The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1901-12-08
Philippine Tarin and Revenue Prob
lem More Complex Than Con-
gressmen Expected.
AN IMPORTANT CONFERENCE
CONDITIONS DISCUSSED AT THE WAR
DEPARTMENT YESTERDAY.
Situation Explained by Secretary Root
to Messrs. spooner, Lodge, o. H.
Platt, Payne and Dalzell.
% tha Indlanspolis Journal.

Special 10 the Indianapolis Journal
WASHINGTON. Dec If the number
OF bills introduced in the House is any in
dication OF legislative energy the session OF
Congress just begun will be record
breaker. In he three brief sessions of the
House which have been held since Monday
over one-third the number of bills present
ed during the whole Of the Fifty-sixth Con-
gress have been introduced The total
number of bills presented in the House dur
ing both sessions of the last Congress was
14,437. The number presented in the three
days of this session is 4,224. On Monday
1945 were presented, 1,O04 were introduced
on Tuesday. while at the six-minute session
yesterday members of the House succeeded
in getting in 1.275 drafs of their desires in
the legislative line. The work of getting
these bills properly entered in the clerks
books, having the announcement prepared
for the Congressional Record, we'll as
copy for the: government printer that the
bill may be properly printed in the legal
form without delay. is a task which re-
quired the clerks in charge to violate the
eght-hour law most fagrantly. The short
session yesterday caused work for acting
Bill Clerk =. A Richards and Printing
Clerk +. d. Mackey until midnight. How
ever. the record this. morning contained a
complete list OF these measures. while the
document roam is being flooded with them.
XXX
In their morning mail to-day the women
OF the Cabinet received embroidered Slip
pers from SIrs. Mckinley. The slippers
were OF dark, gray. with black ribbons. Mrs.
Mckinley hiss made in the last ten years
some 5000 pairs of slippers. The colors
were always bright red and white with
blue ribbons. The change in color was the
only thing about those that arrived to-day
20 distinguish them from the other slippers
that the widow OF the President has made.
When Secretary Cortelyou returned from
Canton he brought a message from Mrs.
Mckinley TO. her old friends in the Cabinet
circle, begging each OF them to send her
no presents 1T the coming Christmas time.
She said that Christmas had always been
the happiest: day of the year with her and
that at the coming Christmas she wished
70 be alone with her sorrow The wish
Will be respected. but on Monday morning
all OF the women OF the Cabinet will send
Mrs. Mckinley some small loving token.
Representative Holiday and Colonel Rus
sci Harrison of the Spanish War Veterans
took up with the President this morning the
case of Captain George w. Biegler, OF Terre
Haute. Captain BiegIer has a splendid
army record, He was wounded in the
Philippines and was engaged in many hard
battles. He failed in appointment TO the
regular army by reason of a low average
IN one branch of his examination. 1t was
urged that captain Bieglers record as a
soldier ought to overbalance anything else
xxx
Representatives Lands, Hemenway and
Watson. of Indiana. had a talk with the
President to-day about the vacant Circuit
Court judgeship that is to go to Indiana.
XXX
Ernest II. Tripp who has been spending
n day two in Washington. left for In
dianapOlis tonight.