The Holly chieftain., 1901-01-04
WAsHl., GTON NEWS

kinley and his family received car
load Of Christmas gifts.
The Boston chamber Of commerce
has rebuked Senator Lodge and Sen
ator Hoar for their attitude toward the
HayPauncefote treaty and has passed
some resolutions recommending the
President to renew the treaty without
the amendment and send it back to
the Senate.
Robert II. Wilcox, delegate in the
House Of Representatives from the
Hawaiian islands. has just been paid
a claim of s. 600 for mileage. 1t was
the largest claim of the kind ever made
but 1t was paid promptly by the ser
geant-at-trms. Mr.. Wilcox will draw
$500 more for his return trip.
Last winter Congress appropriated
$4,000 10 pay the expenses of a dele
gate from the United States to the sec
ond pan-American conference that is TO
assemble on the 22nd of October next
at the City of Mexico, but it is proba-
BILE that the authority will have to be
renewed at the present session. II
looks now as if the conference was CO.
ing to be great success.
Senator Wolcott recently called upon
President Mckinley and urged favor
able consideration of the petition filed
for the pardon of Former Banker
kunzmiller of Denver. While the SEN
ator cannot say that favorable action
will be secured. he is encouraged in
that the President said lie would send
for the papers in the case and promised
to give the matter careful considera
ton.
The secretary of war has sustained
the action of the military authorities
in Cuba in what is familiarly known
as the slaughter house case" without
prejudice. however, to the full legal
rights of the claimants which are left
to the future determination of the
courts of Cuba. The case involves
many important legal Questions and
bids fair to be subject of litigation
for years to come.
An old oil painting recently found in
Montreal Canada. bearing the name
Pelp Maruuette, and which is being nc-
cepted as an accurate likeness of the
great discoverer and missionary, is
/ causing an agitation in Washington
in favor of relnodeling the face of the
statue recently erected in the capitol
by the state of Wisconsin, which rep
reSentS him as wearing Il beard, while
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Secretary Long has purchased for
the United States government another
| Pacific island This island is under
the American flag and lies in the har
Dor of San Luis d'Apra, Guam. 1t is
proposed to use it as the site for Il
coa1ing station. The price paid was
$500 in American gold. 1t is 100 acres
in extent. and was owned by several
/ nttt ,f yNo r.,
officials say, will live in atliuence as Il
result of the sale
The general board of the navy, pre-
sided over by Admiral Dewey, has tax
en- up the question of the transfer of
the United States naval station from
Cavite and its permanent esta ablishment
at Subig bay. At the same time the
special board of navy officers now max
ing inquiries in the Philippines as to
the best site for a permanent naval
station has cabled to Washington for
fnlfequipment of boring apparatus
in order to learn whether there is Il
suitable foundation at Subig bay and
other points for the extensive dry
docks and other equipment of such Il
station.
President Mckinley, like President
met should share the responsibility of
all the important acts of the admin
istration, and hence every proposition
above the ordinary routine relating to
the general policy of the government
which may arise in any of the execu-
tive departments is submitted for de-
bate and decided by majority vote,
the Presidents name being called at
the end of the roll. Every member of
the Cabinet has an opportunity to dis
cuss the subject as freely as he desires
and to question his colleague in whose
department the matter may belong for
Information, but he votes on his own
responsibility.
The State Department has received
no money us yet on account of the
Turkish indemnity claims. Nor has it
had any connection whatever with the
deal which has been made by the
Cramps wi.n the Turkish government
for the inclusion of the amount of the
indemnity in the price to be paid for 4
warship by the Turkish government
But 1t does know that such contract
!. has been made and it also has had for
Its own part promises from the Turk
ish government that the claims shall
be paid. So. if the money comes
through the Cramps, 1t will be ac-
cepted, as the State Department recog-
| ntzes the right Of the porte to select