The Glenwood post., 1904-12-24

The House emphatically disapproved
the proposition to hold the inaugural
ball in the Capitol building.
Capt. John j. Pershing, Fifteenth
cavalry, has been selected by the War
! Department as military attache at
| Toxic to success Litutenant Colonel
Wood, whose term of foreign duty has
expired.
The House passed the bill providing
a penalty not to exceed 81 900 or one
years Imprisonment, or both, for any
one who knowingly pastures stock on
any forest reserve of the United
States without proper permits.
The arbitration treaty between
Great Britain and the United States
was signed December 18th by Secre-
tary Hay and Sir Mortimer Durand,
the British ambassador. 1t follows
the lines of the French arbitration
treaty.
A resolution making a special order
after January 5th to take up and con-
slider the bill to restore three midship-
men, John H. Lofland, Earl w. Chaffee
and Joseph d. Little, members Of the
first class, United States Naval Acad-
emy, who were dismissed for hazing.
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Governor-elect Douglas of Massa-
chusetts recently wrote Secretary of
War Taft asking him if he would de-
tail Lieutenant General Miles, retired,
for his, the governors staff if he
should make the request after his in
auguration. Secretary Taft replied
that he will make the detail when re-
quested to do so.
The secretary of the treasury has
sent a letter to Congress recommend
ing an appropriation of $10,000,000 to
construct public buildings on sites now
owned by the government in forty cit
les and towns of the country. Albu
querque, New Mexico, is the only city
in the Rocky Mountain region where
the government has purchased a site
and not provided for a public building.
Secretary Morton has approved the
recommendation of the naval board
on construction for the award of the
contract for the construction of the
armored cruisers Montana and North
Carolina to the Newport News Ship
ping Company at its bid of $3,575, 900
for each vessel, and the contract for
the construction of the battleship New
Hampshire to the New York Ship
building Company at its bid of s3,-
748,000.
Labor Commissioner Carroll d.
Wright has sent to Secretary Metcalf
of the Department of Commerce and
Labor 10000 word reply to the ques-
tions asked by the labor committee
Of the House in regard to the effect of
the eight.hour day, if a law were
passed giving all workingmen en-
ployed for the government the shorter
day. Secretary Metcalf has not indi-
Gated when the report will be trans
mitted to the House committee.
In the case of w. B. Wetmore VS..
Mrs. A. B. Markoe the Supreme Court
of the United States in a decision
handed down December 10Th, held that
an obligation to pay alimony and al
lowance to wife and children is not
in the nature of an ordinary debt and
therefore cannot be discharged in
bankruptcy. The opinion was delv-
cred by Justice Day. who said: THE
bankruptcy law should receive such
an Interpretation as will effectuate its
beneficent purposes and not make it
an instrument to deprive a dependent
wife and children of the support and
! maintenance due them from the hus-
band and father, which it has ever
been the purpose of the law to en-.
force"
Delegate Rodey of New Mexico has
redrafted and rentroduced Bourke
Cockran's election bill, SO as to extend
its provisions to the territories. AS it
now stands the bill requires publica-
tion of lists of all persons who contrib
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fund. The original bill applied only to
the several states. Mr.. Rodey also
introduced a bill providing that no
member of legislative assembly in
any territory shall be appointed to any
position by the governor of that terri
tory during his term in the assembly,
or within one year after the expiration
of that term. 1t also provides that no
person holding any Office in territory
under appointment of the governor, ex-
cept postmasters, shall be members OF
the legislative assembly
Land Commissioner Richards has
advised Representative Hogg, who
has received many inquiries on the
subject from his constituents, that it
had been decided to have no formal
opening of the unallotteu lands of the
Uintah Indian reservation in Utah, but
that on the date set by Congress these
lands will be restored to the public
domain and become subject to entry
in the regular way under the public
land laws. The commissioner said
there was no intention of duplicating
the methods pursued in Oklahoma or
South Dakota, and that no ceremony
whatever would attend the opening
The law provides taht these lands
shall become subject to entry March
10, 1906, and unless errors are found
in the surveys, the opening will take
place on that date.
! Senator Dolliver of the Senate in
terstate commerce committee has
asked that specific cases be sent to
that committee in which railroad cor
porations have acted in contempt of
instructions of the interstate com
merce commission. 1t has been stated
before this Senate committee that
railroads evade such regulations by
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