, 1901-02-28
IS BEING DONE AT
THE NATIONAL CAPITAL

Senator Depew mas reported 1aNar-
IDLY from the committee on expositions
HE House bill for the Louisiana pur-
ichase exposition at st. Louis.
Senator Teller has proposed an
Z amendment to the sundry civil appro-
priation bill, to extend the limit of cost
of the Leadville building 10 $125,0OO.
Senator and Mrs. Teller were among
The few guests other than the justices
d present at President McKinley's dinner
In honor of the Supreme Court on the
hight of February 10Th.
The House passed the Senate bill to
pension the widow of the late General
N Henry w. Lawton. As the bill passed
the Senate it carried 500 a month. The
House cut the amount down to $50.
81 The st. Louis people declare they will
not accept the S5,OO0,0OO appropriation
from Congress If they cannot have
! their exposition open on Sunday Il
4 drink all the beer they want.
Il Representative Shafroth has intro
n duced a bill to provide for the estab-
lishment of n national park in south
western Colorado. The purpose is to
& protect the prehistoric structures of the
X cliff builders.
Senator Hansbrough on the 18th inst.
N reported his bill devoting the proceeds
u of the sale of lands in the arid lane
states to the reclamation of the arid
IS lands by irrigation as an amendment
ito the sundry civil bill.
The Western West Point cadets of
this years graduating class, w. l..
Guthrie of Colorado, Guy Kent of wy
oming and John Huntington of New
Mexico, Were to-day nominated as sec
. .rAI 1fnttt,nnrt 4, - IA, - 4, 1pt. in tho rnU1I-
lar army.
Senator Hanna, from the committee
on commerce. made n favorable report
on the bill for n submarine cable from
San Francisco to Honolulu. The
amendment makes an appropriation of
4 100000 to be Immediately available.
Black walnut canes have been given
to the Cabinet members by the Presi-
dent. The were sent to the Pres
ident from Illinois. and were cut from
Il walnut tree on the farm formerly the
property of Abraham Lincoln, in Harri-
son township. Macon county, Illinois.
Major Carl Lentz, president, and the
thirty-two directors of the Northeast
ern Saengerbund of America, called in
n body at the White House and pre-
scented to the President an album
bound in red leather and containing the
songs sung by the society at its last
meeting in 1900.
Mrs. Charles w. Fairbanks, wife of
the senior senator from Indiana, has
been elected president general of the
national society of the Daughters of the
American Revolution. The ballots east
were as follows: Mrs. Charles w.
Fairbanks, Indiana, 1893: Mrs. Donald
Mclean, New York. POS; Mrs. Washing
ton pnaI1inI Nav Tarsnp 10
The Senate committee on naval af-
fairs agreed to report favorably upon
all the nominations of naval officers for
advancement except those of Admirals
Sampson and Schley. They also decid-
ed to recommend the revival of the
grade of vice admiral and the appoint
men of two rear admlrals to this office,
the intention being that the President
/ shall name Messrs. Sampson and
Schley.
Representative Mann of Illinois has
introduced n bill repeating section five
of the tariff act of 1897 under which the
President is empowered to levy addi-
tional duty on imports receiving a
bounty from foreign governments,
equal to the mount of h bounty paid.
1t is under the operation of section five
that n duty was recently imposed on
Russian sugar equal to the bounty paid
on this sugar.
The subcommittee of the Senate
committee Oh military affairs, having
in charge the army appropriation bill,
has agreed to add to the bill Senator
S%pooner's amendment providing for n
civil government in the Philippine
archipelago. The committee will re-
store the word judicial" eliminated
from tho nnnan1nnntS Inv tho philinninn
commission, thus giving the President
explicit authority over the judicial
branch of the government.
Senator Warren introduced an
amendment TO the sundry civil bill pro-
viding that volunteer officers serving
in the Spanish war shall be paid for
the period from the date of their en-
rollment until time of muster into the
United States service. The amendment
Is designed to eQualiZe the pay of Off
GERS in the Rough Rider and immune
, regiments, which, through inadvert-
ence, We're omitted from Ii provisions
governing the pay of other regiments.
A Washington correspondent says
that during the comedy on the subsidy
bill in the Senate the other night in
which Mr.. Teller was the star and Mr..
Iillman, Mr.. Chandler, Mr.. Jones of
Arkansas and other statesmen o ac-
\ tive parts, the venerable Senator Pet
tus of Alabama, the patriarch of the
distinguished body, who is Familiarity
known to his colleagues as 1.-The Buff
falo," created n sensation by eXclaim-
ing lmpatiently: "NIr. President, how
long is this - nonsense going to lastT'
The Senate had n lively discussion on
n resolution by Mr.. Jones of Arkansas
to discharge the judiciary committee
from further consideration of the anti
4 trust bill passed by the House at the
last session and to bring 1t before the
Senate for consideration. The major
A ity maintained that the House measure
clearly was unconstitutional. They pro-
i tested. too, against taking up so great
n question in the closing hours of the
session. Th resolution finally went to
the calendar.
The secretary of the treasury has
sent to the senate a letter from the
commissioner general of immigration
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