The Dolores star., 1904-01-29
EVENTS In WASHINGTON AND
TRANSACTIONS OF CONGRESS

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csiFed an envelope pcstnarEs4 Saa
Francisco containing . Conscience cen
trfaution Of sleG.
Seaa;or Quay introduced a bill OF
the 18Th inst providing for the ad-
mission Of Oklahoma and Indian Ter
ritory as one state
The House committee OF judiciary
has hzad February "a 25 and IS as
dates for hearing on the Grosveno- an
ti-union bin The opponeuts Q; tie
measure Will b heard frs
Postmaster General Payne says there
vas nothing to bar postnzstsrs OF oh
e. federal oficeholders from serving as
delegates TO political conventions. ns-
loual. state or county
The builders of the cruiser Denver.
which recently failed TO make her re-
CURED contract speed of seventeen
knots an hour. have arranged with the
Nary Department TO gave the vessel
another trial within few seeks.
I President Roosevelt recently -e-
ceiFed delegation Of about 100 promi-
heEt men OF Michigan. v no extended
an invitation to attend the celebration
OF the hftieth anniversary Of the birth
oi the Republican party. to be held
under the oaks" at Jackson. on the
9Th Of July
Senator smoot has flied with the
! committee on privileges and elections
MS second reply 10 the presentation
made By Attorney Taylor. The reply
follow the lines Of argument made By
I the attorneys for Mr.. Smoot in the
/ nearing before the committee Saturday
/ last and places on record detailed de-
! mas oil assertions made By Mr. Taylor.
In discussing the Panama canal
I treaty in the Senate Mr. Patterson said
] that If the treaty should be ratified,
Whatever wrong had been committed
had been coEdoned. II not ratified. our
ships in Isthmian waters should be
Withdrawn and the status restored. He
defended Colombia as being mot so
bad as painted" and took the President
10 TASK Tor his method OF speaking of
that republic. He said that the seces-
sion OF Panama from Colombia is as
atrocious crime as would be the re-
Deiiion OF Wisconsin from the United
F., States.
The committee in charge of the Bon
ynge-Shafroth contest have issued no
tee to the principals and their attor-
neys in the case that all meetings un-
vi the completion OF the count of bal
lots would be executive. and none but
those engaged in the count would be
permitted TO be 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 a bill placing s250,0O0 at the dis
posal of the secretary of agriculture to
enable him to conduct experiments in
conjunction with agricultural expert
ment stations in non-corn- growing
states. in fattening cattle for market.
The measure also contemplates expert
ments in raising forage crops in lien
OF grain for feeding and fattening cat
tie. The appropriation is to cover
perioL 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 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 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, a distance OF
| 1000 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. II. Van SAINT of Mime
sofa, Ellis b. Usher of La Crosse, Wis
consin, Captain Alonzo Bryson of Dav-
export. Iowa, Frank Galenne of ST.
Louis and Lewis b. Boswell of Quincy,
Illinois. The total cost of the improve
ment is estimated at SIS 100000 An as
sociation known as the Upper Missis-
slDDl 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 n bill
| amending the law in reference to 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
unsuryeyed lands, surveyors general
in extending public surveys shall ad-
just 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
patents have been issued for mineral
| lands, those lands only shall be segre-
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