Gilpin observer., 1902-05-29
LATE WASHINGTON NEWS AND
CONGRESSIONAL PROCEEDINGS

Of time allowed for the ratification of
the treaty Of cession of the Danish
West Indian Islands. This action 10
necessary to keep alive the treaty as
ratified by the United States Senate
until the Danish Rigsdag can act final
ly upon it at the next session in Sep
tember.
The Senate committee on public
building and grounds has reported the
omnibus public buildings bill. As re-
ported by Senator Fairbanks, the bill
carries net increase over the House
measure Of 3535, 100, making the ag-
gregate appropriation Of the bill $780,
941, ,15O. The changes include a raise
from 100000 to 100000 for the Den
yer mint building and an added $780,
OOO for the building at Laramie, Wy
oming.
According to the terms of the omni-
bus claims bill as passed by the Sem
ate and House after a report by the
conference committee, the state Of Wy
oming is to receive $7,7SO, the amount
of its claim on the government for the
care and maintenance of the Yellow
stone park in the years 1884, 1885 and
1856. The claim Of the heirs of William
Kiskadden of Denver, amounting to
F-i,oOV, ID 1ClSIlcu ny lllt W tnC
Court of Claims for judgment. Kis-
kadden lost 122 mules and horses, thir-
ty-two wagons and sixty-four sets of
harness in transporting the First Colo
RADIO volunteers from Denver to Fort
Union, New Mexico, in 1862. Nathan
Tanner of Sedgwick county is to re-
ceive $120 for supplies lost during the
Civil War. The Selfridge shipbuilding
claims were thrown out.
The Senate committee on judiciary
amended the conspiracy bill passed by
the House SO as to read: THAT no
agreement, combination or contract not
involving injury to property or
breach Of the peace, by or between two
or Ihore persons to do or procure to be
done, or not to do or procure not to be
done, any act in contemplation or fur
therance of any trade dispute between
employers and employees in the District
of Columbia, or in any territory of the
United States, or between employers
an1 employees who may be engaged in
trade or commerce between the several
states, or between any territory and
other territories, and states or states
and the District of Columbia and any
states or foreign nations, shall be
deemed criminal nor shall those en-
gagged therein be indicted or otherwise
punishable for the crime of conspiracy,
if such act committed by one person
would not be punishable as a crime;
nor shall such agreement, combination
or contract be considered as in re-
straint Of trade or commerce, nor shall
any restraining order or injunction be
issued with relation thereto"
Representative Shafroth is making n
strong effort to obtain the establish
ment' of a national soldiers home at
Denver. During the debate in the
House on a measure to provide n ma
tional sanitarium as branch of the
National Home Of Disabled Soldiers
at Hot Springs, South Dakota, Mr..
Shafroth secured the floor and in
neat five-minute speech made a plea
for his bill, which. he said. has been re-
ported to the House by the committee
on military affairs and has been prom
ised recognition by the speaker. 1.-The
gentlemen from South Dakota are do
ing their best in getting some recOgnl-
ton for the great West" said Mr.. Shat
roth, land l will vote for this measure.
but want to call attention to the fact
that there is no soldiers home in the
vast domain extending from the Mis-
souri, river to the Pacific ocean, except
one on the Pacific coast and one in the
valley Of the Missouri river; although
more than 10000 soldiers live within
n radius of 400 miles of Denver, and
the climate conditions are such that
the building of home there would be
of inestimable advantage compared to
the soldiers homes that have been con-
structed in other parts of the United
States" Mr.. Shafroth said he wanted
to see place furnished the old soldiers
where they may be cured of pulmonary
troubles and end their days free from
pain. II recognition from the speaker
ON this bill is not forthcoming shortly
1t is likely an attempt will be made to
haye the Senate amend the bill for the
sanitarium at Hot Springs, South Da-
kota. so as to add the desired provision
for Denver.
In discussing the immigration bill in
the House, Mr.. Shattuc of Ohio, chair
man of the committee on iBmigration,
said: "The immigration laws of this
country are fiagrantly violated. Those
Canadian steamship agencies in Eu-
rope do not hesitate to advertise openly
and guarantee to their passengers (the
good, bad and Indifferent ones) that
they shall be safely delivered into the
United States, and no questions asked,
IL they will only take passage via Can.
ada. 1t can be proven that one Of the
Canadian railways is in the Chinese
passenger traffic regularly, and is as
sisting the smugglers by stopping its
passenger trains several miles outside
Of a certain city and discharging the
Chinese in the country, where wagons,
built especially for the purpose, take
whole gangs over the border under
cover Of night, and In this way thou
sands Of Chinese enter the United
States annually. This open dlscrlmi-
nation In favor of Canadian steamship
companies and Canadian railroads, as
against our own railroads and steam-
ships. landing at our shores, should not