La Junta tribune., 1900-12-15

sion Of the Senate December 10th. and
took the oath Of office.
For the postoffice at Leadville the
supervising architect OF the treasury
recommends an additional appropria-
ton OF $4,000. For Salt Lake. S2Oo.-
900 additional and for Helena 100000
additional.
The commissioners to the Paris Ex-
positioA with about forty of their
friends, were given a complimentary
excursion by steamer on the 9th instant
TO Mt. Vernon and return by Mr.. and
Mrs. Thomas F. Walsh OF Colorado.
In discussing. the Hays-Pauncefote
treaty In the Senate. Mr.. Teller said
that the United States should con-
struct the canal, II at all. regardless of
the English position. and without GO
Ing through the formalty of ratifying
the pending treaty.
By the death of her mother. Mrs,
Washington Mclean, Admiral Dewey's
wife has become millionaire. Mrs
Dewey's mother leaves an estate val
ned at about S2.Oo0.GO. to be divided
among three chiidren-Mrs. Dewey, her
sister, Mrs. Ludlow. and John X. Nc
Lean. proprietor of the Cincinnati En-
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 $24. 1868 and has l31 pages,
but there was less than ten minutes
debate upon it. 1t required about
three hours for the clerk to read the
bill.
Agent Nicholson OF the San Carlos
reservation informs the Indian bureau
that he has tailed his Indians and
Ands none absent from the reservation.
Commissioner Jones is now certain
that the recently reported hunting ex
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.. Edson 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,
Among them 972 on the Southern Ute
reservation in Colorado who cost the
government an average of $13 per
capita for rations during the year.
President De Young and Thomas +.
Walsh Of the Paris exposition commits
sion called upon President Mckinley
to-day and presented him gold badge
on behalf of the commission to be
handed to Mrs. Mckinley with their
compliments. The badge is one of the
finest pieces Of Workmanship produced
by Partisan goldsmiths.
The House passed the Grout oleo-
margarine bill by a vote Of 1856 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,
vas defeated by vote of lib to 17s.
Three or four Senate speeches are
promised in opposition to the subsidy
bill, and 1t il expected that most. IL
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,
Ola Va W hoh oPpoSV hhS cAAAs SNhosoA
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 fertilization of the canal.
hi
ton to the new treaty without the Tel
Ter amendment.
The House has adopted a resolution
for the appointment OF a special COM
mittee Of five members to investigate
the death OF Oscar L. Booz of Bristol,
Pennsylvania. who died recently as a
result of hazing received while a cadet
at West Point. This course was taken
over the head Of the military commit
tee, which reported In favor Of allow
ing the 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-
ous Of the fair name of the academy
that they guarded 1t as indiscreetly as
the oClcers Of France guarded the
Dreyfus scandal.
In relation to the lynching in La
sale county, Texas. October 5, 1895, Of
Florentino Suaste, Mexican citizen,
the President, In a special message
sent to the Senate recommends that
%y1A ITaYfran 0ovarnmpnt IN. maid 30 nn
for the heirs OF the victim. The rec
humanity and without reference to
the question Of liability Of the govern
manf Of the United States"
no minority members Of the ways
and means committee have completed