The Elk Mountain pilot., 1901-02-12
WHAT is BEING DONE AT
THE NATIONAL CAPITAL

The sundSy civil appropriation bill
reported in the House carries an item
Of $25,OOO to complete the postofiice
building at Leadyille; for surveying
private land claims in Colorado, Wy
oming, Utah, Arizona and New Mex
lco, $4,000; for road improvements in
Yellowstone park, $4,000, of which
$1,000 Is to be expended on roads in
the Teton and Yellowstone timber re-
serves in Wyoming; for improvements
to commissioners buildings, Yellow
stone park, $3.50.
In the sundry civil appropriation bill
provision is made that hereafter the
Following persons only shall be entitled
to the benefits to the National Home
for Disabled Volunteer Soldiers: IAN
honorably discharged officers, soldiers
ana sailors who have served in the reg
ular or volunteer forces of the United
states who are disabled by wounds,
diseases or otherwise, and are withous
adequate means of support and by rea-
son of such disability are incapable Of
earning their own maintenance and
support"
The President will promote twelve
officers of the regular establishment to
be assistant adjutant generals with
the rank of major. Colonel Theodore
Schwan, assistant adiutant general.
will be appointed brgadier general
and Immediately retired. Lieutenant
Colonel A. j. Babcock, assistant adju-
tant general, will then be promoted to
the grade of colonel, and Major George
Andrews and Major j. A. Johnson,
also assistant adjutant generals. will
be promoted to the grade of lieutenant
colonel
An explanation of the report that Mr..
WI, the Chinese minister. had been re-
called by the government at the time
the foreigners were ordered to leave
Pekin was offered at the Chinese lega-
tion, where it was stated that Minister
Wu's term of office expired three
months ago. The term of the Chinese
minister at st. Petersburg expired
shortly before the Boxer outbreak, and
his successor was appointed, but he
has NOT yet reached his post. Mr.. Wu's
successor would have been designated
had it not been for the complications
in China. Mr.. WI will visit Chicago
in March to be one of the guests Of
honor at the quarterly convocation of
the University of Chicago. He will de-
liver an address at the urgent solicita-
ton of President Harper.
Senator Teller offered resolution
and spoke ON it in the Senate calling
upon the secretary of war for informa-
ton concerning the reports of the de-
poNfation of George T. Rice, editor of
Manila newspaper, to the United
States by the general in charge of the
American forces in the Philippines.
He read the press reports concerning
Mr.. Rice's case, saying he did not won
der that he was defiant. knowing there
was no law justifying his expulsion.
IN \ n,
er Rice's paper had been suppressed.1 4
but he had been credibly informed that
four newspapers had been suppressed
in Luzon by the military authorities.
MIR. Teller spoke of the proceeding as
one Of Importance to all, for Mr. Rice
was citizen of the United States. and
an offense against him was against ev-
cry citizen of this country. Mr.. Tel
ler's resolution was agreed to.
Senator Warren has presented to the
Senate memorial of the National Live
Stock Association adopted mt the Salt
Lake City convention protesting
against the enactment of the Grout
oleomargarine bill. The memorial rep
resents that the petitioners represent
126 live stock associations whose hold
ings represent an investment of over
S6,OOOOO0. They protest against the
Dill as species OF class legislation OF
the most iniquitous and dangerous
kind calculated to build up one indus
try at the expense of another equally
important. They say that the passage
of the law would destroy the demand
for that product of the beef animal.
oleo oil. of which 24,OOo,oOO pounds
was used during the year 1899 in the
manufacture of oleomargarine, and
would also injure the hog industry by
n similar destruction of the demand
for 32,OOO,OOO pounds of neutral lard
used in 1899 in the manufacture of that
food product The memorial protests
against the bill as one calculated to en-
tail an enormous loss on the live stock
producers, ruin n great industry and
deprive the working classes and others
of n cheap, wholesome, nutritious and
acceptable article of food.