Gilpin observer. (Central City, Colo.) 1897-1921, 1902-02-27

Guiding the pertified forests.
The Senate has passed Senator War
ren's bill making appropriation to
build monument to mark site of Fort
Phil Kearney Indian massacre in
Wyoming
The Senate committee on foreign re-
latiOns ordered favorable report on
the treaty to acquire the Danish West
Indies. No amendment was made to
the treaty in committee.
Secretary Root has called the atten.
ton Of Congress to the need of pro
viding for the fifty companies of Phil
ippine scouts, comprising about 5000
men. A deficiency appropriation is re
quired of $4,000.
The senate committee on foreign re-
lations authorized favorable report on
the bill reforming the consular service.
| The bill requires n civil service exam
nation of applicants for consular
places.
The Senate has confirmed the nomi-
nation of Medical Inspector Presley NJ.
Rixey, U. s. N, to be chief of the
bureau of medicine and surgery in the
navy, with the rank of rear admiral.
Also other naval promotions.
Harry S. New has been offered the
| position of first assistant postmaster
general, to succeed w. NJ. Johnson of
New Jersey. Mr.. New has not yet
given his final answer. He is a mem
Der Of the Republican committee from
Indiana and is editor of the Indianapo-
! lis Journal. The change will occur
within two months.
The Senate in executive session Feb
|
the United States and Great Britain,
extending for twelve months from
July %, 1901. the time within which
British colonies or foreign possessions
| may give their adhesion to the conven-
ton signed March ., 1899, for the ten
| ure and disposition of real and per-
sonal property.
Senator Bacon has given notice of
his intention to offer an amendment to
the Philippine tariff bill declaring it to
be the intention of the United States,
! when order shall be restored in the,
| Philippine islands, to allow the fOrma-
| ton of a government for and by the
Philippine people and to guarantee
to them the same degree of liberty
and independence that this country has
pledged to the Cubans.
President Roosevelt and party left
shortly before midnight Monday for
New York to witness the launching of
the yacht Meteor, built for the EN-
peror of Germany. Accompanying the
President We're Mrs. Roosevelt, Miss
Alice Roosevelt, who is to christen the
| yacht; Secretary Root, Miss Root, Sec
rotary Hitchcock, Commander and
Mrs. Cowles, Senators Lodge and
Spooner and Representative Littauer.
The Senate has passed the bill estab-
fishing permanent census office. The
discussion related principally to the
collection and publication by the direc-
tor Of the census of statistics respect
ing the production of cotton. Mr.. ALI
son vigorously opposed the provision,
maintaining that the cotton statistics
gathered by the Department Of Agri-
culture were complete and accurate.
and that no necessity existed for their
duplication. Despite his opposition the
provision was inserted in the bill.
Senator Turner, by request, offered a
resolution rectiting that many of the In
dian schools of the country are being
conducted loosely, that pupils afflicted
with tuberculosis and other diseases
are admitted, to the detriment of the
health Of inmates of the schools, result
ing in an appalling mortality" that
the intermiXture of sexes results in n
| lowering of the standard of morality,
and that the commission of Indian af-
| fairs has done nothing to remedy the
| evils. The resolution authorizes the
committee on Indian affairs to make
an investigation of the subject and re-
| port to the Senate. The resolution was
referred to that committee.
| Mr.. Nelson (Minn) followed with n
legal argument dealing with various
phases of the Philippines question. In
] beginning he took Mr.. Patterson sharp
| ly to task for injecting sectarianism
into the discussion. holding that it was
| unwarranted and ineXcusable. 1t had
remained for Mr.. Patterson. too, he
said, to declare that the sending of
American teachers to the Philippines
| to teach the Filipino youth The English
language was an act of tyranny and
despotism. The foreign born people of
| the Northwest he said, might as well
| insist that it was tyranny and despot-
ism to be afforded the opportunity OF
sending their children to the public
school.
Discussing the Philippine tariff bill
| In the senate, Mr. Money of Mississippi
| argued that our position is liable to
bring on war with other nations at
| any time. when the $1,50O,OOOO per
week expenditure of the present time
would be vastly increased. We should
get rid of the islands, in our own inter-
est, Mr.. Money went on, and espe-
cially for the purpose of Graduating
from our country the practice ON the
part Of the congress of comforting au-
tocratic powers on the executive. We
will find before we terminate this ex-
pertinent he said. that the saddest day
of our history is the day that we
signed the Spanish treaty. Mr.. Money
denounced the Taft commission as
''uselessly pernicious."
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