The Springfield herald. (Springfield, Baca County, Colo.) 1887-1919, 1902-08-01
LATE WASHINGTON NEWS AND
GOVERNMENTAL PROCEEDINGS

gated the grounding of the battlesiip
Illinois while entering Christiania hnr-
Dor recently. has found that no blame
attaches to the officers or crew. Adj
miral Crowninsheld approves the re
port.
The secretary of the interior has for
warded to the board of health of Hon
olulu samples of an alleged cure for
leprosy submitted by II Brooklyn ply
stefan in behalf of fellow practi-
toner abroad. The board has agreed
to use the samples in its experimental
research. The boards of health of San
Francisco and New Orleans also will
be asked to test the alleged cure.
The President has designated Col.
+. NJ. O'Reilly to be surgeon general
of the army to succeed General For
wood, who will retire September Tth
next. Colonel O'Reilly will have until
January, 1909. to serve as surgeon gen
eral. He was appointed from Pennsyl-
vania as n medical cadet in 1864. He
is graduate of the medica. depart
ment of the University Of Pehnsylva-
mia.
Some weeks ago Senator Penrose
filed papers with the President, which
he asserted tended to substnntiate the
American who has been in trouble in
Mexico. against United States Ambas-
sador Clayton. to the effect that tl4
ambassador was directly interested to
the extent of 100 shares in a mining
corporation antagonistic to Mealey's
claims. The papers were referred to
the State Department and now the
senator has been informed by Acting
Secretary Hill that the President has
decided to send them to Mexico, nvit-
ing Mr.. Clayton to examine them and
make Il report. The case of Mealey
was one of the two referred to in the
stirring debate in the Senate in the last
session, involving an encounter be-
tween Senators Bailey and Beveridge.
In consequence of the act passed by
the last Congress. amending the re-
yised statutes so rs to permit the IS
suance of passports to persons owing
allegiance to the United States. wheth-
er citizens or not, the secretary oil
state has drawn up rules under when
passports shall hereafter be granted
and has submitted them to the Presl-
dent, who has approved and signed
them. Hereafter passports will be is
sued to loyal Filipinos. Porto Ricans,
etc, under rules prescribed by the
President, which are about to be sent
to Governor Taft and to other insular
governors. The effect of the new law
and of the rules now going into effect
will be to extend TO loyal residents of
our insular possessions the same pro-
lection and the same passport that cit-
liens of the United States now enjoy
in their travels.
Eighty miles in an army wagon
drawn by regulation mules, over roads
that are not excellent at the best of
times, but We're rendered almost i'm
passable in some places by heavy
downpours of rain, was the experience
of Elihu Root. secretary of war, few
days ago. Mr.. Root said that he en-
joyed the trip immensely. Maj. Gen.
Henry c. Corbin. the adjutant general
of the army, who was one OF MIR.
Roots companions. said the same. In
addition to General Cotbin, the secre-
tary asked Brig Gen. Leonard Wood
and Col. Wallace Randolph. chief of
artillery, to go with him. OF course,
they accepted. Colonel True, the army
depot quartermaster in Washington,
said he could get them from Wash
ington to Leesburg and back in sin
gle day, and he kept his word. The
distance from Washington TO Leesburg
and back over the route taken by the
secretary's party is about ninety-four
miles. but part of ii was made in tho
secretary's carriage and in n trolley car.
The journey behind the mule team be-
gan at Cabin John bridge
Through the United States charge of
embassy at ST. Petersburg, Mr.. Riddle,
the State Department has just received
n copy of the Russian note touching
upon trusts, which has excited so
much comment in Europe. This note,
which takes the form of a circular,
was identical and was handed in st.
Petersburg 10 the representatives of all
the powers that participated in the
Brussels sugar conference, and, in adj
dtion to Mr.. Riddle for transmission
10 his government ut Washington. Just
why this was done. in view of the fact
that the United States government was
not represented at the Brussels CON
ference can only be conjectured, and it
is supposed that it was supplied as
matter of information and us a cour-
tesy. Certain it is that in the present
view the United States executive can
not participate in such Il conference
as it described. even if there We're no
other objections. From a perusal of
the note, which is in official print. it
appears that its reference to trusts,
which are rather incidental and alter
native in character, have attracted the
principal share of public attention al
though the whole note appears 10 be
framed as an argument in support of
the Russian system of regulating SUI
gar production and export. The ref
erence TO an international trust confer
ence is actually therefore presented in
the shape of an alternative proposal,
or rather suggestion. only in case the
soundness of the Russian contention in
support of its present system is sue
cessfu.ly challenged.