Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1900-03-15
Capital Chat.

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The senate harbor committee is con-
siderlng proposition to make extern
sive improvements on the Mississippi
river. >.
Senator Kenny has introduced an
amendment to, the army bill providing
Tor the appointment of a veterinary
corps in the army.
Senator, Hoar gave notice of an
amendment to the diplomatic appro-
priation providing for the payment of
$250,O00 to Liliuokalani.
The postoffice department. has an
nouIced that on March Is fifty-seven
additional cities will begin the sys~
TEN of registration of letters by car.
riers.
The house committee on territories
has decided to substitute the house
Hawaiian bill measure. There is prac-
tically no difference in the two meas
ures, except on unessential details.
The commissioner of internal revenue
has decided that the check or receipt
given for bicycle transported on a
passenger train along with the owner
Is not subject to war revenue tax.
Secretary Root has submitted to
congress proposition that extra ser
vices performed by war office employees
during the war with Spain be paid
for by an appropriation aggregating
$s5, 1874.
The postotfice department. has an
nounced that on March Is fifteen ad-
ditional cities will begin the system Of
registration of letters by carriers.
This will make 134 cities operating on
the new system.
The appeal of Admiral Dewey and
his men from the award of the court
of claims in the matter of the bounty
due for the destruction of the Spanish
fleet at Manila has been filed in the
United States supreme court.
The war department has received a
cabled statement showing that the to-
tai receipts from the Philippine islands
for the month Of February, 1900, was
$426,423 of which amount 1851, 900
was derived from customs sources.
The house committee on rules has
decided on rule giving two Fridays
of each month for private pension
bills in place of night sessions, and
will report the rule unless a definite
understanding on this question can be
had.
Arrangements have been made fol
the transfer of the auxiliary cruisers
Badger and ResOlute from the navy
to the war department. These vessels
We're purchased during the Spanish
war and are no longer needed by the
navy.
The secretary of state authorizes q
contradiction of the printed statement
that the state department has secured
the assent of other powers to the pro-
visions of the pending canal conyen-
ton. No propositions in relation to
the subject matter of this convention,
he says, have been laid before any
other country.
Representative Levy. New York, in.
troduced resolution in the house di-
recting that the collector of customs
for the Island of Cuba be instructed
to deduct from the monthly receipts
Of the island 25 per cent Of the total
amount collected until the total sum
expended by the United States on be.
half of Cuba during the war was paid,
and since shall have been paid.
People Talked About.
Mrs. Langtry's husband is sick at
Cape Town.
President Patton of Princeton wants
$1,O0O,O00 for the university.
Bishop Cosgrave is suggested as a
successor to Archbishop Hennessy.
Commissioner Peck says the Ameri-
can exhibits at Paris are in fine shape.
Princess Salnl-Salm is in Chicago
trying to fit out an ambulance corps.
President Jordan of Leland Stanford
predicts the downfall of Great Britain.
Crumbacker is spoken of as posi-
BILE Republican candidate for governor
Of Indiana.
Congressman Harmer, the ''father of
the house, died at his home in Ger
mantown, Pa.
WE. Parrett of Waterloo, Iowa, has
been elected president of the National
Editorial association.
The German press prints an appeal
for aid for the chess player, Steinitz,
who is i'll in New York.
Scion HUMPHREYS, formerly web
known Western railway man, died in
New York, aged eighty years.
Bishop Henry Cosgrove, of the Da-
NEWPORT, Iowa, diocese, senior bishop
of the archdiocese, is suggested by
many Catholics as successor to the
late Archbishop Hennessy.
Isaac Gordon, the notorious money
lender who has figured in numerous
scandals, died suddenly in Birming-
ham, Eng. He was known all over the
kingdom under various aliases: He is
said to have been worth FL 100000.
From Other Shores.
Daimler, father of the automobile,
is dead.
Ambassador Choate will take holt
day and visit Southern Europe.
Nansen is said to have abandoned
all hope of Andre being found.
Isaac Gordon, the greatest usurer in
England. died worth $5,OO0,O00.
The French university Of marine
will dispense with chaplains in the
navy
Gorge Smiths estate paid $4,5OOOoo
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