The Springfield herald. (Springfield, Baca County, Colo.) 1887-1919, 1903-12-04


| 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 con-
ference held at the White House re-
Gently. The parties to the conference
were the president. Senator Plat. Gov
ernor Odell and Chairman George w.
Dunn OF the Republican State Commit
tee of New York.
Representative Stevens of Texas has
offered resolution directing the score
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.
lie ltSolUlloHS IttlllHS lh'l NifiI
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
in a hatWppp SIXTY
and seventy, and thirty-two between
fifty and sixty. The fifteen who have
crossed the three-score-a nd-ten line
include both senators from Alabama
and both from Connecticut, besides
Messrs. Teller, Allison, FIRE, Hoar
Gibson. Stewart. :'iatt Of New York.
Quay Bate. Prcr'sf and Cullom. The
Constitution of the United States spe-
cities thirty as the age requirement for
the Senate. and all the states have
made good this condition by 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 1t appeared that the
average age of its members was sixty
years. There We're 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-five.
| This difference is doubtless due to the
| new states which have come into the
| Unicn since that time, whose political
| leaders were naturally younger men
| The Delaware overturn 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 ana 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
Workingmen's Union. and Frank
Doyle, president of the Trades and La
Dor 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
MacNeagh. former attorney general
and one of the counsel of the Pennsyl-
yania coal operators.
The Bureau of Statistics has issued
the preliminary figures for the i'm
ports and exports for 1903, corrected
to November 18th. The imports of
merchandise for twelve months ending
October 1903, amounts in value to ST.
900, 474 ,037. and for ten months of the
present year, $S4o,73O,SSO. The eX-
ports for twelve months were Sl,422,-
SS7 ,954, and for ten months S1,l49,-
ca4,93 OF the imports for the ten
months this year free of duty amounted
to S3f6 429 1888. and the dutiable s474,-
800, 1877, this being s32,993, $50 increase
in free and SIS 1853 2T7 increase in du-
| table imports. The exports for the
| ten months were, domestic l,126, 1861
| 1856. and foreign S23 ,529147, an in
| crease in domestic over the preceding
year OF SCI 1894, T3l, and foreign of
s207 800. Gold imports for ten months
were s36 1928, an increase of $63l,-
800. and the exports were SAL $50 OPS,
an increase of $9,i31 $50. Silver i'm
ports for ten months were sl9,334 1924,
decrease of 81. 167 ,656, and the exports
were s2S053 967, a decrease of SILL
500. 13S.
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
! Il