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responsibility OF reporting II favorably
to the Senate without their concur
| renee. In consequence OF this threat
| there was full attendance Friday.
when 1t was agreed to give three hear
ings on the three next Fridays to MI
who desire to submit arguments or evil
dence for or against the bill. Senator
Cullon announced that the bill would
then be reported to the Senate for nc-
ton. The representatives of the flour
interests have charged the opposition
with trying to prevent action by re-
maining away from committee meet
ings, but the hearings now will go on
and the bill will be considered hereaf-
ter, no matter how many nre present.
The President has pardoned Captain
McCalla Of the navy, who was court
martialed several years ago and SEN
fenced to the loss of ten numbers in
rank. Captain McCalla is one of the
ablest and brnvest officers in the navy.
and was placed In n position where he
was compelled either to suffer humuli-
alton or Violate the rules of the SER
vice. A court.mnrtial found his gull
ty. He suffered the penalty and WAS
restored to duty just in time to per-
form not only useful but distinguished
service in command Of the cruiser Mar
blehead during the war with Spain
AS a recognition of those services the
President has granted him full par
don and restored him to the place lie
| formerly occupied on the naval list
The highest compliment that could
have been paid Captain McCalln and
one Of the most striking Illustrations Of
the generosity and chivalry of the ser
vice was n letter addressed to the
President by the ten fellow officers
who would suffer from his restoration
asking that 1t be made. The President
could not resist such manly appeal.
| Senator Depew is n very remarkable
man, both for his obliging disposition
| as well as for his intellectual versatile
ty and his physical endurance. On Fri
day night he made an elaborate ad-
dress to the Yale alumni In Washing
| ton. Saturday morning he went to
New York with the Gridron 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-
livered an address in behalf of the
Boys Republic at the Columbia thea
ter mt which the President and Other
distinguished men were present. Al
tie close of his speech lie took the
1 tldlu -NfN ipih' "h''
tonight he is to deliver another
speech of an hours length before an
association of business men. He has
two other engagements for public hd-
dresses during the week. On all OF
these occasions Senator Depcw spoke
| without notes and without other prep
| aration except reflection. and his four
| topics were as different as they possi-
| bly, could be.
| The House has passed bill to regu-
late beach mining mt Cape Nome. and II
is said to be satisfactory to the several
representatives of Alaskan interests
who are now here trying TO get some
kind of legislation under which mining
camps may be organized and order pre-
served during the rush Of next sum
mer. The act of 1888 reserves along
the coast and shorts of all waters in
Alaska highway OF sixty feet in
width and the riparian rights ms the
property Of the government. Last
year the richest deposits OF gold were
found upon this reservation and the
beach between 1t and low water. which
Is termed "tIde land" Although for
bIdden by n strict Interpretation of the
law, no power on earth can prevent
the miners from washing the sand
nlong the seashorc, and in order that
they may do so pencenbly 1t Is neces-
sary TO make some kind of regulations
under which it 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, and is almost sure TO pass the
Senate within few days, IL to legnl-
iZe what the miners at Cape Nome
have already done on their own ac-
count and to give the force of statutes
to the regulations they adopted for
| their own government. 1t allows indi-
vidual miners TO locate claims upon the
sea beach, which is Il government res
ervation, twenty-five feet in width,
and miners meetings may on their dis
erection enlarge them to n maximum
limit of 800 feet In width. 1t is be-
lievcd 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 thousand
times more serious than that which
now perpleXes Its leaders in connection
| with the government of Puerto Rico.
1t will be Il blessing for all concerned
IL it can be settled by the courts before
1t reaches Congress. but even then ev-
cry Republican. from the President
down, will be compelled to adapt them
self to new conditions which the eX.
pansion policy of their party hns ere
ated. At this session Of Congress the
Republican managers and the high
tariff protectionsts have been sorely
disturbed by the reciprocity treaties
which their national convention
pledged the President to make; by the
admission of Hawaii. which was also
n 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 Republi-
can politicians and the control of the
House of Representatives. If the
French reciprocity treaty is ratified the
New England and New Jersey manu-.
fncturers will bolt; the wool growers
of Ohio. Wyoming. Montana and other
states Will vote the Democratic ticket
IL the Argentine treaty goes through;
| the s,igar-beet farmers threaten to re-
volt II the reciprocity treaties with the
British West Indies are ratified. and
Connecticut will go democratic If Puer-
to Rican tobacco is admitted free.
These and others that might be mem