The Lamar register., 1904-01-27

ceived an envelope postmarked san
Francisco containing a conscience con-
tribution of 500
Senator Quay introduced a bill on
! the 18th inst. providing for the ad-
mission of Oklahoma and Indian Ter
/ ritory as one state.
I The House committee on judiciary
has fixed February "a. 25 and 25 as
dates for hearing on the Grosvenor an
1 ti-union bill. The opponents of the
measure will be heard first.
Postmaster General Payne says there
was nothing to bar postmasters or 9th
er federal oificeholders from serving as
1 delegates to political conventions, ma
tional. state or county
The builders of the cruiser Denver.
which recently failed to make her re-
| quired contract speed of seventeen
knots an hour. have arranged with the
Navy Department to give the vessel
another trial within a few weeks.
President Roosevelt recently re-
ceived delegation OF about 100 promi-
/ nent men of Michigan, who extended
an invitation to attend the celebration
of the fifueth anniversary OF the birth
OF the Republican party. to be held
under the oaks" at Jackson, on the
9Th of July.
committee on privileges and elections
his second reply to the presentation
made by Attorney Taylor. The reply
I follow the lines of argument made by
the attorneys for Mr.. Smoot in the
hearing before the committee Saturday
last and places on record detailed de-
mails of assertions made by Mr.. Taylor
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 lsthmian 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withdrawn and the status restored.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.
The committee in charge OF the Bon
ynge-Shafroth contest have issued no.
ttce TO the principals and their attor
neys in the case that all meetings un-
til the completion of the count of bal
lots would be executive and none but
those engaged in the count would be
permitted to he 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.
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
ment stations in non-corn-growing
states, in fattening cattle for market
The measure also contemplaies expert
ments in raising forage crops in lieu
of grain for feeding and fattening cat
tie The appropriation is to cover a
perioI 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 a fund for contin-
, uing the experiments.
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 derelict.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 Colom-
bia for a canal at Panama. He said
on the latter point there was no inter-
vening time between the failure in Bo-
gotta and the convening of the Ameri-
can Congress. Mr.. Quarles declared the
/ revolt OF Panama in the interest of the
canal to be the first movement on 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
| 900 miles, to be completed by the
| time the Panama canal is put into op-
Grafton. is the project advocated before
the House committee on rivers and
harbors by a delegation consisting of
| Governor S. r. Van SAINT of Mime
sofa, Ellis b. Usher of La Crosse. Wis
! consin. Captain Alonzo Bryson OF Dav-
enport. 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, An as
sociation known as the Upper Missis-
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 10 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
lust 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