The Brandon news., 1905-02-09
LATE NEWS ITEMS FROM OUR
NATIONS CAPITOL.
PHILIPPINE SUGAR DUTY.
cane Growers Want More Time for
Filing of Brief in Rebuttal of Bill
to Reduce Present Tariff on Sugar
Imported.

and free OF export duties IN the Phil
ippines.
Secretary d. d. Colcock Of the New
Orleans Sugar Exchange has gone to
New York for the purpose Of obtain
ing data with which to complete the
brief TO be filed by the cane growers Of
) Louisiana in rebuttal to the evidence
adduced by the proponents of the Cur
Z It's bill, TO reduce the present tariff
on sugar imported from the Philip
pines. The representatives of the
Louisiana industry have been waiting
for the printed repor. containing the
] testimony Of Secretary Taft, who is
] supporting the measure.
Summons were served on Secretary
of the Treasury Shaw, Secretary of
/ the Interior Hitchcock and United
8 States Treasurer Roberts, in proceed
ings instituted against them by Rich
ard McLish, a Choctaw Indian, to en-
j join them from drawing and paying
warrants to satisfy the award Of a
fee of $4,000 to the law firm Of
McMurray, Mansfield G. Cornish of
] South McAlester, I. T., for services
in purifying the citizenship rolls
Of the Choctaw Indians. The award
was made under authority Of All act
of Congress. MeLish charges that
the firm secured this fee by fraudu-
lently concea1ing and Withholding the
fact that the firm already had been
paid salaries aggregating approxi-
mately $4,000 for their expenses, etc.
If American meats were furnished
to the soldiers in the Philippines, the
cost would be doubled, according to
a letter sent to the senate by Secretary
Taft, replying to senate resolution
calling for information. The commu-
nication encloses a report from the
'Commissary General of the army, CIV
ing the total cost of fresh meat bought
for the saldiers in the Philippines for
the years 1903 and 1904 at 81, ,O55, ,343.
Most of the supply was purchased
from Australian dealers at an aver
age cost of s l-2 cents pound for
beef and six cents for mutton. Sec
! retary Taft calls attention to the fact
that there were no American bidders
for any Of the contracts.
Counsel for Judge Swayne will sum-
mon seventy-fve Federal, district and
circuit judges In districts west of
Washington as witnesses in the i'm
peachment trial before the senate. A
large number may also be summoned
from the eastern districts. The judges
will be expected to tell how they ham
die their own expense accounts. The
house managers will call twenty-five
witnesses against Swayne. Two Of
them are women. Senator Platt, Of
Connecticut, head of the Judiciary
Committee, viii preside. He says that
the trial will take so long that the sem
ate can do nothing during the remain
der Of the session but tly Swayne
and consider appropriate MEASURES.
Acting Secretary Of the Navy OAR
! ling transmitted to the House reports
from the various bureaus Of the de-
partment relative to the delivery of
material to the battleship Connecticut,
being constructed in the New York
navy yard in competition with the
] Louisiana, being built in private
yard. The reply from the Bureau Of
I Ordinance refers to a letter COM
planning Of the delivery of armor for
the Connecticut from the naval con-
structor at New York, Sept. !, 1904
The complaint states that up 10 Aug
S27 the delivery Of armor for the Lou
isiana was three times as great as
that for the Connecticut.
The Japanese legation has received
a report made by Field Mc-shal Oya-
ma giving the details of ,Ee fierce
fighting from the 25th to the 29th Of
January, when the Russians were driv-
en- to the right of the Hun river. The
Japanese casualties were about 1000
Prisoners state that four regiments Of
Russian infantry were nearly ami
Inflated. Many of the companies of
these regiments were reduced from
twenty to thirty men each. The Field
! Marshal expresses the opinion that
the Russian casualties may have ag-
gregated at least 10000
The Istllmian Canal Commission has
awarded a contract for. furnishing
hewn red cypress crossties, for con-
struction work on the canal, to Brown
& Co., Of New York, So, 500; switch
ties, hewn Of red cypress, to the same
company for $5,445 fir files, uatreated,
to the American Mercantile Company
of T,aconner. Wn.. Mt $50. .C0f. yefIow