Santa Fe daily New Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1885-1897, 1894-12-24
AT THE CAPITAL.
What is Going On in OfIiciai Circles
An Important Suit-Thc Indian
Affairs Com mmittee Has Made
Decision.

Washington, Dec. 24.-The sub-com-
mittee of the house committee on Indian
affairs has been considering an appro-
priation bill for several days and will re-
port it soon after the holidays. There is
a proposition to make reduction in the
expense of the eastern schools. Repre-
sentative Wilson, of Washington, men,
Der of the subcommittee preparing the
bill, says that there is general feeling
that the Indians can be better educated
on their reservations in the west.
THERE Is NO FRONTIER.
"There is no longer a frontier" said
Wilson, railroads, telegraphs and tele-
phones have obliterated it," The COM
mittee has also been considering what to
do with Improvements made by churches
for contracts schools and it has been de-
termined to appropriate 100000 to buy a
number of them andsto begin acquiring
men at about 20 per cent each year,
A RAILROAD LANDS APPROVAL.
The secretary of the interior to-day
approved the lists of land selected as an
indemnity by the Northern Pacific rail-
road, embracing about 100000 acres in
Minnesota, for grant of 302, 900 acres in
Montana.
OFFICIAL FACTS AS TO THE ARMENIAN
oUTRAaEs.
The Turkish legation to-day received
the following official telegram: "Certain
newspapers have announced the execu-
tion of thirty-six Armenians at Erzeroum.
This information is not correct, the facts
being as follows: Out Of forty-six Ar
menians under arrest at Erzeroum,
thirty-six were liberated, five have been
condemned to death and the remaining
FIVE have been sentenced to ten years
hard labor. Several others were also
condemned to death, but they are in
flight. The condemned men we're con.
victed of murder and rape, bnt legal for
malities concerning these sentences have
not yet been fulfilled"
EDISON LOST HIS CASE.
A decision was to-day rendered in the
supreme court of the District of Columbia
in suit which has been pending nearly
two years, brought by the American
Graphophone company against the Col
umba Phonograph company, the real
defendant being Thomas A. Edison and
the Edison Phonograph works. The
court finds for the American Graphic
phone company on every point and issues
decree of injunction against the de-
fendants and orders an accounting by an
auditor.
WALL STREET DIES HARD.
The first steps haye been taken in the
district supreme court to test the con-
stitutionality of the income tax law.
Jeremiah Wilson, as counsel for John G..
Moore, of New ork banking company, in
the equity branch of the supreme court Of
the District of Columbia, has applied for
an order restraining John s. Miller, CON-
missioner of internal revenue from as
sessing and collecting tax upon his in
come.
FATHER OF HIS COUNTRY.
Practical steps are being taken for the
erection of a monument at Wakefield,
Va, to mark the birthplace of Washing
ton. The work is being done by Col. A.
M. Wilson, U. s. A., under the direction
of Secretary Gresham. The old home
steadeis on the Potomac river, about
seventy miles below this city and about
four miles by water from the town of
Colonial Beach, Va. The ruins of
chimney are all that remain of the house
in which the father of his country was
born, and so far it bears no mark of its
sacred character.
BIG CLAIMS.
A general omnibus bill for the relief of
the various states, territories and cities of
the country as final discharge of existing
claims against the government was in
treduced in the house on Saturday by
Mr.. Stone, of Kentucky, 10y request).
The amounts in the billare New York
City, $2,095,634; California, $685. ,9l5;
Oregon, $685. 1852; Nevada, $4O4,O0O. The
claims of New York, Pennsylvania, Della
ware, Virginia, South Carolina and the
city Of Baltimore for advances and ex-
penditures made in the war of 1912 are to
be resettled and paid. Provision is also
made for the payment of 1926, ,658, being
balances due sundry claimants in Oregon
and Washington arising cut of the Indian
wars of 1866 and for the payment of
expenses incurred by the national guard
of Nebraska to repel threatened in
vasion of the Sioux in 1891.