The Somerset reporter. [volume] (Skowhegan, Me.) 1868-1909, 1904-03-03
At Washington.

OF ONO will make IL necessary Tor Sena-
tor Hale, sooner or later, 10 call together
again bis committee on committees and
fill the places vacated by the Ohioan
Mr. Hanna held some very good commit
tee places, among them a place on the
naval committee, of which Mr.. Hale is
and naturally the strife is
keen to get the plums. The most i'm
portant of these vacancies, which Mr..
Hale and his associates will have to fill
is that of chairman of the isthman canal
committee. There is some division of
opinion as to whom the chairman ought
to be. The right of appointment by
reason of seniority of service is very
strongly inuenched in the Senate.
There has been an effort to name Mr..
Spooner of Wisconsin to the vacant
craftsmanship by reason of his eminent
ability and recognized fitness for such a
duty, but this has been resisted by Sena
tors, who have the right of appointment
by reason of seniority on the canal com
mttee.
The House passed the naval appropri-
alton bill, Friday, after having it under
consideration for week
Baron Won Sternburg, the German
ambassador, had long conference with
Secretary Taft and Major General Miles
respecting the location of the statue of
Frederick the Great, which is to be dedi-
Gated, Oct. 20 1t was decided that the
statue should make one of quartette of
four of the worlds greatest soldiers and
1t will stand on the terrace of the var
College Building, with Alexander the
Great, Caesar and Napoleon.
The orders of Edwin V. Morgan, ap-
pointed and confirmed as American con
sui to Daily to proceed to that post have
been suspended. Mr. Morgan will not
proceed until he has received further
orders from the department. There is
no present intention of trying to force
Mr.. Morgan upon the Russian govern
ment
Gov Wright has csbled from Manila
that the Philippine commission will be
able to arrange its business so do to per
NIT Cameron Forbes to delay his coming
to the island for three or four months
AS this extension will enable Mr.. Forbes
to wind up his business interests at home
he will accept the appointment of Philip
pine commissioners. His appointment
has already been confirmed by the Sem
ate.
The U. S. Senate, Friday, considered
at some length the bill requiring the use
of American ships in carrying govern
ment supplies. but without motion, al
journed for want of quorum. The bill
WAS criticized By democratic senators as
being in the nature of subsidy, but Mr..
Hale, who was in charge of the measure,
defended it against this attack, and
championed 1t as IN the interest of
American shipping.
The Senate committee on pensions,
Monday, authorized a favorable report
on the pension appropriation bill with
an amendment increasing to 500 a
month the pensions of veterans who are
totally blind as the result of service in
the civil War. This amendment will
increase the total appropriation under
the bill by S201, 900.
The President has nominated mem
bers Of the Isthmian canal commission:
Rear Admiral John G. Walker, U. S.
N, retired, District of Columbia; Ma
jor General George W. Davis, U s. A,
retired, District of Columbia; William
Barclay Parsons, New York; William H.
Burr, New York; Benjamin M. Harrod,
Louisiana; Carl Ewald Grunsky, Califor
mia; Frank j. Hecker, Michigan. The
first is named as chairman.
1t ia the earnest wish of the President
and the members of the Cabinet that no
unnecessary delay should occur in be
ginning the work on the canal and it is
their intention to press it with the ut
most vigor. Attorney General Knox
and other officials of the Department of
Justice have under consideration the
Ia t1 ha al 4
that no money would be paid by this
government until clear title to the pro-
perty was obtainable.
An important conference lasting more
than an hour, occurred Tuesday between
Secretary Hay and Count Cassini, the
Russian ambassador. The growing of
Ill feeling in Russia against Americans
and the continued attacks of certain
parts of the Americans press against
Russia was the main subject discussed.
Senator Hale has been doing yeoman
service in the senate defending the bill
to have army supplies shipped in Ameri-
can bottoms, which bill comes to vote
Tuesday. He has been aided greatly by
Senator Perkins of California, Maine
born man. The two 1--we had almost
a continuous fight vii lie Democratic
senators who do not favor such legisla-
ton.
A protest from ten citizens near Skow-
hogan about the operations of the rural
free delivery routes in their vicinity has
been received by Representative Burleigh
and by him taken up at the Postofflce
Department. S + Emerson, Clara A
Gilman, and Joseph Butler are among
the sipners They set forth that their
neighbors on one of the adjoining roads
receive a daily mail while others on an
adjoining road receive two mails day.
They submit to Representative Burleigh
a plan of the different roads and ask him
to help them tn secure rural free deliv
cry of mail at their doors.