The Holly chieftain., 1901-03-01


the House bill for the Louisiana pur-
chase exposition at st. Louis.
Senator Teller has proposed an
priation bill. to extend the limit Of cost
Of the Leadville building to $125. 900.
Senator and Mrs. Teller were among
the few guests other than the justices
present at President Mckinley's dinner
IN honor of the Supreme Court on the
night Of February 10th.
In the United States Supreme Court
the case of the United States Trust
Company of New York versus the Ter
ritory of New Mexico was assigned Tor
argument October %, 1901.
The House passed the Senate bill to
pension the widow of the late General
Henry w. Lawton. AS the bill passed
the Senate it carried 500 a month. The
House cut the amount down to $50.
Representative Shafroth has intro
duced bill to provide for the estab-
lishment Of national park in south
western Colorado. The purpose Is to
protect the prehistoric structures Of the
cliff builders. &
Senator Warren has been assured by
| Adjutant General COrbin that Fort
Russell, Wyoming, will be used rs re-
cruiting and organizing station for one
of the new regiments to be recruited
or for some part of such regiment.
Senator Hanna. from the committee
on commerce, made favorable report
on the bill for a submarine cable from
San Francisco to Honolulu. The
amendment makes an appropriation oil
$500, 600 to be Immediately available.
Mr.. Shafroth expects to secure the
passage of his bill providing for pro-
lection of prehistoric relics In certain
| western states. Speaker Henderson
promised recognition of the measure,
| which is regarded us highly meritor-
ious. .-- rs
| The Western West Point cadets of
| this years graduating class, w. L..
| Guthrie of Colorado, Guy Kent of Wy
oming and John Lymington of New
Mexico. We're to-day nominated as sec
ond lieutenants Of cavalry in the regu-
lar army.
Senator Warren introduced bill pro-
posing to extend the provisions of the
law permitting homestead entries upon
certain abandoned military reserya-
tions to all such reservations hereto
fore placed under control of the secre-
tary Of the interior.
Representative Bell, who has op-
posed the use of the pension office for
the coming inaugural ball. introduced
a resolution providing that no public
buildings in the District Of Columbia
shall be used for inaugural functions
except as expressly authorized by law.
Major Carl LentZ, president, and the
thirty-two directors of the Northeast
ern Saengerbund of America, called In
body Mt the White House amid pre-
sented to the President an album
| bound In red leather and containing the
songs sung by the society at its last
meeting In 1900.
Senator Carter, who is a conferee on
the army appropriation bill, insists that
the Cuban amendment to the bill must
be further amended SO as to compel
Cuba to render an accounting to the
United States for the money which was
expended by ,his government in Cuba,
with view to the repayment at some
| future time.
\ Senator Clark presented favorable
report from the public lands commit
tee upon his bill amending the law gov
erning timber reservations 80 that citi-
gems Of Wyoming may have the same
privileges as those of Montana in the
use of timber on public lands on the
south slope of the Pryor mountains
and on lands south of the Grow reser-
walton, Montana.
Senator Warren introduced an
amendment to the sundry civil bill pro-
viding that volunteer officers serving
in the Spanish war shall be paid for
4 the period from the date of their en-
rollment until time of muster into the
United States service. The amendment
Is designed to equaliZe the pay of off,
GERS in the Rough Rider and immune
regiments, which, through inadvert-
ence, were omitted from the provisions
governing the pay Of other regiments.
Representative Mondell presented a
conference report agreeing to the pro-
visions Of the bill extending to parti-
,ipants in the Spanish and Philippine
| wars credit for time 80 served when
proving up on homestead entries. The
bill also provides that the heirs of SOL
| diers or sailors who died In these wars,
who, prior to enlistment, made home
stead entries, may prove up on the
same without further residence on the
lands.
| A Washington correspondent says
that during the comedy on the subsidy
bill in the Senate the other night in
which Mr. Teller was the star and Mr..
| Tillman, Mr.. Chandler. Mr.. Jones of
Arkansas and other statesmen took ac-
tive parts. the venerable Senator Pet
tus Of Alabama, the patriarch OF the