The Lamar register., 1902-04-30
LATE WASHINGTON NEWS AND
CONGRESSIONAL PROCEEDINGS

| White house ring long wait fol
| the President.
The President is said to be consid
ering n proposal from General Miles
| friends to settle the army squnbble by
sending him to Europe to inspect the
armies there.
Capt. Charles Il. Clark has declined
the appointment of special naval rep
resentative at the coronation OF King
Edward and the President has named
Rear Admiral Watson for that mis-
sion.
President Roosevelt has expressed
his approval of the measure now pend
ing in Congress FOR the appropriation
of $4,000 to erect monument III
Washington to the late Major General
John g. Fremont.
The agricultural appropriation Diil
reported to the House to-day carries
about s., 100000. an Increase of approx
imately $65O,OO0 over the appropra-
tions last year and n decrease OF ABOUT
$500 1000 from the estimate.
A bill has passed the House reserv-
ing from the public lands in Oregon
public park for the benefit of the peo-
pie of the United States and the pro-
lection and preservation of the game,
fish and timber and all other natural
objects.
The Pension Bureau has issued
pension of $50 Il month to Mrs. India
Stewart, mother of Captain John ).
Stewart, member of the First Colo
RADIO, who was killed in the Philip
pines. This pension was granted Dy
special act of Congress.
The subcommittee of the Senate
committee on military affairs mas
agreed to recommend the incorpora-
tion in the army appropriation bill OF
an amendment appropriating Sooo,ooo
with which to supply army posts with
libraries, schools, gymnasiums. etc, 10
take the place of the army canteen.
Secretary of State Hay. for the
United States, and Minister Concha,
for Colombia. have signed a treaty pro-
viding for the transfer to the United
States of the rights incident to the con-
struction of the proposed Panama
canal. This treaty is similar to the
protocol recently signed. the terms OF
which have been published.
The President has determined the
succession to the vacancy of the inter
national tribunal in Egypt by promot-
ing Judge Bachelor from the Court
of First Instance to the Court of Ap-
peals to succeed Judge Kelly. resigned
Judge Van Horn of Utah has been
named to fill the vacancy In the lower
court caused by the promotion.
The House committee on coinage.
weights and measures has favorably
reported Representative Shafroth's Dill
to adopt the metric system, amending
1t so that the system shall go into ef-
feet In all departments of the govern
ment January 1. 1904, and be legal
standard of weights and measures IN
the United States January l, 1907
The Interstate Commerce Commits
sion has decided that 1t was unlawful
for railroads to deny to shippers the
choice of establishing routes and rates.
This decision is made in the California
orange cases brought by the Consoli-
dated Forwarding Company and the
Southern Pacific Fruit Exchange
against the Southern Pacific and Santa
Fe systems.
The omnibus bill, providing for vari-
GUS public buildings throughout the
United States, has been reported to the
Buildings The appropriation for the
Denver mint Is increased from S5OO,OOO
to 100000. The appropriation for the
Leadville postotiice Is increased from
$4,000 to SS5,O0O, and S135,OOO is pro.
vlded for the purchase of site and
the erection of government building
at Colorado Springs.
A committee of negroes. composed of
Ex-Governor Pinchback of Louisiana,
Bishop A. Grant of Indiana. Il. w.
hampton of Mississippi and w. Nc
Kinley of South Carolina, called on the
President and asked his support of the
Crumpacker resolution and the bill in
troduced by Senator Irwin, providing
for the appointment of n commission
to investigate the conditions OF the ne
gro. They declined to discuss the de-
tails of the interview, but said 1t was {,
very satisfactory one.
The State Department is taking steps
toward the settlement of the claims of
the missionaries and other Americans
who suffered from the boxer uprising
in China in 1900. To this end II COM
mission has been created composed of
United States Minister Conger, Secre-
tary of Legation Bainbridge and Con
sui Ragsdale of Tien Tsin, to ascertain
as near as may be the exact damage
sustained by each individual claimant
The claims thus far filed number 15O
aggregating S2OOO.OO0.
Friends of the omnibus bill admit
ting Arizona, New Mexico and Okla
homa as states. becoming impatient nj
delay in taking up their bill. met and
decided that If the Speaker does moi
agree to give them n day in court by
May LIST, they will insist ON the privi
lege which the rules grant for the con
sideration of the bills admitting the
territories to become states of the I'm
ion. Delegate Rodey states that there
is more than II majority pledged In ia
vor of the bill and that its considera
ton is equivalent to its passage in the
house. that the situation in the Senate
is favorable and If the bill passes thu