The Elk Mountain pilot., 1902-01-28

ground tnat 1t contains no news.
The House committee on rules has
decided to change the rules so as to
exclude the general public from the
floor when the House is not in session
except ON card of admission from n
member of Congress.
Secretary Root has called the atten-
ton OF Congress to the need of pro-
viding for the fifty companies of Phil
ippine scouts, comprising about 5000
men. deficiency appropriation is re-
Quired of S515,0OO.
Secretary Long has detached Rear
Admiral Wildes from his present duty
as commandant of the Pensacola navy
yard and ordered him to relieve Rear
Admiral Louis Kempff, the junior
squadron commander on the Asiatic
station.
Senator Morgan has introduced
bill placing General James Longstreet
on the retired list OIL the army with
the rank of major, the rank he held
when he entered the service of the
Confederacy at the beginning Of the
war.
Representative Southard of Ohio,
chairman of the House committee on
coinage, Is about to send Invitations to
q number of the chief manufacturers,
merchants and others engaged in mer-
camille pursuits, to appear before the
coinage committee February 9th con-
cerning the bill for the adoption of the
metric system of weights and meas
ureS.
Representative William Alden Smith
of Michigan has introduced a resolu-
ton in the House reciting the report
that the British military authorities
have passed sentence of death upon
Commandant Scheepers, and propos-
ing resolution by the Senate and
House that the British government be
requested to set aside the death SEN
tence ON Scheepers.
The Senate committee on commerce
has authorized n favorable report on
Senator Frye's ship subsidy bill. The
report will be made by Senator
Frye. The committee made several
amendments to the bill. The most i'm
portant were: Allowing mail carrying
vessels under the bill to be either iron
or steel. instead of steel only, as orig
inally provided, and reducing to 1000
gross registered tons the vessels receiv-
ing bounty under the bill.
The Chesapeake Beach railway, eX-
tending thirty miles from Washington
TO Chesapeake Beach, resort on
Chesapeake bay, and owned mainly by
Colorado investors, is to be improved
before the summer season opens, by
the expenditure of 100000 on track
age and equipment The steam loco
motives will be replaced by electric
motor engines capable of a speed OF
sixty miles an hour. Hon. Otto Mears,
president of the company. who re-
Gently returned from Denver, will take
| charge of the work.
! 1t appears that the confirmation of
Ben Daniels rs marshal of Arizona
was made during the absence of
number of interested senators. In the
| executive session Wednesday Senator
| Teller asked that the confirmation be
| reconsidered and the nomination re-
| ferred back to the judiciary commit
| tee for rehearing. Daniels VIII be
called upon to explain his previous oc-
| cupations and certain incidents in his
career in Colorado and elsewhere. 1t
is charged that he was formerly
| gambler.
The following order has been issued
| by the President directed to each eX-
ecutive department: THE attention of
the department is hereby called to the
| provisions of the Aws giving prefer
| ence to veterans in appointment and
retention. The President desires that
wherever the needs of the service will
justify, and the law will permit, pref
! erence shall be given alike in appoint
ment and retention to honorably dis
charged veterans of the Civil War who
are fit and well qualified to perform
the duties of the places which they
seek and are filing"
Having failed after two years strife
in subduing the insurrection in Batan-
gas province, which lies just south of
, Manila, and having satisfied himself
that lenient treatment of the insur-
gents is productive of no good results,
General j. Franklin Bell, the military
commander of that province, has de-
termined on the enforcement of the
war in the most vigorous and deter
mined fashion, involving reconcentrn-
ton in n modified form, the applica-
ton of martial law in all directions
and the unsparing pursuit and punish
ment of the natives who act as spies
and traitors to the United StateA AL
this appears from long report to the
war department just published.
The Senate Thursday for brief
time, had under consideration the bill
creating department of commerce,
and the discussion tended to show that
the measure will have to be amended
in many particulars before 1t can re-
ceive the approval OF the Senate. Ser,
ious objections were raised to the
transfer to the proposed department OF
several important bureaus now part
of other departments of the govern
ment. 1t was pointed out that If the
bill as reported became law it would
create the greatest department of the
government, and that the secretary of
commerce would have more power
than even the secretary of the treas
ury.