Weekly Arizona journal-miner. [volume] (Prescott, Ariz.) 1903-1908, 1905-01-18

among the Pennsylvania employees,
bears relatively a small proportion to
the entire number of men in the ser
vice.
WASHINGTON, Jan. 14.-Pension
legislation at the rate of 379 bills in
eighteen minutes was INDUCED in by
the house today, the result being the
smashing of all records of the house
in legislative nimbleness. When the
pension grist had been ground out,
unanimous consent legislation held
sway for nearly an hour and not a
measure was presented. Several bills
of minor Importance were passed.
LONDON, Jan. 1.-THE Russian
government circular note regarding
Chine1e neutrality has not yet reached
the British foreign office. In diplo-
matte quarters the circular is regarded
as move to forestall complaints of
Russian aggression of Chinese terri
tory coming from Japan, but not as
an indication of any immediate or
serious action on Russia's part in the
near future.
ST. LOUIS, Jan. 1.-THE investi-
eating committee of the Missouri
house of representatives, sent here to
determine the source nd nature of the
twenty thousand dollars contribution
to the republican state campaign fund
which it officially credited to Thomas
K. Niedringhaus, who was chairman of
the republican State Central commit
tee, and now the caucus nominee for
United States senator, ad journed to-
night to meet at jefferson City on
Monday. The senate committee did
not complete its investigation today.
A majority of the house committee
will report that they found nothing to
substantiate the charge that the brew
ers contributed any money during the
campaign to influence legislation.
WASHINGTON, Jan. I4.-Eleven
witnesses testified today before the
senate committee on privileges and
elections in the investigation of pro-
tests against seating Senator Reed
SmOot. All except two told of the
political conditions in Utah and of
the Mormon endowment house cere-
mony. Several witnesses said the
ceremony included no obligations that
we're in conflict with the duties of a
citizen to his state or nation. Chair
man Burrows asked two witnesses to
give the nature of the ceremonies, but
both refused on the ground they had
given their oaths not to divulge what
had taken place within the temple.
They both claimed not to be Mormons
now, one having been expelled and the
other having voluntarily withdrawn
from the church. A former judge of
the supreme court under the territor-
ial and state government told of pro-
secutions for polygamous cohabita-
ton, expressing the opinion that po-
lygamy now is almost a thing of the
past, and that the sentiment of Nor
mons in the state was against plural
marriages.
CHICAGO, Jan. 14.-President E.
P. Ripley, of the Atchison, Topeka
and Santa Fe railroad, in a further
explanation of his telegram to the In
terstate Commerce commission, re-
garding his withdrawal of the request
for a rehearing of the case in which
it is alleged his company gave rebates
to the Colorado Fuel and Iron com
pany on coal shipments, tonight made
the following statement: "The state
ments that have been made relative to
the recent hearing of the Interstate
Commerce commission, for the pur
pose of Investigating the New Mexico
coal rates, indicate an utter miscon-
ception of the facts disclosed By the
testimony, which are as follows.
1.-The mining industry of Arizona
and Old Mexico is located upon the Ell
Paso and Southwestern railroad and
its connections. They have long been
important customers of the Santa Fe
railroad by reason of their large con-
sumption of bituminous coal. They
favored this coal by reason of its quail
ity for steam purposes. 1t is that
mined in northern New Mexico and
southern Colorado. All mines situated
upon the Santa Fe railroad producing
this quality of coal were owned and are
controlled by the Colorado Fuel and
Iron Co. Some two years ago the
Atchison company, in competing fol
this business, was confronted with the
necessity of making specific freight
rate which would encourage the in
dustries mentioned to use coal instead
of oil. As a result OF vaIiuus negotia-
tions an arrangement W.. arrived al
whereby the Atchison company agreed