The Holly chieftain., 1900-03-16
WASHINGTON NEWS
KhAA srHsDUs.1s Doing.-Notes From the
hit- Al.px. and the departments

Il a.
.Snnia, the iAfa-her of tho House. Is
-deaas He served in Congress Iof
tn'e7ty-six years.
:The.secseiary Of war has lately ruled
that No more appointments wouid pe
made Ia the regular army from clVi
/ life Hereafter all vacancies Will De
filled by promotion.
A stock COMPANY has been formed to
establish s5ielepliope system at w me
/ Oaks. The company further plans 10
light the town aud the principal mines
] wifi electricity. ;.
Tie House committee Oh public lanus
has reported favorably the bill extend,
ing IiM provisions of the soiuiers
homestead Act to soldiers of the Span
sis4 war apd Philippine insurrection.
Il Yhe qualifications of the Samoan arbi,
\. tTauop, treaty were exchanged at the
STATE Department on the 7th by Secre-s
! tfirys Hay for tie United States, Lord
Fauneefoteifor Great Britain and DR..
,Yan Holleben for Germany.
'siTliel members of the. ccImmittee of
I ways and meals still insist that the
Puerto Rlcan tariff bill is one of the
best pieces of legislation ever proposed
| yet the sane time. they deny its au-
! thurship and claim that the president
was to blame for It's passage.
The, President has commuted to i'm
prisonment- for; Life the sentence of
death Imposed by ,eourt-martid in, the
.esse- of Pffvate George Murphy. Com
4 pany G. Twenty fourth infantry. CON-
is4ctse of. the murder of another sol
| dleg ff the same company in the Phil
|
ti.Tbe president 'it1s received beau
.Sstful copy. Ia WcdgewOod ware of the
! bust of Hohdhfs- Washington. the gift
. of Merton Riesrll C0tes, ex-mayor of
! 'Beurneruouths England. The bust
I. bears this Inscription: This bust OF
the great Washington. founder of the
| United States Of America. is presented
to the natlon thggQgh President Me
hinley, Feb. - 20, 1900. by Merton Rus
sell Cotes.'
Formal discussion of the Puerto
! Rican tariff and civil government bill
began in the, Scnate Thursday. and con
| tinued uninterrupedly for four and
a hair hours, The principal speakers
trws1'e Mr.. Foraker Of Ohio, in charge of
! the measure, and Mr.. Pettus, Demo
| .crat, of A1abana. but at various times
during the debate lively colloquys oc-
CURED in which other senators were
participants.
The last legislative step in the enact
/. ment, of the financial bill WIS taken by
the House of Representatives Tuesday.
when the conference report on the bill
was adopted by vote of yeas 1866,
nays 100; present and not voting, 10.
The Senate had already adopted the
conference report SO that ii only re-
maips for the Ppgsident TO afiiN his sig
nature 70 the measure 10 make it Il
law.
1T is a singular fact" said n member
Of the senate recently, that of all the
hundreds OF letters | am receiving
about the South African war not one
l. has ever expressed the slightest SYM
pathy with England. Everybody IA
yors the Beers. My experience is
'chared by every member of congress
so far as l know The friends of Great
Britain are not appealing for sym
. pathy."
1t is proposed to amend the Hay
Paunccfote treaty so that II shall
conform to the Monroe doctrine and
justify the United States in controlling
and defending the Nicaragua canal by
any methods it may deem necessary
and making this government solely
| responsible for its naturalization. This
will be acceptable to the president and
Secretary Hay. The right to fortify
will be included, although 1t is the
unanimous opinion among military ex-
perts that battleships are much better
than forts for the protection of the
canal.
The American section at the Paris
| Exposition will be closed upon Sun
days by order of the President. A dele
CATION representing the American Sab
bath Union called upon the President
several days ago and asked him to Is
sue orders 10 Commissioner General
Peck to prohibit all labor by the work
men and clerks connected with the
American Commission to the Paris Ex-
position on the Sabbath day and to
close the American pavilion and cover
all the American exhibits on Sundays
throughout the exposition. The Presi-
dent thanked the delegation for bring
ing the matter to his attention and Sec
retary Hay at once prepared instruc-
tions to. Commissioner General Peck.
The House unseated CASTOR A. Rob
bins, Democrat, from the Fourth dis
| trict of Alabama, and seated in his
stead William f. Aldrich, Repub-
lican, who las been three times a con
testant from the same district, on the
ground of fraud, and who is now given
his seat for the third time by Repub-
| lican House. The vote was n strictly
party one. This case out of the way,
Il new rule was brought in to set aside
q pu rIn
fourth Fridays of cnch month for pen
sinn lepi slafinn 1'ha i.llln liInifod Ia