Taft urges tariff reform and military expansion in new message
President Taft delivers the second message of the short 1913 session covering fiscal policy military reorganization and insular affairs. He cites a solid growing economy with a large foreign trade surplus and a bumper crop year and calls for naval expansion river and harbor work tax policy and Philippine governance reforms while urging federal regulation of water power projects and enhanced national defense.
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Washington
Congress
Taft
Treasury
Secretary of the Treasury
Navy Department
National Reserve Association
Monetary Commission
Continental
United States
Pearl Harbor
Hawaiian Islands
Panama
War Department
War College Division
General Staff
Secretary of War
Army
National Guard
War- College
Porto Rico
Senate
Philippines
Philippine Islands
Panama Canal
Col. Goethals
Army of
Ims
General Board
Pacific
Atlantic
Department of Justice
Standard Oil and Tobacco
Powder Trust
Path Tub Trust
Supreme Court
Bureau of Corporations
Lynch law censured in governors' conference clash
The governors at Richmond adjourned after a stormy session that featured the O Neale resolution censuring South Carolina Governor Blease for praising lynch law and declaring the state constitution could go to hell. Blease shouted he had four death threats and defied the body while defending his remarks.
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Richmond
Colorado Springs
Colo
O'Neal
Blease
South Carolina
Alabama
United States Senate
France backs allies amid tense European scene
Premier Polihi care told the chamber of deputies that France stands by its allies and friendships. An Athens dispatch said Greece will abandon its separatist policy and join Balkan allies in signing the armistice with Turkey. The London peace conference opens December 16.
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Paris
France
Polihicare
Committee On Foreign Affairs
Chamber of Deputies
London
Greece
Athens
Balkan
Turkey
Alsberg Named Chief of Chemistry Bureau
President Taft and Secretary Wilson choose Dr. Carl Alsberg, chemist in the drugs and plants bureau, to head the bureau of chemistry, a post vacant since Dr. Harvey Wiley’s resignation. Nomination to the Senate likely before Christmas. confirmation hoped.
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Washington
Taft
Secretary of
Agriculture
Wilson
Carl Alsberg
Bureau of Drugs and Plants
Bureau of Chemistry
Harvey W. Wiley
Alsberg
Senate
Fire destroys six buildings in Wheeling district
Fire in the McMechan district destroyed six buildings and damaged two more, causing about 75000 dollars in losses. Fifteen guests at Hart's hotel narrowly escaped as the blaze started there.
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Wheeling
McMechan
Corn Yield Holds Lead In 1912 Farm Output
Secretary Wilson reports 1912 farm wealth at 9.532 billion dollars. Corn led with an estimated value of 1.75 billion and a record 3.169 billion bushels. hay followed at 881 million dollars. Cotton and wheat were also sizable, while many prices fell from 1911. Butter and milk rose, eggs and poultry modestly up.
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Secretary of Agriculture
Washington
United States
Wilson
Department of Agriculture
WILL ARM AMERICANS Zapatists Destroy Mexican Town
Washington reports the war department authorized General Steever to send carbines and ammunition to American ranchers and miners in Hermosillo and Durango after Mexican officials failed to protect Americans. In Valle de Bravo rebels raided the town seizing valuables when residents refused to send nineteen young girls.
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Washington
Mexico
War Department
Steever
Hermosillo
Sonora
Durango
Mexico City
Valle de Bravo
State of
20000 Skilled Workers in Navy Yards Across United States
More than 20 000 skilled workers in the navy yards across the United States are noted under Civil Service. Washington report dated December 10 indicates widespread employment in naval facilities.
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Washington
Navy
United Waar
Nevada appoints John B Thatcher attorney general
Carson City reports Governor Ross acting in Oddle's absence names John B Thatcher of Tonopah to replace William Baker as Nevada attorney general. News items from San Francisco and other cities note Sun Yat Sen plans fundraising in America and other regional events.
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Carson City
Nev
Ross
Oddle
Richmond
John B. Thatcher
Tonopah
William Baker
Nevada
San Francisco
Sun Yat Sen
The
Republic
America
Hamilton
Bermuda
Wilson
New Jersey
Blue Mountain
Maryland
Bluemountain
Union
S. C
West Springs
Glennaes
New Orleans
Miclean
Minnesota
Kansas
Michigan
South Carolina
Ommand
Fletcher
Lisbon
Portugal
Dee
Night of Terror as Storms Batter Three Liners
In a brutal Atlantic gale the La Lorraine St Paul and Minnetonka limped into New York after a perilous voyage. Twenty eight passengers including three women were rescued by the Virginia and towed to Annapolis due to boiler leakage and power loss.
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la Loraine
St. Paul
Minnetotka
New York
Baltimore
Opment and Steamship ‘Company
Bay Line
Virginia
Atlantic
Annapolis
Minnetonka
Plymouth
St. Louis
Auerbach Guilty of First Degree Murder in Fisher Case
Oscar N. Auerbach of Chicago found guilty of murder in the first degree for the shooting death of business partner Harry W. Fisher on a Baldwin fruit farm. The verdict followed a twelve hour jury deliberation and Auerbach’s collapse on the verdict. An appeal to the state supreme court is anticipated.
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Baldwin, Mich
Oscar N. Auerbach
Chicago
Harry W. Fisher
Fisher
Auerbach
Campaign cost to elect Wilson set at 1.16 million
The Democratic drive to elect Gov Woodrow Wilson president cost 1 159 445 dollars, per a filing with the house clerk under campaign publicity law. Major contributors included Charles R Crane 40000 Cleveland H Dodge 35000 and Herman Ridder 25000 with several minor gifts noted.
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Washington
Woodrow Wilson
New Jersey
United States
Clerk of
House
Charles R. Crane
Chicago
Cleveland H. Dodge
Herman Ridder
New York
Crane
Dodge
Ridder
Minister to Liberia Dead
Charleston reports the death of William D. Crum a negro United States minister to Liberia from African fever contracted in Monrovia He had served two terms as collector of port here before being deposed by President Taft His Roosevelt era appointment sparked bitter southern protest.
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Liberia
Charleston
S. C
William D. Crum
United States
Monrovia
Crum
Roosevelt
Taft
Charter Forfeiture Shocks Forfeitea Firm in Trenton
A Newfoundland and Labrador company Forfeitea faces dissolution as the charter is forfeited by official action in Trenton on December 9. The chancery order dissolves the corporation, impacting operations and rights.
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Trenton
Ite
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Emory R. Johnson
Panama Canal Treaty
Diadica
Constantine
Yanitza
Salonica
Wiley’s
U. 8
Zapatists
Icago Launch
Jee
Yewing
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