The Holly chieftain., 1902-01-31
LATE WASHINGTON NEWS AND
CONGRESSIONAL PROCEEDINGS

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exclude the general public from the
floor when the House is not in session
except on card of admission from a
member Of Congress.
Secretary Root has called the atten.
tion Of Congress to the need Of pro-
viding for the fifty companies Of Phil
ippine scouts. comprising about 5000
men. A deficiency appropriat tion Is re-
quired Of $3.50
Senator Teller has laid before the
Senate q memorial from 106 citizens
Of the Indian Territory, including
many half-bloods, for the continuance
of the law prohibiting the sale Of alco-
holic liquors In the territory.
Secretary Long has detached Rear
Admiral Wildes from his present duty
as c0mmandant of the Pensacola navy
yard and ordered him to relieve Rear
Admiral Louis, Kempff, the Junior
| squadron commander on the Asiatic
station. Ne !
Senator Morgan has introduced a
bill placing General James Longstreet
on the retired list OF the army with
the rank of major, the rank he held
when he entered the service of the
Confederacy at the beginning of the
war.
i Mr.. Sibley of Pennsylvania made a
| speech in the House Tuesday in which
he strongly opposed any appropriation
for irrigation reservoirs in the West
on the ground that farmers in other
sections were already embarrassed by
low prices, due to over-Droduction.
The Senate committee on commerce
| has authorized a favorable report ON
Senator Frye's ship subsidy bill The
report will be made by sSenator
Frye. The committee made several
amendments to the bill. The most i'm
portant were: Allowing mail carrying
vessels under the bill to be either iron
or steel. instead of steel only, as orig
inally provided, and reducing to 1000
gross registered tons the vessels receiv-
ing bounty under the bill.
A delegation of Spanish war veter
ans called at the White House Thurs
| day and urged on the President the
wisdom and justice of giving Spanish
| war veterans preference over civilians
in appointments to positions In the
government civil service. The Presi-
dent said he recognized there was
merit in the request and said he would
take up the matter with the Cabinet
and do what he could to carry their
views into practical operation.
In the United States Supreme Court
Monday Attorney General Douglass of
Minnesota renewed his. motion for
leave to file bill of complaint on be-
half of the state against the Northern
Securities Company in the matter of
the merger of the Northern Pacific
railroad with other railroads, saying
that he had given notice to the defend
ants, as required by the courts. Per
mission was granted and Mr. Douglass
presented the matter. Attorneys for
the railroads replied and the court took
the question under adviscment.
Senator Morgan, chairman of the
committee on inter-Oceanic canals, has
prepared report which he has sent
to each member of the committee rel
ative to the canal situation, since the
! offer of the Panama company to sell
4 its property for S40,00O,OOO was made.
The report takes the ground that the
Panama company cannot give the
United States good and sufficient IT,
\ tie and also criticises the whole mat
ter as n movement intended to delay
canal legislation. The report will be
considered at the meeting next Mon
day.
President Roosevelt has carried out
| the promise made to Forest Supervisor
Seth Bullock, that in future forest
rangers shnll be selected by the super
visors, and not by the secretary of the
interior, by writing peremptory let
ter to the secretary of the interior to
that effect. 1t directs the secretary in
future to leave the appointment of
forest rangers wholly In the hands of
the forest supervisors, who know what
is required and who will name western
men, familiar with the country, able
to camp out in snow or blizzard and
to meet every requirement of the ard
uous situation. Eastern theorists and
"tenderfeet' must no. be given places.
Rising to question of privilege ear-
| ly In the session, Mr. Dubois of Idaho
had read an Associated Press dispatch
from Manila in which General Whea-
ton was quoted as criticising some ut
| terances of Professor Schurmanp In n
| speech delivered in Boston Mr.. .Du-
bOis thought the President, in the cir
cumstances, would be warranted in
reprimanding General Wheaton for his
utterances. He declared that such
comment upon the action of the Sem
ate was Outrageous and indecent"
and that the minority had had quite
enough Of threats and blackmail. The
debate thus precipitated took wide
range, covering the entire Philippine