The Springfield herald., 1902-02-21
IATE WASHINGTON NEWS AND
CONGRESSIONAL PROCEEDINGS

ketary of the navy.
The Senate committee on foreign re-
btions ordered a favorable report on
Uhe treaty to acquire the Danish West
Endies. No amendment was made to
Ihe treaty in committee.
Secretary Root has called the atten-
Mon of Congress to the need of pro
hiding for the fifty companies of Phil.
3ppine scouts. comprising about 5000
men. A deficiency appropriation is re
3luired of $515,0OO.
i The Senate has confirmed the nomi-
kation Of Medical Inspector Presley Nj.
(iixey, U. S. N, to be chief of the
bureau of medicine and surgery in the
havy, with the rank of rear admiral.
ALSO other naval promotions.
/ While no definite agreement has
been reached Il vote on the Philippine
karin bill in the Senate seems to be in
Sight. 1t appears likely that the vote
tnay be had next week. although the
matter yet is involved in some uncer-
Itainty.
Secretary Long has detached Rear
IAdmiral Wildes from his present duty
las commandant of the Pensacola navy
Ward and ordered him to relieve Rear
IAdmiral Louis Kempff, the junior
sa(Ies'H ssta( bn' commander on the N'''''f
Unless there shall be decided
Ichauge for the better in the condition
Iof the Presidents son before the end of
the week, it is probable that Prince
Henry of Prussia may be impelled to
defer his visit to the United States un-
til later in the year.
The House has passed the Lacey bill
| for the protection of miners in the ter
ritories. 1t provides that in every mine
over 100 feet in depth. mine owners oe
required to provide $500 cubic feet or
pure mir for every fifty miners. 1t also
provides that managers of conl mines
shall employ shot firers.
Miss Octavia Wheaton, daughter OF
Major General Wheaton, retired, was
married Monday to Frederick NJ. Nor
ley of Colorado Springs, at st. Johns
Church, Rev. DIR. Mackay Smith Off
cating. Owing to n recent death in the
groom's family, only relatives and
few close friends were present.
The first international womans suf-
frage conference and the thirty-fourtll
annual convention of the National
American Woman Suffrage Association
was begun here on the 18th with an
unusually large number of delegates In
attendance. The convention was pre-
sided over by Mrs. Carrie Chapman
Gait, its president.
The Foundry Methodist Church, a
historical building in this city, has
been sold to Thomas +. Walsh of Colo
RADIO for S203.77S cash. The church
building will be torn down and mod
ern office building erected on the site.
The property is on the corner of Four
teenth and G streets, one of the best
locations in Washington, containing
oVsr 1000 square feet and was sold
fJDhpproXimately SIS per foot.
Full authority is given for the state
ment that the protocol now being pre-
pared by Admiral Walker, chairman of
the Isthmian canal commission, and
DIR. Silva, the Colombian minister here,
will not contain any provision for the
relinquishment of sovereignty over the
isthmus. 1t is understood that the ter
ritory for the canal, which will be pro-
vided for in. the protocol, is strip
eight miles wide. four miles on either
side of the canal.
The House committee on Indian af-
fairs has struck from the annual In
dian appropriation bill the appropria-
tion for maintenance of the Indian
school Mt Grand Junction. This is the
result of difficulties, it is stated, be
tween the Indian school officials and
the municipal authorities of Grand
Junction over the sewerage system at
that place. the municipal authorities
insisting on charging the annual rent
al for connecting the sewage system
at the school with that of the city. Sen
ator Teller will insist and will doubt
less succeed in having the item
Incorporated in the bill when
it reacheh the Senate. This
school is Il pet institution OF Sen
ator Teller, who desires an additional
appropriation of $4,000 for the school
and has an amendment which he pro
poses to attach when the bill reaches
the Senate.
The postoflice appropriation bill has
practically been completed by House
committee and will be reported soon.
1t carries S13T GIG ,59S. an increase of
133,910 over the current npproprl-
at'on and of So. .1S5.022 over the esti-
mates. The largest item is S41 ,2oo.ooo
for railway transportation OF mails.
The rural free delivery service gets an
increase of 81 ,250.OOO. making the to-
tai $7,529, GOO, and provision is made to
place the rural carriers under CON
tract system, instead of salaries, as at
present. The extra allowance for fast
railway mail service between New
York and Washington is omitted, but
that for the service between Washing
ton and New Orleans and from Kansas
City to Newton, Kansas, is included.
There is no provision for pneumatic
tube service, that subject being COW
cred in separate bill. For increase of
salaries of postofiice clerks SS11.OOO is
allowed, and $2O0,OOO for increase in
salaries of railway employees.
The War Departments bill for the
REORGANIZATION of the army stall