, 1901-02-14

Sollilfhha ~ oAR
on the Pima Indian reservation IN
Maricopa county, Arizona. q
The sundry civil appropriation bill
reported in the House carries an item
of $4,000 to complete the p~ostofiice
building mt Leadville; for surveying
private land claims in Colorado, Wy
oming, Utah, Arizona and New Mex
leo. $1,000; for road improvements in
Yellowstone park. $4,000, of which
$4,000 is to lie expended on roads in
the Teton and Yellowstone timber re-
serves in Wyoming: for improvements
to commissioners buildings, Yellow
stone park, $3.50.
The sundry civil appropriate ton bill
as completed by the House committee
on appropriations aI'BsIpriates S59,-
703, 0S4. which is S1O.SS9. 191 less than
the estimates and 81. T43,221 less than
the bill for the current fiscal year. The
items for river and harbor work now
in progress under contract aggregate
SG.SIO.G23, or about half the sum appro-
priated last year. The debt of Hawaii,
assumed on tie annexation of the is
lands, is provided for, amounting to 3d.
All $50.
The President win promote twelve
officers of the regular establishment to
he assistant adjutant generals with
the rank of major. Colonel Theodore
Schwan. assistant adjutant general.
will be appointed brigadier general
II Immediately retired. Lieutenant
Colonel \ j. BabcOck, assistant adJu-
tant general, will then he promoted to
the grade of colonel. and Major George
Andrews and Major j. A. Johnson,
also assistant adjutant generals. viii
Ia ,.t.4t.,ztnI 90 Y1n frpnln nf 1inrfnnnnI
colonel.
So far as can be ascertained, the adj
ministration has not had any intima-
ton of the contemporaries h on
don dispatch says will be made in the
matter of the Nicaragua canal pro-
ject. There is n feeling of regret that
the British government has felt CON
strained to adopt such n course, as the
hope was entertained that amendments
to the Hay-Pauncefote treaty might
have been accepted in the spirit in
which they were made. one suggestion
made tonight as n possible counter
proposal of Great Britain was that in
return for concessions made by her,
she might desire an open port on the
Alaskan coast ms an entrance into her
gold fields in the Klondike.
The House committee on invalid pen
sions has favorably reported the bill OF
Representative Calderhcnd of Kansas
MS follows: "All persons who are ell
gible for pensions at the rate of ST.
per month under section = of the act of
June 81, 1890, relating TO pensions,
who are now. or may hereafter become
disabled by total blindness or paralysis
or any total disability for manual labor,
not the result of their own vicious hab-
its. which disables them in such n de-
gree as to require the constant or IRE
quent and periodical attendance of an
other person, or who are or may be
without an actual net income not 80
exceed 500 per year exclusive of any
pension, shall be entitled to a pension
ut the rate of $50 per month from the
date of application therefor after the
passage of this act"
An explanation of the report that Mr..
WI, the Chinese minister, had been re-
called by the government at the time
the foreigners We're ordered to cave
Pekin was offered at the Chinese lega-
ton. where 1t was stated that Minister
Wu's term of office expired three
months ago. The term of the Chinese
minister mt 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 II not been for the complications
in China. MI. WI will visit Chicago
in March to be one of the guests of
honor at the quarterly c~onvocation of
the University of Chicago. He viii de-
liver an address ut the urgent solicita-
ton of President Harper.
Senator Teller offered n resolution
and spoke on it in the senate calling
upon the secretary of war for informa-
ton concerning the reports of the de
p%ortation of George II. Rice, editor of
n 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 ease, saying he did not Won
der that he was defiant, knowing there
was no LAW justifying his expulsion.
Mr.. Teller said he did not know wheth-
er ltice's paper had been suppressed,
but he had been credibly informed that
four newspapers had been suppressed
in LuZon by the military authorities.
Mr.. Teller spoke of the proceeding as
II of Importance to all, for Mr.. Rice
was n 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.
Justice Harlan created n little sensa-
tion by n speech in csponse to n toast
mt h regular monthly meeting of the
Loyal Legion. Several members of
Congress We're present and Representa-
tive Moody of Massachusetts took
down his words, Among other things
he said: ''The fathers never intend
ed that this government should ever