The Lamar register., 1902-02-05

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Senate n memorial from 1OS citizens
of the Indian Territory, including
many half-bloods, for the continuance
! of the law prohibiting the sale of alco-
holic liquors in the territory.
Secretary Root has called the atten'
tion of Congress to the need of pro-
| viding for the fifty companies of Phii-
ippine scouts. comprising about 5,ooo
F! men. A deficiency appropriation Is re-
quired of $4,000.
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 be
required to provide $500 cubic feet or
pure air for every fifty miners. 1t also
| provides that managers of coal mines
shall employ shot tirers.
The President has approved the rec
| ommendation of the secretary OF war
that the sentence of dismissal imposed
by court martial in the case of First
Lieutenant Preston Brown, Jr, Second
infantry, be commuted to the loss of
thirty-five numbers and forfeiture of
half of his pay for nine months. Lieu
tenant Brown was charged with hav-
| ing killed a Filipino who refused to
rescue n drowning soldier.
The Senate committee on commerce
has authorized Il favorable report on
Senator Frye's ship subsidy bill. The
report will be made by Senator
| Frye. The committee made several
amendments to the bill. The most i'm
portant were: Allowing mail carrying
/ vessels under the bill to be either iron
or steel. instead of steel only, rs orig
inally provided, and reducing to 1000
gross registered tons the vessels receiv-
ing Il bounty under the bill.
MIR. Lacey, chairman of the public
lands committee has introduced bill
authorizing the President to transfer
by executive order any forest reserves
to the control of the Department of Ag-
riculture, and after the transfer all
| laws relating to the same under the
| Department of the Interior shall apply
to their regulation, administration and
control in all respects under the Depart
ment of Agriculture. The President Is
also authorized to set apart such forest
reserves as he may deem proper for
game or fish preserves.
The Republican members of the
ways and means committee held Il pri-
vate conference Wednesday night and
| decided to frame n bill for the reduc-
| ton of war revenue taxes before pro-
cccding further with the subject of Gu
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once called II meeting of the full COM
mittee for IL o'clock tomorrow, when
work on the warrevenue reduction bill
will begin. Many leading congressman
are quoted as saying that they believe
| Cuba will be forced to seek annexation
by the delay in tariff concessions.
Senator Morgan. chairman OF the
committee on inter-oceanic canals, has
prepared n report which he has sent
| to each member of the committee rel
ative to the canal situation, since the
| offer of the Panama company to sell
! its property for S40,O0O,OOO was made.
The report takes the ground that the
Panama company cannot give the
| United States n good and sufficient IT,
tie and also criticises the whole mat
| ter as Il movement intended to delay
| canal legislation. The report Will be
| considered ut the meeting next Mon
day.
The House has passed the bill for the
creation of n permanent census bur
reau The friends of the civil service
! law. who were opposed to making the
| employees of the bureau eligible FOR
| transfer or retention, We're overwhelm-
| ingly defeated. By the terms of the
bill the permanent organization Will
| succeed the present temporary organ
ization July 1. 1902. and all employees
| on the rolls upon the date of the pas
sage of the act will become eligible for
| transfer to other departments or reten-
ton in the permanent organization.
| The bill also provides for manufac-
turing census in 1903 and for the col
lection of certain special statistics an
nually.
President Roosevelt has carried out
x-ts,..t,
Seth Bullock, that in future forest
rangers shall be selected by the super
visors, and not by the secretary of the
interior. by writing n peremptory let
ter to the secretary of the interior to
that effect. 1t directs the secretary In
future to leave the appointment OF
forest rangers wholly in the hands of
the forest supervisors, who know what
is required and who will name western
men, familiar with the country. able
to camp out in snow or blizzard and
to meet every requirement of the ard
uous situation. Eastern theorists and
''tenderfeet" must no. be given places.
Mr. Shafroth is working among the
membership of the House with view
to getting n majority in line to vote
against the passage of the Hill bill,
which provides for the exchange of sill
yer and gold and the recoinage of sill
yer dollars so received in exchange for
subsidiary coins. Mr.. Shafroth says
he is assured by many Republican
members that they are opposed to the
passage of the bill, among whom are
Galusha A. Grow of Pennsylvania and
Mr.. Loud of California. Mr.. Shafroth
is of the opinion that when the bill
comes up in the house in the course of
n week, it can be defeated by the joint
votes of Democrats and Republicans,
providing the Republicans do not hold