The state herald. (Holyoke, Logan County, Colo.) 1887-1921, 1903-12-04
EVENTS IN WASHINGTON AND
TRANSACTIONS OF CONGRESS

| granting statehood to Oklahoma The
bill is the same as that introduced in
the House November 10Th by Delegate
\ Mcclure.
The Senate, in executive session, con-
| firmed the following nominations
George r. Carter. Honolulu, Hawaii,
to be governor of Hawaii; Sanford b.
Dole, Hawaii district Judge of the Ter
ritory of Hawaii.
The Senate committee on military af-
fairs will designate a subcommittee to
go to Cuba to take testimony regard
ing thSconduct of General Wood The
personnel of the committee has not yet
been agreed upon, nor the number of
members. 1t is asserted that so much
has already been said about the con-
duct of General Wood in Cuba that it
will be necessary to examine witnesses
in that island who cannot come to the
United States.
An order has been issued by the
Postoffice Department at Washington
| by Acting Postmaster General Wynne
calling attention to 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 report
that has reached the department that
specimen of the Texas boil weevil, an
insect hostile to the cotton plGnt have
been found in the mails.
Senator Thomas Z. Plat and Gov.
Benjamin B. Odell of New York have
reached an absolute and entire agree
ment 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 con-
ference held at the White House re-
Gently. The parties to the conference
were the president, Senator Plat, Cow
ernor Qdell and Chairman George w.
Dunn of the Republican State Commit
tee of New York.
But one member of the United States
! Senate is more 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 three-score-and-ten line
| include both senators from Alabama
]
, Messrs. Teller Allison, Frye, Hoar,
| Gibson. Stewart. Plat of New York.
| Quay. Bate, Proctor and Cullom. 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 safe
margin Of ten years.
! Representative Mondell has intro
duced a 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 Office
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 I'M
! der the provisions of the law provid-
] ing for the location. selection and pat
| enting of lands in lieu of tracts COW
cred by an unprotected bona fide claim
or patent within forest reserve. and
| any location or selection made or
sought to be made of lands chiefly val
! liable 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 careful computation was
made. from which II appeared that the
average age of its members was sixty
years, There were then only eight who
were less than fifty years old. and one
who was less than forty-five. 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-fve,
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 overturn has also given
the Senate two youthful members. II
is almost a rule that the young states
have young senators.
President Roosevelt entertained at
luncheon ON November cath representa-
lives OF the labor organizations Of
Butte, Montana, The special guests
We're Malcolm GILES. president of the
Stationary Engineers union: Edward
Long, president of the Miners Union;
NJ r. Dempsey, former president OF
the Miners Union; +. NJ. Cronin. presi-
dent of the Hotel and Restaurant
Helpers Union. William Robinson.
former secretary Of the Miners Union,
j. w. Gilbert, president Of the Miners
Union: J. w. Gilbert, president of the
worldngmen's Union, and Frank
Doyle. president OF the Trades and La
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