The Holly chieftain., 1902-05-02
LATE WASHINGTON NEWS AND
CONGRESSIONAL PROCEEDINGS

A crowd OF girl excursionists unable
TO get chairs sat on the floor Of the
White house during long wait for
the President.
Capt. Charles L. Clark has declined
the appointment Of special Laval rep
resentatiye AT the coronation of King
Edward and the President has named
Rear Admiral Watson for that mis-
sion.
President Roosevelt has expressed
his approval of the measure now pend
ing in Congress for the appropriation
or SO,OOO to erect monument In
Washington to the late Major General
John G. Fremont.
The agricultural appropriation bill
reported to the House to-day carries
about s5,2OO,Ooo, an increase of approx
imately 100000 over the appropria-
tons last year and decrease Of about
$4,000 from the estimate.
bill has passed the House reserv-
ing from the public lands in Oregon
public park for the benefit of the peo-
pie of the United States and the pro-
lection and preservation of the game.
fish and timber and all other natural
objects.
The Pension Bureau has issued
pension of $50 a month to Mrs. India
Stewart, mother Of Captain John s.
Stewart, a member Of the First Colo
rado. who was killed in the Philip
pines. This pension was granted by
special act of Congress.
The subcommittee Of the Senate
committee on military affairs has
agreed to recommend the incorpora-
tion in the army appropriation bill of
an amendment appropriating $JOO,OOO
with which to supply army posts with
libraries, schools, gymnasiums, ETC., to
take the place of the army canteen.
Secretary of State Hay, for the
United States, and Minister Concha,
for Colombia, have signed treaty pro-
viding for the transfer to the United
States of the rights incident to the con-
struction Of the proposed Panama
canal. This treaty is similar to the
protocol recently signed. the terms of
which have been published.
The President has determined the
succession to the vacancy of the inter-
national tribunal in Egypt by promot
ihS Juhst lloll NhS s"cuti
of First Instance to the Court of Ap-
peals to succeed Judge Kelly, resigned.
Judge Van Horn of Utah has been
named to fill the vacancy in the lower
court caused by the promotion.
The House committee on coinage,
weights and measures has favorably
reported Representative Shafroth's bill
to adopt the metric system, amending
it so that the system shall go into eff
feet in all departments of the govern
ment January /, 1904, and be legal
standard of weights and measures in
the United States January l, 1907.
The omnibus bill, providing for vari-
Gus public buildings throughout the
United States. has been reported to the
House from the Committee on Public
Buildings. The appropriation for the
Denver mint is increased from $5OO,O
to 100000. The appropriation for the
Leadville postotiice is increased from
$4,000 to SS5,0O0, and $135,OO0 is pro.
vided for the purchase of a site and
the erection Of a government building
at Colorado Springs.
A committee of negroes, composed of
Ex-Governor pinchback of Louisiana,
bishop a. Grant of Indiana, E. w.
hampton of Mississippi and W. Nc
Kinley of South Carolina, called on the
President and asked his support of the
Crumpacker resolution and the bill in
troduced by Senator Irwin, providing
for the appointment of commission
to investigate the conditions of the ne
gro. They declined to discuss the de-
tails of the interview, but said 1t was
very satisfactory one.
The State Department is taking steps
toward the settlement of the claims of
the missionaries and other Americans
who suffered from the boxer uprising
In China in 1900. To this end COM
mission has been created composed of
United States Minister Conger, Secre-
tary of Legation Bainbridge and Con-
sui Ragsdale of Tien Tsin, to ascertain
as near as may be the exact damage
sustained by each individual claimant.
The claims thus far filed number $50,
aggregating 100000.
Representative Richardson of Tenn
essee introduced the following resolu-
ton: Whereas, There has been re-
Gently an unusual increase In the price
of beef, mutton. veal and pork, which
is abnormal and due largely, II not al
together, to trusts and other combina-
tiOns alleged to be unlawful in their
organization; therefore be 1t resolved,
that the ways and means committee be
instructed to investigate the question
of the recent increase in the price of
these articles and determine the cause