Gilpin observer., 1902-05-01
LATE WASHINGTON NEWS AND
CONGRESSIONAL PROCEEDINGS

to get chairs sat on the floor of the
White house drving a long wait for
| the President.
The President Is said to be consid-
ering proposal from General Miles
friends to settle the army SQuabble by
sending him to Europe to inspect the
armies there.
Capt. Charles +. Clark has declined
the appointment of special naval rep
resentative at the coronation of King
Edward and the President has named
Rear Admiral Watson for that mis-
| sion.
President Roosevelt has expressed
his approval OF the measure now pend
ing in Congress FOR the appropriation
| of $4,000 to erect monument in
Washington to the late Major General
John G. Fremont.
The agricultural appropriation bill
| reported to the House to-day carries
about $5,2OO.OOO. an increase of approx
| imately $G5O.OOO over the appropria-
| tons last year and decrease Of about
100000 from the estimate.
| A bill has passed the House reserv-
| ing from the public lands in Oregon a
| public park for the benefit of the peo-
| lection and preservation of the game,
fish and timber and all other natural
| objects.
The Pension Bureau has issued a
| pension of $40 month to Mrs. India
| Stewart mother of Captain John s.
Stewart member of the First Colo
RADIO, who was killed in the Philip
| pines. This pension was granted by
Snp(.inI of
| The subcommittee of the Senate
| committee on military affairs has
agreed to recommend the incOrpora-
tion in the army appropriation bill of
an amendment appropriating $5OO,OOO
| with which to supply army posts with
| libraries, schools, gymnasiums, etc, to
| take the place of the army canteen.
Secretary of State Hay, for the
| United States, and Minister Concha,
| for Colombia, have signed treaty pro-
| viding for the transfer to the United
| States of the rights incident to the con-
struction of the proposed Panama
canal. This treaty is similar to the
protocol recently signed, the terms of
which have been published
The President has determined the
succession to the vacancy of the inter-
ing Judge Bachelor from the Court
of First Instance to the Court Of Ap-
peals to succeed Judge Kelly, resigned
Judge Van Horn of Utah has been
named to fiji the vacancy in the lower
court caused by the promotion.
The House committee on coinage,
weights and measures has favOrably
reported Representative Shafroth's bill
to adopt the metric system, amending
it so that the system shall go INTO eff
feet in all departments of the govern
ment January i, 1904, and be legal
standard of weights and measures in
the United States January l, 1907.
| The Interstate Commerce Commits
sion has decided that 1t was unlawful
for railroads to deny to shippers the
| choice of establishing routes and. rates.
| This decision is made in the California
orange cases brought by the Consoli-
| dated. Forwarding Company and the
| Southern Pacific Fruit Exchange
| against the Southern Pacific and Santa
| Fe systems.
The omnibus bill, providing for vari-
! Gus public buildings throughout the
United States, has been reported to the
House from the Committee on Public
Buildings. The appropriation for the
| Denver mint is increased from $4,000
to 100000. The appropriation for the
Leadville postotfice is increased from
$4,000 to $S5,OO0, and $135,0O0 is pro.
vided for the purchase of site and
the erection of government building
at Colorado Springs.
committee of negroes, composed of
Ex-Governor Pinchback of Louisiana,
Bishop A. Grant of Indiana, Il. w.
hampton of Mississippi and w. Nc
Xinley of South Carolina, called on the
President and asked his support of the
Crumpacker resolution and the bill in
troduced by Senator Irwin, providing
for the appointment of a commission
to investigate the conditions OF the ne
gro. They declined to discuss the de-
tails of the interview, but said it was q
very satisfactory one.
The State Department is taking steps
toward the settlement of the claims of
the missionaries and other Americans
who suffered from the boxer uprising
in China in 1900. To this end Il COM
mission has been created composed of
United States Minister Conger, Secre-
tary of Legation Baihbridge and Con
sui Ragsdale of Tien Tsin, to ascertain
as near as may be the exact damage
sustained by each individual claimant.
The claims thus far filed number $50,
aggregating $2,OOO.000.
Friends of the omnibus bill admit
ting Arizona, New Mexico and Okla
homa as states. becoming impatient at
delay in taking up their BILL met and
decided that If the Speaker does not
agree to give them day In court by
May LIST, they will insist on the prlvi-
lege which the rules grant for the con-
sideration of the bills admitting the
territories to become states of the Un-
ion. Delegate Rodey states that there
Is more than n majority pledged in ia
vor of the bill and that Its consldera-
tlon is equivalent to Its passage in the
house, that the situation in the Senate