The Kemper herald. (Scooba, Miss.) 1875-1908, 1903-01-01
MATTERS AT.
WASHINGTON
News and Notes of National
Interest.
NO CURRENCY BILL
At This Session of Congress-
Bubonic Plague in Mexico.
Quarantine Against Cattle.

Washington. The United States
Marine Hospital Service authorities
have decided to Dispatch an expert to
the coast OF the Gulf of California
and Mexico to investigate the reports
OF the appearance OF the plague among
the immigrant Chinese there, but no
one has yet been designed for the ser.
vice. The Bureau already has re-
ceived authentic reports of the APP
pearance et a suspicious disease among
those people.
Commander Culver, commanding
the gunboat Bancroft, telegraphed the
Navy Department q few days ago from
Colon that affairs were quiet on the
Isthmus and that there was no neces-
sity of the American warship in tina,
vicinity. In view of this report, Com
mander Culver was authorized to pro-
coed with the Bancroft to Kingston,
Jamaica, and thence TO Sau Juan, P.
R., which is the regular station of the
Bancroft. The vessel left Colon on
the Oath.
United States Consul General Tur~
er reports TO the State Department
from Ottawa that the British Board
of Agriculture has refused to relax the
new Dominion customs regulation pre-
venting the Canadian Pacific railroad
from carrying cattle through to st.
Johns because it's line lies for q shrot
distance in the State of Maine. The
request was made in the interest of
cheaper and more efficient transpor.
~tation Of Canadian cattle to the British
market. Vessel, bound from Port
land and Boston to their ports are
prevented from carrying cattle to St.
Johns and Halifax.
Leslie Combes, newly appointed
United States Minister to Guatemala
and Honduras called at the state de-
partment and talked with Secretary
Hay and assistant Secretary Hill
over the situation in Guatemala
City, the Hunter case and other
matters connected with the duties
he is about TO sun Mr.. Combes
expects to sail from New Orleans
ABOUT the 10th or 18th of January
for the Port Barrios, and enter
Guatemala on horseback with his
family over the mountain trails con-
Meeting the Capital with the coast.
Secretary Root hes decided that it
wcs impracticable for Generals
Choffee and Smith and ether officers
to go to Manila to testify before the
Glenn Court-martial. as the pur-
pose of the investigation can be full
ly subserved, so far as the testimony
of the officers named is concerned,
by securing their dispositions.
There are thirty-five vacancies in
the grade of assistant surgeons in
the army and little prospect of fill
ing them. The next examination,
to be held in Washington, will &C.
IL some time in April, and an ex-
animation is row being conducted
in the Philippines to fill some of the
places.
Adjutant General Corbin received a
cablegram from General Davis, at
Manila saying that Captain Robert
McGregor. Corps of Engineers, died
in the Manila hospital on the 23d
inst, OF acute appendicitis. Captain
McGregor was q native Of Michigan.
Congressman Ewart the Republican
representative from North Carolina,
has written a letter TO President Roos-
evelt bitterly denouncing Ex-senator
Marion Butler for interfering with Re-
publican politics in that State.
DIR. Ale xander Graham Bell, the in
%ventor, is at work on a flying kite
which may solve the aerial navigation
problem.
A movement is on foot in the Sena'e
to defeat all of the r, cipl ocit, treaties.
The return to Baloxi of Rev. J. M.
Morse as presiding elder Of the Meth