Gilpin observer., 1900-03-22

Il IHOuey Sltli ne NStu lS rpIullleu, DuV al
addition Is made declaring specifically
that it shall be for the laid and relief
of the Puerto Ricans"
The House committee on naval af.
| fairs reached definite and final deeis-
| ion Thursday rs to the number of new
| warships to be authorized in the forth
| coming naval appropriation bill as fol-
| lows: Two sea-going line battleships
| of about 13,5OO tons each. to cost ap-
proximately S3,6O0,O0O each. Three ar
mored cruisers of the highest practical
speed and most powerful armor and
armament, to cost approximately 81.
100000 Three protected cruisers. to
cast about 81, 900 each. 1t was de
termined not to provide any gunboats,
in view of the opinion expressed by
Secretary Dewey and Admiral Dewey
that General Otis recent Purchases rf
ser> icrable boats of this chara,..s" uiel
prrsen! gunboat requirements. The
committee decided to nuthoriza the SIC
rrtary of the navy 10 contrac. TO. AZ
Nor mt Il price not to exceed S.,t.i prr
| ten.
Two arguments We're presented to
the Senate Wednesday in which almost
antipodical positions were taken by
the two senators. Mr.. Teller of Colo
RADIO, In II brief speech, maintained
| that the constitution could not extend
over territory acquired by the United
States, while Mr.. Turner of Washing
ton elaborately contended that the con.
stitution embraced the acquired terri
tory the very moment the United
States took permanent possession of it.
Mr.. Teller held that this government
could make the outlying territory into
states or could hold it as colonies as it
saw fit. while Mr.. Turner maintained
that the United States could not hold
colonies or dependencies. Aside FROM
the constitutional questions, the two
senators We're in practical agreement.
Both were opposed TO the pending bill!
and both objected to any of the insu-
lar territory becoming a part of the
United States or any of its inhabitants
citizens of the United States.
Senator Cullom notified the members
of the committee on Interstate com
merce Saturday that if they did not at
tend the meetings called to consider the
bill enlarging the powers and extending
the jurisdiction of the Interstate Com
merce Commission he would take the
responsibility of reporting it favorably
| to the Senate without their concur.
renee. In consequence OF this threat
there was Il full attendance Friday.
when it was agreed to give three hear
ings on the three next Fridays to ali
| 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-
| maining away from committee meet
! ings, but the hearings now will go on
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ter no matter how many are present.
Senator Depew is very remarkable
man. both for his obliging disposition
as well as for his intellectual versatili
ty and his physical endurance. On Fri
day night he made an elaborate adj
dress to the Yale alumni in Washing.
ton. Saturday morning he went to
New York with the Gridiron Club and
made the principal speech nj 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, at which the President and othcT
distinguished men We're present. Al
the close of his speech he took the
midnight train for New York. where
tonight he is TO deliver another
speech of an hours length before an
association of business men. He has
two other engagements for public ad
dresses during the week On all o;
these occasions Senator Depew spoke
without notes and without other prep
aration except reflection, and his four
topics We're as different as they posi-
bly, could be-
Representative Hay of Virginia filed
the report of the House committee on
military affairs on the bill establishing
II national battlefield memorial park of
! 5000 acres on the sites of the battles of
| Fredericksburg. charlottesville The
Wilderness and Spottsylvaniu Court
House. The representative states that
more men Were here engaged than in
any battle in the worlds history, num-
boring at least 100000. with losses in
killed and wounded ON both sides
amounting to l29,S3S. The in;scnch.
ments all over the field are said 10 he
III remarkable state of preservation.
At Fredericksburg also Is the home of
Washington stll intact. n monument
erected by the Daughters of the Amer
lean Revolution. Here. too. Captain
John Smith anchored his little bark
ana fought the Indians In lGOS and
| within sight Of the city We're born
Washington. Monroe Jefferson and
Madison, the Lees of both the Rrvolu-
! tlon and Civil War, and Zachary Tay.
lor. The report adds that in Virginia
the great war hcgan and eUdcd. and not
an acre of this soil. whore more men
fell than ON all the other pattlcilclds of
the war, has yet been dedicated as n
national park.
The correspondents of the Chicago
Record. n Republican paper. says:
Representative Page Morris of Mime
sofa and six other Republican members
of Congress have found II necessary to
20 home and explain to their constitu-
ents their reasons for voting for II tariff