The Springfield herald., 1904-01-29
EVENTS in WASHINGTON AND
TRANSACTIONS OF CONGRESS

Francisco containing conscience con-
tribution of 500
Senator Quay introduced bill on
the 18th inst. providing for the ad
mission OF Oklahoma and Indian Ter
ritory as one state.
The House committee on judiciary
has fixed February "a. 25 and 26 as
dates for hearing on the Grosvenor an
ti-union bill. The opponents OF the
measure will be heard first
Postmaster General Payne says there
| was nothing to bar postmasters or 9TH
| er federal officeholders from serving as
/ delegates to political conventions, ma
tional. state or county.
The builders of the cruiser Denver.
| which recently failed to make her re-
quired contract speed of seventeen
knots an hour, have arranged with the
Navy Department to give the vessel
another trial within few weeks.
President Roosevelt recently re-
ceiVed delegation of about 100 promi-
nent men of Michigan, who extended
an invitation to attend the celebration
of the fiftieth anniversary of the birth
of the Republican party. to be held
under the oaks at Jackson, on the
9th of July
Senator Smoot has filed with the
committee on privileges and elections
his second reply to the presentation
made by Attorney Taylor The reply
follow the lines of argument made by
the attorneys for Mr.. Snoot in the
hearing before the committee Saturday
last and places on record detailed de-
mails OF assertions made by Mr.. Taylor.
In discussing the Panama canal
treaty in the Senate Mr. Patterson said
that II the treaty should be ratified.
whatever wrong had been committed
had been condoned. II not ratified, our
ships In 1sthmian waters should bo
withdrawn and the status restored He
defended Colombia as being mot SO
bad as painted" and took the President
to task fo- 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
bellion OF Wisconsin from the United
States.
The committee in charge OF the Son
ynge-Shafroth contest have issued nc
tice to the principals and their attor-
neys in the case that all meetings un-
til 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 bill placing $25O,000 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 lieu
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 a 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
succeed in his negotiation with Colom-
bia for canal at Panama. He said
on the latter point there was no inter-
venng 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
900 miles. to ne 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. r. Van SAINT of Mime
sofa. Ellis B. Usher of La Crosse, Wis
consin, Captain AlonZo Bryson of DAY.
export, Iowa. Frank Galenne of St
Louis and Lewis B. Boswell of Quincy,
Illinois. The total cost of the improve
ment is estimated at $l5.000,0O0. An as
sociation known as the Upper Missis-
sippi 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 a 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
unsurveyed 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-
gated and deemed to be patented which
are bounded by lines actually marked
by monuments. and the monuments
shall constitute the highest authority
as to what land is patented.
Professor Willis Moore. chief of the
weather bureau. was before the House
committee on agriculture n few days
ago, asking for an increase in the ap-
preparations for conducting the wealth.
er bureau for the next fiscal year. The
weather bureau service desires to es-
tablish eight additional stations dur
iny the coming wear. These to he at