Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1903-02-10
Appropriation of S3l9,4l4 for
Togus for Coming Year.
Appropriation for AugustaPost Office
Moving Along Well.
Senator Hale and the Statehood Bill
Maine Officers Retired.

Nlueu IOf Ill the SuIluIy CIVIL
ton BILL show that the total Of $319,-
Ala for the fiscal year beginning July
next, would be as follows: For cur
rent expenses, $4,000; for subsistence,
$135, 900; for household, $4,000; for the
hospital. $34, 500; for transportation,
81, 500; for repairs, $4,000; for gate
way and for lodges for the main en-
trance for the home, $5264; for the
greenhouses, $4,000; and for the farm,
$14 $50. s4%
The House is always very willing to
appropriate generously for the various
branches of the Soldiers Homes, scat
tered over the country and the total
for all the branches, appropriated each
year amounts to several millions of
dollars. There is every probability
that the Togus appropriations will pass
both the House and Senate just as they
have been reported from the House APP
preparations committee.
Gov. BurIeigh is well satisfied
with the appropriation of $125,O00
towards the extension of the postof-
flee at Augusta, which is carried on
the same sundry civil bill and which
is the balance of $150,000 authorized at
the last session. That item does not
affect the measure which Gov. Bur-
leigh is pressing before the House
committee on public buildings and
grounds for additional land for the site
of the pOstoffice.
Many Republican members of the
House committee are absent on a trip
TO New Orleans and Atlanta this week
Several Democrats have also gone
along with them. 1t is a pleasant
jaunt, for which the business men of
both cities put up the expenses, but
Gov. Burleigh did not accompany the
party, for, as a rule, he is not a be-
lever in such trips. The members will
be able to look over the sites and as
certain the necessities of New Orleans
and Atlanta for more and better public
buildings but the information, as far
as this Congress is eoncerped In acting
is already before the House commit
tee.
Senator Hale and a few of his asso-
ciates are rapidly Strengthening out the
tangle over the Legislative program
at the north end of the Capitol. The
formal conference on that subject.
which began a few days ago, have been
held in his room In them are included
OILY SiE vi ciSll SCiietlolS
and while it is true that they are act
ing only IN an advisory capacity, their
factions have q much more binding force
for the majority part of the Senate re-
cognize them as the party leaders and
follow. The Maine senator handles
those questions with great tact and
diplomacy. When he and Senators
Allison and Aldricfl take up a question
earnestly among themselves a way is
generally found for its settlement
The compromise, which they are try
ing to arrange and in which they have
good encouragement of succeeding, will
be satisfactory to all the Republicans
generally. Mr. Hale has all along been
favorable to the admission of Oklahoma
as provided in the Beveridge-N Nelson
bill. which he has been supporting.
While preferring that Arizona and New
Mexico should wait for some years be-
fore being adriitted. Senator Hale, in
common with other Republicans, is
willing to concede point by admitting
them as one state at the present time
They have the population to warrant it
and then the evils of a small state, like
Nevada, are avoided. If by any chance
the compromise plan should slip up,
which is not probable, Senator Hale
will undoubtedly be ready to continue
the fight along the original lines. The
Senate, in spite of the statehood dead
lock, is transacting all of the necessary
business from day to day. None of the
appropriation bills are being delayed
and large number of minor bills nee
|essary for senators in different local-
ties are being disposed of. AS matter
Of fact the Senate has been doing more
business this winter than the House,
for it has already passed all the anti
trust legislation necessary to the pro-
gram of the President and his admins
tration; has enacted the general staff
bill: also much other legislation of a
general character There is delay in
ratifyng the treaties, but the situa-
ton has come around so that the delay
in those matters is not so much on ac-
count of the Senate statehood bill, as
on account of the. opposition from va
rious senators to some of those treaties.
A two-thirds vote is necessary to ratify
treaties. so that the opposition of
Democrats is responsible for delay
there.
If the bill for the retirement of army
O1lcefS, VINO served tHiouSH lIle tlND
War, passes the House, as now seems
very probable, there will soon be two
more major generals from Maine on the
retired list. Gen. A. ). Daggett, now
on the retired list as brigadier, has
been urging a bill that would allow the
President to nominate him to a high
err grade. He is a native of Greene,
Me-. and went into the Civil War as
second lieutenant of the Fifth Maine
infantry, Company E. He went out at
the beginning of the war and came out
of it in '65 with brevet as brigadier
general. After the war he went into
the regular army with the rank of cap
tain and had an honorable career, Gull
minating in the Chinese campaign a
couple of years ago, soon after which
he was retired with the rank of brig
adler general.
Brig. Gen. II. C. Merriam y. S. A..
retired. will also benefit by the law,
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