The Globe-republican., 1904-12-22
Important Happenings In The House
and Senate During Tho Week.
BILLS INTRODUCED AND PASSED.
Dy Vote the Senate Committee Au-
thorized Favorable Report Regarding
Oklahoma and Indian Territory to BE.
come State Of Oklah0ma.

duced a bill authorizing the appeal Of
a test case from the court Of the
Choctaw and Chickasaw nations to
the circuit court of appeals of the
Eighth district Of st. Louis, to deter
mine the legal status Of intermarrled
citizens and their descendants.
The interior department has SUBJ
mitted to the house Indian committee
the draft of a 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
of New Mexico, who recently was re-
moved from office by the president,
has received by the president and
the department Of justice a full hear
ing, the result being a revocation of
the order Of removal.
F. w. Elliott was indorsed by
Representative Campbell, of Kansas,
for appointment as postmaster at Ed.
ma, Kan, the office having been made
presidential,
The senate committee OH privilege
and elections developed nothing sen.
sational in the Senator Smoot inves-
tigation.
The president has sent the senate
the following nominations of postmas-
tiers: Iowa-Eugene Stiles, Sidney;
James Schroeder, Gutenberg; N. G.
Ketchell, Mason City. Missouri
Godfrey Haldlman, California. Okla
homa--Willam 7. Barrett, Carmen;
Frank II. 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 Presl.
dent Pro TEN Frye. There was a
from the president, a mes
sage from the house, and motion to
adjourn until Wednesday. All the
motions prevailed.
Washington, Dec. 20.-Mr. John F.
Wallace, chief engineer Of the 18th.
milan canal commission, has given the
house committee on interstate and
foreign commerce the benefit Of his
investigation so far as made regard.
ing the engineering tasks to be per.
formed in the construction Of the Pan.
anna canal. The testimony was taken
aboard the army transport Sumner in
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:
1.-THE isthmus Is transversed by a
range, the summit Of which
8 approximately twelve miles from
he Pacific and thirty-fve miles from
he Caribbean. Originally a gorge
evidently existed from the Caribbean
rear Colon to the vicinity Of Gamboa
md extended beyond that point in an
'asterly direction forming the upper
,asin of the Chagres river.
Washington, Dec. 1.-THE senate
committee on territories by a vote of
to 4 authorized a favorable report on
he statehood bill providing for the ad-
mission into the union of Oklahoma
md Indian Territory to become the |
tate of Oklahoma, and of Arizona and
Jew Mexico to become the state of |
.rizona. The bill Is the one original. |
ne in the house in the second session |
+ the Fifty-eighth congress, but has
zen amended materially by the sen.
tie committee.
The prohibition provision relative to
oklahoma is as follows:
That the sale, barter Of giving
way except for mechanical medical
r scientific purposes, Of intoxicating
quors within that part Of the state
eretofore known as the Indian Terri.
Dry or other Indian reservation with.
I the state, be prohibited for period
( ten years from the date of admis.
ion Of said state, and thereafter I'm.
i the legislature Of said state shall
therwise provide"
Requiring that any lands sold for
ne support Of the public schools in
he state OF Oklahoma be sold at pub.
C sale in 100 acre tracts or less. The