Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1902-01-11
WORK ENDING JANUARY II, 1902

President Roosevelt entertained the dip
lomatic corps at dinner at the White
House. Congress reassembled after the
holiday recess adjourning after short ses-
sions of both houses out of respect to the
late Senator Sewell of New Jersey; the
House passed the Hepburn Nicaragua ca
nal bill by vote of 3OS to 2; the Senate
confirmed the nominations of Leslie NJ.
Shaw and Henry C. Payne as Secretary of
the Treasury and Postmaster General, re-
spectively; the Senate commerce commit
tee decided to report favoraby a bill Gre
ating a department of commerce; Chair
man Cooper of the House committee on in
sular affairs introduced a bill providing
for civil government of the Philippines;
the House recommitted the Hopkins bill
to create permanent census bureau: af-
ter fVe weeks of consideration. the special
committee of Pacific coast congressman
designated to frame a new Chinese eX-
clus1on act concluded its labors and de-
clded upon a measure. Rear Admiral w.
s. Schley appealed directly to the Presi-
dent from the decision of the court of in
quiry; the President turned the case over
to the Attorney General, with instructions
TO inquire strictly into the legal aspects
of the matter. Gen. Franklin Bell in re-
ply to advocates of peace who denounced
his stern measures in depressing revolt
In BatangaS province and driving the Fill
Pine insurgents in all directions, said that
fare until the insurrection is completely
Subdued; Filipino powder factory, work
shops and war munitions were captured
by detachment of the nth Infantry at
Ormac, Island of Leyte; Major Waller of
the marine corps and ten men marched
across the Island of Samar capturing two
Filipino officers and killing thirteen men.
L. Estrada Palma, president-e1ect of Cuba,
outlined his policy and pointed out what
he believes are duties still incumbent on
the United States; General Wood sus-
pended the mayor of Havana, alleging in
competency. Minnesota's attorney general
made formal plea before the United States
supreme Court, asking it to enjoin the
merger of northwestern railroads. The
United States Supreme Court refused to
interfere in the case Of ex-Captain Ober-
lin NJ. Carter. The democratic caucus of
the Kentucky legislature nominated ex-
Governor James B. McCreary for United
states senator to succeed Sena tor Deboe,
the nomination being equivalent to cleo
ton. Montague Lessler the republican
candidate for Congress in the seventh New
York district, defeated Perry Belmont
democrat Governor Nash of Ohio invited
the governors of all the states to set aside
January % as Mckinley day" The steel
corporation declared a dividend Of Ia per
cent on preferred and 1 per cent on COM
mon stock, the earnings from April to De-
cember being $S4, 779, 29S The United
States Construction Company Of Cleveland
Ohio, was granted a concession to build
electric railway lines in Palestine. 1t was
stated that the West Virginia Central and
Pittsburg railroad had been sold to the
Pennsylvania company for $40 600 A
collision of suburban trains on the New
York Central railroad in the Park avenue
tunnel in New York city was responsible
for the death of fifteen persons and the
serious injury of thirty some of whom
may die; the railroad officials blamed the
trainmen for the accident but tests made
in the tunnel by New York officials showed
that signals could neither be seen nor
heard on account of the smoke and steam.
Three men were killed in a freight wreck
near Atlanta, Ga. 1t was stated that the
victims of the recent laundering of the
steamship WaI1a Wafla may reach forty>l
seven. A cavern entombed seventeen men
in the Negauree mine Michigan Two
men were killed and many others injured
by the premature explosion of powder in
the Newhouse tunnel in Colorado.
Foreign Affairs.
Chancellor Won Buelow In a debate on
the German budget in ,the reichstag, scored
Joseph Chamberlains recent criticism OF
German troops in the Franco-Prussian war.
his remarks causing the most intense irri-
tation In England; Herr Sonnenberg, some
days later in speech in the same body,
denounced the British army as mob Of
thieves" and Joseph Chamberlain as the
most wicked man on earth; the speaker
was rebuked by Won Buelow i'm concilia-
tory remarks about Eng and. British trade
showed a decrease in both exports and inn
ports for 1901; British official reports put
the Boer losses at 1890 last year and those
in an engagement at Ameersfoort I'm the
Transvaal, the British lost nineteen killed
and thirty-three wounded but Lord Kitche-
ner reported the Beers driven from the
field; the British defeated a Boer force I'm
the Orange Free State, killing a field cor
net and ten men, and capturing thirty-fve;
the Scots Grays were ambushed by the