Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1904-01-15

Secretary Shaw has appointed James
II. Causten of the state of Washing
ton. collector of customs for the collec-
| ton district of Porto Rico. with a COM
pensation of $500 per annum.
House elections committee No. /,
, Thursday. unanimously decided the
Conroy- either contested election case
from the Ninth Massachusetts district.
in favor of keliher, the sitting men,
bcr
The navy department has reached
| the conclusion that the Bleaching of
| the submarine torpedo boat MOccasin
at Currituck inlet was due entirely to
the elements and therefore will not
appoint court of inquiry to place the
responsibility.
Senator Penrose, chairman of the
state committee. Wednesday night. sent
out notices naming April as the date
for the meeting of the Pennsylvania
state convention to choose four dele
gates at Large to the national Repub-
lican convention.
The House committee on foreign af-
fairs, Thursday, authorized a favorable
report on the bill creating consulates
and providing for consuls at Mukden
and Antung, China. and instructed
Chairman Hit to call the bill up in
the House at an early day.
Commander VIM. II. Switzerland, l..
S. N, on his own request has been re-
lievcd from duty as photographer and
assigned to Command the new cruiser
Cleveland. now at the New York navy
yard. The Cleveland probably will be
assigned to the cruiser squadron of
Admiral COghlan's fleet.
The Senate committee on foreign re-
lations, Thursday, authorized q favor
able report on an amendment to the
diplomatic and consular appropriation
bill providing for the appointment of
a consul general at Mukden and
consul at Antung at $4,000. and consul
at Dalny at $500 a year. Senator Gull
lon presented the report to the Senate.
which he accompanied with letter
from Secretary Hay. urging immediate
action on this amendment in view of
the disturbed conditions in the Far
East. Senator Lodge reported favor
ably from the same committee a bill
providing for the appointment of Is
diplomatic clerks without rank to serve
as an adjunct to the consular service.
AS a result of Thursdays meeting at
Washington, there will be introduced,
Friday, in the Senate. by Mr.. Dolliver
Of Iowa. and in the House by Mr..
Calderhead of Kansas. a service pen
sion bill backed by the Grand Army of
the Republic, which if enacted into the
law will give 4 pension of $12 month
to every soldier who served 30 days in
the Union army during the Civil war,
who was hono.ably discharged there
from and who has attained the age of
c2 years. y like pension will be given
to the widows of such soldiers in all
cases where the marriage tC,F place
prior to June q, 1890. The bill. it is
explained is not designed to interfere
WITH existing pension legislation and it
provides in terms that no soldier or
widow receiving pension under its
provisions shall be entitled to PEN
sion under any other law.
The House committee on foreign at
fairs, Thursday, heard a delegation
,onsisting of r. F. Trueblood, Robert
T. Paine and E. d. Mead of Boston.
7. /. Gilbert of New York. and J. A.
Bailey of Philadelphia, in favor of the
establishment of an international con-
yress. The committee was asked to
avor q resolution to he introduced in
the House authorizing the President to
invite the governments of the world to
Join in establishing such II congress to
meet at stated periods to deliberate on
questions of common interest to the
nations and to make recommendations
thereon to the governments. Such
ongresS. it was stated, would exert Il
great and growing influence in favor
If amity and mutual good will, would
essen the dangers of war and assure
the permanence of peace and the con-
tnuance of prosperous commercial re-
latiOnS.