Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1904-12-29
intendent and the secretary of the in.

lntendent and the secretary of the in
terror.
It seems probable that some legis-
lation may be enacted at the present
session of congress providing for the
distribution of the trust fund and
lands of the Usage Indians.
the subcommittee charged with
the preparation of the Indian appro-
priation bill will have busy day to-
morrow. All the officers of the In
dian bureau, including the present
and the future commissioners and the
chiefs of the finance, educational and
land divisions, will be called upon to
go over various items in the propos-
ed bill.
Washington, Dec. 81. - Represen-
tative Stevens, of Texas, today intro
duced a bill authorizing the appeal of
a test case from the court of the
Choctaw and Chiekasaw nations to
the circuit court of appeals of the
Eighth district of st. Louis, to deter
mine the legal status of intermarried
citizens and their descendants.
The interior department has sub
mitted to the house Indian committee
the draft of bill looking to the final
settlement of the affairs of the five
civilized tribes after the Dawes COM
mission is dissolved next July.
Judge Baker of the supreme court
IF ro-
moved from office by the president,
has received by the president and
the department of justice full hear
ing, the result being a revocation of
the order of removal.
F. w. Elliott was Endorsed by
Representative Campbell, of Kansas,
for appointment as postmaster at Ed
ma, Kan, the office having been made
presidential
The senate committee on privilege
and elections developed nothing SEN
sational in the Senator Smoot inves-
tigation.
The president has sent the senate
The following nominations Of postnas-
ters: Iowa-Eugene Stiles; Sidney;
James Schroeder, Gutenberg; N. C.
Ketchell, Mason City. Missouri
Godfrey Haldiman, California. Okla
homa-William T. Barrett, Cannon;
Frank H. Mccormick, Clinton;
George S. Bailey, Snyder.
The senate held a session of three
minutes and adjourned until Wednes-
day. Mr.. Perkins, of California, had
been designated to preside by Presi-
dent Pro TEN Frye. There was a
message from the president, mes
sage from the house, and motion to
adjourn until Wednesday. All the
motions prevailed.
Washington, Dec. 20.-Mr. John F.
milan canal commission, has given the
house committee on interstate and
investigation so far as made regard
ing the engineering tasks to be per-
formed in the construction of the Pan
ANA canal. The testimony was taken
1DOdlu lAC al NY u duSpOlI SuLlACl
Colon harbor, on the occasion of the
recent visit of the committee to the
canal zone. 1t is to be printed for the
use of congress.
Before taking up in detail the four
district canal propositions which are
being considered by him, and on
which he is to report to the canal
commission, Mr. Wallace made this
explanation of the general problem:
THE isthmus is trahsversed by a
mountain range, the summit of which
is approximately twelve miles from
the Pacific and thirty-fve miles from
the Caribbean. Originally a gorge
evidently existed from the Caribbean
near Colon to the vicinity of Gamboa
and extended beyond that point in an
easterly direction forming the upper
basin of the Chagres river.