, 1900-01-18
FROM WASHINGTON.
GOSSIP OF THE WHITE HOUSE
AND THE DEPARTMENTS.

purchased an automobile. which he
uses for official and social visits and
for pleasure riding about the city.
c.. p. Huntington. the asst of the
prominent railroad magnntes to hold
out in opposition to the construction
of an isthmian canal, has surrender
ed, n Is now numbered among the
advocates of the Nicaragua route.
Adiutant General Corbin thinks the
Lawton fund will finally reach $780,
600 which will be invested for Mrs.
Iawton in government bonds and give
her an income sufficient to provide
against all want and enable her to
educate her children properly.
The officials of the government will
accept as final the opinion of the direc-
tor of the naval observatory thar the
nineteenth century ends nj midnight of
December 81, 1900. and that the TWEEN
tieth century begins with january, /,
1901.
Miss Cecelin Sherman Miles. dauGh-
ter of the general commanding the
army, and Captain Samuel Reber, L.
:. a., Were married mt noon Wednes-
day, at ST. Johns Church, Rev. Alex
ander Mnckay-Smlth. u. H.. officiating,
assisted by Rev. Dean Davis OF st.
Louis.
About 800 persons attended an anti
imperialist meeting. held in Masonic
hall, here Thursday night. The
weather was wet and d~isngreehble. The
speakers We're ex-senator j. Il. Hen
derson of Missouri. Ex-Governor Bout
well OF Massachusetts II Represent
at,ve LentZ OF Ohio.
The secretary of war has sent to Con
gress n request for an urgent deficiency
appropriation of SI5O,OUO 10 supple
ment the 81. 1000 heretofore appro-
priated for the repatriation of the
Spanish families and their families
held by h insurgents in the Philip
pines from the island to Spain. In ac-
cordancc with the treaty of peace.
The President has issued an eXecu-
tive order relative to quarantine regu-
latioIs for the ports in the Philippine
islands. The order recites hat to pre-
vent the Introduction of epidemic dis
eases the act of 1898 and the rules
framed hereunder shall have full force
In the islands. with additional regula-
lions. These require that vessels en-
tering and clearing from my Philippine
port shall be examined by officers of
the marine hospital service.
Again IT is announced that the Presi-
dent will pay his long bSlated journey
to Ii Rocky Mountain states. This
time the promise is made in connection
with the intention of the President TO
he present mt the launching of the Ohio
at II Francisco in the spring. He
has assured the western senators that
he will go west by way of the North
crn Pacific. stopping at Helena and
Butte. His present intention is 10 re
turn by way of Salt Lake. Cheyenne
and Denver.
The disposition shown by Congress
to favor legislation for the postal ser
vic encourages II migration of en-
ployeS to Washington, which the de
partment proposes TO check. The off
cinl bulletin of the department issued
to-day contains II warning in the form
of the order which Postmaster General
Wilson issued in 1899 notifying post
masters. clerks and other employees
that they must not come to Washing
Ton to influence legislation pending he
fore Congress.
The House has ordered two invcsti-
cations as II result of resolutions intro
duced by Representative LcntZ of
Ohio. The first Is To he an investiga-
ton by the committee on postOtiicpS
and post roads into the charge that two
federal nppointees of the President.
Postmaster John G. Graham of Provo
City. Utah. and Postmaster OrsOn
Smith of Logan. Utah, are under in
diCtment ms polygamists and whether
atiidavits To the effect We're on file ut
the time of their appointment. The
other Is n general investigation of the
military committee into the conduct of
General Merriam and the United
States army officials during the Ward
ner. Idaho. riots and subsequent there
to.
The secretary of the navy has re
ceived IL most interesting report from
Captain Lenry. governor of Guam. re
cording his achievements in the mat
ter of civIIizing til" natives and clean
ing up the island. He says: The peo-
pie appear to be grateful for what is
being gratuitOusly done for them and
seem to appreciate the Importance of
cooperating with us. not only in our
medical work. but in u efforts to
make sanitary improvements. Assist
ant Surgeon Stone had persuaded the
people of Agan. the largest village. to
establish Il hospital of ten beds. So
striking has been the result that the
authorities of the village are now
building and have nearly finished an
additional hospital for twenty beds"
Governor General Davis urges immc-
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for the organization of II government in
Puerto Rico. He wants that island 10
be placed In the same relation as one
of the regular territories. with free
trade in all articles with the rest of the
United States. Owing to the cyclone
which swept yer the island during the
summer the people are in Il condition
of great poverty, in many cases dis
trcss, but they are conducting them
selves in an admirable and
have shown hat they will make good
citizens. General Davis thinks that
policy as well as Justice demands that
the laws of the United States he eX-
tended q Puerto Rico without delay
and with only II few changes. which
are necessary to meet the peculiar on
ditiOnS there.
y Spkitcd and at times sensational
debate was precipitatrd In the Senate
Thursday on the Philippine question.
the basis for the experimenting being
n resolution of inquiry offered several
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