The Springfield herald., 1900-06-15

Senate amendments to make MileSieu' .
tenant general and Corbin Il mnjolSen-
eral. The bill now goes to the resi-
| dent.
| The Senate has passed the louse
bill authorizing the secretary c the
| interior TO sell timber from the ublic |
lands and TO permit persons reiding
within or in the vicinity of any crest
reservation TO cut and remove from
such reservation dead and dow tim
ber for their own use for firewd, or
Improvement of their homes, rining
claims or farms.
During n Temporary lull in tie eX-
citement which marked the Cosing
hours of Congress, the membrs of
the House from the Rocky Mountain
states, by concerted and prompt ac-
ton. succeeded in getting Congress
man Lentz of Ohio to agree TO unin-
imous consent for the passage of l:he
bill granting travel pay to cer|ain
members of the Torrey cavalry, ana
the bill was passed and received the
approval of the president
Adelbert Hay has done good work in
Pretoria and has justified his appoint
ment. He is only twenty three years
old. but has shown that wise heads
sometimes rest on young shoulders.
AS consul of the United States he has
had n most delicate and perpleXinS
position to fill. and he has filled ii to
the satisfaction of the Beers AM the
English, whose interests he has Doked
after, the American citizens - the
| Transvaal. the officials of our govern
ment and all others concerned.
| After disagreement betweei the
| House and Senate which has Asted
several weeks, settlement has been
reached on the bill opening the Fort
| Hall Indian reservation in ldah, and
the Kiowa and Comanche lank in
Oklahoma for settlement The Idaho
lands thus opened aggregate 10000
acres and the Oklahoma lands 1000
600. Agreement to opening the lands
was only reached by excepting them
| from the provisions of the free ipmes
| act. and the lands will cost sdtlerS
Sl.5O per acre.
General Wheeler is again. after an
interval of thirty-nine years, an Off
Ger in the United States army md
brigadier general at that. He sTadu-
ated at West Point in 1859. and in 1861
resigned his commission in the Second
cavalry to enter the Confederate ;rmy.
He is the first man with that record to
| be restored to the regular army, ind it
is supposed that he will be PLACED on
the retired list very soon, for he will be
siNty-four years old next September.
Having received this appointment,
General Wheeler expects to retire from
| political life and will not be candi-
date for Congress.
This Congress will go into histor; as
one of the most industrious on record.
and this session as the shortest long
session on record. In 13I woikinE
days both houses have passed l,215
bills, of which 2S3 are public acts of
general Importance and $50 are private
acts granting pensions, paying cliims
and giving relief TO people who lave
been injured or suffered damage in
some way or other through the govern
ment a large number of the private
acts were pensions growing out OF the
war with Spain. The best preTious
record was 723 bills in 115 days Dur
| ing the session 2l.152 bills have been
| introduced, so that ten per cent OF
| them have been enacted into laws,
which is another remarkable record.
| The bulk of the business exceeds the
record of the four previous Congresses
combined during their long sessions"
OF course. so many bills could not be
passed without a great deal of debate.
and the Congressional Record for this
session will make ten big volumes of
700 large pages. with two columns of
fine type 10 the page.
| Congress adjourned sine die at )
| o'clock Thursday afternoon. For the
Senate it was a day of waiting. The
naval appropriation bill the STUN
bling block TO final adjournment
could not he agreed to by the confer
! -. ,I,N t.
agreement was reported TO the Senate
early in the day. The report was ac-
cepted by the Senate. which refused to
request another conference, although
| Mr.. Hale expressed the belief that an
agreement might be reached. Later on
the House agreed to the Senate amend
/ ments. Soon afterward the House res
olution providing for final adjourn
ment was passed, an amendment fix
ing the hour at 3 o'clock, June Tth. 1t
was not until 1 40 that the President
pro TEN affixed his signature to the
naval bill With other measures, it
was hurried to the President, and was
signed by him a few minutes later.
The concluding hour of the Senate was
purely social session. No business
beyond the adoption of the customary
I resolution of thanks to the chair, Mr..
Frye. was accomplished. In acknowl-
| edgment of the compliment. Mr.. Frye
delivered n brief and graceful speech.
which was received with cordial ap-
plause throughout the chamber.
Few Women in official life have been
more widely known and more general
ly admired than Mrs. John sherman,
although her retiring disposition made
her averse 10 oStentation OF any kind.
She was essentially n home woman
with the simplest tastes and much
more devoted to affairs about her own
hearthstone than to any phase of pub