, 1900-06-14

amendment TO the SnlufN clNll piii hp
propriating $5.OoO,OOo 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 a major gen
eral. The bill now goes TO the fresi-
dent.
The Senate has passed the House
bill authorizing II secretary OF tne
interior to sell timber from the pubic
lands and TO permit persons residing
within or in The vicinity of any forest
reservation 80 cut and remove from
such reservation dead and down tim
Der for their own use for hrewod, or
Improvement of their homes, mining
claims or farms.
During a Temporary lull in h ex-
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.
Adelbert Hay has done good work in
Pretoria and has justified his appoint
ment. He is only t~wenty-three ear
old. but has shown that wise heads
sometimes rest on young shoulders.
As consul of the United States he has
mad a most delicate and perpleXing
position to fill, and he has filled it to
she satisfaction of the Beers and the
English, whose interests he has looked
after, the American citizens in the
Transvaal, the officials of our govern
ment and all others concerned.
After a disagreement between the
House and Senate which has lasted
several weeks, n settlement has Been
reached on he bill opening the Fort
Hall Indian reservation in Idaho ana
the Kiowa and Comanche lands in
Oklahoma for settlement. h Idaho
lands thus opened aggregate OO.uoO
acres and the Oklahoma ands 1000
600. Agreement to opening the lands
was only reached by excepting them
from the provisions of the free homes
$1.5O per acre.
Secretary Root has made answer to
the Senate resolution inquiring as to
INT hummer vi ElIllblloS hllltu hIlh
wounded, and the number of prisoners
taken since the i"nsurrection began.
Having no detailed information OF the
subject, the secretary cabled the in
quiry to General Macarthur, command
ing mt Manila, and received the follow
ing response, which was submitted to
Congress: "Filipinos killed. 10, $50;
wounded. 2,014; captured and surren-
dered, 1924; number of prisoners in
our possession, about 1000"
General Wheeler is again, after an
interval of thirty nine years, an Off
Ger in the United States army and a
brigadier general at that. He gradu-
ated at West Point in 1859. and in 1861
resigned his commission in the Second
cavalry to enter the Confederate army.
He is the first man with that record to
be restored to the regular army, and it
is supposed that he will be placed on
the retired list very soon, for he will be
sixty-four years old next September.
Having received this appointment.
General Wheeler expects to retire from
political life and will not be a candi-
date for Congress.
A conference agreement has been
reached IN n bill which will open to
settlement about two million. four
liullNlItu llluliSHllu HtTtS Vi pubic luDu.
Senator Shoup of Idaho originally pro-
posed the bill opening TO settlement
the old Fort Hall, Idaho. military res
ervation, containing about four hun-
dred thousand acres. Delegate Flynn.
in the House, secured an amendment
similarly opening n tract of about two
million acres in Southwest Oklahoma.
The Indians first receive allotments of
Oklahoma lands of 100 acres each.
with 100000 acres to he held in COM
mon by them, the balance of 100000
acres being opened TO homestead set
tiers for $1.25 per acre.
This Congress will go into history rs
one of the most industrious on record.
II this session as the shortest long
session on record. In 1877 working
days both houses have passed 1.215
bills, of which 2S3 are public acts OF
general Importance and 932 are private
acts granting pensions. paying claims
II giving relief to people who have
been injured or suffered damage in
some way or other through the govern
ment. A large number of the private
acts We're pensions growing out of the
war with Spain. The best previous
record was T23 bills in 175 days. Dur
ing the session u, 152 bills have been
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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 Il great deal of debate,
and the Congressional Record for this
session will make ten big volumes of
o large pages, with two columns of
fine type TO the page.
Congress adjourned slne die at ;
O'Clock Thursday afternoon. For the
Senate II was II day of waiting. The
naval appropriation bill the STUN
bling block TO final adjournment
could not he agreed to by the confer
rees of the two houses, and the dis
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
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