Durango semi-weekly herald., 1902-07-03
TELEGRAPH NEWS.


Congress is all ready for adjournment
sid only the delay on the Philippine
bill now in conference prevents them
from getting away tomorrow. II was
expected that the conference commit
tee would come to an agreement at 10
O'Clock this morning, but at II they
are still in session although a report
is expected early in the afternoon.
The matter of coinage. the question
of silver or gold appears to be the
| stickler for the Philippine measure.
but 1t is liable to be settled by the ma
iority in a way that will prevent a
| protracted debate over the report
when il is presented to the senate and
the hogse If the Philippine bill is
| Gotten out of the way by tonight only
| The two appropriation bills, the gen
| efal deficiency and raval will remain
TO be considered and they can be hur-
| lied through tomorrow. Nearly all
| the senators and representatives are
| making arrangements to leave Wash
ington tomorrow night or Wednesday
| morning. 1t is generally regarded
| that the session has been productive
Of much good. The repeal OF the rev.
me taxes saved the country nearly
| eighty millions annually. The pas
sage of the irrigation bill was of great
I importance to the west, while the only
| important features omitted are laying
aside the anti-anarchy matter and
postponins the statehood bill
| WASHINGTON, d. C.. June 30
Tho
| agreed to adjourn congress at 3 p. m.
| tomorrow, An agreement was reach
| "a by the conferees today on the Phil
ppi1e civil government bill. but short
ness of time prevented its enrolment
| IN time to adjourn today. An agree
| Tent was reached by both branches of
| congress dropping their amendments
10 the coinage clause. The house
| amendment providing for native leg
| islature was accepted. providing it is
| not to be effective until the census of
| the islands is taken and results com
| municated to Washington
ANNAPOLIS. Md, June 30.-Arrange-
ments We're completed here this ai
| ternoon for conveying the body of
| Lord Pauncefote to the cruiser Brook
| lyn now lying here. which will carry
| the body of the dead ambassador to
England. The service here will be
quite elaborate. All the cadets and
all the blue jackets will participate.
The Brooklyn will sail for England
with tomorrow's flood tide
CHEYENNE, Wyo. June 30-Not
| man is working in the Union Pacific
shops here today. At noon the twelve
remaining machinists who had not
been discharged went on strike. Sew
| aral hundred mechanics are out here
KANSAS CITY. Mo-. June 30.-At
| Armstrong. Kansas, a score of Union
| Pacific mechanics struck today. They
We're all who remained at work after
| the company discharged over hun
lred last week.
WASHINGTON, June30.-President
| Roosevelt is a man of surprises. Last
week a delegation of town bomers
from New Mexico reached Washing
ton. They came to secure the reap
pointment of their postmaster. He
| had the Endorsement of so per cent
of the inhabitants and all the polti-
| clans were for him. They thought
| hey would carry off the prize with a
us h, but We're dumbfounded when the
president proceeded to discuss their
local conditions as if he were himself
4 resident of the town.
He told them he knew all about
their little scheme. They We're in
terested in booming the town. To
boost it a little, and help their post
master they had agreed to buy post
age stamps, not for use as stamps,
but to make payments with for goods
bought in the east. This fictitious
buying of stamps had led to an in
crease of the postmaster's salary but
the president declared that inasmuch
as that official had been a party to
| the scheme he would not reappoint
him and had about made up his mind
to call for the postmaster's resigna-
tion.
In vain did the boomers offer such
excuses as they could think of They
said this was a common practice in
the west. But the president refused
to relent, and the delegation sadly
wended its way down the stairs.
DENVER. June 3O.-The state OF
Colorado began proceedings in the
supreme court today to dissolve the
smelter trust, on the grounds that it is
n combine to restrict competition in
the smelter business and injurious to
one of the chief Industries of the
state. A receiver has been asked for
the property.
| HAVANA, June 3O.-The failure oil
the United States to grant reciprocity
concessions has had the effect OF
driving away many large American
business interests from the island
including Armour & Swift's packing
houses. The fears of an approaching
commercial and financial crash have
assumed the proportions of a panic.
NILES, Mich. June 25.-Andrew
Jackson, a well-to-do resident, diet
today as the result of paralytiC
stroke, which, in depriving him of the
power of speech, rendered him unable
to communicate to his family the hid
ing place of a large sum of money ii
gold which he had hidden away thre,
wears ago when a local bank failed
Jackson had several thousand dollarl