The Springfield herald., 1903-03-20
WASHINGTON NEWS AND
CONGRESSIONAL PROCEEDINGS

sress for an Appropriation of 100000
for the purchase of service medals to
be conferred upon officers and men
who participated in the war with Spain
and the suppression of the boxer" up
rising in China. The department
wishes to distribute 446SS2 medals.
United States Consul John L. Bitt-
niger at Montreal has been invited to
resign. He will be succeeded by Major
A. w. Edwards. North Dakota news
paper man. Consul Bittinger. while on
leave of absence at his home in St.
Joseph talked freely of the relations
between the United States and Canada
and criticised the cooks of Montreal
This was lily received in Canada and
has led to the present action.
Gov. W. r. Merriam, director of the
census has placed his resignation in
the hands of the President. 1t will take
effect May 18TH Governor Merriam re-
signs to accept the vice presidency of
the International Mercantile Agency of
New York. and will remove from
Washington to,that city. The Interna-
uonal Mercantile Agency is a corpora
ton organized for the purpose of rat
ing credits in. the United States and
Canada.
ACaptain Barclays assignment to COM
kand the Puget Sound naval station
will take effect June 1st. He will be-
come a rear admiral soon after that
date. Captain Cook will be promoted
to be an admiral upon the retirement
Of Admiral Crowninshield, March Goth.
Captain Harrington. who stands num-
ber two on the list of captains, has
been assigned to the Norfolk navy
yard and will become an admiral at
the same time as Captain Cook.
General Davis. commanding the
troops in the PHILIPPINES. cables that
the transport Thomas sailed from Ma
nila March 9th for San Francisco, with
Brig. Gen. Frank D. Baldwin, Brig.
Gen. Morris c. Foote, 5S2 enlisted men
of the Twenty-fifth, Twenty-seventh,
Thirty-first and Thirty-sixth COM
panies, coast artillery. and the Four
teenth and Fifteenth batteries of field
artillery. thirty-six sick, 11S casuals.
three insane and 1873 discharged SCI
diers.
Justice Day, the newly appointed
member of the Supreme Court, is suf-
fering from pneumonia. Justice Day
was suffering from slight cold when
he left Canton for Washington to take
the oath as member of the Supreme
Court. The bad weather of the past
week aggravated this cold into
severe attack of grip, followed by
pneumonia. The following statement
was made March 18th: The friends
of Judge Day are apprehensive con-
cerning his condition. His tempera-
ture to-day was high. running up to
the neighborhood of los. He is not
man of robust physique, but on the
contrary is of frail appearance and it
is feared he may be unable to with
Afand a severe attack of illness.
At the opening of the Senate on the
11th inst. the President pro TEN called
the attention of senators to the fact
that under a strict Interpretation of
the rules. only such business as prop
erly belongs to the matters under con-
sideration in executive session should
be presented at this extra session.
Mr.. Allison Uowa) offered a resolu-
tion which he said he thought was
proper at this time. authorizing the
committee on rules to re-examine the
rules of the Senate with the view to
ascertaining what changes. If any, are
necessary and especially to make In
Quiry whether 1t is eXpedient to in any
way limit debate in the Senate and If
so to what extent. The resolution fur
ther provides that the committee is
the Senate and is directed to submit
report to the Senate of its conclu
sions as soon as practicable after the
beginning of the session next Decem
Der. The resolution was referred to
the committee to audit and control
the contingent expenses of the Senate.
In discussing the Cuban tfcatr Gep-
ator Teller contended that it was n
direct thrust at the sugar industry of
the United States and its effect would
be entirely in the interest of the sugar
trust which he declared, would be
benefited to the extent of no less
than S6000.000 annually by the reduc-
ton of the duties on raw sugar. He
also discussed at some length the
amendment recommended by the com
mittee on foreign relations which pro
vides that the reduction on Cuban SUI
pr during the life of the treaty shall
not be more than 20 per cent, and
that during this time there shall be no
reduction on sugar imported from any
foreign country. He ridiculed this
amendment, declaring that it had been
inserted merely fer the purpose Of
catching the votes of senators from SUI
gar producing states. He asserted
that it could have no possiS.o eject
in binding the government of the
United States, if its Congress should
decree otherwise. In other words. he
said, this enactment could be repealed
just as any statute might be by Con
gress.
The Bureau of Insular Affairs, War
Department has just published a pam
phlet of forty-six pages giving the tel
egraphic correspondence of Emilio Ag-
uinaldo from July Is. 1898. to Febru-
ary 2S. 1899, the period just preceding