The Lamar register., 1902-07-02

President Roosevelt has sent to the
House veto of the bill removing the
charge of desertion from the record of
Ephraim II. Gallon. who served in a
Tennessee volunteer regiment during
| the Civil War The President cites the
records of the War Department to
show that the record of desertion
should be allowed to stand.
Arrangements have been completed
for moving the presidents offices and
| quarters while the repairs to the White
House are being made. The Scott
mansion on Jackson place, opposite
Lafayette square, has been leased for
short time. Here the presidents Of
fees will be located, and when In the
city he will occupy apartments in the
same building
The general deficiency bill has
passed the Senate. A slight protest
was made against the appropriations
of $5OO.OOO for the Buffalo Exposition
and 100000 for the Charleston Expo
sition, but finally they were included
in the bill. The measure also carries
$4,000 for the payment of the ex-
penses of the last illness and death Of
President Mckinley, the amount in
Guiding the pay OF the physicians.
The Kansas delegation in Congress.
committee from that state to the White
House and invited the president to at
tend, May 80, 1904. the anniversary of
the signing of the Kansas-Ne
bill, that finally admitted Kansas as a
free state. The president said that
while he could not commit himself at
this time he felt that he would accept
the invitation.
Representative Foss of Illinois,
chairman of the naval committee OF the
house, has introduced n bill to estab-
lish an engineering laboratory. to be
known as the Melville engineering lab
oratory, after Rear Admiral Melville
chief engineer Of the navy, who will
soon go on the retired list. The bill
provides that the laboratory shall be
on government land designated by the
secretary of the navy and cost. with
equipment, not exceeding 100000, Of
which 100000 is appropriated.
Senator Clark of Montana presented
the conference report, which was
agreed to, on the bill providing for the
protection of miners lives in the terri
tories. The bill provides that owners
shall furnish adequate ventilation and
either sprinkle mines containing coal
dust or. if inexpedient to do this, re-
move such dust from the mine. Pro-
fessional shot tirers must be employed
in the Indian Territory, where the
mines are gaseous, but such employ
ment is not necessary in other terrific
ries.
Secretary Root declines to discuss
details of Governor Taft's negotiations
at Rome until they are complete. They
are proceeding steadily and in the
usual course, each side seeking to make
the best possible bargain, with the re-
suit that there have been several ex
changes since the original proposition
of Governor Taft touching the friar
lands. These are reported to Secre-
tary Root almost daily. with explana-
tory comments by himself and sugges-
tiohs to Governor TAFT for framing of
the counter proposals.
On June 25th the senate disposed for
this session OF the omnibus statehood
question. which has been pending for
several days. Mr.. Beveridgc. chairman
of the committee on territories, an
nounced that "A report on the bill before
the committee would be made on the
third day OF the next session. This
| was satisfactory to Mr.. Quay, who.
| after securing an agreement that the
| committees report should be uniin-
| ished business on and after the 10Th
| of December until 1t was disposed of.
| withdrew his motion to discharge the
committee from further consideration
| of the measure.
In his speech before the Interna-
| tional League of Press Clubs Mt BOs-
ton a few nights since, President
Roosevelt said: speaking in Boston.
should like to say that one of the
measures the present Congress has
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terest is that of the irrigation of the
arid lands of the West. That measure
could not have been passed save by
the votes and hearty support of n very
| large number of representatives OF
states which had no possible pecuniary
interes in its passage. In other words.
to put it through was necessary to ap-
peal to the broad patriotism of large
number of people who could have no
special interest to be subserved by it,"
Senator Warren of Wyoming called
upon the President n few days ago and
suggested that he take n trip this sum-
mer through the northern tier of west
ern states adjoining the Canadian bor-
der. President Roosevelt had some
time since suggested n horseback ride
across Wyoming, and Mr.. Warren told
the president he would arrange relays
of horses for such trip If the Presi-
dent would take 1t. The plan would be
to give the President jaunt of several
hundred miles through Wyoming and
Montana from the line of the Union
Pacific to some point on the Northern
Pacific. 1t would take the President
through a part of the country where
he rode the range when in, the cattle
business along the Little Missouri in
the early eighties.
In his recent speech at the Algonquin
Club banquet in Boston. President