Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1902-03-10
CAPITAL Notes,

The President has signed the Philip
pine tariff bill.
Secretary and Mrs: Hay will give din
Welt, Easter week.
A bill has been introduced in the Sem
ate by Senator Rawlns prohibiting the
leasing of mineral lands on Indian reser-
vations.
An important vacancy will occur in the
personnel of the lighthouse board upon
the retirement of Rear Admiral Norman
Farquhar, who is chairman of the board,
next April. Rear Admiral George c..
Remey, now on his way to the United
States from the Philippines, has been
chosen to fill the vacancy
Senator Gamble, from the committee on
Indian affairs, has reported favorably the
bill raufying the agreement with the
Rosebud Sioux Indians for the cession of
their unallotted lands in Gregory county
s. D., to the United States. There are
$4,000 acres of the lands and the Indians
are to receive 1,040,000 for them.
Mr.. Salmon has introduced bill in the
House to establish an information bureau
in the Capitol for aiding senators and rep
resentatives in answering inquiries of and
supplying public documents to their con-
Stituents. The bureau is to have chief
clerk at an annual salary of $1,000 and
such additional clerks as shall be neces-
Sary.
Representative Pearre introduced a res
clution. Saturday, extending the thanks
of Congress to Admiral Schley for his ser
vices at the battle of Santiago, July s.,
1898. He also presented a joint resoiu-
ton of the Maryland General Assembly
requesting the senators and representa-
tives in Congress to use their utmost en-
deavors to secure such action.
President and Mrs. Roosevelt had Sec
rotary and Mrs. Root. Senator and Mrs
Lodge and Mr.. and Mrs. Brooks Adams
as guests at dinner, Saturday night
Later the party attended the final per-
Torrance of Maude Adams and her COM
pany in Quality Street in Washington
At the close of the play the President
personally complmented Miss Adams.
Gen. Chaffee, commanding the Division
of the Philippines. recently telegraphed
his personal thanks to Corporal James
Murphy and Private Michael Doran and
H. l.. Johnson. Signal Corps, for their
devotion to duty under fire a Candelaria,
Tayabas last December. These men had
previously received the commentator Of
Brig. Gen. J. +. Bell and Capt. Hearn
21st Infantry.
A bill has been introduced in the Sell
by Mr.. Kehoe which provides for the pay
ment of funeral expenses of pensioners by
the government. Those who will be pro-
vided for in this way are pensioners who
die without leaving sufficient assets to
pay their funeral expenses. In such cases
the secretary of the interior is authorized
to pay out of the treasury to the extent
of 800 in each case.
The commissioner or Internal REVENUE
has decided that the proceeds of a life
insurance policy, payable to party in
sured or his legal representative. are a
part of decedents estate. If, however. II
is payable to some one else. the proceeds
are not to be treated as a part of his es~
tate, but are payable directly to the bene-
ficiaries named in the policy, and are not
subject to legacy tax.
At a meeting of the House committee
on territories favorble action was taken
on the Moon bill. giving territorial form
of government to Indian territory. cnanS-
| ing its name to the Territory of Jener-
son. and providing for a governor, terri
torial legislature, etc. The action OF TINS
committee in deciding to report meas
ure to make oklahoma. Arizona and New
Mexico states will doubtless be brought
before the House in the form Of an onl-
nibus bill.
Dr. Heinrich Muller. one Of the Euro
pean diplomatic representatives OF the
| Orange Free State, called upon secretary
| Hay at the state department. SATURDAY,
| and had a half-hours interview WIFI
| him. DIR. Muller was received in private
| capacity. He spoke only of the concen1
| tration camps in South Africa He tod
the secretary a pitiful ta.e of the suffer-
| ings and frightful mortality among t ne
| reconcentrados, the death rate amons
the children in the camps running as niSh
as 80 per cent, according to his state
ment. Secretary Hay was unable tt
make any promise that the United states
government would change its attitude To
| ward this SUBJECT.
1t is said at the war department tina
| there will be little or no delay in the ex
ecution of the orders recently issued IL
the secretary of war for the return Z
the United States of all the regiment:
which went to the Philippines in 1899. az
gregating about 1850 men. According L
q paper prepared at the department ther