Red River prospector. (Red River, Taos County, N.M.) 1900-190?, 1902-03-06

number OF interested senator's. 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 a rehearing. Daniels will be
called upon to explain his previous Oc-
equations and certain Incidents In his
career in Colorado and elsewhere. 1t
is charged that he was formerly a
gambler.
Having failed after two years strife
In subduing the Instruction 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 reconcentra-
ton in a 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 States. All
this appears from a long report to the
war department just published.
Senators Clark Of Montana and
Clapp of Minnesota, as a sub-commit-
tee of the regular committee on Indian
affairs are drafting a bill to entirely
abolish the tribal relations of Indians.
1t is proposed to have all moneys in
the United States treasury credited to
the tribes divided per capita and in
dividual accounts kept with each In
dian. Allotments are to be treated
the same way. The property of de-
ceased Indians is to go to heirs, in
stead of revert to the tribe. The whole
idea Of the bill is to treat the Indian
as IN individual, instead of an unrec-
ognlzed part of a tribe, in all govern
ment transactions. The plan Is sup
ported by the Indian commissioner and
favored in the Senate and House.
The general board Of army officers,
which has been examining army posts
in the United States with a view to
future action concerning them by the
War Department, has made a report
which has not been made public. 1t
is known that the report recommends
that Forts Russell, Wyoming; Logan,
Colorado, and Douglas, Utah, be made
permanent military establishments and
that each of these posts will be en-
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Dough-, will be enlarged to accommo-
date n full regiment of infantry and a
company of artillery, which is an in
crease over their present size of about
fifty per cent. Fort Logan Will also
be increased in about the same proper
ton. A number of smaller posts in the
West have been designated as tempo
rary" and some of these are recon-
mended for abandonment, though not
Immediately.
The treaty of cession of the Danish
West Indian islands from Denmark to
the United States has been signed at
the State Department by Secretary
Hay and C|onstantin Brun, Danish
minister. The treaty will be submitted
to the Senate for ratification imme-
diately. Following the invariable rule
in such cases, the State Department
officials decline OF make public any
of the details of the treaty, so that it
is not possible to state positively the
price to be paid, though this is believed
to be In the nelghborhood of $5,OOO,OOO.
1t is known also that Denmark has
abandoned the position she was in
clined to occupy toward the conserva-
ton of the political rights Of the in
habitants of the island, and leaves to
the United States a free hand to deal
with them, without pledge of Ameri-
can citizenship or Of free trade priv
ileges. So it is assumed that the status
Of the Danish West Indian islands,
politically and commercially, should
the treaty be ratified, will be similar to
that Of Porto Rico.
Former Secretary of State John w.
Foster appeared before the Senate
committee on immigration on the 23d
and spoke in opposition to the Chinese
exclusion bills which nave been intro
duced in Congress. His remarks were
directed more particularly to the Mitch
ell or Pacific coast bill, which, he said,
was a plain violation of our treaty with
China. Mr.. Foster said u govern
ment had four times asked China to
modify existing treaties in the Interest
Of American citizens, aud that in every
1 instance China had acceded to u re-
quest. He then submitted for the con-
slderation Of the committee three prop
ositions: The first was that any law
passed by the present Congress which
continues the exclusion of Chinese la
borers beyond 1904 would be not only
without international authority, but
would be In violation of treaty stipula-
lions. He said that during the negO-
tiatlons resulting in the treaty Of 1894
the United States sought to have the
exclusion of Chinese laborers extended
to twenty years and that the Chinese
government refused to make 1t for
more than ten years. He also insisted
that when the treaty Of 1894 came to
an end, the B%urlingame treaty Of 1868
would be received and come into force,
which treaty stipulated for the free
and unrestricted immigration Of Chi
nese Of all classes into the United
States. The treaty, he said, had only
been suspended as to immigration,
not abrogated. His second proposition
was that the exclusion laws should not
be made applicable to all our insular
possessions and said the Hawaiian
islands presented the exact state OF az
fairs which was contemplated by the
American n~egotiators for the exclusion
treaty, in which they gave the assur-
ance that to such a condition of ar
fairs the exclusion law would not apply
when all the interests Of the islands
aol-ad for Chinese immigration and tho