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Canal politics and fiscal excesses roil Congress
A long dispatch details battles over the Nicaragua Canal bill, attacks on McKinley, and Republican tactics in Congress. It notes planned reductions in war taxes, pension abuses, and lavish Bureau of Animal Industry spending, with reference to Tillman, Morgan, and cabinet-linked canal influence, plus a local program for a Watauga Baptist convention.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Congress
House
Honce
Senate
Morgan
Committee On Foreign Relations
Nicaragua
United States
McKinley
Nicaragua Canal
England
Panama Canal
Cabinet of
Colombia
Washington
Edward VII
Great Britain
Republican Congress
Pension Bureau
Pension Committees
Congressional
Representative Canon
House Committee On Appropriations
Representative Loud
Cal
Loud
Willam L. Stiles
Committee On Accounts
Mr. Canon
Bureau of Animal Industry
Department of Agriculture
Tillman
Jim Thomas
Llouse
Benace Cntil
Watauga County
J C. Brown
W. T. Vandyke
Horton