The Elk Mountain pilot., 1900-06-12


The House has agreed to the Senate
amendment to the sundry civil bill APP
propriating $5,0OO,0OO for the Louisi-
ana purchase exposition AT st. Louis.
The House has agreed to the confer
ence report on the military academy
appropriation bill. concurring in the
Senate amendments to make Miles lieu.
. tenant general and Corbin major gen
eral. The bill now goes to the fresi-
dent.
The Senate has passed the House
bill authorizing the secretary of the
interior to sell timber from the public
lands and TO permit persons residing
within or in the vicinity of any forest
reservation so cut and remove from
such reservation dead and down tim
ber for their own use for hrewod, or
Improvement of their homes, mining
clN ms or farms.
Ex-Secretary of State John w. Fos-
ter has just completed the manuscript
of very important work upon the his
tory of American diplomacy. which Will
be published next fall. There is no
man in the country better qualified to
write such volume than Mr.. Foster,
for he has had more practical expert
ence in diplomatic affairs than any
man of his generation.
During Il Temporary lull in the eN-
element which marked the closing
hours of Congress, the members 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 unan-
imous consent for the passage Of the
bill granting travel pay to certain
members of the Torrey cavalry, and
the bill was passed and received the
approval of the president.
After II disagreement between the
House and Senate which has lasted
several weeks, n settlement has been
reached on the bill opening the Fort
Hall Indian reservation in Idaho and
the Kiowa and Comanche lands in
Oklahoma for settlement. The Idaho
lands thus opened aggregate 100000
acres and the Oklahoma lands 1000
900. Agreement to opening the lands
was only reached by excepting them
from the provisions of the free homes
act. and the lands will cost settlers
S1.5O per acre.
Secretary Root has made answer to
the Senate resolution inquiring as to
the number of Filipinos killed and
wounded. and the number Of prisoners
taken since the insurrection began.
Having no detailed informa tion on the
subject, the secretary cabled the in
quiry to General Macarthur, command
in2iit Manila, and received the follow
in fesponse. which was submitted to
Congress: 'Filipinos killed. 1o,ISO;
wounded, 2O14; captured and surren-
dered, 1924; number of prisoners in
our possession. about 1000"
Both the French and Russian embas-
sizes are negotiating for sites for the
.,fI I,,,flI Il Itr,,px fAr thaf, hn
French ambassador resides in an old
fashioned house that belongs to the
heirs of the late Admiral Porter and is
neither large nor convenient enough for
his use. The Russian ambassador oc-
cupies the old Cresswell mansion in an
obsolete portion of the city, although it
is quite commodious and convenient
Count Cassini, the Russian ambassa-
dor, is seeking a site in the suburbs
where his government can erect large
embassy surrounded by gardens.
Only few of the intimate friends of
Private John Allen of Mississippi
know that the genial humorist from
Tupelo is now serving his last term in
Congress. 1t is his unalterable pur-
pose to retire from political life and he
will not be n candidate for the House
next November. Mr.. Allen has served
his district for fourteen consecutive
years and is weary of the Legislative
grind. 1t was a great disappointment
to him, moreover, to be beaten for the
Senate by former Governor McLaurin,
particularly as it was his second defeat
for that office. His inmitable stories
in darkey dialect will be missed by his
brother statesmen, but if he chose to
relate them on the lecture platform he
could easily double his income.
hn nj "
Speaker Henderson upon special leg
Isl ion carrying appropriations n
MI per of measures of special
interest in the Rocky Mountain
states will fail to pass the House at
this session. Among these are bills
which have passed the Senate for pub
lie buildings at Evanston, Wyoming;
Colorado Springs, Trinidad and Glen
wood Springs. Colorado. Under these
restrictions the Denver Soldiers Home
bill, the bill to reimburse Denver for
damages caused by defective walks at
the federal building, the bill to REIN
burse W yoming for moneys expended
in protecting the Yellowstone Park,
and the bill to give travel pay to the
members of the Torrey regiment dis
charged while on sick furlough, will
also fail of passage in the House.
In the Senate Friday memorial was
presented by Senator Perkins from the
people of California asking that the gov
ernment provide some relief for the
starving people of India. The world
has been horrified-almost stupefied,'
interjected Mr.. Hale of Maine. ''at the
suffering now being endured in India.
That is the chief of England's colonies.
The pestilence and famine are appal-
ling to the imagination. Whole fami.
lies are being wiped out of existence;
the babe lies dead beside its mother.
The situation is awful. Now, the sen
ator comes here with proposition that
we should npnropriate a sum of money