The Lamar register., 1904-03-02
EVENTS IN WASHINGTON AND
TRANSACTIONS OF CONGRESS

declared a 30 per cent. dividend in
favor of creditors of the insolvent
First National bank of Victor, Colo.
A favorable report was authorized
by the House committee on military
affairs on a bill giving the grade OF
major to fifteen army chaplains LOT
distinguished service
Secretary Hitchcock has requested
an appropriation of $4,000 from Con
gress with which to run down and
prosecute persons running liquor
stores on Indian reservations.
Representative Hogg has introduced
bill giving certain sections of land
in the neighborhood of Durango to
that city for the purpose OF water
storage, laying of pipes, etc.
The Senate has confirmed Charles
Cameron Forbes of Massachusetts to
be n member of the Philippine COM
mission and to succeed as secretary
OF the Department of Commerce and
police. Luke e. Wright
Representative Bonynge will extend
to the House committee on public
buildings the invitation of the Denver
Chamber of Commerce to visit Denver
at the close of the present session to
investigate the needs of Denver for
a federal building.
The right to construct an aerial
tramway over the grand canon of the
Colorado, desired by w. w. Bass of
Conconino, Arizona. and granted by
legislation pending before the House
committee on public lands, is to be
Investigated by a subcommittee.
Senator Warren of Wyoming gave
an elaborate dinner at the New VIII
lard in honor of the secretary of war
One hundred and twenty guests sat
around huge table lavishly decorated
with flowers and the national colors
In the center was a model of the Pan
anna canal, with the Navy Department
model of the monitor Wyoming at one
end and model of the old ship Wyo-
ming at the other.
The Senate appropriations committee
has made an increase in the appro-
priation for the Denver mint over the
amount carried in the bill as it passed
the House of 1900. The bill as re-
ported in the Senate provides a sala-
ry of $4,000 for the superintendent,
$4,000 each for the assayer, melter, re-
| finer and coiner, and $1,000 for the
chief clerk. The total appropriation
for wages and contingent expenses is
S6S,110.
During the discussion of the agri-
cultural appropriation bill in the Sen
ate Mr.. Gallinger called attention to
the appropriation of $4,000 for In
vestigating maple syrups, saying that
| the same amount was appropriated
last year. and suggesting that some
results should have been announced
by this time He offered an amend
| ment. which was adopted, requiring
that a report of progress be made to
| Congress.
Representative Hogg of Colorado,
| before the judiciary committee re-
| viewed the recent labor troubles in
| his state, which led him to oppose
| any legislation which would legalize
| combinations of labor, as he said he
| believed the Grosvenor anti-injunction
bill would. Attorney Bond. for the
Baltimore and Ohio Railroad Company
also argued against the bill. He said
it would paralyze interstate commerce
| by placing railroads in the hands OF
employees.
During the discussion of the agri-
| cultural appropriation bill in the SEN
ate the amendment made by the COM
| mittee striking out the House provi-
| sion appropriating $4,000 for the in
| PRODUCTION of foreign plants and seeds
| was disagreed to. At the instance OF
| Mr. Stewart an amendment directing
| the secretary of agriculture to investi-
gate the effect of cold storage upon
the healthfulness of food was adopted.
Mr. Stewart said that many cases of
| poisoning from cold storage food mad
| been reported
The State Department confirms the
report from Paris that the President
! has been considering the possibility of
arranging a treaty with France pro-
| viding for the settlement of any fu-
| ture disputes between the two coun-
tries by resort to arbitration. 1t is
| further stated that similar PROPOSE
| tions have been made to this govern
! ment by the diplomatic representa-
I tives of Great Britain. Italy and Hol-
land. All of these have likewise been
| taken under careful consideration by
the President Although earnestly IA
voring the principle of arbitration,
| President Roosevelt is indisposed to
| submit an arbitration treaty to the
| Senate until he is assured of its ap-
proxal.
A mortgage has been executed by
| the Louisiana Purchase Exposition
| Company to the United States govern
ment, to cover the loan of S4,6Oo,OOO
authorized by Congress to be made to
| the company Secretary Shaw now
has the mortgage in his possession.
One million dollars will be paid over
| to the company in Il few days, $4,000
900 will be paid in March, $1,0OO.OOO
in April and S6.0o0.00o in May. The
mortgage covers the gate receipts of
the fair and repayment of the amount
| loaned will be made in June. The
mortgage provides that in event of
failure of the exposition company to
pay promptly the amount loaned. the
government shall take charge of the
| fair and run it.
A prominent official of the State De-