Gilpin observer., 1900-05-17
CONGRESSIONAL GRIST-
WASHINGTON GOSSIP.

iuuOr Ill the Pnlllpp1ne lSlanuS ana
drunkenness among the troops. The
document will be sent to congress in
few days in reply to n resolution Of
fered by Senator Pettigrew.
The trust question led to an ami
mated discussion in the House Com
mittee on Judiciary Tuesday, a con-
stitutional amendment finally being
adopted by Il party vote, giving Con-
gress power to define, regulate con-
troll, prohibit or dissolve trusts, mon
opolies or combinations, wether in the
form of corporation or otherwise.
At the next session of the United
States Supreme Court, Representative
Barham of California will make n
unique motion for the admission to
practice of his son. Edward C. Barham
and his sons wife, Ida ID. Barham.
The latter studied law and was admit
ted to the bar before her marriage, and
Is now the husbands partner at Santa
Rosa, under the title Of Barham & Bar
ham.
!, a favorable report was made public
Monday by the Senate committee on
public lands on the bill providing that
persons residing in or near forest re-
serves may cut or remove dead or down
timber from such reserves for their
own use for tirewood or for improving
their farms or mines. Also providing
for issuing permits for operating saw
mills for cutting such dead or down
timber
Mr.. WI. the Chinese minister. has
issued II proclamation to the Chinese
residents of the United States eX-
planning the purpose of the census and
requesting them to give all the infor-
nation asked for by the enumerators
without hesitation. Ten years ago the
enumerators found it difficult to obtain
information from the Chinese. who sus-
pected that it was to be used against
them, and Director Merriam, anticpat-
ing similar difficulties this year, re-
quested Mr. WI to allay the suspi-
cions of his fellow w-countrymen.
1t is the desire and intention of the
Republican leaders to adjourn Congress
before the 10Th of June. which is the
date of the Republican national con-
vention, and programme of legisla-
ton Is being shaped with that in view.
The appropriation bills are pretty well
along, and so far as they are con-
cerned 1t would be easy to close the
session by the first of June; but there
are several measures on which the Re
publicans desire to make record be
4 fore the election. Those have not vet
been selected and are now under con-
sideratiOn by the steering commit
tee.
The United States Supreme Court has
sustained the cOnStitutionality OF the
war revenue tax on inheritances in the
Il. ]. KnowltOn case. New York. JUS
tice White read the opinion of the
. court. Suit was brought to recover the
>tax paid. The decision declares the
tax Is not repugnnnt to the constitution.
The contention that Congress has no
right to impose tax was also held to
he unsOund. Neither is the uniformity
clause of the constitution violated. de-
clared the court. The claim that the
imposition of Il progressive rate is sub
versive to the fundamental conception
of free government is held to Ice rnten-
able.
The Supreme Court resumed its hear
ing Tuesday in the Kentucky governor.
ship case. Hon. w. o. Bradley, for
mer governor. being the only speaker
He appeared for Governor Taylor TAX
ing up the first claim of the opposition
that Taylor had never possessed any
title to the office. He concluded that
Tayl0r's title was as good as that of
any other man who had ever held the
office. He argued that Taylor's title
was complete: that he was not only de
jure governor. but de facto governor
as well, and that every step that he
had taken as governor was legal Mr..
Bradley attacked the finding of the
Legislature in the ease ms irregular and
therefore void. When Mr.. Bradley
closed. the court took recess until
May 18th.
Attorney General GODDARD of Kan
sas reached here Monday with the
<nvowed intention of filing In the
United States Supreme Court an in.
junction suit in the name of the state
Of Kansas against the state of Colo
RADIO. the proposed suit Is to prevent
the diversion of the Arkansas river
by Colorado irrigatiOnists. thus pre-
venting the natural flow of the strenm
into Kansas and. ns claimed, DANA
cling to the extent nf many millions
: Of dollars the farmers of that state
Contrary to expectations. Mr.. GODDARD
did not file his application for an in.
junction, ana he announced to-day
that he would not file II until the May
term of court, which opens May IIth
The Senate committee ON Indian dep.
relations has reported favorably Sen.
ator Warren's bill to strike out the
nmity clause of the act providing for
the settlement of. Indian depredatio ton
claims. II will he recalled that the
original act required the claimant to
show that the Indians who DESTROYED
his property were at amlty with the
United States. This requirement bar.
red hundreds Of legitimate claims arls.
ing from the raids Of Indians In Texas.
Arizona. Wyoming. New Mexico, Utah.
Idaho and Washington. ms well as In
some of the states further east. II
was found to work great hardship and
injustice to legitimate claimants, and
consequently Senator Warren introluc.
cd u bill To corerct the law. II IL I'M
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