Rocky Ford enterprise., 1899-02-02
CONGRESSIONAL NOTES
AND WASHINGTON GOSSIP.

1t Is stated that Andrew Carnegie Il
paying the big bills for cablegrami
that Agoncillo is incurrIng.
Senator Plat of New York delivered
his first speech In the Senate Friday OF
the subject Of expansion. taking the at
hrmative.
A large number of army ofhceri
nave filed with the war commissloI
statements In support of General Miles
charges concerning the bad quality oi
canned beef.
President Grscom of the American
line of steamers told the committee on
commerce the other day that his com,
pany proposes to build four new l2,ooC
ton ships within the next five years III
n cost Of nearly $7,OOO,OOO.
In the Senate last Thursday MI
Butler of North Carolina, In urging m
amendment to pension ex-Confederate
soldiers, said that the South was 1usti-
fed In Its course in attempting u
withdraw from the Union.
General Russell Hastings, formerly OF
Ohio. but now living ut Northampton
Massachusetts, has been chosen as III
rector of the Bureau of American Re-
publics to succeed the late Joseph
Smith. General Hastings. during the
Civil War. was colonel of the Presi-
dents regiment.
The state department has forwarded
to Ambassador White at Berlin full IN
structions us to the presentation he Is
to make the German minister for for
eign affairs relative to the indignity
reported to have been offered to the
chief justice of Samoa by the German
officials n. Apia.
The Mexican eAtradltion treaty ex-
pired on the 24th, according to the no.
tice given by the Mexican government.
Its relapse finds Il remarkably small
number of fug!tives from justice In
either country to profit from the fact.
Fair progress has been made on the
negotiation of Il new treaty.
The senate held two executive ses-
sions "Wednesday. and at each the
peace treaty was the subject under
discussion. At the first an agreement
was reached to vote on the treaty Feb
ruary 9th, and at the second, Senator
Davis presented the American commits
sioncrs' reasons for the acceptance of
the treaty in the form In which it was
finally concluded.
Former Attorney General Augustus
II, Garland was stricken with apo
pleyy while addressing the United
States Supreme Court at 2:15 o'clock
Thursday afternoon and died within
ten minutes. The occurrence came
with startling and tragic unexpect-
edness, changing the usual dignity
of the court into temporary confusion.
while the dying man was carried from
the chamber In futile effort to allevi-
ate his condition.
BY direction of the Pre- .,ident. Il num-
ber of general officers have been hon.
orably discharged from the volunteer
army of the United States to take eff
feet on the dates specified. their serv-
ices being no longer required by rea-
son of the muster out OF volunteer reg.
iments. Some of the briGadiers are
officers in the regular army who, dur.
ing the war. accepted volunteer rank.
The remainder were appointed from
civil life. The latter will proceed to
their homes.
The Canadian memoers of the High
Joint Commission say they never saw
such n stubborn set of men' as their
American colleagues. The American
commissioners say the Canadians are
as obstinate rs Il whole caravan of
mules. The Canadians insist the
Americans the unreasonable in their
demands. The Americans say If the Ca
nadians would contine themselves to re-
quests that are proper and possible they
would be glad to comply with them
And there they stand.
After Agoncillo's dispatch to Agui-
naldo was Intercepted the other night
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Department that he had violated the
laws of hospitality, and that if the in
discretion was repeated the govern
ment might be compelled to deal Sc
verely with him. 1t was explained to
him that while our laws We're liberal
and public sentiment justified n
broad Interpretation of them, no per-
son either citizen or foreigner, could
be permitted to incite hostilities against
the United States.
Not since the stirring days before the
declaration of war last spring has the
House witnessed such an exhibition of
excitement and such scenes of un-
bounded enthusiasm as occurred last
Wednesday, when two Republicans.
Mr.. johnson, the Indiana member, and
Mr.. Dolliver of Iowa, locked horns on
the question Of expansion. The army
bill, which was under debate, was
swallowed up in the broader question
of our future national policy and the
debate was lifted from the dead level
of mediocrity into absolute brilliancy.
The friends of the treaty are still
most sanguine of success, and most of
them announce that they will accept
no compromise. Others express n will
ingness to accept some such resolution
as that of Senator Sullivan. Those
to known say it is the policy
to force the treaty to vote before TAX
ing action on any compromise PROPOSE
ton, and that il the treaty should by
any chance be beaten, to move to re-
consider and then to consider the ques-
ton of accepting some compromise like
the Bacon resolution before final ad-
journment in March.