The Elk Mountain pilot., 1902-12-23

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3ardel as consul at Bamburg, Bava-
ia, and Lloyd C. Griscom as minister
o Japan.
The Senate, in executive session,
'atified the treaty of friendship and
general relations between the United
States and Spain without debate or
iivision.
The war claims committee of the
House has reported favorably bills
carrying appropriations to pay claims
growing out of the cutting of cables
)y the United States naval forces in
he war with Spain.
| A favorable report was ordered by
he committee on appropriations on
he bill appropriating 100000 for the
use of the Department of Agriculture
n stamping out the foot and mouth
disease in the New England states. The
TEN is included in deficiency appro-
1riation bill and the bill carries $780,
700 also for pay of rural free de-
livery carriers and various smaller
sums for miscellaneous expenses of the
Postoffice Department.
In the Senate on the 10th inst. Mr..
| Dillingham; concluded his remarks in
| opposition to the omnibus statehood
Dill and by unanimous consent it was
agreed that there should be no further
| discussion of the measure until the
Senate reconvened on January 5th.
Mr.. Teller wanted to submit some re-
marks in reply, he said, to the SLAM
| iers on the committee on territories
md of Mr.. Dillingham;, but other SEN
itors insisted that the agreement not
% further discuss the bill should be
adhered to.
/ 4. ~
nittee of the Senate committee on ter
.itories. of which Senator Beveridge is
chairman, on the omnibus statehood
bill. has been just printed as a Sem
ate document and tonight was made
public. 1t makes book of 1874 pages,
with maps, and includes the questions
and answers of great many people
examined by the subcommittee with
reference to size. population, resources,
schools and churches, business, moral
and other characteristics of the people
Of the proposed states. and miscellane-
ous information.
joint resolution has been intro
iuced in the House by Representative
De Almond proposing an amendment
10 the Constitution of the United States
providing that the term of the Presi-
dent shall continue until April 80, 1905.
at noon, and thereafter, April 80, at
noon, shall be substituted for March 4.
as the beginning and ending of the
terms of President and vice president.
and that the Fifty-ninth Congress
shall end and the Sixtieth begin Janu-
airy s, 1907, at noon, and thereafter
each Congress shall begin and end jan
uary Sth at noon.
Representative De Almond has intro
duced bill providing that it shall be
unlawful to ship from any state or ter
ritory, through or into any other state
or territory any manufactured articles
sold for shipment or intended to be
sold, unless every article has stamped
on the cover containing it the words:
No monopoly product. Produced in
open competition" or other words of
like import. A maximum penalty of
81 600 fine or one years Imprisonment,
or both. is provided for violation of this
provision. 1t is provided further that
articles not thus marked may be con-
fiscated.
Mr. Morgan Of Alabama, in the Sen
ate, asked that his bill fixing the sal
aries of the isthmian canal commits
sion at $4,000 a year be referred to the
committee on inter-oceanic canals. He
said he had been informed that the
present commissioners were paid
81 600 a month each and that their
service had extended over twenty-nine
and a half months. Continuing, Mr..
Morgan said it wase necessary "in ad-
vance of striking one lick on that ca
nal to make such provision as will
prevent the United States. from run
ming into the horrible iniquities of the
old Panama Canal Company as well
as the new one" The bill was re-
ferred as requested.
The House, on the 18th inst, passed
the Senate bill for a union railroad
station in Washington. to cost $4,000
900. The station is to be situated
north of the present site of the Balti-
more & Ohio depot at Delaware and
Massachusetts avenues, and in front
OF it is to be large plaza park. The
Pennsylvania railroad, by the terms
of the BILL is to remove it's tracks
from the Mall and reach the site of
the proposed station through tunnel
to run between the capitol and library
buildings. The government is to pay
the Pennsylvania railroad $1,500,000
and the Baltimore & Ohio $500, 900. in
addition to providing for the plaza
park. The House also passed an ur-
gent deficiency bill. which carried,
among other items, an appropriation
of 100000 for eradicating the foot
and mouth disease in New England,
and 100000 to cover deficiencies in
the rural free delivery service Under
suspension of the rules, bill to allot
the lands of the Indians in New York
in seyeralty was passed.
! A delegation of prominent citizens of
San Francisco, consisting of r. P.
Schwerip of the Pacific Mail Steamship
Company, w W. Douglass. state comp
troller. and ex-Mayor Phelan, headed
by Senator Perkins. called upon the
President to discuss with him the pend
ing proposition to place the govern
ment transport service on the Pacific
] in private hands. with headQuarters in