The Lamar register., 1901-01-23
WASHINGTON NEWS


for reappointment as receiver of the
land office at Denver.
The President has signed the bill
making an apportionment of repre-
sentatives in Congress from the several
states under the Twelfth census.
The House committee ON public lands
decided against reconsidering the ia
vorable action they had previously
taken to include salt mines under
placer mining laws.
Congressman Neville of Nebraska has
suffered relapse in his condition, re-
sulting from recurrence of hemor-
rhages. They have weakened him con-
siderably, but there are hopes for his re-
covery.
A determined effort was made in the
Senate to amend the army reorganiZa-
ton bill so as to provide against the
sale of liquor in the Philippines and to
prohibit the importation of any kind of
intoNicants into the islands, but it was
defeated
The Senate has passed the army re-
organization bill. The measure having
originated in the Senate, the final
question was not upon it's passage, but
upon agreeing to the House amend
ments. They were agreed to by vote
of 43 to 3D.
Secretary Gage has submitted to
Congress an estimate of expenses for
collecting customs for the coming tis
cal year. For Denver he estimates the
following: Surveyor, 5000; two depu-
| ties, S2,SI1; inspector, $500; stenoSraph-
err, $500. Total, $9,O77.
The House passed Representative
Shafroth's bill providing for payment
of So. 100 to A. G. Cass, vice president
of the Colorado Fuel and Iron Com
pany, to reimburse him for draft sent
him from the Treasury Department
and lost in transmission.
The twenty-five persons, lace Oper-
ators and their families, brought from
England by DR.. Dowie and who had
been refused n landing at Portland,
Maine, on the ground that they were
contract laborers, have been permitted
by the Treasury Department to land.
Efforts have been made by the pro-
ducers of vaccin3 to have the agricul-
tural committees of Congress omit
from the forthcoming agricultural ap-
preparation bill further provision for
vaccine made and distributed by the
| government on the ground that the gov
ernment distribution is no longer neces-
sary and is an interference with pri-
vate enterprise.
A bill to regulate filings under the
mining laws of the United States has
been introduced by Senator Stewart of
Nevada. 1t is proposed by the bill TO
restrict one person to one placer loca-
ton in each mining district and to one
| quartz location on each vein. The bill
also provides that annual assessment
work shall be performed prior to De-
ceInber 31st of each year.
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from the effects of the grip, it is now
probable that, acting upon the advice
Of DIR. DiXey, the official receptions an
nounced for the winter. as well MS the
| Cabinet dinners, will be Cancelled. One
or two of the official dinners may be
given later in the season. but 1t is be-
lleved it would be imprudent for the
President to undergo the fatigue of
long reception for some considerable
time.
An effort of Mr.. Mondell of Wyoming
to attach an amendment to the river
and harbor bill to appropriate SJO,0O0
for constructing reservoirs in Wyom-
ing for the purpose of holding back
| the flood waters of the Missouri river
failed in the House. The amendment
also carried an authorization for $780,
| 900 to complete the reservoirs and was
to be the entering we1ge of the advo-
Gates of the irrigation of the arid lands
| in the West.
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 G. 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 ex-
petition, undertaken at his own eN-
pense. to the farmers of the United
| States, through the medium of the
4 section of seed and plant introduction
of the Department of Agriculture.
The House spent an entire day on the
bill to refer to the Court of Claims the
claims of the William Cramp " Sons
Ship Building Company of Philadel-
phia, for alleged damages due to the
delay of the government in furnishing
armor plates and material for the bat
| tleships Massachusetts and Indiana
and the cruisers New York and Column
bia. The claims aggregate S1.36I pa.
| The previous question was ordered on
| the bill and the House adjourned. The
ordering of the previous question gives
the bill n tactical advantage which
practically insures n vote on it when
called up again.
Secretary of the Interior Hitchcock
made n statement to the House COM
mittee on public lands-On the subject
of irrigation. in which he strongly sup
ports the policy of irrigation and says
that vast acreage, capable of sup
porting population of 5O,OOOOOO peO-
pie, should not be left desert. Mr..
Hitchcock points out the remarkable
results experienced IN the valley of
the Nile, practically redeeming Egypt
| from bankruptcy. Professor Newell of