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GREAT FALLS DAILY TRIBUNE n U BOLE BdlUr S WARDEN UUlfW LEOVAJRD llOllBMI n niBHL lluaiw EDITORIAL PAGE MR WILSONS FIRST SPEECH President Wilson hit the nail squarely on the head when in his Columbus speech the first made on his swing around the circle he said that most of the derogatory statements made about the peace treaty were made by people who have not read it or who have read and did not under stand it It is a fact that the republican politi cians who have opposed the treaty and the league of nations have muddled the public mind in re gard to both of them at every possible opportun ity The presidents first speech was a clear and straightforward discussion of the issues at stake and they are tremendous The principal thought of the men who have devoted months of their time to drafting the treaty is to make Ger many repay in so far as it is humanly possible for the damage she has done for the terror she spread over the world for the blood she spilled for the homes she ravished for the industries she destroyed for the farms and the towns and the
F FIRST MAINE CAV f V x1rY ASSOCIATION rtyeighth reunion of the First Ip Association will be held f in September 10 1919 Head 1 uesday at the New Exchange f Wednesday at Custer Post ss meeting at 10 A M Ban m pfire at 100 P M 100 a ms at the hotel 100 and iv comrade Who intends being lie banquet notify the Presii will be laid only for those l him comrade who receives this who wishes to be notified lify the President and if the not living will some friend his death tive notice of the death of any nee our last reunion ns FRENCH Pres Lewiston no T Cor Sec hue Is Morally binding son is reported to take the i he league covenant does not ited States to go to war with bv Congress He is said to ewspaper correspondents that the treaty or league would t if Congress did not wish to the Executive could dc ac the Presidents statement recommend action but Con 1 exercise its constitutional agree or disagree with him the President is c rrect a the country will be bound e treaty terms precisely as end by the provisions
h Sees No Reasonable ion to Reservations uncerning League vER AT WHITE HOUSE lit Asserts United States iders No Powers and Withdraw at Wiil President Wilson and of the Foreign Ue 1 iimiitee ot tlit ocudie luet i ic House Tuesday to dis ace treaty idl opened the discus mpressing on the Senators of prompt ratification of without amendments and nations that would n mission of the treaty to mnatories csp many tier i uent said that the inter v class of people the larm rial workers and employ Med prompt ratification to j at stable conditions of in uiculture and employment iblished The Presidents bicli was in effect an ad country follows hat this conference will vpedite your consideration aty of peace 1 beg that pardon and indulge me if 1 that practically the whole aging the country back to litions of life and indus pon the decision of the i regard to the terms of fiu again to urge my ad the act u ol th Senate to tlu p ahi tuHen at 1 f practicable moment be face in the readjustment onai life are uf the most ai erit cal character will r iheir proper solution the
This map shows the major railroads located in the Russian Far East, Manchuria (China), and Korea in the early 20th century: the Ussuri Railroad, the Manchurian Railroad, and the Korean Railroad. The establishment of railroads was a major vehicle of imperial expansion and control in the Far East in this era, particularly for Russia and Japan. The map utilizes a variety of lines and colors to explain various phases of railroad construction: a double-black line for the completion of two tracks, a single black line for completion of one track, a red line for an established but only partially constructed railroad, and a dashed black line for a proposed (but still unbuilt) railroad. Several well-known Russian, Chinese, and Korean cities are shown on the map. These include Blagoveshchensk, Khabarovsk, and Vladivostok in Russia; Harbin, Mukden (present-day Shenyang), and Port Arthur (Lüshun) in China (Manchuria); and P'yongyang and Seoul in Korea. Black triangles signify the presence of Japanese troops in parts of northeastern China and Korea, reflecting the extensive military occupation by Japan following its victory in the Russo-Japanese War in 1904-5. In the 19th century, as the Qing Dynasty of imperial China weakened, both Russia and Japan sought to take advantage of China's waning power by expanding into areas of northeastern China and neighboring Korea. Russia forced China to cede territories north and east of the Amur and Ussuri Rivers in the Treaty of Aigun of 1858 and in the Convention of Peking of 1860 and increased its influence in Manchuria from its base of operations in Harbin. Japan moved aggressively into China and Korea after victories in the Sino-Japanese War of 1894-95 and in the Russo-Japanese War. As Japan became ascendant in the region after 1905, it targeted Russian railroad interests and reengineered local rail networks to serve its own interests. This map was compiled from notes of the Imperial Russian Geographical Society for use in a book on the Maritime Region of Russia (Primorskiy Kray, near Vladivostok). The map shows a scale at the bottom that utilizes the verst, a tsarist-era unit of distance equal to 1.07 kilometers. World Digital Library.
This map, produced in the 1920s by the Transportation Department of the United States Department of Commerce, shows the railroad network of British Honduras (present-day Belize). Under the Treaty of Versailles of 1783, the Spanish Empire granted Britain the right to harvest timber in the region between the Hondo and Belize Rivers. In 1862 the crown colony of British Honduras was established. Apart from British Guiana, it was the only British possession on the mainland of Latin America. The colony was important to Britain chiefly as a source of logwood and, later, mahogany. The railroads shown on the map are all quite small and were used primarily to transport lumber, sugar cane, and bananas to the coast. A proposed longer line from the port of Belize to Guatemala is indicated but was never built. The map also shows the colony's six administrative districts and the small number of towns and cities. British Honduras achieved full independence in 1981, becoming the country of Belize.
"The United States gained vast territories in the West through the Mexican War of 1846-48 and the 1846 Oregon Treaty with Great Britain. By the early 1850s, government and commercial interests were debating the possibilities of building a transcontinental railroad to the Pacific. The Army Appropriations Act of 1853 provided for the completion of railroad surveys to determine possible routes. This map, issued in 1858 by Secretary of War Jefferson Davis, depicts the United States west of the Mississippi on the eve of the Civil War. California and Texas were at this time the only Western states. Western regions initially became part of the United States as military departments, which only later were organized into territories and, eventually, states. The map uses colors to show the military departments and Indian lands. Brown flags indicate military establishments. In the lower right are listed all of the important surveys and expeditions that contributed to the mapping of the West, from the Lewis and Clark Expedition of 1804 to a survey of roads between the Sacramento and Columbia Rivers undertaken by two army officers in 1855. The routes of these expeditions are shown on the map. The map was compiled by then-Lieutenant Gouverneur K. Warren of the Army Topographical Engineers and a future Union general in the Civil War. Davis later became president of the Confederacy and a bitter adversary of President Abraham Lincoln under whose leadership, ironically, work on the transcontinental railroad began in 1862." World Digital Library.
"This large, detailed, map is from the collection of the Panama Canal Zone Library, which was transferred to the Library of Congress in 1978. This collection contains various maps, plans, and diagrams detailing the history of Panama and the construction of the Panama Canal over the ten-year period of 1904 to 1914. According to a note on the map, the "map shows the land in the Canal Zone that has been set apart for all Governmental purposes in the Canal Zone, to date, and whether the land belongs to the United States of America, the Panama Railroad Company, or to private individuals. It further indicates whether these reservations for Governmental purposes have been made for Canal Works, Fortifications, Lighting, Town sites, Reservoirs, Watersheds, or Miscellaneous purposes ... ." Colored markings on the map further subdivide U.S. lands into those acquired by treaty, by purchase, or from the French. France had initiated work on a canal across the isthmus in 1879, but the project stalled. Panama gained independence from Colombia in 1903 and the United States acquired from Panama the rights to build a canal, as well as bought the assets of the defunct French canal construction company. This map formed part of submissions to the United States House of Representatives Committee on Interstate and Foreign Commerce by Frank Feuille, head of the Department of Law of the Isthmian Canal Commission, at Ancon in the Canal Zone on December 22, 1911, and January 26, 1912." World Digital Library.
Relief shown by hachures. Prime meridians: London and Washington D.C. "Entered according to Act of Congress, July 10th, 1839, by David H. Burr, in the clerk's office of the District Court of the District of Columbia." The boundary between Maine and Canada, established by the Webster-Ashburton treaty of 1842, is shown by hand coloring. LC Railroad maps, 98 Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image.
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THE WASHINGTON TBIES THURSDAY FEBRUAEY 9 1911 BEVERIDG E UPHOLDS RECIPROCITY TREATY Senator Pleads With His Colleagues to Enact the Measure Let is not forget that this Is not a local and patchwork afCalr but a broad national and humanitarian plan of statesmanship Generally speaking It affects favorably more than a hundred millions of people on this continent ninetenths of vhom are under our flas and substantially all of whom are of the same race with the same industrial methods the same cuftoms the same ideals In these words Senator Albert J Bev rige of Indiana todav appealed to the Senate to enact the Canadian reciprocity legislation which President Taft has put up to Congress Senator Beverldge took up many of the arguments against reciprocity anO angwered them He declared that if a few selfish Interests prevent even the beginning of this beneficent program it well may be that those shortsighted and selfish Interests will be made to suffer In stern reality Infinitely more than they vainly Imagine that this re ciprocal arrangement will make them suffer now Senator Beverldge recalled that our wisest statesmen including McKlnley were for reciprocity He urged that no local or selfish motives be allowed
1053t ct fan W H Scanland Editor and Proprietor BENTON LOUISIANA TlwridayFebruary 91899 A terrific cyclone in Lowndes Co Kiss Friday blew down cabins and injured several negroes In the Missouri House Saturday there was a fierce attack on the school book trust and its lobby Robert P Porter advisee that nearly all the United States troops be removed from Cuba by April By a unanimous vote the Minneso ta Senate has declared in favor of the election of Senators by the people Senator Daniel of Virginia made a strong speech in the Senate Friday against expansion and the ratification of the peace treaty Over 818 bills have been introduc ed in the Arkansas legislature up to date The fool killer is not doing his duty up in that State The House Judiciary has decided that General Wheeler and other Con who volunteered in the late war vsoated their seats in Congress A dispatch of the 5th says Texas cattle are dying by the thousands on aeoount of the chilling rains and long oontinned windstorm of last week Reports of thirty persons killed by snowslides Friday came from Bredkenridge Colorado Train ser vioe was still suspended in the mount ains
JOHN P ALTGELD GOVERNOR OF ILLINOIS S3bS awss wfc HUST be trustworthy Otherwise Newspaper Men Can not Secure Oood Stuff Hew the Serrate of Rirrntlra Sessions of the Senate Reach the Public The Mo Klnley Bill Olwn Awi N bf ConfrMamtn ftpeeUl Wanhlnguin Iupr It U the object of the executive de partments to keep a great many mat ter eecret from the people and the Mine Idea of secrecy concerning execu tive business 1 entertained by the sen ate During the administration of Presi dent Hayes one of his annual messages to congress was purloined from the government printing office and printed in a New York newspaper on the morn ing before the message was sent to congress It caused n great deal of comment and excitement in this city bnt the leaky employe of the govern ment printing office was never discov ered It was stated at the time that the newspaper which published the message paid 1000 for the copy A little over a year ago the Russian extradition treaty which was then be ing considered in the senste was stolen and given to the public through the medium of a Chicago newspaper sad from those columns
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