The Elk Mountain pilot., 1900-12-18


\ took the oath of office.
For the postofiice at Leadville the
supervising architect of the treasury
recommends an additional appropria-
ton of $4,000. For Salt Lake, $500
600 additional and for Helena $1OO,oOO
additional.
The commissioners to the Paris EN-
position, with about forty OF their
friends, were given complimentary
excursion by steamer on the 9th instant
to Mt. Vernon and return by Mr.. and
Mrs. Thomas Il. Walsh of Colorado.
In discussing the Hays-Pauncefote
treaty in the Senate. Mr.. Teller said
that the United States should con-
struct the canal, If at all. regardless of
she English position, and without GO
ing through the formality of ratifyinS
the pending treaty.
BY the death of her mother, Mrs.
Washington Mclean, Admiral Dewey
wife has become Il millionaire. Mrs.
De ey's mother leaves an estate val
ued at about $2,OO0.O0O. to be divided
among three children-Mrs. Dewey, her
sister, Mrs. Ludlow, and John II. Nc
Lean. proprietor of the Cincinnati Eli
quirer.
The first of the great supply bills,
the legislative, executive and judicial
appropriation bill, was passed by the
house in record time Monday. The bill
carries S24 ,496,30S and has 131 pages,
but there was less than ten minutes
debate upon it. 1t required about
three hours for the clerk to read the
bill.
Agent Nickelson of the San Carlos
reservation informs the Indian bureau
that he has tailed his Indians and
finds none absent from the reservation.
Commissioner Jones is now certain
that the recently reported hunting eN-
cursion of 200 Uavajoes and Apaches
was a myth.
Senator Hanna. chairman of the Re
publican national committee, has of
fered to John Jay Edison, n prominent
business man of Washington, the chair
manship of the inaugural committee.
Mr.. Edison accepted the tender, and
will take charge of the Inauguration
ceremonies.
According to the report of the secre-
tary of the interior. the number of In
dians who regularly receive rations,
usually twice n month. is 45.2I0.
Among them 9I2 on the Southern Ute
reservation in Colorado who cost the
government an average of Sl3 per
capita for rations during the year.
President De Young and Thomas f.
Walsh of the Paris exposition commits
sion called upon President Mckinley
to-tl9y and presented him gold badge
hi III to Mrs. Mckinley with their
COZ sfiments. The badge is one o: the
finest pieces of workmanship produced
by Partisan goldsmiths.
The House passed the Grout oleo-
margarine bill by ii vote of 1876 to 92.
The substitute offered by the minority
of the committee ON agriculture which
imposed additional restrictions on the
sale of oleomargarine to prevent its
fraudulent sale as butter, and in
creased the penalties for violations,
was defeated by Il vote of lib to IFS.
Three or four Senate speeches are
promised in opposition to the subsidy
bill, and 1t is expected that most, if
not all of these already in sight will be
made during this week. Among those
who probably will speak on the sub
ject are Senators Clay, Vest and Berry,
all of whom oppose the bill. Senator
Vest is an especial advocate of free
ships.
In the executive session of the SEN
ate Senator Teller announced his in
tention to formally offer his amend
ment to the Hay-Pauncefote treaty.
which he had already suggested, strik-
ing out the provision of the treaty pro-
hibiting the fortitication of the canal.
Senator Penrose announced his opposi-
ton to the new treaty without the Tel
Ter amendment.
The House has adopted Il resolution
for the appointment of special COM
mittee of five members to investigate
the death of Oscar l.. Booz of Bristol
Pennsylvania, who died recently as n
result of hazing received while cadet
at1JVest Point. This course was taken
Oh Nhe head of the military commit
tefEhich reported in favor of allow
ina I've War Department TO conduct
the inquiry.
In speaking of the case of Cadet
Booz, Mr.. Wanger of Pennsylvania, in
the House, said that the gross out
RACES known to have been committed at
the academy in the past had aroused
the conviction that the officers of the
academy and of the army were so jeal-
Gus of the fair name of the academy
that they guarded it as indiscreetly as
the officers of France guarded the
Dreyfus scandal.
In relation to the lynching in La
sale county, Texas, October 8, 1895, of
Florentino Suaste, a Mexican citizen,
the President in a special message
sent to the Senate recommends that
the Mexican government be paid $4,000
for the heirs of the victim. The rec
ommendation is made from motives of
humanity and without reference to
the question of liability of the govern
ment of the United States"
The minority members of the ways
and means committee have completed
their report ON the revenue reduction