy suspended sentence if he pays $10 weekly and vows to stop gambling. guard officials promised investigation and punishment for any armory gambling.
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Judge Advocate General
District Guard
District National Guard
Mead
Armory
Potomac River
National Guard
W. 5
Hodges
Meads
Mr. Hodges
Judge DeLacy
DeLacy
Akin Scents Land Fraud Resolution in New York
Representative Akin of New York introduces a resolution requesting Secretary Wilson explain alleged ties with Colorado land projects. The measure notes Jasper Wilson, the secretary’s son and former private secretary, now earns $10,000 yearly at an irrigation firm and implies Colorado lands were defrauded, seeking a report on the wet reservoir and Standley dam project.
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New Yorker
Wilson
Akin
New York
Yeesterday
Colorado
Jasper Wilson
Standley
Senator Tillman Seeks Peak Battleship to End Naval Race
Senator Tillman proposed in the Senate a plan to build the largest battleship the world can construct and then withdraw from the international arms race. He directed the committee on moral affairs to study maximum ship size armor thickness armament speed draft and other limits to determine the best battleship or cruiser for U S naval power. The move stalled due to the Lorimer case and ongoing fiscal concerns about naval appropriations.
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Tillman
South Carolina
Senate
United States
Committee On
Panama Canal
Missing heiress found after Narragansett search
Miss Almes Henry, reported missing from Narragansett Hotel, was located in Port Chester Maryland. Uncle Archibald Wayier said she left hurriedly to visit a friend. police report she is safe and the search is ended.
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Jealal
Jste
Almes Benry
Narraganpett
Hota
Archibald H. Wayier
Maryland Trust
Mise Henry
Yin de Foraecén
Port Chester
Plot says Harriman revealed at Darrow trial
Cross-examination in the Clarence Darrow bribery trial exposes an effort by political enemies to indict socialist leader Harriman for dynamiting the Los Angeles Times building. Deputy Sheriff Aguirre, longtime juror overseer, resigns under fire after being accused of bias toward the defense. Naval issue notes discuss two new battleships as House conferees are named to negotiate the naval appropriation bill.
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Senate
Lorimer
Los Angeles
Cal
Job Harriman
Clarence 8. Darrow
Harriman
Los Angeles Times
McNamara Brothers
Derrow
Martin Aguirre
San Quentin Prison
Terror
Tillman
General Board of the Navy
House
Clark
Hougé
Lemuel P. Padgett
Tennessea
Naval Committee
A. W. Gregg
Texas
George E. Foas
Milnois
Taft Signs Titanic Rescue Thanks and Military Maneuvers Budget
President Taft signed a joint resolution extending Congress’s thanks to Captain Arthur Henry Rostron and the Carpathia crew for Titanic rescue efforts. He also approved an appropriation of 1,259,000 dollars for organized militia military maneuvers.
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Taft
Congress
Arthur Henry Rostron
Thaw Hearing Ends Alienists Say He Is Now Sane
In White Plains July 10 expert alienists Dr William A White and Dr Charles K Mis testified Thaw is sane and could be released from Matteawan if six years of delusions could not be proved. One former Thaw lawyer said he considered sending Thaw to an asylum without trial in 1904.
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White Plains
Harry K. Thaw
William A. White
Government Hospital For the Insane
Washington, D. C
Charles K. Mis
Columbia University
Stanford White
Thaw
White
Matteawan Asylum
William M.K. Olcott
Thawa
Anthony Comstock
The
Boeiery For the Prevention of Vice
Exonerated Harriman Faces Socialist Party Rift
The court exonerated Harriman of suspicion amid a lengthy defense of Aguirre. District Attorney Fredericks raised questions about Harriman’s ties to dynamiters and his alleged grand jury disclosures via Cantrell and Merriam. Harriman denied the quoted San Luis Obispo remark and detailed the Socialist party split between direct action and peaceful political reform.
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Aguirre
Harriman
Times
Edward Adams Cantrell
Frank 3
Merriam
Cantrell
Bochalet
State Socialist Party
Fredericks
San Luis Obispo
Cal
Socialist Party
Grand Jury
Engineer in Collapse Delays Inquest Testimony
Engineer William Schroeder of the Lackawanna express, involved in last Thursday’s wreck near here, did not appear at the coroner’s inquest as his physician cited fragility for cross examination. Witnesses claim Schroeder was intoxicated earlier, with bartender Charles Sharp testifying to multiple gin orders before 11 pm the night prior to the crash.
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William Schroeder
Schroeder
Smith
Charles Sharp
Elmira
Prison Mothers Poem Sways Taft to Free May E Brown
A prison mother’s poem moved President Taft to grant clemency for May E Brown, sentenced in Salt Lake City on June 2, 1811 for violating the white lava law. The judge and U S attorney supported clemency, the first in a white slave case.
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Taft
May E. Brown
Salt Lake City
United States
Dix refuses pardon. Brandt to serve remaining ten years
Gov. Dix said Brandt must serve the rest of a ten year burglary sentence after the appellate court affirmed the conviction. The pardon application is closed per the court decision. The former valet of Mortimer Schiff was convicted and sentenced accordingly.
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Washington Post
Albany
Gov. Dix
Foulke E. Brandt
Mortimer
Schiff
Histrican
Dix
Brandt
Airship victim found on Brigantine Beach headline
The body of Walter Gerat, crewman of the Akrom airship, was found on Brigantine Beach. Initial reports suggested it might be Melvin Veninian. other crew members Seivin Vanithian and Elmer remain missing in the Atlantic City incident.
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Washington Post
Atlantic City
N. J
Walter Gerat
Akrom
Brigantine Beach
Melvin Véninian
Seeivin Vanithian
Breq Elmer
Fairchild Chosen Woman Suffrage Endorsed by Teachers
National Educational Association backed woman suffrage and broad reforms including peace, federal school inquiry, uniform marriage law, and expanded teacher training. Chicago teachers faced criticism for "behind-the-curtain" tactics as Grace Strachan and supporters challenged Fairchild’s nomination, with disputes over delegate access and campaign conduct.
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Chicago
E. T. Fairchild
Topeka
Paris
New York
National Educational Association
Congress
National Bureau of Education
Old Guard
Miss Strachan
Grace C. Strachan
Brooklyn
N. Y
Fairchild
Mias Strachan
Misa Katherine D. Blake
Mathilda Coffin Ford
Boston
Mra Fila Flagg Young
Chicago Election Sees Fairchild Re-Elected Amid Tactics Debate
The meeting revealed rumors of outside influence as Miss Strachan lamented a letter of introduction from Mayor Gaynor to Mayor Harrison. Miss Haley and others condemned such methods, while the Chicago teachers’ federation backed Mr. Fairchild after a heated floor vote.
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Gaynor
New York
Harrison
Chicago
Miss Strachan
Margaret A. Haley
Chicago Teachers’ Federation
Mre Young
Miss Haley
Miss McLeary
Mr. Fairchild
Mann Delays Labor Bill During House Session
Representative Sulzer of New York pushed a bill to create a Department of Labor while Representatives Wilson of Pennsylvania supported it. The vote was put over until next Wednesday after Mann, Republican leader, filibustered to protest an adjournment violation though not opposing the bill.
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Sulzer
Department of Labor
House
New York
Wilson
Pennsylvania
Mann
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