The La Jara chronicle., 1905-02-03
WASHINGTON ITEMS

acres in the Uintah Indian reservation
shall be withdrawn from entry and be-
come subject to irrigation under the
national reclamation act.
The State Department is preparing
to administer the finances of Santo
Domingo and supervise the customs de-
partment. That quarrelsome and prod
igal republic will. for time at least,
be chaperoned by Uncle Sam.
The Senate passed the army appro-
priation bill after modifying the pro-
vision concerning the assignment of re-
tired army officers to active service
with militia organizations. The effect
of the change is to relieve General
Miles from its application
The bill authorizing the use of earth.
stone and timber on the public lands
and forest reserves of the United
States in the construction of works
under the national irrigation law has
passed the Senate. 1t had passed the
House. and now goes to the President
| for signature.
Largely at the instigation OF Dele
| gate Rodey, an appropriation of $4,000
will be made in the agricultural appro-
priation bill for conducting expert
ments in breeding Glands in Colorado
and New Mexico. Experiments con-
| Quoted by private parties have. 1t Is
| said, proven highly successful.
The House passed. the agricultural
bill without material amendment. Dis
cussion of the provision for free seed
distribution was indulged in. Mr.. Lilly
of Connecticut characterizing 1t as
| petty larceny. The relative values OF
cotton statistics as supplied by the
Census Bureau and Agricultural De-
partment also furnished the theme for
| a lively debate.
The secretary of the interior has re-
| jected all bids recently opened for
erecting frame building at Montrose,
| Colorado, for use in connection with
the Gunnison irrigation project. The
lowest bid, that of H. A. Meredith OF
Denver, was $500, and was in excess
| of the amount set aside for this work.
Other bids were submitted by Hansen
G. Nissen, f. b. Johnson and M. A.
Masters of Denver and ]. H. Antrobus
of Montrose. The plans will be revised
and new proposals invited.
The fortifications appropriation bill
| was passed after rejection of the
| amendment striking out the provision
| for insular Notifications. In the de-
| bate on the measure MIR. Teller said he
| had noticed in the morning papers that
we were about to take another Island,
that we are guaranteeing the stabil-
| ity of the island of Santo Domingo"
| He did not feel so much like complain
ing as to the way we came into pos
session of the Philippines as he did
| about the administration taking new
burden. at is a great job" he added; !;
! in Domingo.
| I deny" he continued. "the authority
of the Executive Department to make
| any agreement or contract to bind the
people of the United States in the way
indicated. 1t is an assumption OF au-
thority on the part of the executive.
want some lawyer in this chamber to
tell me where the President gets that
kind of authority"
At a very late day in our history.
Congress is beginning to take little
| interest in the greatest civic event OF
| the country-the Inauguration OF a
President of the United States every
four years. Representative Sherman
of New York has introduced bill that,
| IL passed, will make the inauguration
purely national affair, as 1t should be.
I This would mean that the President of
| the United States would be inducted
into Office by the national government
and entirely at its expense. Hereto
fore the President has been inaugu-
rated almost entirely at the expense of
the citizens of the District of Column
bia. The Sherman bill provides the
sum of $10G. 900 as an expense fund for
the inauguration, which is about the
usual cost. Under this arrangement,
we would get away from such CONNER
cial propositions as the attempt to
build an amphitheater on the White
House lot and send the inaugural pa
rade around that way.
At a hearing before the committee
on ways and means, Secretary Palmer
of the American Sugar Beet Associa-
tion opposed the pending bill reducing
the duty on sugar and tobacco from the
Philippine islands. Mr.. Palmer said
that just prior to the tariff agitation
, regarding Cuban sugar in 1901, eighty
six new sugar factories had been pro
iected in this country. Not one of
these was built Since that time Eu-
rope had curtailed her sugar crop un-
der the terms of the Bussels agree
ment, and the price had gone up to
the point where American capital was
on the point of again enlarging the
sugar industry in this country. Now,
to open the Philippine market in com
petition with the American beet sugar
industry, would again discourage this
movement In replying to question
by Mr.. Curtis. whose bill was under
! consideration. Mr.. Palmer said that
the total sugar product of the Philip
pines was las. 900 tons annually. and IL
the United States took 1t all there
would still have to be imported 1.b00,-
| 900 tons to supply the demand.
In his address before the Senate pre-.
senting the statue Of former Senator
John ]. ingalls,. which has been placed
in Statuary hall, Senator Long first re-
counted the reasons why Mr.. Ingalls,
was not reelected In 1891, and said:
And then, as If in some measure to
atone for the injustice they had done
him, the people of Kansas provided
that his marble statue should stand
forever in the hall near the chamber in
which his great work was done. Past
political affiliations were forgotten
when the resolution was passed. In
the Legislature were some which had
been organized to retire him from pub