Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1902-02-27
Resume Of the neWs.
Washington Notes.


Bills establishing marine hospita,s at
alsesours ana Savannah, Ga, have been
oueIea taVorably reported by the house
COMMITTEE on commerce.
The house committee on public lands
mas reported the bill making a public
reservation Of a tract in ARIZONA includ-
ing the petrified forests.
Inc senate committee on agriculture
Is considering the oleo bill recently
PASSED oy the house, and has been Civ
ing hearings for and against the meas
ure.
The bill creating a new United States
judicial district In Texas, with a nation
al district judge, has been acted favor
upon by the house judiciary COM
mittee,
The president has appointed Elliott
woods superintendent of the capitol
n its grounds. Mr.. Woods was as
sistart under the late Edward Clark,
former architect of the capitol.
The senate committee on foreign re-
lations has authorized a favorable re-
port on the bill reforming the con-
sular service. The bill requires a civil
service examination Of applicants for
consular places.
A delegation of four Creek Indians
have arrived in Washington to consult
their chief, Pleasant Porter, and 10
confer with the secretGr y of the interior
regarding a supplemental treaty now
In course of revision for submission to
n department.
A general order issued by Lieut.. Gen.
| Mics nnn m a n1in~ flo a -,,nx IiraAtc an
return to the former system of a de-
partment examination and a subse-
quent competitive examination in the
case of all enlisted men vino desire to
compete for appointments as second
lieutenants in the army.
Mr.. Tracewell, the controller of the
treasury has decided that a]ppropria-
tons made by congress for the United
States geological survey may be used
in part in the Hawaiian islands as a
part OF the United States within the
meaning of the appropriation act.
The secretary of the interior has sent
to the senate a letter from the acting
governor of Hawaii, calling attention to
the lack of a scheme of apportiOnment
OF the terms of the senators in the Ha-
waiian legislature, and announcing that
the failure to adjust the matter before
the November elections may lead to Sc
rious difficulties.
The senate, in executive session, re-
Gently, ratified a tire atty between the
United States and Great Britain extend
Ing for twelve months from July rs, 1901
the time within which British colonies
and foreign possessions may give their
adhesion to the convention signed March
2, 1899, for the tenure and disposition of
real and personal property.
The senate has passed bills appropri-
ating 100000 for a public building at
Deadwood, s. D.; to ratify an agree
ment with the lower Brule band of the
Sioux Indians in South Dakota, ana
appropriating so, 700 to carry the
treaty into effect: to provide for the
service of warrants issued by the
United States commissioners in the dis
trict OF Minnesota, and for the sum.
mary disposition by such commission
ers of certain cases connected with
the Indian liquor traffic.
Senator Turner, by request, has Of
> fered a resolution reciting that many OF
the Indian schools of the country are
being conducted loosely; that pupils
who are afflicted with tuberculosis and
other diseases are admitted, to the det-
riment Of other pupils. resulting in an
excessive mortality: that the mixing OF
the sexes results in a lowering of the
standard Of morality; n that, al
though the matter has been brought to
the attention OF the commissioner of In
dian affairs. nothing has been done TO
remedy the evils.