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ZEN. WOOD SAYS THE BEEF WAS
GOOD
GOV. ROOSEVElT'S LETTER.
says Four Kinds of Beef Were Furnished
the Rough Riders-Two Were worthless.

Albany, n. Y, Jan. 13--Gov. Roosevelt
stated to-day that he wrote a letter 20
Major Gen. Miles concerning the condi-
ton of the meat furnished during the San
committee on military affairs favorably
reported a joint resolution authorizing the
admission OF Louis Yglesias of Costa Rica
to the military academy at West Point.
Young ISlesiaS is II son of President
iglesas of Costa Rica. The resolution
was adopted. The bill authorizing Arkan-
saS and Choctaw Railway company to
construct and operate "a railroad line
through the Choctaw and Chickasaw Ma
ton in Indian Territory was favorably re-
ported and passed.
Mr.. Allen of Nebraska introduced the
following resolution: That n committee
OF i've senators, no more than two of
whom shall be members of the same po-
litical party shall be appointed to make
full inquiry into the conduct of the late
war between the United States and Spain
said committee shall have plenaTy author
ity to inquire and report on the advisab-
ity of the selection of places of encamp-
ment for the troops by the military au-
thorities of the United States, the time
character and places Of delivery of the
commissary, quartermaster's and medical
stores, the quality and quantity thereof
and the regularity of their delivery and
into all things in any manner affecting
the care, discipline and health of the
, troops in the field and camp, and into all
other matters and things in any manner
affecting or bearing upon the health, reg
ularity and discipline of the army and
whether there is just cause to complain
of the places of encampment fixed, the
medical stores and quartermaster sup
plies furnished"
Objection was made to the immediate
cons Iteration of the resolution and 1t
went over.
Mr.. McLaurin of South Carolina then
addressed the Senate in support of the
Vest resolution, declaring the policy of
territorial expansion to be unconstitu-
tional.
Mr.. Pasco, of Florida in a set speech on
the pending canal bill maintained that
many notifications ought to be made in
it before the government was fully COM
mitted to the undertaking involved in the
canal scheme.
At the conclusion of the remarks of Mr.
Pasco, Mr.. Allison of Iowa. chairman of
the committee on appropriations called
up the Indian appropriation bill and the
reading of the measure was begun.
When the paragraph relating to the en-
ployment of practical farmers in addition
to the agency farmers now employed was
reached Mr.. Allen entered a protest
against the employment of men who were
merely political strikers and hangers on,
marplots and meddlers between the set
tiers and the Indians. He offered no
amendment, however, and the paragraph
was agreed to.
When the committee amendment provid-
ing for the continuation of the work Of
the Crow and F'lathead Indian commission
until next November was reached Mr.. Car
ter of Montana in the course of a sarcas-
tic speech concerning the commission de-
clarcd that they had never accomplished
any result which was worthy of notice
lie thought the recommended ton of the