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Newspaper
Washington Post
Location
Washington, Washington Dc, United States of America
Date
Nov 30, 1909
Page
42
Attorney General Interstate Commerce Commissioner Lane and Senators El Jona and Cutmmms confer with the President on railroad regulation and the upbuilding of the merchant marine.
Secretary Carpenter announced changes to White House rules for visitors and appointments. Cabinet business hours will run Tuesdays and Fridays, with general visitor access 10 to 10:30 a.m. and 1 to 1:30 p.m., except on cabinet days. business requiring appointment will occur 10:30 to noon. Visitors with presidential business admitted 12 to 1 daily, by prior appointment on cabinet days.
The White House hears calls from Samuel Gompers John Mitchell and Frank Morrison urging labor reform and injunctions under the Sherman act. President Taft and Attorney General Wickersham prepare nearly one hundred federal nominations and face insurgent Congress members over appointments and labor policy.
President Taft held an outdoor subcabinet meeting before dinner, slipping away with Attorney General Wickersham and Secretary Pickington from the executive offices. They walked toward the falls as secret service vanished behind them, signaling discussion of official topics likely to be settled. The party dispersed after a brisk gamble in the Potomac River bottoms near the White House grounds.
War Department orders assign Maj Gen Thomas H Barry TSA to command the Department of California with headquarters in San Francisco to fill the vacancy from Maj Gen John F Weston retirement. Barry, with aid Capt R C Davis, leaves for new station, last active duty commanded the Army of Pacification during the Cuba occupation.
Secretary Dickinson said shortages would be offset by legal contracts for food with deficiency appropriations later, as army strength rose from 68,370 to over 70,000. Quartermasters ordered to proceed with contracts, noting price increases. Rhode Island to Jon Fleet reports. Rhode Island sails to join the fleet. Battleships Rhode Island and others head to join the southern rendezvous. Admiral Ingersoll to retire next Saturday.
The government in Mexico City on November 23 notified the Pullman Company to substitute all American and Negro conductors and porters on its cars with Mexicans as rapidly as possible. Earlier, orders required air conductors and porters on MexicanRailroads to speak Spanish. The move aligns with broader efforts to Mexicanize railroad operations across the country.
At a Plaza Hotel dinner hosted by Theodora Shonts prominent financiers including Cornelius Vanderbilt Paul Morton Edwin Hawley and W E Corey heard Hearst defend journalism as a guardian of public rights. He urged government and business reform to curb overcapitalization and abuses in combinations while supporting legitimate economy and public participation.
Rear Admiral Richard Wainwright heads the Atlantic Host third division and Admiral W B Potter becomes chief of the navigation bureau. Captain Aaron Ward, lately New York harbor supervisor, is slated as rear admiral by January first. Reginald F Nicholson joins the Bureau of Navigation as head of the board of inspection and survey, succeeding an unnamed successor.
Secretary Meyer outlines sweeping reorganization of Navy bureaus under a unified command. Key shifts place construction and repair under centralized control, abolish duplicative offices, and create engine and hull divisions led by engineering and naval constructor chiefs. New accounting, payroll consolidation, and economy measures aim to curb waste and improve oversight, with legislative follow up planned if successful.
A historical overview of the clash between President Andrew Johnson and Congress during Reconstruction. It covers Johnson’s impeachment trial, the tenure of office battle, Thaddeus Stevens and Ben Wade’s roles, the 1867 impeachment motion, Senate verdicts, and the long fight over Reconstruction plans, amendments, and party power shaping postwar policy.
A fragmentary ad notes a claim that a product named Force Bul and a cloture method cure angle in a day using a quinine tab. Druggists may refund money if it fails to cure, with a signature of EW Groves. The copy appears to be an old newspaper advertisement with unclear details.
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