North Park union., 1901-01-25
WHAT IS BEING DONE AT
THE NATIONAL CAPITAL

Towne, and senators Hoar, Spooner.
McCumber and Foster.
Professor White of the weather bu
reau of the United States appeared be-
fore the House committee ON agrlcul-
ture and with Secretary Wilson'S In
tlorsemeut demanded that Denver be
made n weather bureau station. II is
the intention to make Denver the head.
quarters for the forecasting In the en-
tire Rocky mountain region. The
amount necessary to establish this bu-
rean aggregates over $2.00O,On The
appropriation Will probably be made
this session and the work begun immc-
diately.
On one day. January Sti. the House
passed 40 pension bills, breaking the
record for such bills. The most i'm
POI tant was to Increase the pension of
General Americus V. Rice from S36 to
SlOO General Rice was wounded sew
eral times during the Civil war, ana
lost n leg at Vicksburg. He was fo.'-
merly member OF Congress from
Ohio, and was the au; Lor of the afrear-
ages of pensions act. The Senate had
passed n bill to Increase his pension ~
$40 and the House raised the amount
to 500.
Vice President-Elect and Mrs. Roose.
velt have leased for the spring season
the residence of Bellamy Storer, United
States minister to Spain. The house is
located on the corner of Rhode Island
avenue and Seventeenth street, CON
tains large number Of rooms. is well
adapted for entertaining and has one
of the handsomest music rooms at the
capital. When Mr.. Olney was secre-
tary of state his family occupied this
residence. where they gave the most
brilliant entertainments of the Cleve-
land administration.
There have been three bills introduce
ed in the present Congress making sill
yer dollars redeemahle in gold, but
Representative Shafroth says II is the
manifest purpose of the Republican
ajority to carry these bills in either
the present of the ensuing Congress.
III any of these bills pass he saIi,
lit will mean the practical destruction
of silver as money. 1t will result IN
placing silver on ,he same footing rs
greenbacks. and that will force the
silver now employed as money on the
market rs mere silver bullion"
| A most remarkable collection Of rare
economic plants and seeds is now be-
ing worked up by the Department OF
Agriculture. Barbour Lathrop OF
Chicago. with David q. Fairchild as
assistant. recently completed Il tour
of the world. covering period Of two
years and embracing travels which
amounted to explorations and Mr.. La-
throp has given the results OF the cx-
pedition. undertaken at his own cX
pense. to the farmers of the United
States. through the medium of the
section of seed and plant Introduction
Of the Department of Agriculture.
No information has been received by
the Department of State either through
the British embassy in Washington or
the American embassy In London con-
| corning the Intentions of Lord Sails
bury's government towards the amend
ments to the Hay-Paunccfotc treaty.
The information that comes from pri-
vate sources is rejected MS idle gossip.
The nearest approach to an opinion
| that any member of the British gov
ernment has expressed WIS the remark
said to have been made by one of the
British Cabinet that the action Of the
Senate WAS TO England II rather rude
awakening from pleasant Dream"
The War Department has received
no information from Manila that will
throw light upon the Associated Press
dispatches during the last few days
concerning discussion before the
commission on the subject of teaching
religion In the schools. Ii would ap-
pear from these publications that the
commission has decided to allow the
friars to continue to do rs they did
during Spanish domination and that
the liberal Filipinos are earnestly pro-
testing. The War Department does
not care to comment on the news dis
patches. but does not hesitate to say
| that the instructions of the commits
sion did not contemplate such an ar.
rangement. 1t Is the policy of the
President to divorce the church from
the civil government absolutely and
place 1t on the same basis rs In the
| United States.
Speaker Henderson will not accept
an invitation to dinner these days un-
| til he knows where he Is going TO sit
Mt the table. He demands the place OF
honor at all entertainments, claiming
precedence over the Cabinet, the JUS
t'cas of the Supreme Court and the
members of the Senate. The President
has given him that place mt the only
dinner mt the White House thus far
this season, and he expects 1t every
where else II the host refuses to seat
Mr.. Henderson in the place of honor
the later declines the dinner and gives
the reason If he is assured that he
will be the first at the feast he accepts.
He is the only speaker of the House
OF Representatives who has ever insist
ed upon being considered the top of
the heap. Mr. Reed, Mr. Carlisle, Mr..
| Randall, Mr.. Blaine Mr.. Colfnx, even
when they were lincal successors to
the presidency, regarded the subject
with Indifference. and Colonel Hender-
son explains that he does not Insist
upon his right because of personal
vanity. but because he considers 1t his
duty to vindicate the honor and dig
nifty Of his office.