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to the Senate without their concur
renee. In consequence of this threat
there was n full attendance Friday
when 1t was agreed to 1--WE three hear
ings on the three neXt Fridays to nj.
who desire to submit arguments or evi
dence for or against the bill. Senator
Cullom announced that the bill would
then be reported TO the Senate for ac-
ton. The representatives of the flour
interests have charged the opposition
with trying to prevent action by re
naming away from committee meet
ings, but the hearings now will 20 on
and the bill will be considered hcrcaf-
ter, no matter how many are present.
The President has pardoned Captain
McCalla of the navy, who was court
martialed several years ago and sen
fenced to he loss of ten numbers In
rank. Captain McCalla is one of the
ablest and bravcst officers in the navy.
and was placed in a position where h,
WIS compelled either TO suffer humIIli-
alton or violate the rules of the ser
vice. A court-martial found his gull
ty. He suffered the penalty and WAS
restored to duty just in time to per.
form not only useful hut distinguished
service in command of the cruiser Mar
blehead during the war with Spain.
AS IL recognition OF InpSt SERVICES lllt
President has granted him Il full par
don and restored him to the place h.
formerly occupied on the naval list.
The highest compliment that could
have been paid Captain McCalla aud
II of the most striking Illustrations Of
the generosity and chivalry of the ser
vice was a letter addressed to the
President by the ten fellow officers
who would suffer from his restoration
asking that it he made. The President
could not resist such n manly appeal.
Senator Depcw is Il very remarkable
man, both for his obliging disposition
as well as for his intellectual versatile
ty II his physical endurance. On Fri
day night he made an elaborate ad
dress to the Yale alumni in Washing
ton. Saturday morning he went t.
New York with the Gridiron Club and
made the principal speech at the din
ner given in its honor by the Lotus Club
of that city. He returned to Wash
ington on Sunday and Sunday night de
ltvered an address in behalf of the
Boys Republic at the Columbia thea
ter, mt which The President and othc
distinguished men were present. NJ
the close of his speech he too the
midnight train for New York, whcr"
tonight he is to deliver anothCg
speech of an hours length before al
association of business men. He has
two other engagements for public adj
dresses during the week. on all OF
these occasions Senator Dcpcw spoke
without notes and without other prep
nration except reelection, and his -four
topics were as different ms they posi-
bly, could be.
The House has passed II bill to rceu
| lufp hpnrh mitinpr nt Cana \pnnn ubI IL
is said to he satisfactory to the several
representatives of Alaskan Interests
who are now here trying to get some
kind of legislation under which mining
camps may he organized and order pre-
served during the rush of neXt sum
mcr. The act of 1888 reserves along
the coast and shorts of all waters in
Alaska n highway of sixty feet in
width II Ii riparian rights MS the
property of the government. Last
year the richest deposits of gold were
found upon this reservation and the
beach between IL and low water, which
is termed tide land" Although FOR.
hidden by n strict Interpretation of the
law, no power on earth can prevent
the miners from washing the sand
along the seashOre, and in order that
they may do so peaceably II Is nCrcs-
Sary to make some Kind of regulations
under which II may be permitted.
Congress has been convinced of this by
the testimony of every person who has
come here from Alaska. The effect
of the bill which passed the House
Monday, II is almost sure to pass the
Senate within n few days, is 10 legal
ize What the miners Mt Cape Nome
AVE already done on their own nc
count and to give he force of statutes
IN tho rnUlIlufilnG flntr n1nf.tAI t4a.
their own government. II allows iudi-
vidunl miners TO locate claims upon the
sea beach, which is n government res
ervation, twenty-five feet in width.
and miners meetings may on their dis
erection enlarge them to Il maximum
limit of 3OO feet in width. 1t is he
lieved that this will prevent lawlesS-
ness in the struggle for wealth that is
expected at Cape Nome during the
coming summer.
Sooner or later the Republican party
will come up against an economical
question which will seem II thousand
times more serious than that which
now perplcNCs its leaders In connection
with the government of Puerto Rico.
1t will he u blessing for all concerned
If 1t can he settled 10y the courts before
it reaches Congress, but even then cv-
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down, will he compelled to adapt them
self to new conditions which the eN.
pansion policy of their party has ere
nted. AT this session of Congress the
Republican managers and the high
tariff prOtectionists have been surcly
disturbed by the reciprocity t]rcntic-
which their national convention
pledged the President to make; by tlur
admission of Hawaii, which was ais,
IA prominent feature in their platform.
and by the Puerto Rican tariff law.
Every new proposition connected with
commercial or territorial expansion
seems TO hit some industry that is pro
tectcd by the tariff and to involve the
political future of one or more Rcpuhli
can politicians and the control of the
House of Representatives. If the
French reciprocity treaty Is ratified the
New England and New Jersey mnnu.
facturers will bolt: the wool W
of Ohio, Wyoming, Montana and other
states will vote the Democratic ticket
if the Argentine treaty goes through;
the sugar-bect farmers threaten to re-
volt If the reciprocity treaties with the
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