The Elk Mountain pilot., 1903-12-01
EVENTS IN WASHINGTON AND
TRANSACTIONS OF CONGRESS

tor Blackburn of Kentucky. providing
that the secretary of the treasury be
authorized to settle the claim of Queen
Liliuokalani in full satisfaction.
The secretary Of the interior has
fixed the limit of stock to Craze in the
Black Mesa forest reserve as follows
next season: 100000 sheep and goats,
10000 cattle and horses. Terms to be
the same as in the past season.
The Interior Department has decided
to allow $4,000 head of cattle and hor-
ses to graEe in the Battlement Mesa
forest reserve from April 1st to No
vember 18TH the stock of actual resi-
dents of the reserve, however, to be al
lowed to Craze there all the year.
The acting secretary of the interior
has rendered decision prohibiting the
running of hogs on public lands with
in the forest reserves. Complaints have
been made that these animals running
loose damage the growing crops seri-
ously.
The senate committee of foreign re-
lations authorized a favorable report
on the bill giving effect to the Cuban
reciprocity treaty. The treaty for the
cession of the Isle of Pines to Cuba
was favorably acted upon by the COM
mittee.
Postmaster General Payne and Ar
thur Raikes, the British charge daft
flares, have signed the parcels post
treaty with Hong Kong, and it will be
approved Immediately by President
Roosevelt. The treaty will take effect
January 1st next, and provides maxi
mum limit of four pounds six ounces.
The trial of the postal cases of Aug
ust w. Machen. former general super
intendent of the free delivery system;
Samuel A. and Diller b. Croft Of this
city, and Mr.. and Mrs. Lorenz of Tole-
do, Ohio, arranged to begin November
23rd. has been postponed until Janu-
ary 11th. by request OF the prosecution.
Governor Ferguson of Oklahoma in
his annual report to the secretary of
the Interior, estimates the present pop
ulation of the territory at $50, 900 and
the actual value of taxable property at
practically 100000. although only $S4,-
1874. .472 is returned by the assessors for
1903. The territorial Indebtedness is
$461. .766.
When Judge w. H. Taft assumes the
War Department portfolio. he will sit
at the same desk which his father, AL
phonso Taft, occupied while holding
the same Office under President Grant.
The elder Taft occupied the post only
few months. when he became attor-
ney general, being afterward sent to
Russia as minister.
petition was presented in the Sem
ate from the Danes of 1886 for an
increase to $50 per month of all pen
sions granted on account of the Mex
lean. War Mr.. Gallagher said the
pension committee would give due con-
s!deration to the petition, but called at
tention to the fact that all survivors
of the Mexican War now receive PEN
sions of $12.
An order has been issued by the
Postoffice Department at Washington
by Acting Postmaster General Wynne
calling attention to that section of the
postal laws which excludes all living
insects and reptiles from the mails.
and insisting on its rigid enforcement.
This action is the result of a report
that has reached the department that
specimens of the Texas boil weevil, an
insect hostile to the cotton plant, have
been found in the mails.
The Senate on November 23rd con-
firmed many nominations for promo
tion in the army and navy. They num-
ber between 100 and $50, and include
officers down to the rank of second
lieutenant. The men confirmed as
brigadier generals are: Jared A.
Smith. Jacob b. Rawles. Stephen w.
Groesbeck. John r. Myrick, Louis Ii.
Rucker, Theodore A. Baldwin, William
p. Rogers, Peter C. Hams, John H.
Page, Charles A. Woodruff, William l..
Haskin. Charles w. Miner, James M.
]. Sanno, Charles w. Robe, James w.
Reilly, Edwin B. Atwood, Frank G.
Smith, George B. Rodney, Almond b.
Wells. Peter j. A. Cleary, John b.
Babcock.
The secretary of the interior has
suspended from office d. f. Campbell,
clerk of the townsite commission of the
Creek nation in Indian Territory, pend
ing the outcome of an investigation
based on an Indictment against him for
alleged unlawfully obtaining money
while a member of the Kansas Legisla-
ture. the indictment charging the re-
ceipt of 800 from the clerk of the
District Court at Oswego, Kansas. fol-
lowing the passage of a bill raising the
clerks salary. The court dismissed the
indictment, but Indian Inspector
Wright is making an investigation and
has obtained an order from the court
for the stenographic minutes OF the
grand jury.
Representative Brooks called upon
Supervising Architect Taylor recently
and urged that action be taken con-
cerning the erection of public build
ing at Leadville, for which an appro-
priation of $500 is available. Bids
for its construction have been received
by the supervising architects office,
but the lowest responsible bid is about
SIC, 900 in excess of the amount avail
able for construction after purchase OF
the site. MIR. Brooks has asked that
new bids be called for, and it is ex-
pected this will be done. Prior to ad-
journment of the present session,
Brooks will introduce a bill to increase
the appropriation for the Leadville
building to $125,00O.
Senator Fairbanks has introduced a