The Holly chieftain., 1900-03-02
WASHINGTON NEWS.
What Congress Is Doing.-Sotes From ths
White House and the Departments

assign Commander b. +. Tilley Of the
| collier Abarenda as the commandant
| OF the Pago Pago coaling station,
which will place him in charge Of the
administrative affairs of the Samoan
territory OF the United States.
The Senate has passed bill grant
Ing the mineral land states fifty per
cent Of the income derived from inter
est upon public land sales to aid and
establish schools Of mines in such
states. Under the bill $4,000 pet
annum will be available in each state
Tor this purpose al present.
The secretary of state has informed
the congressional committee that he
desires prompt and full investigation
OF the charges made by Mr.. Macrum,
and says that If Mr. Macruil's mails
were tampered with his neglect to re-
port the matter is the gravest violation
OF the regulations and discipline Of the
consular service that has occurred for
many years.
The proposition now pending In
Congress for the appointment OF
commission TO study the CONNER
cial conditions of China and Japan Is
similar to those already adopted by
the active commercial nations Of Eu-
the treasury bureau of statistics shows
that experiments made by other ma
uons have been very satisfactory.
The House of Representatives in.
dulged in its annual joke of knocking
out the appropriation for the Civil Ser
vice Commission in the committee of
the whole Saturday and putting 1t back
again when the bill was reported to the
House. But there was thirty-tive Re
publicans who placed themselves on
record as against the present merit
system and fifty-one Democrats voted
in its favor.
\ favorable report has been made by
the house committee on mines and min
ing on Representative Mondelfs bill
to apply portion of the proceeds of
sales of public lands to the endowment
and support of mining schools in the
several states and territories. The re-
port says THAI the magnitude of mining
( interests in The nation renders the
class of schools proper subjects for
federal aid and encouragement.
The secretary of the interior has
recommended to the committee on In
dian affairs that the Senate bill provid-
ing for restoring 10 the public domain
portion OF the Uintah Indian reserya-
ton bordering western Colorado should
be reported adversely. He stated that
the law establishing the reservation
conferred upon the Indians such title
10 the lands comprising the reservation
that it could not now be vacated with
out their consent. The secretary urges
that the statutes of the reservation
should not be disturbed at this time
and states that IL a portion of the res
ervation be segregated without the free
and full consent of the Indians serious
/ trouble with them is likely to follow.
Senator Clark and Marcus DAILY, the
/ rival milionaires of Montana, faced
each other during the greater part of
Saturday in the Senate committee on
/ elections in the Investigation of Mr..
/, Clark's election TO the Senate of the
! United States. Mr.. Clark sat in the
rear of his attorneys and Mr.. DAILY
/ on the opposite side of the room. Mr..
4 DAILY Wore pleasant smile throughout
the day and Mr.. Clark maintained an
| unrufiied countenance. 1t had been eX-
pected that Mr.. DAILY would be called
I to the witness stand during the day,
I but he was not The day was given
up to ]. X. Toole, close friend of Mr..
/ DAILY. Mr.. Toole's testimony covered
the senatorial contest from the DAILY
| side of the question: He also related
many particulars concerning the CAPT
tai contest. placing the total expendi-
! ture in behalf of Anaconda in that con
! test at from $350,oO0 to S45O,OOO.
There is movement on foot for the
| passage of a law requiring defendants
! in criminal cases in United States
courts to furnish bail through surety
. nnT nj ind lcy
\ While there is very little bail forfeit
ed in the Federal courts compared
| with the state and municipal courts,
nevertheless there is always more or
less trouble in this line, and it is al
most impossible TO recover on q bail
bond without legal proceedings. The
| same difficulty was found in recover
| ing on bonds given by civil officers of
the government until the system of
surety companies was introduced. No
| surety company has ever declined to
| pay on bond except in one instance,
| where dispute as to liability occur
| red. In Baltimore, and was settled by
\ arbitration. Men of experience in this
direction claim that similar results
| would follow In the courts If all per-
sons admitted to bail Were required to
| furnish bonds from surety companies.
Miss Lillian Pauncefote, daughter OF
Lord Pauncefote, British ambassador
| to the United States, was married at
noon Saturday to Hon. Robert Bromley
of Stokehall. Neward. Nottinghamshire..
England. The wedding was one of the
most notable that has occurred in
Washington for many years. Quaint
old st. Johns church, where the cere-
mony was performed, is one of the
landmarks of Washington, an outward
ly dingy little stucco-coated building of
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