Gilpin observer., 1902-01-30
LATE WASHINGTON NEWS AND
CONGRESSIONAL PROCEEDINGS

from $500 to 5000 per annum.
The House committee on rules has
decided to change the rules so as to
exclude the general public from the
door when the House is not in session
except on card of admission from a
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. A deficiency appropriation is re-
quired of $515, 600.
Senator Teller has laid before the
Senate q memorial from 1OS citizens
Of the Indian Territory, including
many half-bloods, for the continuance
Of the law prohibiting the sale of alco-
holic liquors in the territory.
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.
Mr.. Sibley of Pennsylvania made
speech in the House Tuesday in which
he strongly opposed any appropriation
for irrigation reservoirs in the West
on the ground that farmers in other
sections were already embarrassed by
low prices, due to over-production.
Representative Bell has introduced
bill providing that the Ute Indians
in Colorado be allotted lands in sew
crafty and that the remainder Of the
Southern Ute reservation after the
lands thus allotted, be opened for set
tlement under the homestead act, pro-
ceeds of sales of lands to be devoted to
maintenance of the Indians.
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 a resolution by the Senate and
House that the British government be
requested to set aside the death SEN
tence on Scheepers.
In the United States Supreme Court
Monday Attorney General Douglass of
Minnesota renewed his motion for
leave to file a bill of complaint on be-
half of the state against the Northern
Securities Company in the matter of
the merger of the Northern Pacific
railroad with other railroads, saying
that he had given notice to the defend
ants, as required by the courts. Per-
mission was granted and Mr.. Douglass
{ Al.
the railroads replied and the court took
the question under advisement.
President Roosevelt has carried out
the promise made to Forest Supervisor
Seth Bullock, that in future forest
rangers shall be selected by the super
visors, and not by the secretary of the
interior, by writing peremptory let
ter to the secretary of the interior to
that effect 1t directs the secretary in
future to leave the appointment of
forest rangers wholly in the hands Of
the forest supervisors, who know what
is required and who will name western
men, familiar with the country, able
to camp out in snow or blizzard and
to meet every requirement of the ard
uous situation. Eastern theorists and
''tenderfeet" must not be given places.
Rising to n question of privilege ear
ly in the session, Mr.. Dubois Of Idaho
had read an Associated Press dispatch
from Manila in which General Whea-
ton was quoted as criticising some ut
terances of Professor Schurmann in a
speech delivered in Boston. Mr.. Du-
bois thought the President. in the cir
cumstances, would be warranted in
reprimanding General Wheaton for his
utterances. He declared that such
| comment upon the action of the Sem
ate was Outrageous and indecent"
and that the minority had had quite
enough of threats and blackmail. The
debate thus precipitated took a wide
range. covering the entire Philippine
problem.
Mr.. Shafroth Is working among the
membership of the House with a view
to getting majority in line to vote
against the passage of the Hill bill,
which provides for the exchange of sill
yer and gold and the recoinage of sill
yer dollars so received In exchange for
subsidiary coins. Mr.. Shafroth says
he Is assured by many Republican
members that they are opposed to the
passage of the bill. among whom are
Galusha A. Grow Of Pennsylvania and
Mr.. Loud Of California. Mr.. Shafroth
is Of the opinion that when the bill
comes up in the house In the course Of
a week, II can be defeated by the joint
votes Of Democrats and Republicans,
providing the Republicans do not hold
n caucus upon 1t.
The details Of bill restricting an
archy and anarchists have been deter
/ mined upon by the special committee
Of members Of the House judiciary
committee, appointed to consider this
subject. The language of some of the
provisions is yet to be settled, but all
Of the essential features Of the forth
( coming measure are determined upon.