Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1902-12-06
WEEK ENDING DECEMBER 8, 1904.

President Roosevelt's annual message to
Congress urged legislation for the regula-
ton Of the trusts. warned against radical
tariff changes as a menace to prosperity,
urged the appointment of an expert COM
mission for a revision Of the tariff, and in
dorsed the reciprocity plan Of securing
reduction of duties. The last session Of the
Fifty-seventh Congress convened; Repre-
sentative Cannon was acknowledged to be
the sole candidate for Speaker Of the next
Congress; bill was reported to the Senate
as substitute for the House measure, pro-
v.ding that Oklahoma and the Indian terri
tory be admitted into the Union as one
state under the name of Oklahoma; Sena-
tor Cullom introduced bill in the Senate to
amend the Sherman antitrust law SO as to
prohibit Interstate commerce in articles
produced by trusts; the House of Represen-
tatives passed bill appropriating $4,000 to
defray the expenses of the anthracite coal
commission; bill was introduced in the
House removing the tariff from coal;
subcommittee of the House judiciary COM
mlttee reported favorably a bill providing
puphcity for corporations; the pension ap-
Propriatfon bill, as agreed upon by the
Rouse appropriations committee, amounted
TO $139, S47, 600; bills were introduced in the
House and Senate to preserve the public
lands Tor actual home-builders. The Sec
rotary Of the Treasury in his annual report
urged reforms in the currency system and
recommended plan to secure greater elias
ticity: the Secretary Of the Treasury SUBJ
.ar,, "a an estimate OF appropriations neces-
sary Tor government expenses for the fiscal
year, the total being $3.50. 49, 49, more than
sSloOo,oO0 less than the estimates for 1903:
.1e annual report Of the Secretary of War
advocated the establishment Of a general
staff for the army and asked relief for y
serious economic and financial situation in
me philippines; the controller of the cur
as,,d Gy IA ms annual report stated that in
uiNlouai deposits with national banks the
last hscai year We're So, 2O9, ga, 1913 90. ex-
eceding all previous records: the Secretary
OF Agriculture in his annual report an
nouneed that the fixed capital invested in
asllculture Is about $4,000 900 COO or
1our times the amount Invested in
llla1u1actures; the value Of gold and silver
products In 1901 was placed at about s112
S $50 me Japanese minister notified the
~ :, ate department that Mr.. Alfred E. Buck
the United States minister to Janan was
'dheh suddenly Ill while on q hunting trim
ana expired. Captain Pershing and sixty
nineIIGan soldiers completed march across
eiie 1sland OF M1ndanaO, probably the first
Wnlte men who ever made the Journey The
Distrlct or Columbia Court of Appeals de-
cided that Congress had not committed to
me postmaster General the matter of de-
ler!nlnlng what shall be admitted to the
mails as second or third-class matter: the
same court sustained Secretary Hay in re-
1uslng to claim damages from GERMANY for
Inc imprisonment of Ferdinand Holgendorf.
cate would undertake to float the debt of
Venezuela DR.. Adolf Lorenz arrived In the
east, where he will operate on children
anlicted with congenital hip disease before
sa1dng Tor nome. At the annual meeting of
the New England Anti-Imperialist League
In Boston the republican party was de-
nounced. Fourteen lives were lost in fire
at the Lincoln Hotel in Chicago Thirteen
persons were killed, twenty were seriously
injured. and several are reported missing as
the result of the explosion of a boiler in
SWIFT q Co.'S refrigerating plant in Chi
cago. A heavy storm ragged from Texas to
New England and traffic was suspended in
many localities. The four-maste Wesley
NJ. Oler foundered off Ocracoke, n. c., and
her crew of ten men were drowned. Many
barges were wrecked on the Hudson river
and four men were reported drowned
The steamer Charles Hebard was wrecked
In Lake Superior and fifteen persons on
board were drowned the schooner Aloha
In tow. with a crew of seven, also went
down; the schooner Celtic with a crew Of
eight, was reported missing on Lake Huron
Twelve workmen were killed and over forty
hurt at San Francisco by the explosion Of
an oil tank on the steamer Progresso Four
men were killed and three fatally hurt by
an explosion Of gas in the Like FIdler COL
liery at Shamokin, Pa. One man was
killed and three hurt in head-on collision
the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad near
Youngstown Ohio. In collision on the
Cincinnati Southern Railroad at Sunbright
Tenn, two men were killed, a negro tramp
fatally injured and eight men seriously
hurt.
Foreign Affairs.
Professor Asser of The Hague, the arbi-
traitor in the sealing disputes between this
country and Russia, awarded damages to
the United States The British house OF
commons passed the education bill; General
De Vets story of the Boer war, published
in London, declared that the Beers lost be-
hIIrC fa1 n
their colors; Andrew Carnegie sailed from
Southampton for New York. 1t was re-
ported that Prince Henry of Pless was
seeking the position of ambassador to the
United States; President Castro offered to
settle Germany.s claims against Vene-
zuela by means of deferred payment, but
it was reported that Germany did not look
with favor upon this plan; socialists in the
reichstag engaged in more disorder. Dep
uty Fourier introduced a bill in the
French chamber for the abolition of titles
of nobility. Premier Sagasta presented his
resignation to the King of Spain, stating
that his present action was irrevocable. A
Roman eX-policeman was arrested with a
bomb, which he intended to throw into the
Italian chamber of deputies. The Greek
cabinet resigned The general budget of
expenses and revenues in Cuba for 1903
showed an estimated surplus Of 50, GA 032.
Among those who died were Sir Frank
Green, formerly lord mayor of London, and
Count Richard Beloredi. who was Austrian
premier at the time of the Austro- Prussian
war
In the District.
The Commissioners forwarded to the
President their annual report for the fiscal
year ended June 30, 1902. The House COM
mittee on the District of Columbia decided
to accept the Massachusetts, avenue site for
the proposed union railroad station, and a
unanimous report was ordered to be made
on the measure; the committee amended the
bill. however. by cutting down the amount
to be paid to the railroads by the District
and general government by $1,000 Co., and
voted to perfect the clause in the bill grant
ing the right to allow any road in the fu-
ture to use the station. Senator Gallinger.
acting chairman of the Senate committee
the District, introduced a joint resolu-
ton in the Senate proposing to amend the
Constitution of the United States SO as al
low the District representation In Con-
gress and in the electoral college, keeping
the control of municipal affairs, however,
vested in Congress; the Commissioners for
warded a report to Chairman Babcock of
the House District committee a joint
resolution to enlarge the use of electric
conduits in the District, stating that while
they did not object to the railroad COM
panies using their conduits to supply light
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