La Junta tribune., 1899-02-04
CONGRESSIONAL NOTES
AND WASHINGTON GOSSIP.

Senator Mason has introduced oil!
providing for the establishment OF
trataing school for army cooks.
Senator Piatt of New York delivered
his first speech in the Senate Friday on
the subject of expansion. taking the ar
frmatiye.
large number OF army officers
nave fled with the war commission
statements in support Of General Miles
charges concerning the bad quality OF
canned beef.
Senator Gray. in charge OF the
Heace treaty. says he Will let IL go
over to another session rather than ac-
cept an amendment relinquishing SOW
ereignty over the islands.
President Griscom of the American
line of steamers told the committee on
commerce the other day that his com
pHny proposes to build four new l2,Vp
ton ships within the next five years ar
a cost Of nearly S7,0ooOoo.
In the Senate last Thursday Mr..
Butler of North Carolina. in urging an
amendment to pension eN-Confederate
soldiers, said that the South was justi-
fed in its course in attempting TO
withdraw from the Union.
Seventy young people were enter
tained at dinner at the White House
last Friday night. and the evening
entertainment ended In a dance. The
affair was given In honor of several
young lady guests, who are visiting
Mrs. Mckinley.
The use Of voting machines has peeh
approved by the House committee on
the election of President and VICE
President and favorable report order-
ed on the bill to amend the statutes as
to permit machine ballots when 'ne
svnte laws so authorize them
The State Department is in posses
sion of facts which warrant the asser-
tion that the Spanish government
caused the recent cutting OF the ca
tles In the Philippines in order TO en-
barrass General Otis. Vigorous steps
will be taken to prevent repetition
OF the outrage.
General Russell Hastings. formerly OF
Ohio. but now living Mt Northampton.
Massachusetts,, has been chosen as di-
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 as to the presentation he Is
to make the German minister for Tor
lAign affairs relative to the indignity
reported to have been offered to the
chief justice OF Samoa by the German
officials at Apia.
The Mexican eXtradition treaty ex-
S,ired on the oath, according to the mo-
tice given by the Mexican government.
Its relapse hnds a remarkably small
80 R,,v fugffNSl In
either country to profit from the fact.
Fair progress has been made on the
negotiation OF . new treaty.
The opponents Of the treaty state
that there will be no objection to the
extension Of the law until June 80.
1900, which allows the regular army
to consist Of 1000 men. This propo-
sition, 1t is said. will be placed upon
the army appropriation bill as an
amendment and relieve any necessity
for an extra session to pass an army
bill.
The senate held two executive ses-
sions Wednesday. and at each the
syeace 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
AuOutIS iCuSu1S AOA AAI ANSNpNeAA1NN ~
the treaty in the form in which 1t was
finally concluded.
Chemist Wiley Of the Department Of
Agriculture has rnnorted to Secretary
Wilson that an examination OF sam
pies Of canned meats secured both in
xhe open market and from the War
Department to determine the presence
of any chemical preservatives failed
to disclose any traces nj borax, boric
acid, sulphites, sulphurous acid, sail
cylic or benzoic acids.
The secretary of war has completed
the colonial advisory commission by
the selection of Curtis Guild OF Bos-
ton, The other members are Cen
eral r. p. Kennedy of Ohio and Major
George C. Watkins of Grand Rapids.
michigan. They will constitute an ad-
1v.sory board to the secretary of war
for the consideration of all questions
regarding the civil administration in
Cuba, Porto Rico and the Philip
rines.
Former Attorney General Augustus
H. Garland was stricken with apo
plexy 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 a futile effort to allevi-
ste his condition.
The entire executive session of the
senate last Monday was devoted to the
discussion Of the promotion of Admir-
ais Sampson and Schley and other
2 naval officers engaged in the Santiago
campaign, over the heads of officers
who were their superiors in rank. The
controversy was then postponed for
twenty days after a vote had been
I taken to call for the records of the
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