IN THE NATIONAL HALLS OF CONGRESS
Friday, March 30.
Washington, March SO The house
today passed the leg slat ire, executive
and judicial appropriation bill, carry
ing $30,000,000, after considering tbe
measure two weeks. The feature o!
today's proceedings was the elimina
tion o' the ase limit of clerks, a provis
ion which created much discussion and
which incited the fight against the bill.
Tbe bill as passed carries nearly $700,
000 less than the last appropriation
bill for similar purposes.
Thursday, March 29.
Washington, March 29. The senate
today l a ened to speeches on the rail
road rate bill by "Clay, CarmacJt and
Kewlands and passed a bill which pro
vides for the reorganisation of the med
ical department ot the army by author
ising the appointment of oiHeera to
take the place of contract surgeons.
All the senators who spoke on the rate
bill indicated a purpose to support it,
but Clay expressed the hope that it
would be so amended as to affoid a
limited court review of the orders of
the Interstate C-immerce commission.
Hale criticised the. military medical
bill, saying it showed a tendency to in
crease the army, which was not desir
able in time of peace.
Culberson presented and had the
clerk read a memorial from the Cattle-
raisers' association of Texas, urging the
passage of the railroad rate bill as it
came from the house.
A bill 'was passed authorising the
erection of three life saving stations on
the coast of Washington between Cape
Flattery and Uray"s harbor.
Tbe senate adjourned until Monday.
Washington, March 2. Today was
a busy day for the bouse, considerable
progress having been made on the ex
ecutive, legislative and judicial bill.
The committee on appropriationds suf
fered a defeat, tbe committee of the
whole, by a vote of 58 to 22, expung
ing a paragraph from the bill which
was alleged to be properly part of the
poetoffice appropriation bill. An in
crease of $10,000 over the appropria
tion carried by the bill was voted for
confidential agents of the Interior de
partment to aid in ferreting out land
frauds.
Wednesday, March 28.
Washington, March 23. Knox made
his first set speech in the senate today.
He spoke on the railroad rate question,
and dealt almost exclusively with the
legal features of the problem. When
he concluded the senate entered upon
the consideration of the conference re
port on the bill regarding the final dis
position of the affairs of tbe five civil
ised tribes of Indians and much objec
tion was expressed to many of the
changes. Several senators, including
La Folette, Clark, of 'Wyoming, and
Tillman, expressed disapproval of the
conference provision authorising the
secretary of the interior to lease land.
Washington, March 28. The presi
dent today transmitted to the house the
report of Assistant Secretary of State
Herbert H. D. Peirce, 'regarding the
consular service in the Orient.
Tbe visit of Mr. Peirce included
many cities, bat his severe criticism is
reserved for ex-Consul General McWade
at Canton, and Consul Williams at
Singapore. The charges against Mc
Wade, ex-consul at Canton, are drunk
enness, employment of a felon, issu
ance of fraudulent Chinese certificates,
extending protection to Chinamen who
claim to be American citizens, persecu
tion of American citizens for purposes
of revenge, and corruption in office.
The charges against Goodnow are 82
in number, some serious and some
light. Some are sofficient to support
suits at law and give evidence of cor
ruption in office. Tbe opinion of the
better element was unfavrable too him
in Shanghai.
Tuesday, March 27.
Washington, March 27, Tillman
and McCumber divided the time of the
senate today, tbe North Dakota sen
ator devoting himself to tbe railroad
rate question exclusively and the South
Carolina senator discussing various
questions. Tillman made a special in
quiry concerning the status of his reso
lution relative to tbe nse of national
bank funds in politics, and incidentally
spoke of District Attorney Jerome's
recent utterances and of Judge Humph
rey's decision in the beef trust cases,
declaring in the latter matter that tbe
decision against tbe attorney general
had merely reaped what he had sown
iu the case of ex-Secretary Paul Mor
Bill for Cattle Shipping.
Washington, March 27. The house
committee on, interstate commerce to
day favorably reported a substitute for
Representative French's 36-hour live
et'x k bill. The committee bill confers
absolute power on tbe secretary of ag
riculture to regulate stock shipments,
permitting him to extend or shorten
the periods as he may deem proper.
Under this bill, the secretary could
continue to enforce the present 28-hour
law, he could permit shipments for
longer periods, or require unloading
every eight boars, as demanded by some.
ton.
Foraker defended Judge Humphrey
and Tillman declared that he had not
meant to attack the judge, but the law.
McCumber picked innumerable flaws in
the rate bill, predicting that, it en
acted into a law, it would tail entirely
to meet the demands ot the public.
He said, however, he would vote for
the bill if properly amended.
Washington, March 27. The house
today witnessed a most unusual scene,
tbe speaker rising on the floor in the
midst of a spirited discussion on recip
rocity and tariff revision and disclaim
ing responsibility for differences be
tween minority members. It was to
ward the close of the debate on the arg
ent deficiency bill, which appropriated,
among other things, for the forthcom
ing conference at Rio de Janeiro. The
bill was passed.
On motion of Tawney, the legislative
and judicial bill was taken op, when
Princeof Illinois, and Hardwick, of
Georgia, resumed the tactics inaugurat
ed last week by raising a point of
order against every paragraph in which
there was a departure from existing
law. A half dosen points of order were
made and sutained affecting the officers
of the subtreasuriea at New Yotk,
Philadelphia, New Orleans and St.
Louis.
Monday, March 28.
Washington, March 26. Followiug
the president's suggestion, the house
today passed resolutions to correct the
useless printing ot documents and to
empower tbe printing committees of
the two executive bodies to fix the
number of documents to be printed,
and, should the demand arise for ad
ditional copies ot a publication, then to
have authority to order another edi
tion. It was claimed this action would
result in saving the government upward
of $1,000,000 annually. Nearly the
entire day wae devoted to District ot
Columbia business.
The fortifications appropriations bill
oill was sent to conference.
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Washington, March 26. There was
a hint in the senate today at an effort
to fix a time tor a final vote on the
railroad bill, .bat it was surrounded
by so much circumspection and doubt
that no prediction as to the time would
be justified. Tillman stated that be
would bring the matter np tomorrow
and, nnless objection waa made, be
may ask to have a day specified.
The suggestion as to a time arose in
connection with the more or less seri
ous effort on tbe part of a number of
senators to secure immediate consider
ation ot amendments offered by them
selves.
Saturday, March 24.
Washington, March 24. Haiing at
the Annapolis Naval academy waa dealt
with by the house today in the passage
of a senate bill with a house substitute.
The action was taken after a protracted
debate, which placed on record the
impressions of the special committee
which investigated the subject recently
and a severe criticism by Hepburn of
efforts to .condone hazing. Several
amendments were proposed, but all
were rejected save one, it being the
duty of cadet officers, as welf as other
academy authorities, to report infrac
tions of tbe rules. The bill repeals
that portion of existing laws which
makes it compulsory to dismiss mid
shipmen guilty of hazing in any de
gree, and substitutes punishment ac
cording to the nature of the offense.
Cruel and brutal hazing may be pun
ished by dismissal. Previous to con
sideration of the hazing bill, 265 pen
sion bills were discussed and passed.
Washington, March 30. General
Luke E. Wright today took the oath of
office as ambassador to Japan. . He
ceased to be governor general of the
Philippines today. Henry O. Ide, bf
'he Philippines commission, the pres
ent acting governor, will continue until
April 2, when the will be inaugurated
governor general.
Washington, March 30. The legis
lation prompted by the recent wreck of
the steamer Valencia off the Straits of
Fuca was authorized to be reported
favorably by the house committee on
commerce today. It appropriates
$200,000 for an ocean-going life-saving
tug and fur the establishment of a life
saving station at Neah bay.
HALF MILLION TO STRIKE.
Coal Miners ot Whole Nation About
to Suspend Work.
Indianapolis, March 30. The joint
meetings ot the bituminous coal opera'
tort and mineii ot the central coropetl
tive district, composed ot Western
Pennsylvania, Ohio, Indiana and 111!
nola, and ot the Southwestern district,
composed ot Missouri, Kansas, Texas,
Arkansas, Oklahoma and Indian Terri
tory, last night reached a float disa
greement on the wage scale to go into
effect at the expiration ot the present
scale on April 1, and the conference of
tbe central district a ljourned sine die,
while the joint scale committee of the
Southwestern district decided to report
a disagreement to the joint conference
01 that district today. It is expected
that this conference will at once ad
journ sine die without an agreement.
The action ot the two conferences
will directly cause the snspenllon ot
werk after Saturday by 178,000 miners
nnless something unforeseen, like sub
mission of the differences to arbitra
tion, should intervene, and indirectly
will affect 200,500 more miners, not
including its effect on 150,000 miners
in the anthracite deld, who were last
night ordered to suspend work Monday.
A national convent'on of the miners
will be held today to decide whether
miners will be allowed to sigh the ad
vance scale demanded and today re
fused by all operators with a tew excep
tions, and to go to work where the ad
vance is offered. Operators employing
25,000 miners in the central competi
tive field have openly offered to pay the
advance during the joint conference
sessions.
The wage scales of all miners, both
anthracite and bituminous, will expire
Saturday, except those in Tennessee
and Alabama, where the scale wilt ex
pire in September. Cue national offi
cial ot the United Mineworkers said:
"It is a foregone conclusion that all
the miners whose scales expire Satur
day will cease work until officially no
tified by the national and district offi
cers that new contract arrangements
have been made governing their scale."
PROGRAM FOR CONGRESS.
Pan American Committee Prepares
Subjects for Action.
Washington, March 30. A program
Lot subjects to be considered at the Pan-
American congress to be held in Rio
Janiero, Brasil, beginning July 21, was
agreed on today by the ccmmlttee of tbe
congress having that matter in charge,
of which Secretary Root is chairman.
In addition to Mr. Root the committee
is made np of the ambassadors from
Brasil and Mexico and the ministers
from Chile, the Argentine Republic,
Cuba and Costa Rica.
The subjects include sanitary and
quarantine regulations, uniformity of
patent laws, international recognition
of diplomas of practicians of the learned
professions, questions affecting commer
cial intercourse and an international
railroad;
It is expected that what is commonly
known as tbe Drago doctrine, which is
opposed to the forcible collection of
private debts by one nation from anoth
er, a doctrine adhered to by the United
States, will come np for consideration
in some form.
IOWA WILL INVESTIGATE.
Legislature Orders Inquiry Into Vio
lation of Insurance Law.
Dea Moines, Iowa, March 30. As a
result of practically unanimous action
by both houses of the Iowa legislature
today, an investigation of insurarnce
companies is to be undertaken in this
state during the present summer, simi
lar to that which was conducted in New
York last fall. The resolution which
awaits the governor's signature pro
vides for the appointment of a commis
sion to inquire into rumored abuse of
Iowa insurance laws by state and East
ern companies, to conduct an inquisi
torial investigation whenever in the
commission's opinion it is desirable,
and. report to the legislature of next
year what changes should be made In
the laws to prevent a recurrence ot any
abuses tnat may exist.
Confer on Bristol.
Washington, March 26. President
Roosevelt today sent for Senator Fulton
and Attorney General Moody ' to talk
over the case of District Attorney Bris
tol. What the conference accomplish
ed cannot be stated, as none of the par
ticipants will discuss it or give any ink
ling of what disposition will be made
of the case. It is stated, though not
officially, that the Oregon Bar associa
tion has declined to take any action in
the premises, having returned the pa
pers submitted by tbe attorney general
several weeks ago.
Road Tied Up for Two Weeks.
Los Angeles. March 30. The local
railroad situation resulting from floods
in eoutnern California and vicinity is
even worse than has yet been described.
It is given out from the office of Gener
al Manager Wells, of the Salt Lake
route, tnat the washouts between Call
ente and Las Vegas are so serious that
the roadbed cannot be repaired short of
two weeks to admit the passage of
trains. X he Southern Pacific also re
ports further trouble today. Another
washout has occurred somewhere in the
San Joaquin valley.
Referendum on Statehood.
Washington, - March 80. That the
senate and house will reach a compro
mise agreement on the statehood hill.
which will -permit Arizona and New
Mexico each to decide for themselves
the question of their admission as one
state, seems a correct solution from
present indications.
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