Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1904-05-10
In the National Canita1.

The Comptroller of the Currency has
authorized the Traders National Bank Of
Clarksburg, w. Va, to reopen.
Secretary Hitchcock ordered that one
fourth of the bids in the Indian ware
house business shall be opened at st.
Louis.
The Semitic received a petition OF the
Chamber of Commerce of the territory of
Alaska, requesting an appropriation of
$250000 for the purchase of site and
the construction of capitol building at
Juneau.
Representatives VIM. Alden Smith OF
Michigan and Sulzer of New York APP
peared before a subcommittee of the
House committee on postoffices and post
roads, and argued in behalf of their bills
adding $500 annually to the salary of
the three classes of city letter carriers.
The House committee on merchant ma
rine and fisheries authorized favorable
reports on Senate bills revising the laws
regulating steamboat inspection and sup
plementing ''the crimping" legislation by
making it unlawful to collect any fee
or charge from a sailor for shipping him.
The case of James NJ A. Watson, ac-
cused Of embezzling $4,000 from funds
in the custody of the auditor of the Dis
trict of Columbia, was ended by the dis
charge of the jury and the arrest OF one
of the jurors, Arthur l.. Orrison. for
contempt Of court. Orrison was given
two months in Jail.
Through the Swedish legation here the
State Department has received officially
the thanks of the government of Sweden
and Norway for the protection accorded
vessels of that nationality by United
States warships in Dominican waters
during the many revolutionary disturb
ances there lately.
Senator Proctor introduced n bill to
authorize the President to reward dis
tinguished or especially meritorious SER
vice rendered by certain officers Of the
active list of the army. The bill pro-
vides for the creation of distinguish
ed service list to include five colonies.
six lieutenant colonels, eighteen majors,
ten captains and five first lieutenants.
Senator Dillingham; reported favorably
bill to amend the immigration act. Its
principal provision Is that at least one
inspector and one surgeon shall be as
signed to each Of the principal foreign
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to the United States. The officers select
ed will be members of the consular ser
vice, hut will serve under the commits
sioner general Of immigration.
The District of Columbia Court of
Appeals sustained Justice Pritchard of
the criminal court in holding that the
statute to punish conspiracy covers the
charges made in the indictments against
former Assistant Attorney General
james ~ Tyner and former Law Clerk
Harrison j. Barrett of the Postolilce De
partment These indictments were re-
turned as the result of the postal investi-
CATION.
The Lattimer good roads bin will be re-
ported favorably by the Senate commit
tee on agriculture early in the next ses-
sion of Congress. An agreement TO that
effect was reached at a meeting OF the
committee. 1t was decided to amend the
bill by fixing at 100000 the minimum
appropriation which each State shall re-
ceive first, the balance OF the appropria-
ton to be shared by each State In pro-
portion to its population.