Omaha daily bee., 1903-02-08
AGREES ON COMMERCE BILL
Joint Conference Decides to Leave Inter-
stats Commission Untouched.
FRAME NEW STATEHOOD SCHEME
sultan of Morocco sends strange Doc
ument to Visier of Foreign Az
fairs of the Excited Amer
lean Government.


| on the Department Of Commerce bill have
| reached an agreement The contention Of
| the senate In the most important matters
have been acceded to by the house con-
ferees, which leaves the Interstate Com
merce commission a separate organization.
All reference to the Interstate Commerce
commission is eliminated and the stalls
tical bureaus TO be transferred are speci-
fed as being confined to the War depart
ment. the Navy department and the De-
partment Of Justice.
Previous to the meeting of the sem
ate Senator Clay asked the democratic
members to meet him for an informal dis
cussion of the deadlock over the dispo
sition Of the Interstate Commerce com
mission. He explained the situation and
all OF them expressed their willingness 10
stand with him in opposition to the report
in case the bureau should be transferred
| to the new department. Senator Clay car
ried the information Of this proceeding to
| the conference. Senator Nelson stood with
him in demanding that the commission be
left as an Independent division Of the gov
ernment. while Senator Hanna declared
that he did not desire that the success OF
the bill should be incumbered by an
amendment TO accomplish a purpose which
he thought had already been accomplished
Senator Nelson suggested the provision
specifically mentioning the statistical bu-
reaus to be transferred. Mr. Hepburn was
the first of the house conferees to yield and
soon afterward the other members came
over and the work of creating the new ex-
ecutive department was completed.
Calls Hay ViEier.
In 1orid Oriental style the State de-
partment has been notified that the sultan
Of Morocco has decided to make an exhibit
at the st. Louis exposition, and has set
apart 100000 for that purpose. The notice
came to the department with the following
preface:
Thanks be to Allah, alone to the vener-
able, the highly honored the wise, in
whom reliance is placed, John Hay, vizier
Of foreign affairs Of the exalted American
government"
Hope to settle Statehood Deadlock.
The leading republican members Of the
senate who oppose the omnibus statehood
bill were in conference for quite a time
today trying to devise compromise meas
ure.
They did not change their plan for q
double consolidation, providing for the ad-
mission of Oklahoma and Indian territory
as one state and OF Arizona sRnd New Mex
leo as another. but they talked especially
of the time and method of bringing the
subject before the senate. Finally they de-
cldod that the new. bill should be submit
ted first to the committee on territories,
and that the question should be sprung
next week, but did not set any definite
day. The one dif1culty was the doubt of
securing the adherence of all the repub-
lican senators, as the opponents of the
omnibus bill object to the admission of
state. a't
The democrats generally declare that they
will not agree to consolidation, and some
OF them say that rather than submit they
will let the bill fail altogether
t Leaves Land once.
Filibert Roth Of New York has resigned
2 as chief Of the forestry division of the
general land office to return to the for
, estry bureau OF the Department of Agri-
culture.
t H. H. Jones Qnd.), the present assistant
chief, has been selected as chief OF the
division.
Plan for Commercial Exchange.
h Senator Patterson today introduced an
| amendment to the Philippine currency bill
to carry into effect the presidents recon-
: mendation for a commission to devise q
plan for a commercial exchange relation
: between gold standard and silver standard
- coins. The amendment authorizes the
= president to invite Great Britain France
p and Germany and other gold standard
countries, Mexico and China and other sill
4 yer standard countries. to appoint repre-
sentatives to a conference to devise a plan
i for adoption by the several governments
e by which a fixed commercial exchange
. might be established.
: Salvador Wants No War.
i Senior Lopez, the salvadorean minister
8 has had a message from his government
o Of a reassuring character which he COM
municated to Secretary Hay. Generally
> 1t was to the effect that the people Of
4 Salvador were not inclined to war with
d their Central American neighbors and were
i determined to keep the peace.
'- President Makes NOmin atiOns.
The president today sent the following
g nominations 70 the senate; Navy: Lieu
= ! tenant Commander Robert C. Denning, tC
D be commander. Revenue cutter service
Promotions-First Lieutenant william F
u ! Reynolds, to be captain; Second Lieutenant
= c. e. Johnston, to be first lieutenant
IT Third Lieutenant Joseph H. Crozier, to bt
second lieutenant.
81 VIII stop Chinese SmuEEIinE.
le Senator Foster today presented to the
president Clarence w. Ide, collector o.
n customs Of the Puget Sound district o.
l. Washington Mr.. Ide is in Washington II
N conference with the treasury officials re-
garding the smuggling Of opium and the
y Illegal entry OF Cinnamon into the United
le States. 1t has been determined, as re-
r suit of the conferences, that radical meas
=, ures must be resorted to to put a stop Il
* both practices. which are particularly ha
y grant in Collector Ide's district.
!, Frepch Ambassador II PreSented.
NJ. ]. J. Jusserand, the recently ap
~ pointed French ambassador, was presente,
to formally to President Roosevelt today.
= Davis Becomes General.
The senate today confirmed the nomina
tion Of Colonel Charles Davis, Fifth in
fantry. to be brigadier general in tie army
NJ BristOw Il Not TO Retire.
D. Mr.. J. l. Bristow. fourth assistant post
master general, has returned from a tw
weeks visit in Kansas. While out in hi
N native state General Bristow purchased
newspaper plant and the announcement G