Senate debated secret sessions and Santo Domingo treaty
The Senate adjourned after a long open session and secret deliberations with no clear verdict on an autumn delay for the Santo Domingo protocol and award. Senator Morgan pressed an inquiry into Cromwell charges while opposing secrecy. leaders, including Lodge and Cullom, urged limiting executive sessions and preserving public access.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Senate
Santo Domingo
Morgan
Island Republic
William Nelson Cromwell
Cromwell
Poraker
Washington Post
Lodge
Cullom
Committee On Foreign Relations
United States
W. F. Powell
Juan F. Sanchez
Minister de Relaciones Exteriores
George Gray
Jann G. Carlisle
Manuel D. J. Galvan
Albert Dillingham
Thomas C. Dawson
Juan Feo Sanchez
Frederico Velasquez
Dominican Republic
Cromwell Denies Involvement In Dominican Deals
William N Cromwell of New York denied in a statement and telegrams to the Senate that he had any dealings with President Morates or the Dominican government over concessions or any attempt to influence Dominican financial affairs. He asserted he never represented, nor had any interest in, Santo Domingo claims, concessions, or officials.
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Conastani
Spooner
Philippines
Ths
Bexator
Morgan
Santo’ Domingo
Reeder
Reeder Syndicate
Senate
William Nelson Cromwell
New York
United States
Foraker
Cromwell
Preas
Dillingham
Wiliam_ Nelson Cromwell
Santo Domingo
Senator Foraker
President Morates
Debtor collections in Santo Domingo tied to arbitration award
The State Department plans to collect customs at Puerto Plata and Monte Cristi under last year’s arbitration award as Senate action on the Dominican treaty remains pending. Possible staff changes in the collector's force are noted, with Prof. Hollander of Johns Hopkins among names discussed. European creditors may press independent action if the treaty fails, risking tensions in U S Santo Domingo relations. A Calabria steamer and Prince Ferdinand of Savoy are tied to ongoing Santo Domingo dispatches.
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Dillingham
Perkins
Navy Department
Santo Domingo
Dawson
Senate
Illinois
Internal Revenue
West Virginia
State Department
Puerto Plata
Monte Cristi
Abbott
Hollander
Johns Hopkins University
Porto Rico
United States
Domingo
America
Menros
Dr Miles Anti Pain Pills Adverts Improper Claims
An OCR fragment promotes Dr Miles anti pain pills promising quick relief from pain and distress. It includes dubious language about aborting business and avoiding headaches, with a note about a satisfaction refund and price of six cents. The ad reflects early medicinal marketing tactics.
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Miles
Senator Teller Recalls Expulsion Over Secret Session Leaks
A long-ago Senate episode is recalled as Senator Teller questions newspaper accounts of executive sessions on the Santo Domingo treaty. He cites the 1992 expulsion of ex-Representative James Rankin Young, then Senate executive clerk, once deemed innocent, who later returned to Philadelphia and became superintendent of the Dead Letter Office.
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Jnqurre
United States
United Sates
Teller
Cultom
Ier
Senate
Young
Cullom
Senator Carmack
Washington Post
Hull
Japan
Philippine Islands
Carmack
Orient
Ledge
Dolliver
Allison
Tellers Atlusi¢n
Benagor Morgan
Tellier
James Rankin Young
Philadelphia
John Russell Young
Ulyssee
Grant
Joseph Dolph
Oregon
Congress
Nominations Confirmed by Senate in Executive Session
The Senate confirmed multiple nominations including Nelson O Shaughnessy as third secretary at the U S Embassy in Berlin and Francis G Landon as second secretary in Vienna. Others named were Joseph Cross as U S district judge for New Jersey, Francis M Wright for the Eastern District of Illinois, Fenton W Booth as judge of the Court of Claims, Louis P Summers as collector for Virginia s sixth district, John W Dunle as U S attorney for Western Pennsylvania, John H Campbell as associate justice for the Arizona Territorial Supreme Court, and consuls William R Estes at Solingen Jesse B Jackson at Alexandretta Hiram J Dunlap at Cologne Peter V De Graw as Fourth Assistant Postmaster General Clarence L Hobart as customs collector for Alaska Also several postmasters.
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Senate
Nelson O'Shaughnessy
New York
United States
Berlin
Germany
Francis G. Landon
Vienna
Austria
Joseph Cross
District of New Jersey
Francis M. Wright
Ilinois
Fenton W. Booth
Willnois
Army officers receive multiple duty and leave orders
A long wartime notice lists extensions of leave, new assignments, and station moves for numerous officers including First Lieut. Harry R. King and Second Lieut. Howard Gottlieb. It details transfers to Governors Island, Fort Logan, and other posts, board appointments, and the dissolution of a promotion examination board, with various officers ordered to report to different commands and locations. A separate note from Annapolis reports a court martial of ten seamen from the USS Atlanta for wholesale theft.
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Harry R. King
Philippine Scouts
Howard Gottlieb
Artillery Corps
James Bourke
Governors Island
New York City
Guy ©. M. Godfrey
Walter J. Finley
Army
Amos Auckney
Corps of Engineers
Gottlieb
United States Army General Hospital
Washington Barracks
D. C
Clarence F. Dickenson
San Francisco
Cal
Philippines
Fort Logan
Colo
Webster Vincon
Atlanta
Auch
Department of the Gulf
Charles B. Wheeler
Ordnance Department
Wilmington
Del
Bagar Russel
Signal Corps
Baltimore
Chesapeake
Potomac
Robert T. Oliver
U. A
West Point
N. Y
Skagway
Alaska
District of
Wilde P. Richardson
Ninth Infantry
George B. Pillsbury
Samuel ¢. Orchara
Third Infantry
Military Secretary
Thomas F. Davis
Thirtieth Infantry
Alfred C. Sharpe
James B. Hickey
First Cavalry
James Parker
Parker
St. Louis
Henry C
Helstand
Atlantic Division
Department of the East
Albert Todd
Col
Maj
Toda
St. Paul
Minn
Department of Dakota
Wilber B. Wider
United States Cavalry
Wilder
Paul
Alexander C. Brodie
Military Secretarya
Manta
P. I
Manila
Denver
Cole
Department of the Colorado
Joln Hia
Mtilitary
Annapolis
W. GP. Murray
Naval Academy
U.S. 5S
Venezuela Cable Dispute Draws French Diplomatic Push
Paris and Washington exchange notes as Venezuela moves against the French Cable Company. France warns of exhausted diplomacy, eyes Caracas courts action, and keeps naval forces near the Caribbean. US officials await Caracas ruling while Paris coordinates with company interests and weighs potential ultimatums.
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France
United States
Preti¢h ‘Cable Company
Castro
Venezuela
Caracas
Murape
State Department
Jusserand
Adee
War Department
Taft
Hay
New York
Duplex
Julien de Gravierre
Caribbean
North Atlantic
Pensacola
Dominiccan
Paris
M. Brun
Pouger Quertler
Paramaribo-Cayenne
Cabies
la’ Guaira
Does Not Fear Russia Reverses Bismarck Policy
Berlin reports that in the Reichstag Socialist Herr Bernstein denounced Nicholas as a criminal for Manchuria butchery and urged ending Russian loan support while Chancellor von Buelow defended Russia borrowing in Germany. The discussion touched on Bismarck’s stance and the neutrality of the German government toward Russian securities and emigration rules.
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Russia
Germany
Bronstein
Nicholas
Manchuria
Berlin
Reichstag
Herr Bernstein
Paris
Emperor Nicholas
Paasche
East Asia
von Buelow
Herry Bernstein
Russian Empire
Japan
Bismarck
Posadowsky-Wehner
Honored St Patrick Celebrations Across Ireland and England
English and Irish celebrate St Patrick's Day with fraternizing crowds in London as Irish flags appear, trade in shamrocks thrives, and Dublin hosts a grand castle ball attended by leading Irish families. Queen Alexandra greets the day by gifting shamrocks to Irish guards, while the Irish industries exhibition opens in London led by Princess Christian and the Duchess of Marlborough. John Redmond receives news of a proposed $100,000 annual home rule fund from Cardinal Moran in Sydney. Weather ranges from miserable in England to generally fine in Ireland amid customary disturbances.
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London
Ireland
England
Dublin
Briliant
the Castle
Island
Alexandra
Chelsea Parrack
Christian
Schleswig-Holstein
Duchess of Marlborough
John E. Redmond
Cardinal Moran
Sydney
Australia
French military law cuts active service to two years
Paris March 17 The Chamber of Deputies approved by a large majority a measure reducing active army service from three to two years. The law, effective January 1905, ends exemptions for widows and breadwinners, creates an auxiliary corps for those released due to weakness, and introduces one year of service for cadet pupils before studies.
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Paris
Chamber of Deputies
Spanish Minister Ojeda Appointed Under Secretary for Foreign Affairs
Madrid March eighteenth King Alfonso signed the appointment of Senor Don Emilio de Ojeda as under secretary for foreign affairs. Jacinthe de Cologan remains minister in Morocco and becomes Spanish minister in Washington. L Polo de Bernabe named ambassador to London, previously Washington minister at the outbreak of the Spanish American war.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Jacinthe de Cologan
United States
Madrid
Alfonso
Senor
Don Emilio de Ojeda
Washington
Spain
Morocco
L. Polo de Bernabe
Rome
London
Manuel Garcia Honored on His 100th Birthday in London
Centenarian Manuel Garcia, famed University of London singing professor and laryngoscope inventor, celebrated his 100th birthday amid honors from King Edward, Emperor William, and King Alfonso. Buckingham Palace conferred the Vic torian Order commandership, Alfonso X XII ribboned, and William’s envoy presented a science gold medal. A reception at the Laryngological Society followed, with portraits by John Singer Sargent and condolences from universities.
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London
Manuel Garcia
University of London
Old Park Theater
New York
Edward
Emperor Wiliam
Spain
Buckingham Palace
Garcia
Laryngological Society
Marquis de Villalobar
Alfonso
Alfonso X XII
Fraenkel
BerHn
William
John Singer Sargent
Harmon Smith
New York Academy of Medicine
McGill University
Montreal
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Calabria
Prince Ferdinand of Savoy
Tan
Torney
Calapac
Dominica
oRemport
Banta Bomaings
Grisis
Norfolk
Ajax
Hutchinson
Norfolk Navy Yard
Navy Yard
Guam
Leggue Island Navy Yard
Hamilton South
Fredérick A. Barker
Brodie
Military Secretary's Office
Division of the
J. E. Craig
League Island
F. W. Dickny
Texas
J. A. B. Smith
York
Walt
W. G. Roper
Laneagar
Neve Yard
Léague Island
Pennsylvania
B. ¥. Dew Lang
Massachusetts
C. D. Duncan
Colorado
Naval Hospital
Ensigi
C.A. Gonnar
G. T. Smith
Vai
G. Rothgdpner
Norfolk, Va
F. G. Nash
Navy
Naval
Yankee
Newport News
Worden
Guantanamo
Kalled
Pontiac
Newport
Herculey
Ponpateyal
Bank of
Macksburg
Ohio
Marietta
Pio
Commercial Bank
This County
Cambridge
ST. Patrick
Palais Royal
Eleventh Streets
Senor Ojeda
Kaiser
William II
Heinemann
Guatemala
Cabrera
Queen Alexandra
Lisbon
Portsmouth
Chicago
Frank Dunham
Illinois Central Railroad
Dunham
Gan
Ottawa
Ont
Alphonso
Qlendon
Alfonse
Ted Bead
Rally Ae
Ie gBerie
Ecetanvenesseee Hind
A. Eisner
G and Eleventh Streets
Columbia
Harvester
Wang
American Vitagraph CO
Moving Pictures
Chase
Daily Mat
Albert Chevalier
Miles-Stavordale
Emmett Devoy & Co
Qwley & Randall
Mattie Lockette
Jan. J. Morton
Shepard
Fast Life
Percy S. Foster
U.S. Marine Band
W. H L. Santermann
Convention Hall
Mo. Mieco
Bentth's
Paneer
N.B
Winth Street
Carter
Arter
Richard Mansfield
Beau Brummel
Musi
Dr. Jekyl
Mr. Hyde
Fred Stone
Scarecrow
David Montgomery
Tin Woodman
the Sunday Club Y
G Street
I. A. Coulter
Richmond
Hawthorne Musical Club
Boston
Prng-amme
Mr. Coulter
Hawthorne Club
F. Mactarland
Lafayette
OFERA
Wes Wells
Mary Marble
Nancy Brown
Quincy
Kernan
Matinees Daily
Fulton
Georgetown
Mali
Geeing Waar Ton Ag
Gxa
Orem Capitol Street
Washington, D
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