The Holly chieftain., 1903-03-13
WASHINGTON NEWS AND
CONGRESSIONAL PROCEEDINGS

14lf8 m8Q0 q report DoLO0E IOrt0 10
purpose Of not advising the counrma-
tion Of some 200 brevet commissions
sent In last year BY the President. Sew
eral Coloradoans who served In the
war with Spain were mentioned In
these nominations. The report OF the
committee says that brevet commits
sions cannot. according to law. ;be BE-
slowed except In time Of war. Az war
time the nominations will not be favor
ably reported.
During the last session Of the expir-
ing Congress Colorado delegates e.
cured substantial appropriations for
the completion Of the Denver mint and
the Colorado Springs postonce. A
term OF the United States Court was
established ut Montrose. the Co opera
tive colony In Montexuma county got
an extension OF its time for entry to
government lands. Montrose secured
. site for water works and arrange
ments were made whereby . TRACT Of
Indian lands where the remains Of the
cliK dwellers are located will be soon
turned into government reservation.
A full score Of bills granting pensions
and increases OF pensions to Colorado
veterans Of the Civil War were passed.
Substantial improvements will bs
made at the Grand Junction Indian
School and Leadville nsh hatchery
senators and representatives secured.
The Bureau OF Insular Affairs, War
Department, has Just published PAM
phlet of forty-six pages giving the tel
egraphic correspondence of Emilio Ag-
uinAldo from July Is, 1898, to Febru-
ary 28, 1899. the period just preceding
the fall Of Manila and following the
outbreak OF hostilities between the
United States forces and the insurgents.
These kilograms were discovered by
Captain John r. T. Taylor. Fourteenth
infantry. among mass of papers cap
tured from the so-called insurgent gov
ernment. They are sufficiently COM
plete to show that the insurgent leader
leaned strongly upon others for advice
and counsel, that there was serious op-
position to his authority, even among
his own people, and that an attack on
the Americans at Manila had been fully
decided upon before the outbreak of
hostilities February 4, 1899. Also that
in. the event that the struggle should
prove successful, the new government
that would have been created would
not have been republic. for titles of
nobility were, January 18th. promised
to certain insurgent officers as re-
ward for entering Manila and captur-
ing the American forces and their ON
GERS.
In the conference Of the two houses
on the naval appropriation bill the
Senate surrendered on the principal
Item Of disagreement. the amendment
relating 10 the increase OF the navy.
The provision as agreed on provides
for three battleships Of 10000 tons dis
placement and two hattleships OF 49,
coo tons displacement, and entirely
eliminates the provision for cruisers.
The effect Of the agreement ID that
the House programme is accepted, ex-
cept that two IL, ,O00-ton battleships are
substituted for one cruiser. 1t h pro-
yided that the ships authorized may be
built by contract. or at the navy yards,
and shall be built at the navy yards II
1t is found that combination OF ship
builders exists. The provision for an
increase In the personnel Of the navy
remains Al the bill passed the House,
including an increase in number OF
midshipmen. but the increase is to con-
tinue until 1913. instead of 1909, as
fixed by the Senate. Porto Rico IL
given a midshipman. The aga limit
for admission to the academy h fixed
at from 10 to 20 years. The provision
for q naval hospital 1t Washington to
cost $125. 900 remains, while that for
an army and navy. hospital In New
Mexico is stricken out. The itam OF.
$3.50 600 for coal depots and IN I'M,
crease IN the appropriation for dry
docks already authorized 90 out, like
wise the provision for. monument to
Charles v. Gridlsy.
The report Of the conferees on the
sundry civil appropriation biIf, which
was presented to thes Senate, shows.
that Of the Increase made By the een-
ate the House conceded ~, ,423 .0O6 and,
the Senate receded from items amount-
Ing in the aggregate to 34,202, ,326. The
making appropriations for the pro
York. for the extension of the immi-
grafton station at Ellis island and for
the payment a. ths claim Of ex-Queen
Liliu0kaiani. ~ the bill becomes 3
Law It carries q total appropriation OF
Ss7 .272, ,o66.. an increase Of al. .lOg. .696
over the snount carried By last sess
Gion'e act. The appropriation OF el0OE
600 for the proposed monetary ccafeE
ence was retained, as was also that "a
500. 900 to pay the expenses of the
Alaskan boundary commission, but the
Senate receded from III amendment
for the revival OF the Joint high COM
mission for the settlement Of differ
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