, 1900-03-01
WASHINGTON NEWS.
What Congress Is Doing-Notes From the
white House and the Departments.

"tSh CoiuHihluer Ii. Il. I1lley OF the
collier Abarenda as the commandant
OF the Pago Pago coaling station,
winch viii place him in charge of the
administrative affairs of the Samoan
territory of the United States.
The Senate has passed a 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 per
annum will be available ia each state
Tor this purpose ut present.
The secretary of state has informed
the congressional committee that he
desires a prompt and full investigation
or the charges made by Mr.. Macrum.
n says that if Mr.. Macrum's mails
were tempered with his neglect to re-
port h 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
a commission to study the CONNER
cial conditions of China and Japan is
similar to those already adopted by
the active commercial nations of Eu-
rope. y document recently issued by
- hN"Hhh y bultiu VI SldllSlltS SiOMS
that experiments made by other ma
ions 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
Ii whole Saturday and putting it 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 n tifty-one Democrats voted
in its favor.
The secretary of the interior has
recommended 10 the committee on In
dian affairs that the Senate bill provid-
ing for restoring to the public domain
a portion of the Uintah Indian reserva-
ton bordering western Colorado should
be reported adversely. He stated that
the law establishing the reservation
conferred upon the Indians such title
to the lands comprising the reservation
that it could not now be vacated with
out their consent. The secretary urges
that the statutes of he reservation
should not be disturbed at this time
and states that if n portion of the res
ervation be segregated without the free
and full consent of Ii Indians serious
trouble with them is likely to follow.
Senator Clark and Marcus DAILY. the
rival millionnires 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..
DAILY Wore Il pleasant smile throughout
the day and Mr.. Clark maintained an
unrutiicd ~countenance. 1t had been eX-
pected that Mr.. DAILY would be called
to the witness stand during the day,
but he was not. The day was given
up to j. X. Toole, a 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 h CAPT
tai contest, placing the total expendi-
ture in behalfo of Anaconda in hat con
test at from S350,0OO 10 S450,0O0.
There is a movement on foot for the
passage of a law requiring defendants
in criminal cases in United States
courts to furnish bail through surety
companies rather than individuals
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 a bail
bond without legal proceedings. The
same difficulty was found In
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 a bond except in one instance,
where a dispute as to liability occur
red, in Baltimore, and was settled by
arbitration. Il OF experience in this
direction claim that similar results
would follow in the courts if all per-
sons admitted to bail were required [ o
furnish bonds from surety companies.
Miss Lillian Pauncefote, daughter of
Lord P%auncefOte, British ambassador
to the United States, was married at
noon Saturday to Hon. Robert Bromley
of Stokehall. Reward, Nottinghamshire,
England. The wedding was one of the
most notable that has occurred in
Washington for many years. Quaint
old st. ohn's church, where the cere-
mony was performed. is one of the
landmarks of Washington, an outward
ly dingy little stucco-coated building of
colonial type, just across from Lafay-
cite Square from the executive man.
Sioh- ~ tulh'llN IL ubtul Stp, StuDu-
ing room included. and this did not
serve to accommodate at 1.-THE of those
who wished to witness the ceremony.
The ceremony was performed by Rt.
Rev. Bishop of Washington. Henry
Yates Satterlee, assisted by Rev.
Charles Mackay-Smith. rector of st.
Johns. After the ceremony a wedding
breakfast was served at the embassy
to 100 guests. Mr.. and Mrs. Bromley
later left for Palm Beach, Florida. and
Will 500 return TO England. where the
young matron will be presented at
court.
Senator Warren proposes that the
people of Hawaii shall have home
rule. A residence for many years in
IL territory convinced the senator. he
says that it is Il very undesirable state
of affairs which permits persons who
live many thousands of miles distant,
and who have 10 personal knowledge
of the local conditions, to make laws
and prescribe duties for territorial resi-
dents. The bill taken up by the Sen
ate recently providing a form of gov
eminent for Hawaii, prescribes that