The Lamar register., 1901-01-16
WASHINGTON NEWS


is a son of Justice Harlan of the Su-
premc Court.
The passage of the House reappor-
tionment bill to-day by the Senate as
cures Colorado of three members OF
Congress and five electoral votes.
Senator Hoar has Introduced an
amendment to the army bill appointing
II committee of nine scientific experts
to investigate the effect of the army
canteen upon the health, discipline and
morality of the army.
The army cantccn Is to be abolished,
as the Senate, by Il decisive vote, con-
cured in the public provision relative
TO the army cantccn. only ntteeh
votes could be mustered in the Senate
in favor, while thirty-four were cast
against it.
The secretary of the navy has ar
rived at the conclusion that the law re-
lating to the building of the new ships
requires the department to allot one
of the vessels 10 the Pacific coast.
Therefore he has announced that he
Will award the contract for one OF
the sheathed battlcshipS to Moran
Bros. of Seattle, one TO the Bath works
of Maine and one to the Newport
News Ship Building Company.
The anticantccn section of the army
bill reads as follows: The sale N
dealing in beer, wine. or any intoNlc;it-
ing liquors by any person in any post
exchange or cantccn or army transport
or upon any premises used ~ military
purposes by the United States, is here
by prohibited. The secretary of war is
hereby directed to carry the provision
of this section into full force and ef-
feet
Mr. Cushman of Washington made
n fierce attack on the river and lnrbor
bill. He said the seventeen states with
members on the committee get nearly
all the appropriations. Imperial tae-
sar" Mr.. CushInau said, had divided
all Gaul into three parts. Caesar WAS
an ancient and n provincial. Had he
lived to the dawn of the Twentieth
century. he would have divided gall
into enough fragments to give one to
each member of the river and harbor
committee of the House.
ON one day, January Sth, the House
passed 10 pension bills, breaking the
record for such bills. The most i'm
poi tant was to increase the pension of
General AmcricuS Y. Rice from S:t6 to
500. General Rice was wounded sew
eral times during the Civil war. ana
lost n leg at Nickshurg. He was fot-
merly Il member of Congress from
Ohio. and was the au' h0r of the arrcar-
ages of pensions act. The Senate had
passed bill to increase his pension TO
$50 and the House raised the amount
10 500.
There have been three bills introduce
ed in the present Congress making sill
Yer dollars redccmable in gold. but
Representative Shafroth says it is the
manifest purpose of the Republican
majority to carry these bills in either
the present of the ensuing Congress.
''If any of these bills pass" he said,
cit will mean the practical destruction
of silver as money. 1t will result i'll
placing silver on The same footing as
greenbacks. and that will force the
silver now employed us money on the
market as mere silver bullion
In speaking on the river and harbor
bill in the House Mr.. Burton said the
sundry civil bill would carry about S.
OOO,OOO on contracts previously author
lied. The total appropriations for riv-
ers and harbors for the fiscal year
would therefore aggregate about Sl3,-
000,O 900 He devoted an hour TO giving
the committee reasons FOR abolishing
the Missouri river commission. Over
S1OO.OOO0DO had been expended on the
river. he said, with only trivial devel-
opment of navigation. 1t had less
commerce to-day than it had thirty
years ago.
Senator Lodge of Massachusetts. in
his speech on the army bill drew n bril-
liant word picture of the commercial
future of the United States. declaring
that the trade conflict with Europe, al
ready begun. could result only in the
commercial and economical supremacy
of this country over the whole world.
In this industrial conflict he appre-
hended no danger from Il material con-
test with any nation of the world, but
he urged the necessity for n strong and
scientifically organized army and
powerful navy. in order that the United
States might be prepared TO defend its
rights against any possible foe.
No information has been received by
the Department of State either through
the British embassy in Washington or
the American embassy in London CON
corning the intentions of Lord Sails
bury's government towards the amend
ments to the IInysaunccfote treaty.
The information that comes from pri-
vatc sources is rejected as idle gossip.
The nearest approach to an opinion
that any member of the British gov
crnment has expressed was the remark
said to have been made by one of the
British Cabinet that the action of the
Senate was to England n rather rude
awakening from n pleasant dream"
The House committee on public lands
gave a hearing to advocates of govern
ment reclamation of arid lands. Rep
rescntatives Ncwlands of Nevada and
Shafroth of Colorado, Director VOL
colt and photographer Newell of the
geological survey spoke. The officers
of the survey approved the principle
of government reclamation and cX-
planned the work being done by their
agents in various parts of the West.