The Grit-advocate., 1903-03-13
WASHINGTON NEWS AND
CONGRESSIONAL PROCEEDINGS

/ tipn 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. AS war
| Is not supposed TO exist at the present
time the nominations will not be favor
| ably reported.
| During the last session of the expir-
| ing Congress Colorado delegates Sc
cured substantial appropriations for
the completion of the Denver mint and
the Colorado Springs postOce A
| term of the United States Court was
established at Montrose. the cO-opera-
tive colony in Montezuma county got
an extension of its time for entry to
government lands. Montrose secured
site for water works and arrange
mcnts were made whereby a tract Of
Indian lands where the remains OF the
cliff dwelers 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 be
! made at the Grand Junction Indian
School and Leadyillc fish hatchery
with appropriations which Colorado
senators and representatives secured.
The Bureau of Insular Affairs. War
Department. has just published pam
phlet of fortysix pages giving the tel
egraphic correspondence of Emilio Ag
uinaldo from July 10. 1898, to Febru-
airy rs, 1899, the period just preceding
the fall of Manila and following the
outbreak of hOstilities between the
United States forces and the insurgents.
lhese kilograms were discovered by
Captain John Il. r. Taylor, Fourteenth
infantry, among a 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 a republic. for titles of
nobility were. January 18th, promised
|
ward for entering Manila and captur-
ing the American forces and their Off
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 TO the increase of the navy.
The provision as agreed on provides
fny hrnn hiatt 1n.l li,,, of Il lie
placement and two batteships of 49,
600 tons displacement and entirely
eliminates the provision for cruisers.
The effect of the agreement is that
the House programme is accepted, eX-
cept that two 3OO0-ton battleships are
substituted for one cruiser 1t is pro-
vided that the ships authorized may be
built by contract or at the navy yards.
and shall be built at the navy yards il
it is found that combination of ship
builders exists. The provision for an
Increase in the personnel Of the navy
remains as the bill passed the House.
including an increase in number of
midshipmen. but the increase is to con-
tinue until 1913, instead of 1903, as
fixed by the Senate. Porto Rico is
given midshipman. The age limit
Tor admission to the academy is fixed
at from l6 to 20 years. The provision
for naval hospital at Washington to
cost $125, 900 remains. while that for
al army and navy hospital in New
Mexico is stricken out. The item of
s25c,oo0 for coal depots and an in
crease in the appropriation for dry
docks already authorized go out, like
wise the provision for a monument to
Charles V. Gridley.
The report of the confere-s on the
sundry civil appropriation bill which
was presented to the Senate, shows.
that OF the increase made by the Sen
ate the House conceded s., 423 ,OO6 and
the Senate receded from items amount
ing ip the aggregate to $i.2O2, 1926. The
principal items OF recession were those
making appropriations for the pro-
posed new post office building in New
York, for the extension of the immi-
grafton station at Ellis island and for
the payment of the claim OF ex-Queen
LiliuDkalani. As the bill becomes IL
law it carries total appropriation of
$50 PIP $50. an increase of $22 ,109 59J
over the amount carried by last ses-
sion's act The appropriation of $l0O,-
600 for the proposed monetary confer
encc was retained as was also that Of
100000 to pay the expenses of the
Alaskan boundary commission. but the
Senate receded from its amendment
for the revival of the joint high com
mission for the settlement of differ
ences with Canada The House pro-
vision for the enlargement of the cap
itol went out. but the provision for
building to be used as offices and COM
mittee rooms for the House of repre-
sentatives was retained. The Senate
amendment looking to the construction
OF similar building for the Senate
was disagreed to. The Senate pro-
vision for the beginning of the con-
structiOn of the new Department OF
Agriculture building remains In the bill
as does the provision authorizing the
heyinning OF the construction OF q new