The Elk Mountain pilot., 1901-02-12

IavOraDly the Dill apprOprlatlnS SO,OUO,-
600 for the Louisiana purchase expo
sition.
The House committee on territories
reported favorably the Knox bill, al
lowing Alaska delegate in the House.
The committee voted down the bill to
allow the cities and towns of Arizona
to issue bonds for the purchase of wa
ter works.
The Senate has named n conference
committee to act on the disagreement
Of the two Houses on the bill relative
to the disposition of tract of land on
the Arizona portion of the White
Mountain Apache reservation. The
Senate conferees will agree to disagree.
The President has issued new Gre
dentials to Mr.. Choate as ambassador
OF the United States to Great Britain.
They are similar in form to those al
ready held by Mr.. Choate, with the eX-
ception that they accredit him to King
Edward VII. instead of TO Queen Vic
toria.
The secretary of state and the British
government have reached n conclusion
that new commission must be sent
to establish definitely the boundary
between the United States and British
Columbia. The disputed line is that
separating Washington from British
Columbia.
Secretary Gage has written a letter
to the chairman of the House Louisi-
ana purchase exposition committee say
ing that he had received satisfactory
evidence that the exposition company
had raised the S10000,000 required as
4 prerequisite TO the government aid
Of S5,O00000.
The President has sent the following
nominations to the Senate: Carroll ID.
Wright, to be commissioner of labor;
John Il. Pelton of Colorado, receiver of
public moneys at Montrose. Colorado;
Colorado Postmasters-Franll Il. Sheri-
dan, Meeker; ]. b. johnson, Montrose;
Frank Ostead, Salida.
President Mckinley has at his dis
posal more than 300 staff appoint
ments, the finest places outside of the
grades of major general and brigadier
general. in the new army. Few of
these places are open to n civilian un-
less he has had volunteer service, and
these few are in the pay corps.
The House passed the Senate bill to
create commission to adjudicate the
claims of United States citizens against
Spain, which the government of the
United States assumed by the treaty
of Paris, after having amended the bill
so as to refer the claims to the Court of
Claims instead of to a commission.
Representative Mondell has intro
duced a bill providing that funds de-
rived from the sale of government
lands excepting those devoted to the
support of educational institutions shall
be used by the government in con
structing irrigating works in the sew
eral public land states and territories.
Inc secretary of war has reported
to Congress the present strength of the
militia organization in the various
states and territories. Colorado's
strength is as follows: Officers, So;
privates and non-commissioned of
ficers. ,065; aggregate strength, 1,150;
available for military duty in state,
81 ,235.
The President has received from Ha-
wall n souvenir of the recent political
campaign there in the form of yell
low ribbon bearing the motto, "Ua mau
Ike en- ka alma | ka pono," which
means, "Thc life of the land is estab-
lished in righteousness" This was
chosen as a campaign motto of the ad-
ministration party during the last pres
identlal campaign.
The Senate public lands committee
reported favorably the Hansbrough
bill for reclamation of arid lands. The
bill is practically the same as the New
lands bill, introduced in the House and
provides that all moneys received
from the sales of public land shall be
expended by the government in arid
land reclamation and irrigation in the
public land states.
In the inspector generals department
Lieutenant Colonel j. Z. Sanger, re-
Gently mustered out as brigadier gener-
al of volunteers, will receive his pro-
motion to the grade of colonel. Major
r. T. Knox and Major S. G. Mills, in
spector generals, will be nominated to
be lieutenant colonels. The President
will appoint seven officers to be in
spector generals with the rank of ma
jor.
Vice President-elect and Mrs Roose-
welt will go to Washington March I'd,
and during their stay there will be the
guests of Mrs. Roosevelt's brother-in-
law and sister, Commander and Mrs.
Cowles. The evening of their arrival
they will be the guests of honor at n
dinner to be given by Senator Depew.
The vice presidents family will not
take the house owned by Bellamy Stor-
er until autumn.
Representative Mondell has intro
duced bill providing that the provis-
iou= of the Carey land act shall con
tinue in force until otherwise provided
by law, but that the land patented to
each state under the act shall not ex-
ceed 100000 acres; that the contracts
provided in the original act shall not
be required. but patents shall issue for
lands segregated in accordance with
existing law and the act as amended
Secretary Root is reported to have
said that the military appointments did
not necessarily involve any change of
commands in the Philippines and that
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