Santa Fe daily New Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1885-1897, 1896-01-14
THE WASHINGTON BUDGET
The Game Law Controversy Between
Bannocks and Wyoming in
Supreme Court.
BOTH HOUSES DISCUSSING PENSIONS
Senator Allen Opposes Distinctions Be-
tween Widows of Private Soldiers
and Brigadiers-Pe Not
Gratuities-Note

Washington, Jan. 14.-The merits of
the controversy between the Bannock In
dians and the state of Wyoming, as to the
right of the Indians to kill game in con-
travention of the Wyoming law, will soon
be passed upon by the United States su-
preme court.
The question will come up in this court
in connection with the case of Race
Horse, one of the Bannocks who partici-
pated in the jackson Hole trouble, last
summer, which has just been doeketed in
that court.
Race Horse was arrested by the sheriff
of Uintah county on the charge of killing
game contrary to the state law, but he
pleaded the Bannock treaty in justifica-
tion and was released on a petition for a
writ of habeas corpus.
The sheriff has appealed the case to the
supreme court. 1t is understood that
motion will soon be made to advance the
case on the docket and it is believed the
motion will be granted.
NORTHERN PACIFIC REoE1vERsHIP.
Associate Justices Field, Harlan, Brown
and Brewer, of the supreme court, to-day
in chambers, gave hearing to the at
torneys interested in having the receiver
ship of the Northern Pacific railroad con-
solidated.
DISCUSSING A PENSION BILL.
bill granting pension of $75 month
ly to the widow of Brig. Gen. Cogswell,
representative in congress from Massa
chusetts at the time of his death, caused
long debate in the senate to-day. SEN
ators Hill and Mills wanted information
as the system pursued in granting these
special pensions.
NOT WON BY BRIGADIERs.
Mr.. Allen, Populist, of Nebraska, op-
posed determinations, saying:
II want to go on record as opposed to
any distinction between the widow of a
private soldier and that Of brigadier
general"
He continued that to hear senators
talk it would be thought that the briga-
dier generals won the war. 1t was
species of ''namby -pambyism and flunkey-
ism, un-American discrimination"
Mr.. Hawley, Republican, of Connecticut,
suggested that the world recognized
questions of rank even if the Nebraska
senator did not, and, while eulogizing
the services Of the plain soldier, he
pointed out that the mortality among
the officers was greater than that among
the men in the ranks.
Mr.. Hoar asked if Mr.. Aliens logic
would lead him to approve the placing
of the salary of Gen. Miles, commander
of the army, at $13 per month.
"It would doubtless measure the value
of his services in many cases." answered
Mr.. Allen.
DISCUSSING PENSIONS IN THE HOUSE.
The house took up the pension appro-
priation bill Immediately on convening.
Mr.. Northway, Republican, of Ohio, re-
piled to the criticisms offered by Mr..
Bartlett, Democrat, of New York, yester-
day. It mattered not to him whether the
pensions were legal gratuities or consti-
tuted vested rights. Morally they were
higher than vested rights could be. PEN
sions should be given in broad, cath
otolic, humane spirit. The veterans
should not be placed in position of
mendicancy. The spirit in which the
pension laws were being administered
was manisfestly unfriendly to the soldier.
In proof of this he cited the case of a
soldier, who lost one arm and one leg,
and who was deprived of his pension
'-aer the total disability act of 1890, be.
lie was able to earn $25 a month as
at railroad crossing.
WASHINGTON NOTES.
.istakable proof that Great Brit
recognized the Monroe doctrine at the
me 1t was promulgated has been dis
covered in the state department archives
at Washington.
The house committee on foreign affairs
announces that report on the recogni-
tion of the Cuban insurgents will be
made as soon as possible.
Senator Davis, who has spent much
time in studying the Alaska boundary
line dispute, says that he has discovered
nothing to show that the present lines
are not correct.
President Crsspo has appointed Rafael
Seljas, Laureano Villa Neuva, Julian
visco Marich and Antonio Saluzzo a
commission to search the libraries in
Venezuela for old data regarding a
boundary, in order to assist the United
States commission.