The Washburn leader. [volume] (Washburn, McLean County, N.D.) 1890-1986, 1902-03-01
Resume 81 the news.
W00hfnKtOn Notes.


Washington Notes.
Bills establishing marine hospitals at
Pittsburg and Savannah. Ca. have been
ordered favorably reported by the house
committee on commerce.
The house committee on public landA
has reported the bill making a public
reservation Of a tract in Arizona includ-
ing the petrified forests.
The senate committee on agriculture
IL considering the oleo bill recently
passed by the house, and has been Civ
ing hearings for and against the meas
ure.
The bill creating a new United States
judicial district in Texas, with a nation
al district judge, has been acted favor
ably upon by the house judiciary COM
mittee.
The president has appointed Elliott
Woods superintendent Of the capitol
and its grounds. MI. Woods was as
sistart under the late Edward Clark,
former architect Of the capitol.
The senate committee on foreign re-
lations has authorized a favorable re-
port on the bill reforming the con-
sular service. The bill requires a civil
service examination Of applicants for
consular places. +.
A delegation of four Creek Indians
have arrived in Washington to consult
their chief, Pleasant Porter, and to
confer with the secretsry Of the interior
regarding a supplemental treaty now
in course of revision for submission to
the department.
A general order issued by Lieut.. Gen.
Miles, commanding the army, directs a
return to the former system of a de-
partment examination and a subse-
quent competitive examination in the
case of all enlisted men who desire to
compete. for appointments as second
u~eutenants in the army.
MI. Tracewell, the controller Of the
treasury has decided that appropria-
tons made by congress for the United
States geological survey may be used
in part in the Hawaiian islands as a
Fart Of the United States within the
meaning Of the appropriation act.
The secretary of the interior has sent
to the senate a letter from the acting
governor of Hawaii, calling attention to
the lack Of q scheme of apportionment
Of the terms Of the senators in the Ha-
waiian legislature. and announcing that
the failure to adjust the matter before
the November elections may lead to Sc
vious difficulties.
The senate. in executive session, re-
Gently, ratified a tire atty between h
United States and Great Britain extend
ing for twelve months from July Is, 1901,
the time within which British colonies
and foreign possessions may give their
adhesion to the convention signed March
2, 1893, for the tenure and disposition Of
zeal and personal property.
The senate has passed bills appropri-
ating 100000 for a public building at
Deadwood, S. D.; to ratify an agree
ment with the lower Brule band of the
Sioux Indians in South Dakota, ana
appropriaEz.g z 200 to carry the
treaty into effect; to, provide for the
service or Warrants ISSUED by the
United States commissioners in the dis
trict Of Minnesota, and for the sum-
mary disposition by such commission
ers Of certain cases connected with
the Indian liquor traffic.
Senator Turner, by request, has Of
NJ a resolution reciting that many of
the Indian schools Of the country are
being conducted loosely; that pupils
who are afflicted with tuberculosis and
other diseases are admitted, to the det-
riment Of other pupils, resulting in an
excessive mortality; that the mixing Of
the sexes results in a lowering of the
standard Of morality; and that, al
though the matter has been brought to
the attention of the commissioner of In
dian affairs. nothing has been done to
remedy the evils.