, 1901-01-24
WASHINGTON NEWS

Congressman Neville of Nebraska has
suffered "A relapse in his condition, re-
Sulting from a recurrence of hemor-
rhages. They have weakened him CON
Siderah!y. bur there are hopes for his re-
covery.
A determined effort was made in the
Senate TO amend the army reorganiza-
tiOn bill so as to provide against the
sale of liquor in the Philippines and to
prohibit the importation of any kind of
iI1OXicauts into the islands, but ii was
defeated.
The Senate has passed the army re-
organization bill. The measure having
originated in the Senate, the final
question vas not upon its passage, u
upon agreeing to the House amend
rents. They We're agreed to by a vote
Of 43 to %.
Secretary Gage has submitted to
Congress an estimate of expenses Tor
collecting customs for the coming MS
cal year. For Denve he estimates the
following: Surveyor, 5000; W depu-
ties. S2.ST7: inspector. 5000; ~stenograph-
er, $500. Total. $9.0IE
The House passed Representative
Sllafroth's bin providing for payment
of $500 to A. C. Cass, yice president
of the Colorado Fuel and Iron Com
pany to reimburse him for a draft sent
him from the Treasury Department
and lost in transmission.
The twenty-five persons, lace oper-
atOrs and their families, brought from
England by DIR. DOwie and who had
been refused a landing at Portland,
Maine, on the ground that they We're
contract lahOrcrs, have been permitted
by the Treasury Department 10 land.
Efforts have been made by the pro-
duccrs of vaccine 10 have the agriCul-
tural committees of Congress omit
from the Forthcoming agricultural APP
preparation bill further provision for
vaccine made and distributed by the
government on the ground that the gov
eminent distribution is no longer neces-
sary and is an Interference with pri-
Vate enterprise.
a bill to regulate filings under the
mining laws of the United States has
been introduced by senator Stewart of
Nevada. 1t is proposed by the bill 10
restrict one person to II placer loca-
ton in each mining district and to one
quartz location on each vein. The bill
also provides that annual assessment
work shall be performed prior to De
A'ilp'I oioL VI tdNh NthI'
Owing to the Presidents condition
from the effects of the grip, it is now
probable that, acting upon the advice
of DIR. DiXey, the official receptions an
nounced for the winter, as well as the
Cabinet dinners. will be Cancelled. One
or two of the official dinners may be
given later in the season. but it is be-
lieved it would be %imprudent for the
President to undergo the fatigue of a
long reception for some considerable
time.
An effort of Mr.. Mondell of Wyoming
to attach an amendment to the river
and harbor bill to appropriate $4,000
for constructing reservoirs in Wyom-
ing for the purpose of holding back
the flood waters of the Missouri river
failed in the House. The amendment
also carried an authorization for $780,
900 to complete the reservoirs and was
to be the entering wedge of the advo-
Gates of the irrigation of the arid lands
in the West.
Secretary of Agriculture Wilson was
before the Senate committee on agri-
culture in support of the passage of
the Grout bill. He takes the ground
that it is difficult to enforce the present
laws, and that the poorer classes conse-
quently suffer in having oleomargarine
substituted and forced upon them for
butter. He believes that the easiest
way to protect them would be to tax
colored oleomargarine and thus compel
its sale uncolored.
In the debate on the army reorgani-
cation bill West Point hazing was fu-
riously denounced by Il number of SEN
ators. Mr.. Allen, Mr.. Money of Mis-
sissippi, inc Mr.. McCumber declared
it to be an evidence of brutality and
c~owardice, the Mississippi senator
maintaining that a cadet whom others
attempted to haze would be justified
in killing his assailants. He declared
that if he We're a cadet upon whom
such cowardly brutality We're attempt
ed he would kill those who assaulted
him, if he had TO wait II hundred years
for the opportunity.
A most remarkable collection of rare
economic plants and seeds is now be
ing worked up by the Department of
Agriculture. Barbour Lathrop of
Chicago, with David G. Fairchild as
assistant, recently completed II tour
of the world, covering a period of two
years and embracing travels which
amounted to explorations. and Mr.. La
AlilOl' I"H SlN'h III ltSullS vi llt ca
petition, undertaken at his own eX-
pense, to the farmers of the United
States, through the medium of the
section of seed and plant Introduction
of the Department of Agriculture.
The House spent an entire day on the
bill to refer to the Court of Claims the
claims of the William Cramp Il Sons
Ship Building Company of Philadel-
phia, for alleged damages due to the
delay of the government in furnishing
armor plates and material for the bat
tleships Massachusetts and Indiana
and the cruisers New York and Column
hia. The claims aggregate S1.367, PA.
The previous question was ordered on
the bill and the House adjourned. The
ordering of the previous question gives
the bill n tactical advantage which
practically insures a vote on it when
called up again,
Secretary of the Interior Hitchcock
made Il statement to the House COM
mittec on public lands on the subject
Of irrigation, in which he strongly sup.
ports the policy of irrigation and SAYS
tina a asst acreage, capable Of sup
porting n population of 10000 900 PEG.