North Park union., 1900-03-23
WASHINGTON NEWS.
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Representative HarmeT Of Pennsyl-
vania. the father of the House" 10
dead. He served In Congress for
twenty six years.
The secretary Of war has lately ruled
that no more appointments would be
made in the regular nrmy from civil
life. Hereafter all vacancies will be
filled by promotion.
A stock company has been formed to
establish q telephone system at White
Oaks. The company further plans to
light the town and the principal mines
with electricity.
The House committee on public lands
has reported favorably the bill extend
ing the provisions OF the soldiers
homestead act to soldiers of the Span
ish war and Philippine insurrection.
The ratifications Of the Samoan arbi-
tratiOn treaty were exchanged at the
State Department on the 7th by Secre.
tary Hay for the United States, Lord
Pauncefote for Great Britain and DR..
Won Holleben for Germany.
The members of the committee Of
ways and means still insist that the
Puerto Rican tnrin bill Is one of the
best pieces of legislation ever proposed
yet at the same time they deny its au-
thorship and claim that the president
was to blame for Its passage.
Senator Davis of Minnesota has Of
fered an amendment to the Puerto
Rican bill In the Senate. Its enect
is to have the tariff laws of the United
States applied to Puerto Rico upon
foreign imports, but allows absolute
free trade between the United States
and Puerto Rico.
The President hns committed to I'M
prisonment for life the sentence OF
death imposed by court-martial In the
case of Private George Murphy, Com
pnny Q, Twenty-fourth infantry, con-
victed of the murder OF another sol
dIer Of the same company In the Phil
ippines.
The president has received beau
tiful copy In Wedgewood ware OF the
bust Of Houdin's Washington, the gilt
of Merton Russell Cotes, ex-mnyor OF
Bournemouth, England. The bust
bears this inscriptions: "This bust OF
the great Washington. founder OF the
United States OF America. Is presented
to the nation through President Nc
Kinley, Feb 90 1900, by Merton Rus
sell COtes."
Formal discussion of the Puerto
Ricnn tarifY and civil government bill
began In the Senate Thursday. md con-
tinued unInterruptedly for four and
half hours. The principal speakers
were Mr.. Foraker OF Ohio, in charge OF
the measure, and Mr.. Pettus, Demo-
crat, of Alabama, but mt various times
during the debate lively colloquys oc-
Cured In which other senators were
participants.
The remains OF sixty-six soldiers who
died In Cuba We're buried ut Arlington
cemetery Wednesday with military
honors. The bodies Of about oOO sol
diers who died In Cuba now rest IN this
historic spot The officers ut Fort
Myer had charge of the services, which
were very simple. A Protestant and
Catholic clergymen read the burial ser
vice, taps We're sounded and q Voiiey
fired over the graves.
The Senate committee on Indian AZ
fairs has adopted In part Senator
Teller's amendments to the Indian ap-
preparation bill and Incorporated IN the
bill $4,000 for dormitorles at the
Grand Junction Indian school; $i2.UV
for boys dormitories, $1,000 for indus
trInl shops, 5000 for laundry and $o,-
600 for light plant Mt the Fort Lewis
school. The committee also ndopted
Senator Warren's amendment appro-
printing $3.50 for repairing the Wind
river bridge on the Shosbone Indian
reservation, Wyoming.
Acting Secretary Meiklejohn has
of Rnnrnapntnfi ives
n statement OF expenditures by the
War Department covering the mill
tary operations In the Philippines, in-
Guiding outstanding liabilities, from
May !, 1898, to November I, 1850. The
total is given ut S4S,92S0fD, the prin-
cipnl Items being: Qunrtermaster's y
department., S25, I15.901, OF which SlI,-
13G,S64 Is for army transportation'
subsistence department. $S.05O,OOO;
medical department, $1,2O6,l3I; pay
department, so, 1874; ordnance de-
partment, $1,SGO,230.
1t is proposed to amend the Hay
Pauncefote treaty 80 that 1t shall
conform to the Monroe doctrine and
Justify the United States In controlling
and defending the Nicaragua canal by
any methods 1t may deem necessary
and making this government solely
responsible for its naturalization. This
will be acceptable to the president and
Secretary Hay. The right to fortify
will be included, although 1t Is the
unanimous opinion among military ex-
perts that bnttleships are much better
than forts for the protection OF the
canal.
Secretary Of state Hay has declared
that there was absolutely no founda-
tion for the report that either Mica
ragua or Costa Rica had made any
protest against the proposed neutarli-
zation of the projected Nicaraguan
canal, nor had there been the slightest
evidence of dissatisfaction on their
part with that section OF the Hay
Pauncefote treaty which deals with
the subject of fortlticatlons. official
and otherwise, which had reached the
State Department from the parties in
terested, testified to their unqualifted
approval Of every line Of the conven-
ton.
As the authorship Of the Puerto
Rican tariff bill has been ascribed to
Secretary Root by member of the
ways and means committee. 1t may be
proper to state that the secretary him.
self drew up the bill, but only as an
alternative measure. upon representa-
lions by some Of the Republican MEM
bers Of the committee to the effect
that 1t was the only possible leglsla-
tlon. While consenting to drnft the
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