The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1903-11-26
sndiana Democrats Not Likely to Get
Places on the Appropriations and
Harbor Committees.
RURAL DELIVERY FUNDS Low
fEMERGENCY APPROPRIATION NEC-
EssARY BEFORE FEB. Is.
s8ills introduced In Behalf OF Indian
Postmaster.

( WASHINGTON, Nov. 2.-Speaker Can
inon will announce the committees OF the
House early next week. Organization will
fthen be perfected and the House will get
kdown to business, taking up first, accord
Ting to the present programme, several con-
Etested election cases. There does not seem
sto be any chance of compromise on the
squestion OF adjourning the special session.
land the speaker believes that the time be-
tween now and Dec. z. on which date the
Irregular session begins, should be occupied
in work that will materially shorten the
life OF Congress this winter. To-day Speak
er Cannon received the recommendations
I OF Representative Williams, the Democrat
sic floor leader. for minority committee as
ssignments. and this phase Of the commit
! tee lists was practically concluded at an ex-
tended conference between Mr.. Cannon and
Mr.. Williams to-day. While the speaker
will not make predictions as to the day he
will make the committees public. the an
nouncement is expected IN Monday. 1t
cannot be learned that there will be any
material changes in the Indiana Demo-
cratic representation the committees.
4 Representative Miers wanted a place on
/ appropriations and Representative Zenor
! expressed a desire for assignment to riv-
: ers and harbors. IT is understood that
q neither committee will go TO the Indiana
} Democrats
/. 1t is stated at the Postoffice Department
that the funds for rural free delivery viii
! be exhausted early in the new year. Con-
{ gress must make an emergency appropria-
T, ton for the service. no more routes can
: be ordered established after Feb. Is. 1t Is
believed at the department. that Repre-
sentative Hemenway who will be chairman
: of the committee on appropriations, VIII
have an item Incorporated in the urgent
| deficiency bill sufficient TO carry rural
! free delivery until the postoffice committee
I; Is ready to take up the annual postal bill.
Fourth Assistant Postmaster General
Bristow is gratihed with the general ap-
5 proval Of his policy in conducting the rural
service Complaints are still made against
the 1OO-family rule, but they not very
, strenuous More routes have been ordered
charge OF the service, early in the spring.
| than in any like period since rural free
delivery was inaugurated-
The secretary of war will take no action
I'm the case OF j. NJ Bobbitt. OF Farmland,
{ Ind. a teacher in the Philippines. AS stated
in these dispatches. Bobbitt was charged
! with unmanly conduct toward the late
Miss Wilson. of Farmland, the case having
been called to the attention or the authori-
ties by Russell Wilson, q brother OF the
deceased. AS the Philippine Commission
has power to act In matters OF discipline.
The department has advised Mr. Wilson
that all the papers in the case have been
forwarded to Manila. and that anything
that may be done will originate there.
xxx
Iv,orx, q LrfpnhoIr uroo doy ronor,tv Al
by President Roosevelt to be police judge
In the District of Columbia. Judge Kim
ball. who formerly lived in Fort Wayne
was first appointed to y position the
bench by President Harrison. He has lived
IN washington many years, having come
ment in the sixties.
Senator Fairbanks to-day introduced PEN
sion bills for Indianians as follows: Sarah J.
Appleton, James +. Nosler, John Coombs
John Zimmerman, William II. Ellingwood
and Albert Johnson
Newton Myers, postmaster Of Jefferson
Vile. left Cor home to-day He came here
primarily 20 confer with members of the
Indiana delegation and officials Of the de.
termaster's depot ut Jeffersonville. He
leaves here convinced that Colonel Jones
QudTteTndSleT III CIdIBe, Will soon De trans
ferred to another post.
Senator Beveridge to-day introduced a
bill directing the postmaster general tC
credit William G.. Anderson. postmaster al
Elkhart. Ind. with s1os67, representing the
amount of the postmasters deposits in the
Indiana Bank. OF that city, which recently
closed its doors. The bill provides that as
fast as dividends are declared by the re.
ceiver OF the bank the proper amounts will
be charged against the postmaster's ac
count.
Pension bills were introduced for Indiana
people by Senator Beveridge as follows
Cynthia A Barton, Henry Jordan, William
H Smith. Thomas Gully and James Abbott
Also a bill correcting the military RECORD
of Jacob W. Perkins.
b. Wilson Smith, OF Indianapolis, want.
to be superintendent OF the money orde
system of the United States. He has hat
experience in postal affairs, having beer
postmaster at Lafayette.
Senator Beveridge left for Indianapoli
this afternoon Senator Fairbanks will
not leave Washington at this time
H.