Red River prospector. (Red River, Taos County, N.M.) 1900-190?, 1902-02-27
LATE WASHINGTON NEWS AND
CONGRESSIONAL PROCEEDINGS

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viding for the fifty companies Of Phil
ippine scouts, comprising about 5000
men. A deficiency appropriation is re-
quired Of S515,OO0.
The proposition to dispose of the
United States transports and to depend
upon private steamship corporations
for the transportation Of troops in the
future does not meet with very general
approval IN Congress.
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 Kempn, the Junior
squadron commander on the Asiatic
station.
The House committee on coinage has
acted %favorably on the bill appropriate
ing 100000 for establishing a branch
mint at Tacoma, Washington. The
general purpose Of this new branch is
to give added mint facilities for the
gold and silver coming from Alaska.
The comparative statement Of the
government receipts and expenses
show that during January, 1902, the
total receipts were $46,5S2 143, and the
expenditures S3S,54S,277, leaving a sur
plus for the month of $S,O33,S 66. The
surplus for the corresponding month
last year was 81 ,400,OO0.
The House has passed the Lacey bill
for the protection of miners in the ter
r~itories. 1t provides that in every mine
over 100 feet in depth, mine be
required to provide $500 cubic feet or
pure air for every fifty miners. 1t also
provides that managers Of coal mines
shall employ shot frers.
The Senate committee on public
lands has ordered n favorable report
on the irrigation bill recently agreed
upon by the senators and members of
the House of Representatives from the
semi-arid states. There was no objec-
ton in the committee and the motion
to report the bill was unanimous.
Representative Boreing of Kentucky
has r~eintroduced a bill providing for
the establishment of a pension court
Of appeals. The bill provides for the
appointment Of seven judges whose
duty it shall be to heal arguments for
the granting or the increase of special
pensions, instead of the petitioners
coming to Congress for relief.
The comment" of Judge Advocate
General Lemly and Solicitor Hanna
upon the appeal of Admiral Schley, as
submitted to the President by Secretary
Long. is less than a third as long as
the appeal itself. The commentators
begin with the statement that Admiral
Schley and his counsel have shifted
their ground and have ignored the chief
grounds of the decision.
The friends of the o-leomargarine bill
have no doubt of it's passage. They re-
gard the vote on the adoption of the
special order last Friday as practically
a test vote. The bill is practically the
Grout bill, imposing a tax of 10 cents
a pound on products colored in imita-
ton of butter and to make retail deal
ers who color oleomargarine subject to
the same penalties as the m-anufactur-
ers.
The President has approved the rec
O~mmendation Of the secretary Of war
that the sentence of dismissal imposed
by court martial in the case of First
Lieutenant Preston Brown, Jr., Second
infantry, be committed to the loss of
thirty-hve numbers and forfeiture of
half Of his pay for nine months. Lieu
tenant Brown was charged with hav-
ing killed a Filipino who refused to
rescue a drowning soldier.
There is a growing disposition among
senator's and members who keep close
watch upon legislative conditions to
believe that there will be no bill for
a canal across the isthmus between the
Atlantic and Pacific oceans during the
present session Of Congress. The
truth is that nine out of every ten men
one meets in Congress or out of it is
disposed to see a scheme in this sud
den desire of the Frenchmen to sell
out their rights.
The Senate committee on commerce
has authorized a 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 tors the vessels receiy-
ing q bounty under the bill.
The preliminary report regarding iron
and steel blast furnaces In the United
States for 1900, as compared with
1890, follows: Number of establish
ments, 223; decrease, z per cent. cap
ital, SAB, 1853, 222; increase, IL per cent.
wage earners, average number, 1924;
increase, II per cent; total wages,
$1S,484, 400, increase, p per cent cost
Of material used, S131, SOB, 500; increase,
10 per cent; value of products, $780,
756, $50; increase, AZ per cent.
Senator Hoar, from the committee on
the judiciary, has reported favorably
the bill to limit the meaning of the
word conspiracy and the use Of re
straining orders and injuncti0ns" In
certain cases. The bill provides that a
combination to do al act or not to do
1t shall not be punished more severely
than the act itself, and that combi-
nations Of this character between EN-
ployers and employees engaged in inter
state commerce shall not be considered
in restraint Of trade or commerce. The
bill is intended to aid In adjusting la
Dor disputes on railroads.
y Western members Of Congress who
are opposing the Hin currency bill
state that Speaker Henderson has re-