The Springfield herald., 1903-03-27
WASHINGTON NEWS

revision OF tne laws mas decided tnaL
in the future the United States is"
Thus one point, long mooted, has been
settled.
Major L. w. T. Waller, Marine
corps, who was with the first relief
party to enter Peking and afterward
made the march across Samar in the
Philippines, which resulted in a court
martial, has been promoted to the
rank of lieutenant colonel.
The President has rendered the po-
sition of director Of the census to S.
N. d. North, formerly chief statisti-
clan of manufactures OF the census bu-
reau, to succeed Director Merriam, re-
signed. Mr.. North has accepted and
will enter upon his duties some time
In May.
The District Supreme Court has dis
missed the petition of Miss Rebecca
j. Taylor for mandamus to compel
the secretary of war to restore her to
clerical position in the War Depart
ment. She gave notice of appeal to
the Court of Appeals. She was dis
missed for publishing criticisms of the
administrations Philippine policy.
On March 10th Chief Justice Fuller
administered the oath to Henry M.
Hoyt. the new solicitor general of the
department of justice, to the retir-
ing solicitor, ]. X. Richards, as United
States circuit judge for the sixth cir
cult. and to Judge Vandeventer as
judge of the eighth circuit. Later
Judge Vanderventer left left for st.
Louis, where he viii hear argument
in the Northern Securities case.
Senator Pettus, of Alabama, the 9TH
u 4; I,r nj lin thnnrv
that all seats in the United States SEN
ate are expensive and that that body
is altogether a millionaires' club. He
sent to the secretary of state of Ala
bama the sum of 81 in postal note to
cover the entire expense for his recent
unanimous election. The sum repre-
sented the fee of secretary of state for
his services. So far as known. this
is record in the minimum price for
seats in the senate.
Senator Platt, of Connecticut, was
among the speakers in the debate that
Immediately preceded the ratification
of the Panama Canal treaty. He was
one of the very few senators, if not
the only senator. to announce his en-
tire satisfaction with the treaty. He
referred to the fact that a number of
Republican senators had said that if
they had had the making of the treaty
they would have changed some of the
features of it, and declared that he
considered the treaty the best that
could have been made, and that so far
as he was concerned he would not
have changed it in any respect. He
criticised the Democratic senators for
using undue ninuteness in the efforts
to find defects in the agreement.
The United States Supreme Court on
the 10th inst. Guashed the writ of
habeas corpus granted by Judge Jack
son of the northern district of West
Virginia, in the case of Ellis Glenn.
alias e. b. Glenn. and remanded the
case for trial. This is the man
woman" case which has attracted con
sideratble attention in West Virginia.
The woman for years masQueradedt as
a man, under the name of Ellis Glenn.
She was tried for forgery in Wood
county. West Virginia, at the May term
of court. 1901, and the jury disagreed.
She claimed at that time that she was
the sister of ELLIS Glenn" At the fall
term of court. when she came up for
re-trial, she claimed that she was be-
ing twice placed in jeopardy for the
same offense and sued out the writ
of habeas corpus before Judge Jack
son. The writ was granted, where
upon Hunter Moss, Jr., prosecuting at
torney, appealed from Judge Jackson's
decision and the court has sustained
the appeal.
The census bureau has issued bull
letin of the geographical distribution
of population in the United States. 1t
shows that almost 90 per cent. of the
total population lives in the country
drained by the Atlantic ocean, over SO
per cent. in that drained by the Gulf
of Mexico, A per cent. in the drainage
area of the Mississippi river, almost
3 per cent. in the area drained by the
Great Lakes, per cent. on the Pacific
coast, half of ! per cent. in the great
basin. The proportion living within
the region drained to the Atlantic is
steadily diminishing, while the part
drained to the gulf of Mexico is be-
coming relatively more populouS. as is
the case in a still more marked degree
in the great basin and the Pacific
ocean region. OF the foreign born SO
per cent live in the region drained
to the Atlantic ocean, 36.4 per cent. in
the region drained to the gulf of Mex
leo and Is per cent in that drained to
the Great Lakes. The proportion in
the region drained to the Pacific ocean
is 81 per cent. Out of every 1000 ne
groes 99S are found in the regions
drained to the Atlantic ocean and 61.4
per cent are in the lands drained to
the gulf of Mexico, the proportion in
the West and on the Pacific coast be-
ing trifiing.
BY the protocols which were signed
February 10, Great Britain received a
cash payment of s27 500. Germany was
promised an advanced payment of
$4,000 in five monthly installmets,
beginning one month from the date of
that signing, and Italy was to be paid