Gilpin observer., 1902-01-30

was maze during the absence or
number of interested senator's. In the
executive session Wednesday Senator
Teller asked that the confirmation be
reconsidered and the nomination re-
ferred back to the judiciary commit
tee for a rehearing. Daniels will be
called upon to explain his previous oc-
cupations and certain incidents in his
career in Colorado and elsewhere. 1t
is charged that he was formerly a
gambler.
Having failed after two years strife
in subduing the insurrection in Batan-
gas province, which lies just south Of
Manila, and having satisfied himself
that lenient treatment of the insur-
gents Is productive of no good results,
General J. FRANKLIN Bell, the military
commander of that province, has de-
termined on the enforcement of the
war in the most vigorous and deter
mined fashion, involving reconcentra-
tion in a modified form, the applica-
ton of martial law in all directions
and the unsparing pursuit and punish
ment of the natives who act as spies
and traitors to the United States. All
this appears from long report to the
war department just published.
Senators Clark of Montana and
Clapp of Minnesota, as sub-commit-
tee Of the regular committee on Indian
affairs are drafting bill to entirely
abolish the tribal relations of Indians.
1t is proposed to have all moneys In
the United States treasury credited to
the tribes divided per capita and In
dividual accounts kept with each In
dian. Allotments are to be treated
the same way. The property of de-
Tn1f f, - tn bnf in
stead Of revert to the tribe. The whole
idea of the bill is to treat the Indian
as an Individual, instead of an unrec-
ognized part Of n tribe, in all govern
ment transactions. The plan is sup
ported by the Indian commissioner and
favored in the Senate and House.
The general board of army officers,
which has been examining army posts
in the United States with view to
future action concerning them by the
War Department, has made report
which has not been made public. 1t
is known that the report recommends
that Forts Russell, Wyoming; Logan,
Colorado, and Douglas, Utah, be made
| permanent military establishments and
that each of these posts will be en-
larged considerably. Forts Russell and
Douglas will be enlarged to accommO-
date full regiment of infantry and
company of artillery, which is an in
crease over their present size of about
fifty per cent. Fort Logan will also
be increased in about the same proper
J ton. A number of smaller posts in the
! West have been designated as tempo
rary" and some of these are recon-
mended for abandonment, though not
Immediately.
The treaty of cession of the Danish
West Indian islands from Denmark to
the United States has been signed at
the State Department by Secretary
Hay and Constantin Brun, Danishs
minister. The treaty will be submitted
to the Senate for ratification imme-
diately. Following the invariable rule
in such cases, the State Department
officials decline OF make public any
of the details Of the treaty, SO that it
is not possible to state positively the
price to be paid. though this is believed
to be in the neighborhood of $1,000, 600.
1t is known also that Denmark has
abandoned the position she was in
clined to occupy toward the conserva-
ton of the political rights of the in
! habitants of the island, and leaves TO
the United States a free hand to deal
with them, without pledge of Ameri-
can citizenship or of free trade priv
ileges So 1t is assumed that the status
Of the Danish West Indian islands,
politically and commercially, should
the treaty be ratified, will be similar to
that Of Porto Rico.
Former Secretary of State John w.
Foster appeared before the Senate
committee ON immigration on the 23d
and spoke in opposition to the Chinese
exclusion bills which have been intro
duced in Congress. His remarks were
directed more particularly to the Mitch
ell or Pacific coast bill, which, he said,
was plain violation of our treaty with
China. Mr.. Foster said our govern
ment had four times asked China to
modify existing treaties in the interest
Of American citizens, and that in every
instance China had acceded to our re-
quest. He then submitted for the con-
sideration of the committee three prop
ositions: The first was that any law
passed by the present Congress which
continues the exclusion Of Chinese Ia
borers beyond 1904 would be not only
without international authority, but
would be In violation Of treaty stipula-
tions. He said that during the nego-
tiations resulting In the treaty Of 1894
the United States sought to have the
exclusion Of Chinese laborers extended
to twenty years and that the Chinese
government refused to make 1t for
more than ten years. He also insisted
| that when the treaty Of 1894 came to
an end, the Burlingame treaty Of 1868
would be received and come into force,
which treaty stipulated for the free
and unrestricted immigration OF Chi
nese Of all classes into the United
States. The treaty, he said, had only
been suspended as to immigration.
not abrogated. His second proposition
was that the exclusion laws should not
be made applicable to all our insular