The silver blade. (Rathdrum, Idaho) 1895-1903, 1900-03-24

Mr.. Cannon then called up the Puerto
Rico appropriation bill and moved tina
the house non-coneur In the senate amsnd
msnta Nj, OcRae moved son0Rrfsnss.
, The motion to concur was lost, 81 t.
lie. The motion to non-concur then pre-
vailed without division. Messrs. Cannon
Moody and McRae were then appointed
conferees or the part of the house.
The remainder Of the day was devoted
to District of Columbia business
The Coeu r d'Alene investigation wa:
resumed Mo nday by the house committee
on military affairs with j. H. Forney, spe
cial prosecuting attorney at the scene Of
the disorder, on the stand. Mr.. Hay Of
Virginia directed the examination with
a view to disclosing how far the United
States troops were under the direction Of
Governor Steunenberg and his executive
official in Shoshone county, Auditor Sin
clair. Mr.. Hay asked if General Merriam
was the responsible commander not only
of the troops, but also of the affairs of the
district in general. The witness said that
General Merriam was not the responsible
commander, as the governor and Mr.
Sinclair directed the affairs. To certain
extent they controlled the United State:
forces. MIR. Forney said the troops were
sent there to aid in suppressing the in
surrection and they did this by co-operat
ing with and by assisting the state off.
Gals. Mr.. Hay stated that while he did
not question the right of the governor to
call for troops or the right Of the presi
| dent to send them, he maintained that
the president had no authority to place
the United Sta tes troops in the control OF
the state authorities. Questions by Mr.
Lentz brought out that Sinclair was a
| civil officer un der the law, but that he
exercised certa in military authority in
order to make et Elective his civil authority.
In the house Tuesday Mr.. Hull, chair
man of the committee on military affairs,
reported back from that committee the
following resolution introduced by Mr..
Sulzer:
Resolved, That the secretary Of war is
hereby requested to inform the house as
nearly as possible what Notifications
Great Britain is erecting, constructing and
completing along the northern frontier OF
the United Stat les, especially at Puget
Sound and other places on the Pacific
ocean contiguous to the state of Washing
ton and the district of Alaska"
The committee recommended that it lie
on the table
The motion to lay the resolution on the
table was carried by vote of "a to SO.
A.
on demand OF Sulzer the yeas and nays
were ordered. The resolution was laid on
the table, ITO to 81.
MIR. Dalzell Wednesday presented re-
port from the com mittee on rules for the
appointment of special committee of nine
to consider all proposed legislation rela
tive to the celebration of the one-hun-
dredth anniversary of the purchase of the
Louisiana territory at st. Louis in 1903
The speaker appointed the following com
mittee: Messrs 1awney, Steele, Sher-
man, Joy, Corliss, Burke, republicans;
Messrs. Williams, 3 rtlett and Otey, dem.
ocats.
The house committee on foreign affairs
has decided to investigate the allegation
made by Charles E. Macrum, ex-consul to
Pretoria, relative to the opening of his
official mail by the British authorities.
Macrum has been wired to come to Wash
lngton as soon as possible to appear be-
fore the committee.
The bill restricting national banks
from making loans to their officers was
favorably acted on by the house commit
tee on banking and currency. The meas
ure has been urged by the comptroller of
the currency on the ground that many
bank officials were caused by ill advised
loans to officials of the bank.
The examination OF Mr.. Gill was con.
tinued before the Co eur d'Alene investi-
CATION committee. In response to ques-
ton the witness told of a visit to the |
"bull PEN" At that time a prisoner
CHANGED to put his fin gers through hole
inside of the prison whereupon, the wit
ness said, colored soldier on guard on the |
outside showed his bayonet in the pro-
truding fingers, infietihg bloody wound
Unusual interest attached to the Occur
d'Alene investigation Thursday as the
after presenting testimony al
most uninterrupted for five weeks, closed
its case and gave way to the defense
Governor Steunenberg of Idaho was the
first witness called in rebuttal of the
charges made. AS he took the stand he
spread before him several hundred tele-
graphic dispatches. The examination was
conducted by j. C. Cheney. Steunenberg
said he had cautioned Sinclair not to align
himself with either side, employers or en-
ployes. Sinclair had made speeches in New
York for Henry George, so that the gov.
ernor said he regarded him as qualified
to give fair considera ton to the labor
situation. Representative Lentz objected
at this point to the line of inquiry by
Cheney and questioned the propriety of
having private counsel direct the invests
CATION. Chairman Hull replied that the
prosecution had selected Lentz to direct
its side. Robertson, an attorney for the
miners, had assisted and the defense was
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