The Dolores star., 1903-12-04
EVENTS IN WASHINGTON AND
TRANSACTIONS OF CONGRESS

Re ucthttu Su0n anu Tic
United States for adjustment of the
title to the ownership of the Isle OF
Pines has been returned to the Sem
ate Committee on Foreign Relations
for amendment to protect the interests
OF American citizens before action Is
taken.
Senator Thomas c. Platt 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 a con-
ference held at the White House re-
Gently. The parties to the conference
were the president, Senator Platt, Gov
ernor Odell and Chairma1 George w.
Dunn of the Republican State Commit
tee Of New York.
Representative Stevens of Texas has
offered resolution directing the secre-
tary Of the interior to report to the
House the result OF the investigation
into the land fraud cases. The reso-
luton recites that 1t is currently re-
ported that the United States has been
defrauded Of vast tracts of public lands
by means Of fraudulent entries under
the stone, desert, timber and home
stead acts and that public officials have
entered into unlawful arrangements to
obtain possession of the public lands.
The resolutions reciting the fact that
the existence OF land frauds is OFF,
cially admitted. calls for specific de-
tails, including names, dates and
places.
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
and both from Connecticut, besides
Messrs. Teller, Allison, Frye, Hoar,
Gibson, Stewart. Platt 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 Q safe
margin of ten years.
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 It 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 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 oyerturn has also given
the Senate two youthful members. 1t
is almost a rule that the young states
have young senators.
President Roosevelt entertained at
luncheon on November oath representa-
tives of the labor organizations OF
Butte, Montana. The special guests
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
bor Assembly. Invited to meet the
labor representatives were Secretary
Cortelyou of the Department Of Com
merce and Labor, Carol d. Wright,
commissioner of labor; Representa-
tive Dixon of Montana and Wayne
MacVeagh. 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 Inn
ports and exports for 1903, corrected
to November 14th. The imports OF
merchandise for twelve months ending
October, 1908, amounts in value to 81,
020, ,474.037, and for ten months of the
present year. $s40.730,SS0. The ex-
ports for twelve months were $1.422,-
SS7,954, and for ten months $1,149,-
694,933 OF the imports for the ten
months this year free of duty amounted
to 1856, ,429 1888. and the dutiable $474,-
30O,897, this being $32,993 800 increase
in free and $l8,163,277 increase in du-
table imports. The exports for the
ten months were, domestic $1,126, ,165,
1856. and foreign $23,529,147. an in
crease in domestic over the preceding
year Of $61 1.994.73 and foreign OF
$207, ,29O. Gold imports for ten months
were $36, ,651 1928. an increase Of $631.-
800. and the exports were $41 1885,. .028.
an increase Of $9.431.S80. Silver i'm
ports for ten months were $40 9,334, 1924,
a decrease of $2.167 .656. and the exports
were $2S.053.967. a decrease OF $11.-
909, 1888.
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 Once
in his last annual report. The text
NJ tho hill fnI1nuo. mn y,uH1fo lands