The Somerset reporter., 1901-11-07
At Washington.

The treasury department has ordered
the deportation of 10 German walters
who arrived in New York, Oct. 4, and
were given employment in a hotel.
| They came over under contract.
Western members of Congress are ex-
tremely hopeful that Congress at the
coming session will extend national aid
to some rational plan for irrigation.
| President McKinley's visit to the West
last May had done much to increase the
friendly feeling he had for the West,
and in a number of his speeches he
referred to the need of irrigation in the
West.
A cablegram received at the state de-
partment, Friday, from United States
Consul Boyle at Liverpool, said that up
to II O'Clock noon Nov. l, there had
been no new traces of bubonic plague in
that port. The three cases reported
were doing we'll
Gen. Miles has recommended that the
18th Cavalry and the 2Sth Infantry be
sent to the Philippines. These regi
ment are to take the place of the regi-
ments in the Philippines to be brought
home, which have been serving there
three years or more. This order will not
interfere with the departments plans for
reducing the army in the Philippines
The regiments which are to be returned
are the 4th, 18th, goth and 22nd Inf.
The President has gone over the In
dian situation very carefully with Com
missioner Jones, and it is predicted that
radical changes in our policy toward the
red man will be witnessed in this admin
istration. The changes will be substan-
TALLY along the lines of Commissioner
Jones recommendation in his last re-
port, and they IL look towards remov-
ing those influences which tend to
pauperize the Indian. Rations will gen.
orally be cut OF, and instead of paying
annuities on Indian funds, the aim will
be 20 use the money in local improve
ments.
Admiral Dewey called upon President
Roosevelt Saturday, but did not discuss
with him the Schley court of inquiry'ex
! cept to tell the President that the public
sessions of the court would be concluded
in few days. Admiral Dewey said that
the court probably would take up each
charge in the precept, review the testi-
mony and then give the facts as they
find them and give such an opinion as
they called for. He did not know that
this would be done, as he had not dis
cussed the case with his associates, but
| 1T had occurred to him that this would
be good plan. He felt, he said that
the American people would want the
courts reasons in detail and were en-
titled to know them.
Nicaragua has given notice of the ter
mination of the treaty of 1867, granting
the United States authority to build a
canal across that country. Also the
treaty of 1870. This action has been
conveyed to the State Department by
the Nicaraguan minister for foreign
affairs. That officer declares that the
denunciatiOn in no wise affects the
friendly relations between the two coun-
tries and the Nicaraguan government
desires the conclusion of the new treat.
les. Besides the treaty of friendship,
commerce and navigation of 1867 thus
denounced, the same note conveys the
denunciation of the extradition treaty of
1867 between the United States and Nc
aragua.
WI, the Chinese minister, said that he
had received no notice of his recall, but
served on the mission here for more than
"a year longer than the customary time
allowed by the foreign Office at any one
place, viz, three years He is simply
holding over now and his recall and the
appointment of successor will be in
line with established practice. He ex-
poets to return to China.
Secretary Root received cable mes.
sage, Saturday, from Governor Taft at
Manila saying that he had been success
fully operated on for minor trouble
and expected to be all right again in
about two weeks. 1t is announced at
the war department that the governor s
condition will not necessitate his return
to this country. Hon Luke Wright, the
senior member of the Philippine COM
mission after Gov. Taft, has been ap
pointed yice-g oyernor.
The officials will exert every effort to
prevent the introduction of the bubonic
plague into the United States, to which
end there will be earnest cooperation
between the national and state authori-
| ties.