The Glenwood post., 1904-02-13
EVENTS IN WASHINGTON AND
TRANSACTIONS OF CONGRESS

OHe OIL tue results OIL the DEBATE III
Congress on the departmental libraries
is an order closing the fiction division
of the War Department library The
books will be shipped to posts in vari-
Gus parts of the country.
The House committee on Indian af-
fairs authorized u favorable report
| upon the bill which has passed the
Senate authorizing the secretary of the
interior to grant rights of way for pipe
lines for conveyances Of oil and gas
through Indian reservations.
President Roosevelt has instructed
the State and Navy Departments to
take effective measures to secure
PREPARATION for the murder of an Amer
lean in San Domingo and to bring
about an immediate adjustment of
.long-standins grievances of Americans
in the West Indian republic.
Assistant Secretary of State LOOMS
transmitted to the House a memorial
from the Wales Island Packing Com
pany of New York praying for RELIEF.
on the ground that the decision of
the Alaskan boundary tribunal placed
| its canning plant on the Canadian side,
which, it is contented, will prevent the
continuance of the business of the con-
| Germ.
| General Sanchez, the newly-appoint-
! ed Dominican minister, called at the
State Department and left a note eX-
| pressing regret for the killing of john
| ston, the machinist, on the United
| States gunboat Yankee, The minister
had not heard from his government,
but presented the note on his own re-
| sponsibility. He promised that steps
/ would hp tolEDu In nuniSb the guilty
| persons.
| By unanimously agreeing to a reso-
luton amending the rules of the House,
February End, the resident commission
err to Congress from Porto Rico was
| given additional authority equal in all
essential respects to that of dele
gate from a territory, the action not
requiring the concurrence of the Sen
ate. The speaker announced amid APP
| plause the appointment of Mr.. Degetau,
| the Porto Rican commissioner, as
member of the House committee on in
sular affairs.
Senator Teller recently received let
tiers from Colorado and Wyoming citi-
zens residing near the Colorado-Wy-
oming boundary line requesting him
to ascertain the accuracy of the state
eral land office, in response to Senator
Teller inquiry, replied that there was
no doubt of the correct position of the
line; that it had been determined as
Economically in 1873 by expert survey
ors and had been verified many times
since by land office surveyors. The
| line is at present marked by stone and
wooden boundary posts.
| The secretary of the interior has ap-
/ proved the setting aside of $2250,0 COG
I of the reclamation fund for the irri-
| cation project on the north side of the
/ Shoshone river, III the Big Horn basin
of Wyoming, provided that satisfac-
tory rights to land and water can be
secured. This project provides for the
construction of the storage reservoir
in Shoshone river and a canal head
] ing in the canon above Cody. 1t will
/ provide water for approximately 80
| 600 acres on the north side of the river
in Big Horn county. The entire dis
! lance from Garland to Cody station
/ will be under the canal system adjacent
/ to the Big Horn basin extension of the
| Burlington & Missouri River railroad.
The Senate committee on agriculture
on the 9Th inst. gave a hearing to
Senator Teller's bill appropriating
! S250.000 to conduct experiments to nom
corn-growing states and territories in
: the breeding and feeding of the various
classes Of live stock for market and in
1 growing crops and forage plants adapt
ed to these purposes. w. l.. Carlyle,
professor of agriculture in the college
at Fort Collins, Colorado; l.. H. Grub,
a member of the board of regents of the
same college, and Secretary OF Agricul-
! ture Wilson all spoke in favor OF such
bill. The committee favors the meas
ure, but it is agreed that the amount
asked for is far greater than will be
appropriated as u preliminary move
| ment.
1t is declared that western members
of Congress who are working for state
hood for the territories are of opinion
that the situation is acute and the ter
ritories are up against it" Arizona
is the great stumbling block. II is con-
( sidered to have too small population
to be made a state by ITSELF So is
/ New Mexico. While New Mexico is
| half inclined to agree to jointure with
Arizona, the latter is violently opposed
to it. Opponents of statehood would
much rather not see New Mexico and
I Arizona admitted, even jointly, for a
I few years to come. If these two terri
tories do not get together and agree to
come in as states, it is believed their
| chances to come in hereafter, either
separately or jointly, for at least a
generation will be lost.
| Complete investigation of the pro-
| tests against Senator Reed Smoot re-
| tanning his seat in the United States
| Senate win begin March LIST before the
| committee on privileges and elections.
| The committee agreed to this date at
meeting held February 9th and
Chairman Burrows was given unlim-
tied power to summon witnesses If
such course shall be found to be
necessary. A list of twenty witnesses
was submitted by the protestants and
most Of these will be present soon af-
ter March LIST. 1t was determined that
the hearing OF the case shall be public.
The protestants who are now organic
ing to make the fight against Senator
Smoot have declared that it is not
their intention to enter into what are
known as the Leilch charges. For
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