The Dolores star., 1902-06-06


Indian appropriation bill and the omni
bus claims bill.
The Senate committee on naval af
fairs has agreed to report favorn bl,
the bill providing for the retirement oi
| Naval Constructor Richmond L. Hob
son.
\ bill has been introduced in The
Senate providing for the promotion OF
| Major General Brooke. the senior ma
| jor general and for the generals re
! tirement with that rank.
The ways and means committee has
| favorably reported bills extending to
/ Tacoma and Seattle, Washington, the
! privileges of immediate transit of mer-
| chandise in bond. and making Naco
Arizona, SUPPORT of entry.
/ \ delegation of Creek Indians called
on the President with petition in be
half of the bill providing for the allot-
ments of their lands in the Indian Ter
ritory and the disposition of townSites.
They want their allotmonts before the
| territory is admitted as state.
The Senate committee ON Indian af-
fairs by resolution asked to be dis
charged from consideration of the
House bill providing Tor free home
steads in the Ute Indian reservation In
Colorado. and that the bill 20 TO the
public lands committee. as being the
proper committee for its consideration.
The House committee on judiciary
has reported favorably. without
amendment the bill Introduced by
Senator Warren. which has passed the
Senate, providing that the Circuit
Court of Appeals be authorized and re-
quCStcd to hold at least one term an
nually at Denver or Cheyenne on the
first Monday in September of each
year.
Secretary Hay has requested the
Danish government To enter into u pro
tocol, extending for one year the period
Of time allowed Tor the ratification of
the treaty Of coSSion of the Danish
West Indian islands. This action is
necessary to keep alive the treaty as
ratified by the United States SENATE
until the Danish Eigsdag can act iinal-
ly upon it at the next session in Sep
tember.
Several western Republican members
of Congress voted in support of the
ShatrOth amendment to the Hill sub
sidiary coinage bill when it was be
fore the House. The amendment pro-
posed to strike out of the bill the pro-
vision 10 recOin the silver dollars into
subsidiary coin. and was defeated by
IA vote of 9S to So Representative
Mondell of Wyoming, Sutherland of
Utah and Martin of South Dakota
voted with the Democrats in support
of the amendment.
The Senate passed the following reso-
luton introduced 10y Senator HOar:
THAT the President be requested to
inform the Senate whether there be
any law or regulation in force in .Ie
Philippine Islands which will prevent
any native Of those islands who may
so desire, who is not under arrest and
against whom no charge of any offenSe
against the United States is pending.
from coming to the United States and
stating his views or desires as to the
interests of his people to the President
or either house of Congress"
President Roosevelt Informed a num-
Der of senators who called upon him
that he would sign the Indian appro-
priation bill. Some of the objections
he had to it have been met by special
legislation There is still IL provision
and that is the one which gives the ex-
elusive right 10 the Florence Mining
Company to prospect for one year all
the mineral lands on the Uintah reser-
walton in Utah. 1t is understood that
a bill will be Mt once introduced in
both houses of Congress repeating this
provision, which, If il passes. will have
the effect of allowing the general pub
lie to explore the land and establish
claims.
Captain Mcdonald, formerly of the
Twenty-siXth volunteer infantry, one
of the officers accused in Corporal
O'Brien's testimony, has been before
the Philippine committee of the SEN
ate. He denied all of the allegations
made by O'Brien and said O'Brien was
elsewhere at the times he claimed to
have been present. Mcdonald said that
American officers had not violated Il
Spanish woman nor other women, to
his knowledge. He also denied the
statement by O'Brien that he (McDon-
alD and a number of other officers mis-
behaved themselves at native dance
He showed that at the time alleged
Major Cooke one of the officers named
and himself were on duty elsewhere
The shooting of bearers of flags of
truce and the burning of a woman and
child by his command was another
story by O'Brien that he denied. Cap
tain Mcdonald said O'Brien was a
troublesome soldier from the first
The Shattuc immigration bill has
been passed in the House. The bill
brings together into one act all the
| scattered legislation heretofore enacted
| in regard to the immigration of aliens
\ into the United States. arranees it in
sequence, etc. eliminates what has he
7 come obsolete by reason of subsequent
3 legislation, amends some of the admin
( istrative features. and also adds somt
I provisions to the general laws and 9th
ers made necessary by the extension OF
I the territorial limits of the United
States. Among the more important
| changes are those increasing the heaC
tax on aliens coming into the United
| STATES by land transportation from 81
| to Sl.5O; adding to the excluded classe.
epileptics. persons who have been in
sane within five years, anarchists ol
| persons who advocate the overthrow