, 1902-02-13

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lations ordered a favorable report on
the treaty to acquire the Danish West
Indies. No amendment was made to
the treaty in committee.
Secretary Root has called the atten-
tion of Congress to the need of pro-
viding for the fifty companies of Phil
ippine scouts, comprising about 5000
men. A deficiency appropriation is re-
quired of S515. 1000.
The Senate has confirmed the nomi-
nation of Medical Inspector Presley NJ.
RiXey, u. S. N, to be chief of the
bureau of medicine and surgery in the
navy, with the rank of rear admiral.
Also other naval promotions.
The proposition to dispose of the
United States transports and to depend
upon private steamship corporations
for the transportation of troops in the
future does not meet with very general
approval in Congress.
Secretary Long has detached Rear
Admiral Wildes from his present duty
as commandant of the Pensacola navy
yard and ordered him to relieve Rear
Admiral Louis Kempff, the junior
squadron commander on h Asiatic
station.
The House committee on labor has
reported %favorably the bill of Repre-
sentative Bartholdt of Missouri TO pre-
vent the United States Marine band
and other army and navy bands from
competing with civilian bands or indi-
viduals-
Inc House committee on colhase mas
acted faVorably on the bill
ing Tor estaDilshlhe II plunSh
mint at Tacoma washington. ne
general purpose OF thls new rnhS 10
gold and silver coming from Alaska.
Ihe comparative statement Oh the
oNefnmen receipts ana eNpehSeH
snow that during ahuafy' NV me
total receipts We're S4O,0S2' l43' ana the
expenditures S3S.54S,21, leaving n sur
Plus Tor the month OF SS'o33,ooo Ine
surplus Tor tne orrespohuinS moh'h
ihsI year was S1foo'ooo'
Representatiye Boreing of Kentucky
has reintroduced n bill providing for
the establishment OF IL pension court
OF appeais. Inc pih proNlues iol lne
ppolntHnen OF seven JUICES "hUse
duty II shall DE 10 near arguments LOT
the granting or the increase OIL special
coming 10 TOT reliel'
The friends of the oleomargarine bill
have no doubt of its passage. They re-
gard the vote on the adoDtion of the
special order last Friday as practically
n test vote The bill is practically the
Grout bill imposing n tax of 10 cents
n pound on products colored in imita-
ton of butter and to make retail deal
PfS who color OlpOmurElrlnp SllD1ect TO
the same pehaities as the hlahulactur-
ers.
Their is n growing disposition among
senators and members who keep close
watch upon Legislative conditions to
believe that there will be no bill for
a canal across the isthmus between the
Atlantic and Pacific oceans during the
present session of Congress-. The
truth is that nine out of every ten men
one meets in Congress or out of 1t is
disposed TO see Il scheme in his sud
den desire of the Frenchmen to sell
out their rights.
Seno iioai, Nv ani1s
,ie I'M uuitrS Ia ,epoa.eu % tno
word Conspiracy" and the use of re
straining orders IND injunctions" in
tAiStGs II UNI pio' it'o Nhaib "
combination to do an act or not to do
it shall not be punished more severely
than the act itself, and that combi-
nations of this character between en-
ployers and employees engaged in inter
state commerce shall not be considered
In restraint of trade or The
bill is intended to aid in adjusting la
Dor disputes ON railroads.
Tho Uouso ON tba 9Th nossed tho
lo,isI,,ivo oxocu,i,,o and irIioioI a.
nronrIntion hin Tho secnnd nf Tho rag-
Mar sunniv hilis As nassad n c[or,.ies
So5 ~ oG6 which 10 sto9 Toi in axcaSs
of tba cnrront law onIv tu,n mend
mants of imnortance wa,.e ,dnntad
One provides for n commission to re-
district the Legislative districts OF
Oklahoma, and the other authorizes
the President. in his discretion, to COW
err into the civil service the temporary
clerical force employed on account of
the wal with Spain. There are about
1,25O of these clerks still in the service.
BY the terms of the amendment the
President must place all or none of
them under the civil service.
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