La Junta tribune., 1899-02-11
CONGRESSIONAL NOTES
AND WASHINGTON GOSSIP.

sion.
Representative Bell has introduced q
pill to require all postmasters TO keep
pn hand supply Of internal revenue
stamps.
n The Navy Department has ordered
Slhat all OF the ships of the navy now
held in reserve shall be put out Of com
lAission ut once.
Congressman Bell on Monday pre-
sented bunch OF petitions from Peo
pie Of Colorado. The Leadv!lle boaru
pf Trade protests against the anu
salping bill.
II Is stated that the Panama Canai
Company will try TO bluf the united
states into buying their concession Wy
using threat of selling 1t to Russ'"'
sGermany, Austria and France.
i One effect of the publication Of the
4 list of officers named for brevet on ac-
count Of the Santiago campaign mas
been To deluge the War Department
with inquiries from persons as 10 why
4 Stheir names were not included.
4 The monthly statement of the di.
rsetor Of the mint shows the to'a,
coinage at the mints of the uhitea
States during January. 1899, amoun.eo
zto $40, 705. 600, as follows: Gold. U.s.
032, 600; silver. Sl.642,Ooo; minor COINS
! S31,59O.
The Senate committee on naval ar
gfairs has decided TO report favoraply
1.-THE joint resolution rcviving the rank
4of admiral in the Interest OF Rear Al
,Aisal Dewey. The resolution was so
amended us to extend time OF his re-
z tirement ten years
4 Secretary Alger has been advised py
tps medical department TO keep no
i AMERICAN troops In Cuba during the
summer. 1t is likely that large part
I of the American forces now IN Cupa
will be withdrawn and native troops
utilized to greatest possible NUMBER.
The river and harbor bill. carrying
slightly more than $3O,OO0.0OO. passed
the House Thursday by vote OF 16o
to Z. This is the largest majority any
4 riHer and harbor bill has ever obtained
7 in the House. The bill attracted little
opposition and every effort to amend
it in important particulars failed.
Secretary Porter says that President
Mckinley is tired and worn as result
of the hard work devolving upon him
DGCduSC Va tut wal anu 40 SocSS4ASA~s
development, but that II was untrue
that he was in any danger Of breaking
down. The Presidents health is fair
- good, and all he needed was little
rest, Mr. Porter added.
Our government has not cancelled the
orders to the United States cruiser
Philadelphia to proceed from San DIE
- to Samoa to represent United States
iHforoatu hot ~ ~ In In
.emplation to reach joint agreement
.Stween the three powers Interested in
Samoa to send war vessels there that
Will apply to the future.
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
Fourth Wisconsin, Seventh volunteer
l1fantry, Eighth volunteer infantry
and Tenth volunteer infantry.
The board, consisting of Generals
Schwan and Boynton and Colonel Car
ter, which has been for some time past
arranging the list of army officers to
be recommended for brevets, having
completed that portion Of the work In
volving the Santiago campaign, 1t has
been forwarded to the Senate for con-
s5%'''en Soe Of the names numbering over
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
o1t the United States Is to be displayed
at half mast In commemoration of the
destruction OF the battleship 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
b. 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 infornna-
Nm 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 at the
6nner of the Gridiron club the other
night. They shook hands cordially and
expressed the pleasure Of meeting one
another. "You are not a bad looking
man." exclaimed Mr.. Hanna, ''and
would recognize you In minute from
the cartoons" The same to you" re-
sponded the New York Tammany boss
with a grim smile.
Representative Bell has secured from
the land commissioner promise to
open all of the Southern Ute Indian
fseervation except strip about one
half mile wide on the east and south
sides, which II questioned on account
Of errors in the survey. The commits
Aoner will recommend to the Presi-
dent that the reservation be opened at
once. The reservation is fifteen miles
wide by seventy-five miles long.
The interview which General Miles
furnished to the New York papers re-