The Springfield herald., 1902-07-04
LATE WASHINGTON NEWS AND
CONGRESSIONAL PROCEEDINGS


Senator Tefler's bill referring to Court
of Claims the cases of the confederated
bands of Ute Indians in Colorado.
President Roosevelt has sent to the
House veto of the bill removing the
charge of desertion from the record of
Ephraim III. GALLON. who served in
Tennessee volunteer regiment during
the Civil War. The President cites the
records of the War Department to
show that the record of desertion
should be allowed to stand.
Arrangements have been completed
for moving the presidents offices ana
quarters while the repairs to the White
House are being made. The Scott
mansion on Jackson place, opposite
Lafayette square, has been leased for
short time. Here the presidents Of
fees will be located, and when in the
city he will occupy apartments In the
same building.
The general deficiency bill has
passed the Senate. A slight protest
was made against the appropriations
of $5OOOOO for the Buffalo Exposition
and 100000 for the Charleston EXPO
sition, but finally they We're included
in the bill. The measure also carries
$4,000 for the payment of the eX-
penses of the last Illness and death of
President Mckinley, the amount in
Guiding the pay Of the physicians.
The Kansas delegation in Congress,
headed by Senator Burton. escorted Il
committee from that state to the White
House and invited the president to at
tend May 30, 1904, the anniversary of
the signing of the Kansas Nebraska
bill, thar finally admitted Kansas as Il
free state. The president said that
while he could not commit himself nt
this time, he felt that he would accept
the invitation.
Representative Foss OF limos,
chairman of the naval committee of the
house, has introduced bill to estaD-
llsh an engineering laboratory, to be
known as the Melville engineering lab
oratory, after Rear Admiral Melville,
chief engineer of the navy, who Will
soon go on the retired list. The Dill
provides that the laboratory shall be
on governmeAt land designated by the
secretary of the navy and cost. with
equipment, not exceeding $4OO,oOo, OF
which 100000 is appropriated.
Senator Clark of Montana presented
the conference report, which was
agreed to- on the bill providing for the
protection of miners lives in the terri
tories. The bill provides that owners
shall furnish adequate ventilation ana
either sprinkle mines containing coai
dust. or, If inexpedient to do this, re-
move such dust from the mine. fro-
fessional shot tircrs must be employed
in the Indian Territory. Where the
mines nre gaseous. but such employ
ment is not necessary in other terrific
rieS.
Secretary Root declines to discuss
details of Governor Taft's negotiations
at Rome until they are complete. They
are proceeding steadily and In the
usual course. each side seeking to make
the best possible bargain, with the re-
suit that there have been several ex-
changes since the original proposition
of Governor Taft touching the friar
lands. These are reported to Secre-
tary Root almost daily, with eXplana-
tory comments by himself and sugSes-
tions to Governor Taft for framing OF
the counter proposals.
On June 25th the senate disposed for
this session of the omnibus statehood
question. which has been pending for
several days. Mr.. Beveridge. chairman
of the committee on territories. an
nounced that n report on the bill before
the committee would be made on the
third day of the next session. This
was satisfactory to Mr.. Quay. who.
after securing an agreement that the
committees report should be untin-
ished business on and after the 10th
of December until it was disposed of.
Withdrew his motion to discharge the
committee from further consideration
of the measure.
n
tional League of Press Clubs ut Bos-
ton few nights since, President
Roosevelt said: speaking in Boston.
/ should like to say that one of the
measures the present Congress has
passed in which l took the keenest in
terest Is that of the irrigation of the
arid lands of the West. That measure
could not have been passed save by
the votes and hearty support of very
large number of representatives of
states which had no possible pecuniary
!nteres in its passage. In other words
TO put 1t through was necessary to ap-
peal to the broad patriotism of a large
number of people who could have no
special interest to be subserved by it,
Senator Warren of Wyoming called
upon the President n few days ago and
suggested that he take Il trip this sum
mer through the northern tier of west
ern states adjoining the Canadian bor-
der. President Roosevelt had some
time since Suggested horseback ride
across Wyoming, and Mr.. Warren told
the president he would arrange relays
of horses for such trip If the Presi-
dent would take It, The plan would be
to give the President a jaunt of several
hundred miles through Wyoming and
Montana from the line of the Union
Pacific to some point on the Northern
Pacific. 1t would take the President
through part of the country where