Idaho Springs siftings., 1903-12-05

the House November 18th by Delegate
Mcclure.
The Senate. In executive session, con-
I firmed the following nominations:
I George X, Carter. Honolulu. Hawaii,
Z to bs governor of Hawaii: Sanford b.
/ Dole. Hawaii. district judge Of the Ter.
ritory Of Hawaii
The Senate committee on military af-
fairs viii designate a snb-eom raittee to
go TO Cuba to take testimony regard
ing the conduct Of General Wood. The
personnel OF the committee has not yet
/ been agreed upon. nor the number of
members. II Is asserted that so much
has already been said about the con-
duet OF General Wood In Cuba that IL
Will be necessary TO examine witnesses
in that island who cannot come 10 the
United States.
An order has been Issued by the
Postofiiee Department at Washington
By Acting Postmaster General Wynne
calling attention 10 that section OF the
postal laws which excludes all living
insects and reptiles from the mails.
and insisting on its rigid enforcement.
This action Is the result Of a report
that has reached the department that
specimens Of the Texas boil weevil. an
been found in the mails
Senator Thomas c. Plait and Gov
BENJAMIN =. Odell OF New York have
reached an absolute and entire agree
menr politically Both will work in
perfect harmony with each other. and
with President Roosevelt This. in brief.
Is said TO be the net result Of a con-
ference held at the White House re-
~ fsr
were the president Senator Plat. Gov
ernor OdeIl and Chairman George W.
Dunn OF the Republican State Commit
tee of New York.
But one member Of the United States
Senate is mere than eighty years OF
age. Mr.. Pettus. the junior senator
from Alabama. who was born in 1921.
Fourteen are between seventy and
eighty. twenty-nine are between sixty
and seventy. and thIrty-two between
fifty and sixty The fifteen who have
crossed the INSTRUMENTATION line
include both senators from Alabama
and both from Connecticut. besides
Messrs. Teller. Allison, Frye. Hoar.
Gibson. Stewart. Plat OF New York.
Quay. Bate. Proctor and Culiom. The
Constitution OF the United States spe-
cifies thirty as the age requirement for
the Senate. and all the states have
made good this condition by a safe
margin Of ten years.
Representative Mondell has intro
duced bill prohibiting the selection
OF timber land In lieu OF lands within
forest reserves and which follows out
the recommendations made by the COM
missioner OF the General Land Ofice
In his last annual report The text |
OF the bill follows: NO public lands
OF the United States. chiefly valuable
for the timber they contain. shall be
subject to location or application un-
der the provisions of the law provid- |
ing for the location. selection and pat |
cntlng of lands In lieu of tracts COW |
cred by an unprotected bona fide claim |
or patent within d forest reserve, and |
any location or selection made or
sought to be made Of lands chiefly val
uablc for the timber they contain. In |
lieu Of lands within forest reserve. |
shall be void and of no effect"
In spite of all reports to the con-
trary. the United States Senate seems |
to be growing more youthful Thirteen |
years ago a careful computation was |
made. from which It appeared that the |
average age OF its members was sixty /
were less than fifty years old. and one |
who was less than forty-fiye. To-day |
the average Is fifty-nine years and |
four months. and in a slightly larger |
Senate there are fourteen men. instead |
of eight, who are less than fifty, and OF |
these eight are less than forty-five. |
This difference is doubtless due to the |
new states which have come into the |
Union since that time. whose political |
leaders were naturally younger men |
The Delaware oyerturn has also given |
the Senate two youthful members. 1t
is almost rule that the young states |
have young senator's
President Roosevelt entertained at |
luncheon on November 2ith representa- |
tiyes of the labor organizations OF |
Butte. Montana The special guests 1
were Malcolm Giles. president of the |
Stationary Engineers union: Edward |
Long. president of the Miners Union. |
NJ. r. Dempsey. former president OF
the Miners Union. F. NJ. Cronin, presi- |
dent OF the Hotel and Restaurant |
Helpers Union; William Robinson.
former secretary of the Miners Union:
]. W. Gilbert, president OF the Miners
Union: ]. W. Gilbert. president Of the |
Workingmen's Union. and Frank |
Doyle. president of the Trades and La |
Dor Assembly. Invited to meet the |
labor representatives were Secretary |
Cortelyou OF the Department OF Com |
merce and Labor, Carol ID. Wright.
commissioner of labor; Represents
tive Dixon Of Montana and Wayne
Macyeagh. former attorney general
and one of the counsel Of the Pennsyl-
vania coal operators.
The Bureau of Statistics has issued
the preliminary figures for the i'm
ports and exports for 1908. corrected
to November 14th. The imports OF
merchandise for twelve months ending
October. 1903. amounts In value to 81
o20. .474 .037, and for ten months OF the