Senator Rayner Urges Inquiry Into Stewart Case In Senate
Senator Rayner of Maryland attacked the President over Col Stewart s exile and urged a court of inquiry. He read the President s letter and alleged political bias, noting the President s harsh remarks about Stewart as a nuisance. He cited Dreyfus precedents and Ford scenes while gallery applause interrupted. the letter was later inserted in the Record.
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Rayner
Maryland
Senate
Col. Stewart
Stewart
Fort Grant
Mr. Rayner
Cal. Stewart
Raveer
Cui
Tewart
Conny
Tayner
Ehin
Congress
Howard
Admiral Schley
Goed
Evers
Europe
Dreyfus
France
Revner
Pinkney Wayte
William Pinkney
Franes
Senator Foraker
Senator Rayner
Col Stewart
War Department
Fort Clinton
Washington
Foraker
Bailey
Senate Debate Over Post Office Bill and Stewart Inquiry
Deliberations on the post office appropriation bill plus an ocean subsidy amendment occupy Congress. Senator Rayner denounces the President while CJ Stewart faces a court inquiry. the President’s nine page letter condemns Stewart as a nuisance and questions his command fitness. The currency bill advances while Brownsville and unfinished business surface amid bids to adjourn and resume naval appropriations.
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Reyner
CJ Stewart
Foraker
Brownsville
Fey
Senate
Noi
United States
Ohio
Rayner
Col. Stewart
Fort Grant
Congress
Ilis
Warren
Committee On Military Affairs
Water Works Association seeks semiannual conventions
White House reception for American Water Works Association with 400 members and wives. President Roosevelt hails the group, George H. Felix urges longer business sessions, semiannual conventions, fewer entertainments, and a permanent headquarters. Delegates tour monuments and museums, with a busy draft of planned events and an upcoming election for officers and convention site. Roosevelt notes stance on large families during introduction of Mrs Prenter in the audience.
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American Waterworks Association
White House
George H. Felix
Seasion
Assembly Hall
The
Arlington
Felix
Washington Monument
Bureau of Engraving and Printing
Treasury Building
Corcoran Gallery of Art
Octegon House
Continental Hall
Library of Congress
Mount Vernon
Smithvonian
National Museum
Capitol
Supreme Court
Senate
House
Alexandria
Cabin John
Episcopal
Center Market
Lincoln House
Dieirior Bem
Mltrating Plart
Cay
Ilwaukee
Martin Prenter
Pittsburg
Oregon Trail Bill Favored by House Library Committee
The House Committee on Library favors a bill by Representative Humphrey to appoint a commissioner to supervise Oregon trail monuments. It proposes a $50,000 appropriation and a $2,500 salary for the commissioner. The panel also approved a plan to paint portraits of former Speakers, excluding Cannon, and favorably passed a resolution to buy a former President Zachary Taylor’s boat for $2,000 from Mrs. Lota Wood.
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House Committee On Library
Humphrey
Washington
House
Cannon
Joint Committee On Library
Zachary Taylor
Lota Wood
John Taylor Wood
Commencement Week Events at Chevy Chase College and Seminary
The Chevy Chase College and Seminary opens with an 8 o'clock recital and outlines a week of events including senior exercises, outdoor play She Stoops to Conquer, annual concert, a dance, and commencement exercises. The notice also promotes Hood's Sarsaparilla as aiding spring cleansing and improving complexion.
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Chevy Chase College and Seminary
Insurgents push Vreeland currency bill in wary House
Insurgent Republicans claim twenty nine votes are enough to defeat the Vreeland currency bill if Democrats vote solidly against it. House leaders expect passage under whip and spur, with plans to substitute provisions from the Aldrich bill amid partisan cloakroom maneuvering. Leaders foresee a close vote, extensive debate, and adjournment by May twenty third.
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Vreeland Plan
Spur
Romer
House
Fowler
Banking and Currency Committee
Messrs
Prince
Hayes
LDL
Wautgan
Indiana
Republica
Williams
Vreeland
Aldrich
Rules Committee
Brownsville
Foraker
Senate
Bartholdt
Committee On Appropriations
Watson
Will Quiz Trust Heads On Paper Costs
John Norris for the American Newspaper Publishers' Association told the House special committee investigating the pulp and print paper question that manufacturing costs are higher under consolidation by the International Paper Company than under individual mill ownership. He will continue testimony today. The committee was denied the Times contract, and Chairman Mann noted many large papers resist sharing information, hinting at a bluff. The House appointed Olcott Taylor and Johnson as conferees on the District child labor bill. Senate and House have passed DC child labor regulating bills.
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John Norris
American
New York Times
Times Company
Mann Toook
Congress
House
Representatives Olcott
New York
Taylor
Ohio
Johnson
Kentucky
Senate
District of Columbia
Post Office Ocean Subsidy Battle Shapes Postal Funding Bill
Senate debates the ocean mail subsidy and related postal funding measures. Key actions include a Foraker amendment granting railway clerks $1 daily travel pay, an annual $1,060,000 increase, and a retained ocean subsidy amid a point of order by Mr. Clay. A publishing-privacy amendment restricting anti government content was approved, and Brownsville bill scheduling was announced.
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Penrose
Post Office Committee
Foraker
Senate
Clay
Hale
Benatar Gore
Oklahoma
Brownsville
Naval bill Falles House approves navy pay rise
The House voted 196 to 144 to accept the conference report on the naval appropriation, increasing pay for the Navy and Marine Corps. Critics accused conferees of liberties and faulted the 10 percent sea duty pay and Marine Corps boosts as creating a deficiency. The bill now goes to the President for signature, with a recess until 11:20 today.
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Navy
Marine Corps
House
Representative Tawney
Appropriations Committee
Representative Hull
Tawney
Zgrom
Army
Republican Infiltrates Minority Conference Disturbance
A Republican briefly disrupted a Democratic session debating emergency currency laws. Representative Stevens of Minnesota, the innocent offender, slipped from the minority crowd as John Sharp Williams spoke to followers. Gaines whispered a warning causing Stevens to depart quietly from the chamber.
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Representative Stevens
Minnesota
John Sharp Wiliams
John Westay Gaines
John Sharp
Mr. Stevens
Texan Representative Introduces Bill for Washington Monument
Representative Sheppard offers a bill to erect a memorial to Martha Washington in Washington with an estimated cost of 50000 dollars. A high level committee including the Secretary of War and Navy and DAR leaders would oversee the memorial and selection process. Hinshaw proposes Rhode Island Avenue grade adjustment with ten thousand dollars funding.
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Sheppard
Texan
George Washington
Secretary of War
Secretary of the Navy
Senate
House Mbitary
President General
the Daughters of the American Revolution
Hinshaw
Nebraska
District Commissionera
Rhode Island Avenue
Twentieth Street
RHE
Congress Debates Motto Use and Philippine Neutrality Plan
Senate considers restoring the motto In God We Trust while Congress debates removing U S authority from the Philippines. The House backs a health bill to study tuberculosis typhoid fever and rabies under Treasury oversight and the Military Academy bill seeks near nine hundred thousand dollars for West Point with pay increases for cadets and board duties shifting to the Senate and House committees.
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House Committee On Interstate and Foreign Commerce
Secretary of the Treasury
Public Health and Marine Hospital Service
Man
House Committee On Military Affairs
Military Academy
West Point
Board of Visitors
Senate
Hiense
Priges Lowes t in 3 Years Average Cost of Staples Declines
Bradstreet's figures show prices abroad and in the United States easing on May 1. American prices were 1.21 percent lower than April 1 and 12.7 percent under the March 1907 peak, the lowest in nearly three years. London reports a 2 percent drop from April 1, with the high from June 1907 not seen since August 1906.
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Europe
New York
Bradstreet
London Hronomier
Druga
Taft Widths Homeward Bound From Isthmus Trip
Secretary Taft sailed from Colon on the Prairie bound for Charleston after six days at the Isthmus devoted to zonal administration, boundary disputes with Colombia, and U.S. relations with Panama Coloroa and others. Numerous conferences involved Amador Aras Squiers Cromwell and Arango with no official statement issued. Taft will raise boundary questions with Roosevelt and Root on reaching Washington.
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Colon
Taft
Charleston
Colombia
Panama
Coloroa
United States
Amador
Aras
Squiers
Senor Arango
William Nelson Cromwell
Canal Company
Mr. Taft
Washington
Roosevelt
Root
Cadets Query West Point Superintendent Scott Missing
West Point cadets and staff seek Col. Hugh L. Scott, superintendent, missing after President Roosevelt sent him to New Mexico to quell Indian unrest. Since his departure about two months ago he has not been heard from, leaving Lieut. Col. Robert L. Howze to act as superintendent.
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Wastheton
West Point
N. Y
Hugh L. Scott
United States Military Academy
Col. Scott
Roosevelt
New Mexico
West
Europe
Wiall Street
Germany
Haviland
Fixhiptt
the &Eeper
San Francisco
New York
Boy Struck by Street Car in Brightwood Area
Ten year old Thomas Jeumerca of Rock Creek Church Road was struck by Washington Traction Co car No 208 at Brightwood Avenue and Randolph Street northwest yesterday. He had a head cut and was treated by Dr. West of 8717 Brightwood Avenue and taken home.
Inmates Discuss Paranoia at New York Hospital Exhibit
Three Manhattan State Hospital inmates spoke to a medical audience on Ward Island about paranoia and epileptic mania. A German ex-stenographer claimed to be a millionaire and described his career and debts. an Austrian musician described painful visions and dream states as he recounted past performances.
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New York
Manhattan State Hospital
Wards Island
Academy of Medicine
C. Floyd Haviland
Wall Street
Houwee
State Hospital
Floyd
Ward
Ben Chambers
Chambers
California
Edison
Carlos F. MacDonald
Haviland
West
Lillian Russell
Chicago
No Relief Funds To Be Used For Building Materials
The War Department announced that none of the $250 050 Congress appropriated for relief of cyclone sufferers in the Southern States may be spent on building materials. The fund will be used solely for rations tents medical supplies and assistance to victims.
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War Department
Congress
Poslam Eczema Remedy Expands Availability
The Emergency Laboratories announce a new SB cent size of Poslam for eczema and skin troubles to be sold at Ogram's O'Donnell's and other Washington drug stores or direct from the New York City labs. They claim quick relief after first application and healing within two weeks for chronic cases, with overnight results for serious skin problems. Free samples remain available by writing to the laboratories.
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Ogram’s
O'donnell’s
Washington
Weat
Twenty-fifth Street
New York City
Te&s
May issue of International Bureau bulletin issued after cornerstone
The May bulletin from the International Bureau of American Republics was issued shortly after the cornerstone laying for the bureau. It reproduces photographs of the crowd and speakers, includes speeches in both Braise and Spanish, and presents general information about the ceremonies.
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International Bureau of American Republics
Publicity Department
Bureau
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Lwre
Rapl
Waterworks Association
Dosite Library Committee
Chevy Chase
Assist Nature
Nature
Hood
Paper Combine Committee
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Sémater Guggenfelm
Colorato
Poe
Taliafrero
Florida
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Texas
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Smith
Michigan
Burnett
Cooper
Post-Office
NAVAL
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Mr. Tawney
Bill
Board of Genere
Senate Judiciary
Stone
Missouri
Philippines
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Old Coyote
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Slavelead
Little Eagle
Hawkman
Dixon
Priges
Bradstreet’s
London
Economist
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Scott
West Pointers
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Elijah
Postum Cereal Company, Limited
Battie Creek, Mich
Eczema
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F Street
Hodges
Star Unice
Edwin Ellett
Epiphany Church
McCheary
H. C. Kale
Cornell Wall Paper CO
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Rat
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DR White
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Merkel Motor
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St. Mw
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Marcinkael
Motley
Robert Harcourt
Sir William Vernon Harcourt
J. L. Motley
House of Commons
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IRF
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Buffalo Bill
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Union Pacific
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MT Akd Penna, Ave
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Belabco Stock Co
Sydney Crundhy
Wm. Gillette
Sherlock Holm
Polite Artois SC
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Real
Minnis Seligman
Bramwell & Co
Franklin
Burt Green
Jesottia
Ed F. Reynard
Mise Ray Cox
Billy Gastey
Ethel Green
Ben Ryan
Geo
White
Vitagraph
Firherd Golden & Co
Gayety Theater
NEW Academy
Corinne Snellin
Dora Thorne Bertham Clay
Herr Weth
Melville
SIS Hopkins
Lyceum
Atinee
Olio
Speciat
Biggast
Hughey
Kernas
Theat
Columbia
James K. Hackett
Wves
Glatde's
Aborn Opera CO
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Hoffmann
Eugene Cowles
American League Park
Ploméa
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Washington Post Building
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