Rocky Ford enterprise., 1899-02-09
CONGRESSIONAL NOTES
AND WASHINGTON GOSSIP.

mission at once.
II liz stated that the Panama Cana
company will try to blum the United
states Into buying their concession b!
using threat OF selling II to Russia
germany, Austria and France.
One effect OF the publication of thu
list OF officers named for brevet on nc
count OF the Santiago campaign mas
Deen to deluge the War Department
with inquiries from persons as TO why
their names were not included.
The monthly statement of the dl
rector OF the mint shows the tota
coinage at the mints of the United
Stntes during January, 1899. amounted
to $lO. .1OJ,OOO. as follows: Gold, $ls,'
w, 1000; silver, $i,Gi2,Oo0 minor coins
$31 500.
The Senate committee on naval af'
fairs has decided to report favorably
the Joint resolution reviving the rank
of admiral In the interest OF Rear Ad.
miral Dewey. The resolution was 80
amended us 10 extend time of his re-
tircment ten years. -
The river and harbor bill. carrying
slightly more than $3OOOO,OOO. passed
the House Thursday by a vote Of 16O
to q. This is the largest majority any
river and harbor bill has ever obtained
In the House. The bill attracted little
opposition and every effort to amend
1t In important particulars failed.
Secretary Porter says that President
Mckinley IL tired and worn as Il result
of the hard work devolving upon him
because OF the war and Its subsequent
development. but that It was untrue
that he was In any danger OF breaking
down. The Presidents health Is fair
ly good. and all he needed was little
rest. Mr.. Porter added.
The House committee on judiciary
has decided that the members of the
House who accepted commissions In
the army vacated their seats. They
are Wheeler of Alabama, Campbell Of
Illinois. Colson Of Kentucky, and Rob
bins Of Pennsylvania. Members serv-
Ing on civil commissions are held not
TO have forfeited their seats.
The War Department has issued an
order to muster out the following reg
iments: First Maryland. Third Mis-
sissippi and Second Missouri, Eighth
and Thirteenth Pennsylvania, Four
teenth Pennsylvania. Fourth Texas,
Fourth Wisconsin, Seventh volunteer
infantry, Eighth volunteer infantry
and Tenth volunteer infantry.
The House Committee on Public
Lands has reported favorably a bill to
extend until October 81, 1899, the time
for the completion of the classification
Of lands within the land grant limits
of the Northern Pacific railroad COM
pany. These lands are in Montana
and Idaho. An appropriation of $780,
900 is made to carry the law into ef-
feet.
Representative Tawney of Minnesota
has introduced resolution providing
that February 18th next and on that
date thereafter the United States flag
on all government buildings through
out the United States is to be displayed
at half mast In commemorntion Of the
destruction of the bnttleship Maine and
the loss of 266 American lives in the
harbor of Havana.
The bill introduced in the House pro-
viding for the taking of the next CEN
sus provides that the questions asked
by enumerators shall be less in number
and simpler in form than those used in
the tenth and eleventh censuses, the
idea being to secure not so large n va
rlety but the most important informa-
ton relating to the population, the in
dustries and the commerce of the
country.
Senator Hanna and Richard Croker
of York met for the first time ut the
dinner Of the Grldiron club the other
night. They shook hands cordially and
expressed the pleasure of meeting one
another "You are, not bad looking
man." exclaimed Mr.. Hanna, land I
would recognize you in n minute from
the cartoons" 1.-THE same to you," re-
sponded the New York Tammany boss
with a grim smile.
Representative Bell has secured from
the land commissioner n promise to
open all of the Southern Ute Indian
reservation except strip about one
half mile wide on the east and south
sides, which is questioned on account
of errors in the survey. The commits
sioner will recommend to the Presi-
dent that the reservation be opened at
once. The reservation is fifteen miles
wide by seventy-tive miles long.
The United States ambassador to
Mexico, Mr. Powell Clayton, has noti-
fled the State Department that the
Mexican government has consented to
grant the application Of the United
States authorities for the delivery to
them, under eXtradition proceedings,
of James Temple. Temple is the Am
crican railroad man who is now held
under arrest in Mexico for killing
Mexican on the American side of the
border in Arizona.
The House committee on invalid pen
sions to-day reported favorably the
Senate bill pensloning General John
NJ. Palmer of Illinois, the amount be-
ing reduced from 500 to $50. The re-
port says Of General Palmer: Nearly
always an office holder and always
strictly honest, he finds himself now,
in his eighty-second year, retired to
private life without means of income
broken In health, blind in one eye, and
rapidly losing the sight of the other"