Gilpin observer., 1900-04-19
CONGRESSIONAL GRIST-
WASHINGTON GOSSIP.

|
ing the Turkish minister at Washington
his passports.
The Republican program includes
the passage of the shipping bill by the
Senate and the passage of the Near
aqua Canal bill by the House of Repre-
sentatives during the present session
in order to comply with the platform
of the last Republican convention,
which pledged the party to that legisla-
tion. 1t is not expected. however, that
either of these bills will pass the other
house before next session. Mr.. Hep
| burn is watching every opportunity to
bring up the canal bill. and is deters
mined to get Il vote upon II before the
end of this month. Senator Frye is
equally determined TO secure action on
the subsidy shipping bill. and as neith-
er of the bills are meeting with active
| opposition 1t Is probable that they will
succeed.
General Miles and the committee
on military affairs of the Senate are at
odds about his promotion to lieuten-
ant general. He requested the COM
mittee to insert an amendment in the
army appropriation bill authorizing the
President to advance him to that rank,
and the committee expressed it in this
way: "The general officer of the line
assigned to the command of the army
shall hereafter have the rank, pay and
emOluments of lieutenant general
while serving in that capacity" Cen
eral Miles objects to that phraseolOgy,
and wants the amendment changed by
inserting the word now before the
word assigned" SO that the President
will be compelled to promote him, but
cannot bestow the honor upon any 9TH
er officer in the future. The commit
tee thinks this is selfish. and has lost
its interest in the subject.
The secretary of the interior has sent
| to Chairman Sherman of the House
| committee on Indian affairs. n strong
adverse report on II bill to allow min
| eral locations and entries on Indian res
ervations. Accompanying his letter
is n report of the commissioner of In
dian affairs. which says: IF this bill
is allowed to become n law it will open
the way to the giving up the agricul-
| tural lands i'll the Indian reserves to
homesteaders. This naturally follows
the allowance of mineral locations and
| there is just as much reason for allow
| ing homestead entries on agricultural
| lands as there is mineral entries for
mineral lands. am unqualifiedly op-
posed to the passage of the BILL Sec
retary Hitchcock endorses everything
that is said in the commissioners re-
port against the bill. and 1t is probably
upon the strength of these adverse
opinions that an adverse report will
be made to the House
Charles ii. Allen, mt present assist
| ant secretary of the navy. will be the
first civil governor of Puerto Rico un-
der the provisions of the bill passed
| h., 81
| tves was signed Friday by the Presi-
dent. Mr.. Mckinley has been bringing
pressure to bear to induce Mr.. Allen
TO relinquish the care of his consider
| able private interests for n sufficient
| time, mt least. TO install the civil gov
ernment in the island and the latter
has consented TO assume the new re.
| sponsibilities. Inasmuch as the act
| takes effect on the LIST of next month,
there is but little time left in which to
outline n skeleton form of government,
including the formation of cabinet,
II is understood that the new govern
mcnt will be taken TO Puerto Rico in
| one of the finest vessels of the navy.
In the selection of Mr.. Allcn the Presi-
dent has in mind the appointment of
man of affairs and of sound business
experience, qualities which are deemed
! essential In the administration of the
! affairs of an entirely new government
such as is to be erected in Puerto Rico.
Mr.. Allen was born in Lowell. Massa-
chusctts, in 1913. and graduated at
Amherst. He has had, in addition to
his business experience, II great deal
of Legislative training.
For more than three hours Tuesday
Mr.. Hoar. the senior senator from Mas
sachusetts. occupied the attention of
the Senate with II speech in opposition
to the policy of imperialism" upon
which he maintained this government
has embarked. As prepared. the ad-
dress was 10000 words in length, but
Mr.. Honr omitted much of il, owing to
an incipipnt attack of the grip. from
which he WAS suffering. He spoke for
three hours. and while il was n tre-
mendous strain on him. the more i'm
portant passages of the argument We're
delivered with force and vig0r. The
speech was brilliantly written. was il
Illuminated with splendid rhetorical fig
ures and was rich in citations from his
tory. one of the notable parts of the
address was the eulogy of Aguinaldo.
Mr.. Honr did not liken the insurgent
leader to Washington as has been done
| heretofore. but to kossuth. Dom Paul.
Ioubert. Nathan Hale and other build
crs of the church Of liberty. One of the
most effective parts of the address was
his fancicd roll call of some of the dis
| tinguisllcd statesmen of the United
States on the question Of the retention
of the Philippines. He began with
George Washington and closed with
william Mckinley, each In II sentence
giving the reason for his vote. Every
vote was In the negative. except that
of Aaron Burr who voted yes" and
said: "Nou are repeating my bucca-
necrlng expedition down the Mississlp-
pi. | am TO he vndlcntcd at last"
When the name Of william Mckinley
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