May vote in district Hill Favors Primary Here for Presidential Ticket
Bristow introduces a Senate bill to create a District of Columbia presidential primary on the second Tuesday in April. It would appoint delegates to national conventions and require a system of first and second choice voting, with precincts limited to 400 voters and registration from January 15 to March 15.
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Senate
Hristow
District of Columbia
Follw
United States
Martes
Hla Parts
Peron
eMdh
Ald
Phatl
Delagata
Bristow
Salt
Board of Commissioners of
House Meets Today on Territory Statehood Vote
The House reconvenes after a two day recess to receive the committee on Territories report proposing Statehood for Arizona and New Mexico after voters in both territories decide on the constitutional amendments. The minority report favors admitting New Mexico without a vote on amendments as the House adjourns until Monday. Speaker Clark is ill with a severe cold but not seriously. he hopes to preside today.
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House
Committee On Territories
Arizona
New Mexico
Speaker Clark
Champ Clark
Congress Condensed Senate Adopts No Action After Day
Senate shows no progress on electing a President pro tempore as Republican leaders refuse to back the nominee and the body adjourns after an unproductive day. Senator Briatow introduces a bill for a presidential primary system to reveal voters first and second choices for President and Vice President. Hearings on the reciprocity agreement continue before the Finance Committee as sessions adjourn to Monday.
District in Congress Senate Bills on Streets and Savings
The record notes senators Gallinger and Curtis introducing measures. Gallinger proposes extending Calvert street to Cleveland avenue and related extensions of Rock Creek drive Twenty-eighth to Thirty-first streets. Curtis seeks authorization to pay the Freedmen's Savings and Trust depositors, with $1,261,744 appropriation for disbursement.
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Senate
Rns
Gatlinger
Balldlaga
Gallinger
Calvert Street
Connecticut Avenue
Cleveland Avenue
Calvert Ealvert
Thirty-first Street
Rock Creek Drive
Twenty-eighth Street
Twenty-ninth Street
Thirtieth Street
Curtis
Freedmen’s Savings and Trest Companias
Buffalo Favours the Pact Reciproc ity Hearing In Senate Finance
Buffalo Chamber and Manufactures Club sent 100 reciprocity boosters to Washington to oppose Northwest Grangers before the Senate finance committee. Buffalo delegates were booked to appear later. Rochester and North Tonawanda speakers join local leaders in a rapid-fire session. Gallinger received pension fund data from district commissioners urging passage. Maj Gen Wood to oppose Hay bill. Inspector General Garlington backs it.
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Buffalo
Senate Finance Committee
Buffalo Chamber of Commerce and Manufacturers’ Club
Washington
Grange
Wisconsin
New York
George R Forbes
Rochester
Harlan V Brush
North Tonawanda
Robertson
Buffalo Chamber
Leroy S Churchill
Corn Exchange
Burns
W L Manning
Gallinger
Senate
Police and Firemen
Wood
House Military Affairs Committee
Garlington
Revenue Cutter Seeks Waterlogged Schooner Near Cape Henry
The Onondaga searched for the Cella F. of Bangor Maine waterlogged and abandoned about six miles northeast of Cape Henry Virginia. The schooner was bound from Darlene Georgia to Bridgeport Connecticut with a crew of six aboard.
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Onondaga
Cella F
Bangor
Cape Henry
Darlen
Bridgeport
Army Orders Update on Leaves and Assignments
Leaves of absence for Capt J Mellard Littletle and 2nd Lt Frank Applin with other officers granted returns to duty and new assignments. Retiring board appointed in San Antonio Texas with Brig Gen Smith Maul Hoyt and Majs Straub Hutton plus Lieuts Mackall Green Howell Lyon Curtis Murray Nichols Boughton assigned to staff and Forts Mackinley and D A Russell noted.
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J Mellard Little
Twenty-eighth Infantry
Frank DP Applin
Coast Artillery Corps
Harry Farneld
Medical Corps
Renoval
General Hospital
Presidio of
San Francisco
Cal
Charles K. Rockwell
Corps of Engineers
Stout
George Ruhlen
Twenty-eighth Company
Coast Artillery
Army
San Antonio
Frederick A Smith
Marion P Maul
Ralph W Hoyt
Paul F Straub
Paul C Hutton
Fisat
Samuel T. Mackall
Eighteenth Infantry
John T. Green
Infantry
Board of Education
Pubdue Schools
Daniel L Howell
Fort Mackengle
Wvo
Robert M. Lyon
Eleverth Infantry
Fort D A Russell
Frank F. Curtis
Signal Corps
Peter Murray
Quartermasters Department
General Staff Corps
William A Nichols
Daniel I Boughton
Cavalry
Nichols
Department of
The
Colorado
Boughton
Movements and Arrivals of Naval Vessels and Officers
A string of naval movements and assignments is listed with arrivals at Kodiak and Buffalo, ships departing from Norfolk and Washington, and officers such as Comdr A L and Lieut Comdr C B Barnes assigned to various duties including ordnance, navigation, and senior engineer roles at yards in New York, California, and New Jersey.
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Bullard
San Francisco
H N Jenson
New Jersey
C B Barnes
Wecalley Jr
W R Sales, Jr
Dent I E Bass
Navy Yard
New York
Larimfr
Naval War Clings
Brent
Wade
Colorado
Winston
California
EK Woodworth
New Vick Rity
Ty Owasey
North Dakota
Buffalo
Kodiak Tecumesh
Tanx
Charles Mo
Gtenar Aretmusa
Beagier Schao
Weshingwao
Heyburn Denounces Senate Caucus Pairs Clash
The dispute over senate pairs escalates as Heyburn lambasts caucus rules and party discipline while Lodge contests formal recognition of pairs. After multiple ballots Cullom moves adjournment and is defeated, with progressives pledging not to back Gallinger.
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Lodge
Batley
Senate
Cullom
la Follette
Gallinger
Arkansas Battleship to Begin Under Scientific Management
The battleship Arkansas, built by New York Shipbuilding at Camden, will be commissioned and run on a business basis with scientific management. Lieut Comdr W B Tardy departs Annapolis for Camden to oversee fitting out and to serve on the engineering staff as experts from Taylor Emerson Gantt and Dodge & Day join the yard tour and report recommendations to Secretary Meyer.
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Arkansas
New York Shipbuilding Company
Camden
N. J
W. B. Tardy
School of Marine
Naval Academy
Navy Yards
Meyer
Secretary of the Navy
Study of Civil War battlefield topography begins near Fredericksburg
Special to The Washington Post. Fredericksburg Va May 11 32 Army War College officers and many students began a field study of Civil War battlefields around the city. They rode horseback to examine Confederate and Union positions and movements and the plans behind victories. The program includes a tent encampment wagon train and camp cooking with about 40 days planned for the trip. Participants report good health and active sessions.
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Washington
Fredericksburg
Army War College
Tablet to Navy Martyrs Unveiled at Annapolis
A bronze tablet honoring American seamen who died in the Revolutionary War was unveiled at the Naval Academy in Bancroft Hall. Secretary of the Navy Meyer attended for the President and Lemuel Pargett delivered the oration. The gift comes from the Daughters of the Revolution as their Baltimore convention concluded. Nearly 200 members were present.
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Annapolis, Ltd
Naval Academy
Meyer
Taft
Lemuel E. Pargett
House Committee On Naval Affairs
Daughters of the Revolution
Baltimore
Bancroft Hall
Columbus Probers Meet In Secret Senate Bribery Inquiry
In Columbus Ohio May 41 members of a senate bribery investigation committee met in secret. They hinted the inquiry would cover legislators, lobbyists, and newspaper men. The hearings may be delayed awaiting a grand jury report on alleged bribery in the assembly. Senator Yount said he was offered 3.50 to back a bill to end bucketshops last year. No inquiry or comment followed.
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Columbus
Ohio
Senate
Grand Jury
Assembly
Yount
Jones
Ono
Hila
Cleveland Democrat Declares Taft a Lawbreaker Over Vote
Representative Joseph Greeves of Cleveland charges President Taft would violate the law by voting in Cincinnati. He says Taft should vote in Washington as the House debates the Fremnfork measure restricting college ballots to permanent residents, with Democrats supporting it.
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Cleveland
Columbus
Ohio
Taft
Cincinnati
Joseph Greeves
Greeves
Finnerfork Senate
Washington
House
Georgia Governor Hoke Smith Looks Toward 1912 Nomination
Georgia Governor Hoke Smith, a former Secretary of the Interior and ally of President Cleveland, discusses party unity and policy priorities in Georgia. He praises the Democratic House for its tariff reciprocity move, endorses Senator Bacon, and argues for increased agricultural funding and road building over naval expansion. He avoids naming a favorite presidential candidate while signaling cautious optimism for a Democratic victory.
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Hoke Smith
Georgia
Cleveland
Manly Hoke Smith
Washington
Hoke
Tle
White House
Bacon
Senate
Congress
Gov. Smith
Agricultural Department
Department of Agriculture
Solis
Texas
Atlantic Seaboard
Vane
Gov Hoke Smith
Gov Harmon
Ohio
Thay
Harmon
Wilson
Champ Clark
The
Republic
Taft
Gove
Cleveland Uses Tempest to Pass Sherman Act Repeal
The article recounts President Grover Cleveland summoning an extra session in 183 and the Senate filibuster over repealing the Sherman act purchasing clause. A Democrat in the Senate reportedly warned hell would freeze over, prompting Cleveland to declare a 24 hour deadline and the bill passing with no further protest.
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Grover Cleveland
Cleveland
White House
Senate
Auction sale of valuable brick office building in Northwest Washington
Trustees will sell at public auction on Tuesday May 22 1913 in front of the premises at 40 o clock a m. the property at 1345 E street NW part of lots 8 9 11 19 in square 204 beginning on B street 67 feet 6 inches from the southwest corner of the square running north 109 feet east 48 feet 4 inches to an alley south along the alley to north line then east 4 feet 6 inches south 3 feet west 25 feet south 95 feet to E street and west along E street to the beginning. subject to certain leases and a cash deposit of 250000 required. two-thirds balance payable in two equal installments with interest 8 percent per annum. deed of trust and options for cash. trustees William Stone Abert William Hitz Duncan Bradley Adam A Weschler auctioneer.
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Shancery
Postal Telegraph
Supreme Court of the District of Columbia
Mary F Stone
Georges B Stone
Washington
District of Columbia
George D Stone
George B Stone
William Cawthon
Washington, DC
William Stone Abert
Fifth Street
William Hitz
Hibbs Building
Duncan Bradley
Seventeenth Street Northwest
Édstt
Adam A ‘Weschler
Werowan
Fotlo
Roose
Hook
Surveyor’ Office of
Wild District
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Hitle
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Arkansan
War College
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Ernor
Peabody Institute
Gotham Town
Guy Goff
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Dr.Well
la Folette
Nathan Goff
United States Court
Milwaukee
la Foliette
Stinemers Street
Corner
Dilly Maunees
Cor Oyrmeige
Saurot
Lillian Burkhart and
Evers
Wuatcal Cattis
Arthur Bowen
McHaysantee
CS. Hickey
Suzanne Rocamora
Strength Bros
A Fisher
Lara
SAM Mann & Company
Jane Teather
New Surcessee Bar
Soate Today
Sujay
Eugene Waller
Wilbur
H. C. Wilbur & Sons, Inc., Manufacturers
Philadelphia, Pa
Dr. Lyon
W. L. Douglas
Sumner
W.L. Douglas
Ane Othar Mata
Porcomns
Walon
Prican
Bent School
Drews
America
Spark St
Brockton, Mass
W. L. Douglas Shoe CO
Pennsylvania Ave
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Christian
Science
J. Fluno
Christian Science Board
Church of Gaelics
Boston
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Columbia Theater
ALL Welcome
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ED. Gallager
AL Shean
Clark
Columbia A Players
Golden Kaine
West
Claude N. Bennett
Bildae Movine Pictures
Ces
George Thatcher
Ben Greet
Neeentwerd
Bristol School For Girls
Mintwood Place
Belmont Road
Mfrrore
Cloclk
Arthur Smith
Sanders & Stayman’s
Elyceum
Burlesque Stock CO
THOS
J. OWEN &@ SON
Berlitz School of Languages
St. N. W
Equitable
Carnally
Strayer’s Business College
Old Masonic Temple
Ninth
F Streets
Civil Service
Crane Printing CO
Wih Street
Willall
Fisk Elgin
Shade
Seventeenth Street
Sunaa Eventeentie
Baldus
Bate
Avcen
Vicar & Mall
Coucaee
McCelar & Whther
oMea
Pa Ave
Tnery
Washington Post
T&strei
American Loan CO
New York Ave
Warder
Lpward
SABA
P.O. Box
Citizens’ Loan CO
Commercial Bank
N. W. Cory 24Th
G& Sto
St. N. W. Jn
Joan
Reliance Loan and Trust Go
Easy Payments
Il Eee
Odthea
Tolman
Potomac Guarantee Co
F Street
Finger Big
H. K. Fulton
Sth
Louis Abrahams
H. El‘weed
Prodental Loan Society
Caf
Loan Brokers
Burnstine S Loan Office
Pennsylvania
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