The Elk Mountain pilot., 1902-07-08


The House committee on foreign ar
fairs reported n resolution giving the
| thanks of Congress to Admiral kempn
for his conduct during the siege OF
Taku, China
| The Senate adopted resolution au-
| thorizing the committee on territories
| to sit during the recess to consider
pending bills for admission of territo-
ries to statehood. The committee was
authorized TO send for papers and per
sons.
Mr.. Gallinger, chairman of the Sen
ate committee on pensions, made Il
brief statement of the work done by
the pensions committee during the re-
cent session. 1t showed that the bills
relating 10 pensions introduced in the
House aggregated 1918, while the ag-
pregate introduced in the Senate was
2,J52. The total number passed by
both the House and the Senate was l.
151.
The general deficiency bill has
passed the Senate. A slight protest
was made against the appropriations
of S5OO,0O0 for the Buffalo Exposition
and 100000 for the Charleston Expo
sltion. but finally they We're included
in the bill. The measure also carries
$4,000 for the payment of the eN-
penses of the last illness and death of
President Mckinley, the amount in
cludlng the pay of the physicians.
Secretary Root cabled to Acting Gov
ernor Wright of the Philippine com
mission the substance of the changes
made in the Philippine civil govern
ment bill, the conferees, and inciden-
tally sent the following commentator
of the commissioners work: Il CON
gratulate the commission upon the con-
tidence and approval of Congress evil
denced by its adoption of your acts
and continuance and enlargement of
your authority"
An unusually large number of prcsi-
dental nominations failed to be acted
on by the Senate, including many nom
nations to minor offices both in the
army and navy. a number of nomi-
nees to postoffices failed of confirma-
ton, and this fate befell several whose
names We're sent in last December
soon after the beginning of the session.
Unless reappointed they will not be
able to hold their places, now that Con
gress has adjourned.~
AT Secretary Moody's suggestion the
Cabinet adopted names for the SIX
new ships of war authorized by the
naval appropriation bill. The four
larger ships, two battleships and two
armored cruisers, will be named Louis
lana. Connecticut, Tennessee and
Washington, but II is not settled which
states shall be chosen for the battle
shipts and vice versa. The two gun
boats provided for in the act will be
named the Paducah and the Dubuque.
Representative Shafroth on the last
day of the session presented to the
House memorial of the Colorado
State Legislature protesting against
the passage of any bill tending 10 re
duce the volume of national currency
by retiring greenbacks. and the re
demption of silver dollars in gold. Also
resolution of the Legislature protest.
ing against retaining American SOW
ereignty in the Philippines by force of
arms. and favoring ultimate self-gov-
ernment of the islands. with the eNer-
else Of American protection over them.
The records at the capitol show that
every bill presented to President Roose-
welt was signed by him before Con
gress adjourned. This is exceptional,
as it generally happens that some
measures are overlooked or forgotten
I'm the hurry. The total number of bills
introduced in the House during the re-
cent session was 1880 Three com
mittees of the House handled two
thirds of these bills-the committee on
war claims having 2,4SS of those. the
committee ON invalid pensions 6.509,
and the committee on military affairs
2.336.
Congressman Shafroth, when he
heard the report of the conference
committee on the Philippine bill. said
that the compromise in regard to the
coinage provision, in which neither sill
yer nor gold coinage is established in
the islands. was encouraging to those
a tod Al a.,
of the silver coinage in that it leaves
the question still open TO be deter
mined hereafter. The clause simply
provides for subsidiary coinage of a
kind that is now being used in the is
lands. Mr. Shafroth said that the de
mand for gold standard in the is
lands simply arose from the needs of
the officers and Americans employed
there. and that when they We're with
drawn the demand for it would not be
so great.
Senator Warren of Wyoming called
upon the President Il few days ago and
suggested that he take a 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 1t. The plan would he
TO give the President a iaunt 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 a part of the country where
he rode the range when in the cattle
business along the Little Missouri in
the early eighties.
The labor committee of the House
perfected and ordered favorable re
port on the bill empowering the Presi-