The Springfield herald., 1900-01-19
FROM WASHINGTON.
GOSSIP OF THE WHITE .HOV0E
AND THE DEPARTMENTS.

AND THE DEPARTMENTS.
Mr.. WI, the Chinese minister, has
purchased an automobile, which he
uses for official and social visits and
for pleasure riding about the city.
O. p. Huntington, the last of the
prominent railroad magnates to hold
out in opposition to the construction
OF an isthmian canal, has surrender
ed, and is now numbered among the
advocates of the Nicaragua route.
Ad1utant General Corbin thinks the
Lawton fund will finally reach $780,
900 which will be invested for Mrs.
Lawton In government bonds and give
her an income sufficient to provide
against all want and enable her to
educate her children properly.
The officials Of the government will
accept as final the opinion Of the direc-
tor of the naval observatory that the
nineteenth century ends at midnight OF
December 81, 1900, and that the twen-
teth century begins with January, l,
1901.
Miss Cecilia Sherman Miles, daugh-
ter of the general commanding the
army, and Captain Samuel Reber, q.
8. A., were married at noon Wednes-
ander Mackay-Smith, ID. d., officiating,
assisted by Rev. Dean Davis Of st.
Louis.
About 500 persons attended an anti
lmperialist meeting, held in Masonic
hall, here Thursday night. Ihe
weather was wet and disagreeable. The
speakers were ex-senator J. B. Hen
derson of Missouri, Ex-Governor Bout
well of Massachusetts and Represent
atIve Lentz of Ohio.
The secretary Of war has sent to Con-
gress a request for an urgent deficiency
appropriation Of $75O,OOO to supple
ment the $1,5OO,OOO heretofore appro-
prtated for the repatriation OF the
Spanish families and their families
held by the insurgents in the Phiiip-
pines from the islands to Spain, In &C.
cordance with the treaty Of peace.
The President has issued an execu-
tive order relative to quarantine regu-
lations for the ports In the Philippine
Islands. The order recites that to pre-
vent the Introduction of epidemic dis
eases the net of 1893 and the rules
framed Hereunder shall have full force
in the islands, with additional regula-
tions. These require that vessels en-
tering and clearing from any Philippine
port shall be examined by officers OF
the marine hospital service.
Again 1t is announced that the Presi-
dent will pay his long belated journey
to the Rocky Mountain states. This
time the promise is made in connection
with the intention of the President to
be present at the launching of the Ohio
at San Francisco in the spring. He
has assured the western senators that
1xo H., Df thn n
ern Pacific, stopping at Helena and
Butte His present intention Is to re-
turn by way of Salt Lake, Cheyenne
and Denver.
The disposition shown by Congress
to favor legislation for the postal SER
vice encourages migration Of en-
ployes to Washington, which the de-
partment proposes to check. The off,
cial bulletin of the department issued
to-day contains warming in the form
Of the order which Postmaster General
Wilson issued in 1895 notifying post
masters, clerks and other employees
that they must not come to Washing
ton to influence legislation pending be-
fore Congress.
The House has ordered two investi-
cations as a result of resolutions intro
duced by Representative Lentz of
Ohio The first is to be an investiga-
ton by the committee on postofhces
and post roads into the charge that two
federal appointees of the President,
Postmaster John c. Graham of Provo
City, Utah, and Postmaster Orson
Smith Of Logan, Utah, are under in
dictment as polygamists and whether
aff1davits to the effect were on file at
the time of their appointment. The
nth 10 Uo nf n
military committee into the conduct of
General Merriam and the United
States army officials during the Ward
ner, Idaho, riots and subsequent there
to.
The secretary Of the navy has re-
ceived a most interesting report from
Captain Leary. governor of Guam, re-
cording his achievements In the mat
ter of ciylliZing the natives and clean
ing up the island. He says: 1.-The peo-
pie appear to be grateful for what is
being gratuitously done for them and
seem to appreciate the importance of
cooperating with us, not only in our
medical work, but in our efforts to
make sanitary improvements. Assist
ant Surgeon Stone had persuaded the
people Of Agan, the largest village, to
establish a hospital of ten beds. So
striking has been the result that the
authorities of the village are now
building and have nearly finished an
additional hospital for twenty beds"
A spirited and Mt times sensational
debate was precipitated in the Senate
Thursday on the Philippine question,
the basis for the speech-making being
q resolution of inquiry offered several
days ago by Mr.. Pettlgrew of South
Dakota, to which substitutes were pro-
posed. Mr.. Pettigrew attacked the ad-
ministration,s nnlicy In the Philinnines