The Grit-advocate., 1903-02-06
WASHINGTON NEWS AND
CONGRESSIONAL PROCEEDINGS

House Bill 1892 providing fund
for the prevention of the spread of dis
ease among live stock and making the
decision of the federal inspector final
in cases where stock is being shipped
through several states has passed the
Senate and will be law in few
days.
1t is stated that following his
avowed purpose to punish those fed
eral ofticeholders who have in their
capacity of Republican party officials
been charged with bartering their in
tiuence, President Roosevelt will issue
orders at once for the dismissal Of
four active negro politicians in
Georgia. The identity of the men con-
victed of this method of procedure by
report of postoffice inspectors has
not yet been disclosed. but it is known
that two are members of the Richmond
county Republican committee. one is
Chatham county committeeman, and
one is an official of the Eleventh dis
trict Republican committee, residing
in Brunswick. Postmasters who are
alleged to have been held up by these
negro politicians are not to be dis
turbed, the President regarding them
as victims, rather than accessories.
Mr.. Foraker, who was temporarily in
charge of the statehood bill during
short absence OF Mr.. Quay, took occa-
sion to defend the action of the latter.
He said that from statements that had
reached him, the action of Mr.. Quay in
Introducing the statehood bill as pro-
posed amendments to the agricultural
and sundry civil bills was regarded as
an unheard of proceeding. 1t was not
unheard of at ALL he said. 1t was SIM
ply question whether majority of
the Senate could do thing it wanted
to. He referred to previous legisla-
ton on appropriation bills, aad said
that an appropriation bill had con-
tained the provision establishing civ
il government in the Philippines, and
that the army appropriation bill just
reported provided for legislation Gre
ating a general staff. Continuing, Mr..
Foraker said the majority in the Sen
ate had it in their power always to
make such an amendment to bill
when, in their judgment, it is deemed
for the public good Mr.. Clay of Geor-
gia also took the same position, and
read from the record, showing that the
Philippine legislation, known as the
Spooner amendment, was voted upon
lue ARMY Dllls
The Senate committee on commerce
has been considering the nomination Of
DR.. w. D. Crum, a colored man, to be
collector of the port at Charleston,
South Carolina. Senator Tillman,
Mayor Smithe of Charleston and Col
mel Hemphill appeared in opposition to
confirmation. They preferred charges
to the effect that Crum had sold out as
a delegate to the Minneapolis Repub-
lican convention, and in support of this
charge read an affidavit in which it
was declared that he had been sent to
the convention as a Harrison delegate
but had shifted to the support of Blaine
on promise of the appointment of
postmaster. 1t was made quite plain.
however, that the principal opposition
was because of Crum's color, and Sena-
tor Tillman admitted as much. He told
the committee that the people of the
South did not want their offices filled
by negroes. And" he said. g so long
as they are so filled there will be trou-
BILE; oil and water will not unite" Ex-
| Gov p. B. S. Pinchback of Louisiana
and Whitfield Mckinlay, formerly of
South Carolina, both colored, appeared
for DR.. Crum. They declared that the
! charge of selling out at Minneapolis
was unfounded and eulogiZed DR..
Crum as a man of education and char
acter.
Commissioner Hermann of the gen.
eral land Office has recommended to
the secretary of the interior a consoli-
dation of and large additions to the
various forest reserves in Wyoming
and Montana, adjoining the main Yel-
lowstone reserve. The estimated area
of the proposed enlarged Yellowstone
reserve is as follows: Absoraka 1,311,-
900 acres; Yellowstone, 1884, ,24O; Te-
ton, 4,127,3G0 total, 1928, 200; addi-
tons now proposed 1,l02,OG0; grand
total, S,375 ,2G0. These consolidated re-
serves will be known as the Yellow
stone forest reserve in Wyoming and
Montana. The boundaries for the ad-
ditons to the reserve have been SO
drawn as to exclude nearly all adverse
holdings AS the additions are prac-
tically unsurveyed so that the sec
tions sixteen and thirty-six of each
township have not passed to the state.
this will not follow the usual selections
based on these sections where sur
veyed townships are added to the re-
serves According to Commissioner
Hermann, the proposed additions will
result in only a minutely small num-
Der of lieu land sections, if any at all,
as he is opposed to creating any more
reserves which will permit owners of
so much practically worthless land to
surrender it to the government and in
lieu thereof select valuable lands else
where from the public domain.
The United States Supreme Court on
January 2Gth rendered. through JUS
tice Harlan, an opinion affecting the
Northern Pacific railroad land grant.
The case was that of Peter and Henry
Nelson. who located upon unsurveyed
land within the Northern Pacific grant
in the then territory of Washington in
1881. This was after the railroad COM
pany had filed its general map. show
ing its proposed route, but before 1t
had filed its man of definite location