The Glenwood post. (Glenwood Springs, Colo.) 1897-current, 1904-01-30

an invitation to attend the celebration
OF the fiftieth anniversary Of the birth
OF the Republican party, to be held
under the oaks" at jackson, on the
9th of July.
The President has sent to the Senate
the nomination of Miss Martha C..
Brown as receiver of public moneys at
Gunnison, Colorado. Miss Brown is
renominated. having been originally
appointed to that Office in April, 1898.
She is stated to be the second woman
ever appointed to the Office of receiver
or public moneys, the other being that
of Miss Minnie Williams, who held that
office in Lander, Wyoming.
The committee in charge of the Bon
ynge-Shafroth contest have issued no
tice to the principals and their attor-
neys in the case that all meetings IN
til the completion of the count of bal
lots would be executive, and none but
those engaged in the count would be
permitted to be present at the meet
ings. The committee decided also to
employ an expert in handwriting, the
one detailed from the Treasury De-
partment for this work having been
found incompetent for the purpose Of
comparing handwriting.
In discussing the Panama canal
treaty in the Senate Mr.. Patterson said
that If the treaty should be ratified,
whatever wrong had been committed
had been condoned. II not ratified, our
ships In Isthmian waters should be
Withdrawn and the status restored. He
defended Colombia as being mot so
bad as painted" and took the President
to task for his method of speaking of
that republic. He said that the seces-
sion Of Panama from Colombia is as
atrocious a crime as would be the re-
bellion of Wisconsin from the United
States.
Representative Brooks has intro
duced bill placing $3.50, 900 at the dis
posal of the secretary of agriculture to
enable him to conduct experiments in
conjunction with agricultural expert
ment stations in non-corn-growing
states. in fattening cattle for market.
The measure also contemplates expert
ments in raising forage crops in lieu
of grain for feeding and fattening cat
tie. The appropriation is to cover a
perioL of five years, with an annual ex-
penditure of $4,000, and the money
derived from sale of cattle or crops is
to be converted into fund for contin-
ulnR tne experiments.
The urgent deficiency appropriation
bill has been completed by the COM
mittee on appropriations. The bill car
Ties total of $11 PSI 1908, based on es-
Inmates from the various departments
aggregating $12.488.205. Some of the
larger items in the bill are: $4,000, 900
for armament and armor for new ships.
100000 for the naval station at Guam
tanamo, Cuba; 100000 for Alaskan
boundary survey; $4,000 for construc-
ton of the new Office building for the
House of Representatives; $145,0O0 for
mileage for members and senator's!
100000 for rural free delivery and 81
100000 for collecting the customs reve-
nues
Speaking in favor of the Panama
treaty in the Senate. Mr.. Quarles de-
Tended the President against the
charge of undue haste and against the
charge that he had been dereict in his
duty in failing to open the way under
the Spooner act to the construction of
the Nicaraguan canal when he did not
succeed in his negotiation with Colon
bia for a canal at Panama. He said
on the latter point there was no inter-
vening time between the failure in Bo-
can Congress. Mr. Quarles declared the
revolt of Panama in the interest Of the
canal to be the first movement OIL the
Isthmus for the promotion of the rights
of civilization for the past 100 years.
A six-foot channel in the Mississippi
river at low water from St Paul and
Minneapolis to Cairo. distance of
1000 miles, to be completed by the
time the Panama canal is put into OPP
Grafton, is the project advocated before
the House committee on rivers and
harbors by delegation consisting of
Governor S. r. Van SAINT of Mime
sofa, Ellis B. Usher of La Crosse, Wis
consin, Captain Alonzo Bryson of DAY.
export, Iowa, Frank Galenne of St.
Louis and Lewis B. Boswell of Quincy.
Illinois. The total cost of the improve
ment is estimated at $15,0000O0. Ao as
ISOLATION known as the Upper aiissis-
sippi Improvement Company, repre-
senting five states bordering on the up
per Mississippi. has been organized for
the purpose of advancing the project.
Senator Teller has introduced a bill
amending the law in reference to min
ing claims so that the description of
vein or lode claims upon surveyed
land shall designate the location
of claims with reference to
lines of public surveys, but
need not conform herewith; but
where patents have been issued on
unsurveyed lands, surveyors general
in extending public surveys shall adj
| Just the same to the boundaries of pat
ented claims so as not to interfere with
or change the location of said claims
as they are officially established. Where
patents have been issued for mineral
lands. those lands only shall be segre-
gated and deemed to he patented which
are bounded by lines actually marked
by monuments, and the monuments
shall constitute the highest authority
as to what land is patented,
1t has been practically determined
that no financial legislation will be en-
acted at the present session of Con-
| gress. Strong pressure has been and is
being brought to bear to secure the
passage of some such legislation. Sew
eral measures are pending in both the
| branches of Congress bearing upon the
question. One. at least. of them. has,
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