The silver lance., 1899-08-11
WASHINGTON GOSSIP
AND DEPARTMENT NEWS.

According to the new regulations the
right of these sites will be limited to
those engaged in grazing, breeding and
handling stock. and will not be al
lowed to exceed actual necessity in
each case. If the site is fenced In or
used for any other purpose the right
to it will be declared void.
New regulations for the control of
| the entry of the reservoir sites on the
public land will soon be issued by the
Interior Department. The Secretary
of the Interior has been considering the
necessity of additions to the regula-
tions formerly issued, under the act OF
| January 13, 1898, rela ting to reservoirs
for live stock. The law and the regu
lations issued under it have been great
ly abused by repeated locations of
those who seek to monopolize the pub
| lie lands to the exclusion of those who
want to locate homes. In one instance
in Kansas, one person located several
| hundred contiguous tracts as reservoir
| sites. In a limited section in one coun-
| ty in Nebraska 5000 locations were
made. The new regulations will limit
the right to these sites to those actual
ly engaged in breeding, grazing and
handling stock, and then to the actual
necessities of each applicant. They
will also provide that If a reservoir site
is fenced or if an attempt Is made to
use 1t for any other than reservoir pur-
poses, the right to it shall be immodi-
ately cancelled.
A conference of influential western
Republican representatives is to be
held in Washington for the purpose of
formulating a plan for the distribution
of the patronage of the next House.
the formation Of new committees and
the enlargement of some of the Old
ones. The conference will be attended
by representatives from the western
and northwestern states that materi-
ally assisted in the promotion of Colo
mel Henderson's candidacy for speaker.
and 1t is supposed that they have his
acquiescence. One of the most import
ant features mapped out is the selec-
ton of committee on insular affairs,
to which is to be referred all matters
pertaining to Porto Rico, Hawaii and
the Philippines. The suggestion is
being made that only the strongest
men in the House should be assigned
to 1t. So far as can be learned the
combine" as 1t is called, will not at
tempt to dictate the members who
shall be selected for the new commit
tee. 1t will also be decided to dis
tribute the patronage of the House
pro rata among the states according
to the number of Republican repre-
sentatives from each. The combine
will control 1O2 of the 1874 Republican
votes In the next House, more than
majority and sufficient to dictate the
action of the caucus. More important
than any struggle for patronage in the
next House are the suggestions that
are transpiring concerning the policy
of Colonel Henderson which will guide
him when he shall have been selected
speaker
DIR. Oscar Loewe, one OF the scien-
lists of the Agricultural Department,
has developed to what he believes is
a point of practical use, a new treat
ment for germ diseases which prom
ises to supersede the serum treatment
now in use in diphtheria, fevers and
many other diseases. DR.. Loewe's
work has been carried on for several
years in collaboration with DR.. R. EN-
merich. The experiments have been
conducted i'm the laboratories of Mu-
mich and this country. The results
never have been published in full, but
have been such as to warrant intro
ducing the treatment into actual hos
pital practice. The treatment is simi-
lar in some respects to the serum treat
ment, but depends on a definite prin-
ciple, the basic idea being the presence
of class of ferments known as en-
Zymes, which are produced by the
same bacteria that produce the dis
ease. 1t is because Of the production,
or rather of the reproduction of a
certain enZyme that diseases such as
they produce will run its course" and
then die out of the system. The bac-
terra in this case, it is stated, are sim
ply killed by the ferment they produce.
The object of the new treatment is to
produce pure engine, which, intro
duced into the human system, will kill
the disease germs without injuring the
patient. In this lies the difference from
the principle of inoculation for small
pox and other diseases where the OBJ
1ect is to give the patient q mild type
of disease to render him immune to
the more virulent type.
Mrs. McKinley's i'll health was thesole
cause of the return of the President
and his party to Washington two days
before they had planned to do so. Here
tofore the excitement of travel and
receiving visitors has been beneficial to
Mrs. Mckinley and distinct improve
ment in her physical condition has
been noticeable when she has been
away with the President Largely for
this reason the President went to New
England and arranged western trips.
which he had expected to take later.
1t was found, however, that instead
of the New England trip being bene-
ficfal, it had the opposite effect upon
Mrs. Mckinley, and the President and
DR.. Rixey decided it would be better
to bring her back to Washington with
out delay. The state of Mrs. McKin-
iey's health at this time is decidedly
worse than it has usually been since
she has been in the White House. and
the probable result will be that the
President will remain in Washington
practically all summer and will take
little, If any. vacation, outside of this