Evening star., 1900-03-24
THE WEEK ExD.ke ,a4RcH "a, 1900.

The Senate passed the legislative appro-
priation bill. The House recommitted the
Loud bill relating to; the second-class pos
tai matter. An inquiry into the right of
the Secretary of War to grant dredging
permits at Cape Nome Alaska, was started
in the Senate by anti-administration inter-
ests. The governments case in the Occur
-d'Alene mining riot fnauiry was opened by
the testimony Of Governor Steunenberg of
Idaho. Ten thousand Porto Ricans as
sembied at San Juan to demand justice at
the hands of the United States; no substan-
t1al progress was made in the passage of
the tariff and governmenF bill in the SEN
ate; the houses considered the conference
report on the bill to refund the tariff rates
already collected by the United States. Sec
retary Root returned from his trip to Cuba.
The senatorial commission visiting Cuba
gave hearings to various interests at Ha-
vana. Bishop Potter of New York, upon
his return from trip around the world,
expressed his belief that the United States
should hold the Philippines. A strike of
machinistS in Cleveland was ordered.
tbrea tening to spread to other cities. The
Nebraska democrats in state convention
adopted a platform reafiirming the free
coinage proposition. The grand jury in
New York city indicted Miss Nethersole,
the actress, her managers and her leading
man for performing ''Sapho." The differ
ences between Andrew Carnegie and Henry
C. Frick were settled out of court.
Foreign Affairs.
The effort of the British to relieve Mafe-
king was checked through the repulse of
Colonel Plumer and Lord Methuen; Lord
Kitchener continued his work of suppress
ing the Cape Colony insurrection; there
were no general advances by the British,
General Gatacre moving slowly into the
Free State; Boer rumors asserted that he
had been defeated at Bethule. The French
chamber of deputies adopted the budget.
The government of Morocco protested
vigorously against French encroachments.
Cameroons. Africa. Archduchess Stepha-
ME of Austria was married against the
wishes of the emperor to Count Lonyay.
In the District.
The Senate subcommittee charged with
the investigation of the public schools SUBJ
mitted report recommending radical
changes in the school management; reports
of the supervising principals upon the
course of study were published. The
House passed the bills Incorporating the
Washington Telephone Company, incorpo-
rating the Douglass Memorial Association,
to amend the law as to tax sales, and char
tering the Wesley Heights Railway Com
pany; the House District committee ap-
proved resolution providing for an in
quiry into the right of the telephone COM
pany to the use of the streets Represen-
tative Mercer introduced a bill for the erec-
tOIl Vi d DullulnS on an avenue
site. The Senate District committee acted
favorably on street railway extension bills.
The controller of the treasury decided that
the District government is part of the fed
eral public service and not a separate
municipal establishment. The board of
trade indorsed the bill codifying the Dis
trict laws, and urged radical changes in
the Commissioners proposed bill revising
the tax laws. The charities committee of
the board recommended the separation of
the jail and workhouse and the removal of
those establishments from their present
location The management of the Emer-
gency Hospital was brought into public
notice through the disclosure of facts re-
lating to the hurried burial in potter's field
of a patient who died unidentified at that
institution. A Baltimore and Ohio train de-
molshed a wagon, killed a horse and in
jured two men at the F street crossing ow-
ing to the failure of the gateman to lower
the barriers. The District democrats, in
preparing for the quadrennial election of
delegates to the national convention devel-
oped an exceptional degree of factional fric-
ton. Doris Padon, an artileryman, was
drowned at the Sth street wharf. Arthur
Landon, colored, was convicted of the mur-
der of Henry Bradley. colored. Nelson
Vale, colored, was placed on trial for the
murder of Alex. Jackson, colored.