Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1905-01-13
WASHINGTON LETTER
[specIal Correspondcnce.l

lOpeCldl Correspondence
Elliott Woods. the superintendent OF
the capitol. and Mr.. Coffin, the mana
ger of the house restaurant, are con-
WINGED that there will be no complaints
this winter on the restaurant PROPOSE
ton. A great archway has been cut
in the wall between what were former
~ the two separate dining rooms, and
q steam table I'm the center will afford
excellent facilities for promptly feed
Ing the hungry in all parts OF the res
taurant. Besides this, the bill OF fare
will be much less elaborate, and IL is
the present intention TO have all the
dishes enumerated on the bill OF fare
ready to serve Immediately, beginning
Mt noon, thus doing away with the long
delays Incident upon the preparation
OF special orders. Members Of the
house may notice other improvements
in their wing OF the capitol building,
but It is safe 10 say they will not be
quite so pleased over any OF them as
they will be with the restaurant i'm
provements.
Capitol Power Plant.
Work will not be begun until next
which, when completed, Will furnish
the power for heating. lighting and
ventilating the capitol building, the
Congressional library and the senate
and house Office buildings now under
course OF construction. The appropri-
alton for the power plant, which will
probably be the biggest OF its kind in
the country, was made at the last SEES
sion of congress. but work on the office
buildings is not sufficiently under way
TO warrant an immediate beginning OF
the improvements IN the capitol engine
room.
| Nurses to Erect - Monument.
| The Spanish-American war nurses,
whose annual convention was held re-
Gently at ST. Louis, decided by unani-
nous vote to erect a costly and hand
some monument in the Arlington Ma
tiOnal cemetery to the memory OF those
humane and patriotic army nurses
who died as a result OF their exposure
In the enervating climate OF the trop-
les during the war with Spain and the
instruction in the Philippines" The
design OF the monument has not been
decided upon, but many members are
said TO favor a figure representing a
nurse in her service uniform ready for
duty.
Civil Service at Panama.
President Roosevelt has signed an
order completed by the civil service and
isthmian canal commissions, extending
the civil service regulations over the
employees OF the canal commission.
The order embraces all employees ex-
cept those appointed by the president
and laborers.
New Treaty with Germany.
Negotiations have been initiated for
a treaty OF arbitration between Ger
many and the United States. Several
days ago President Roosevelt suggest.
ed to Baron Sternburg, the German
/ ambassador. that treaty OF arbitra-
ton between the United States and
| Germany would. in his judgment be
very desirable. Ambassador Sternbure
conceded in that view and told the
president that he would inquire OF his
government what steps II any 1t de
sired to take in the matter. Soon after
Ambassador Sternburg called upon
| President Roosevelt and informed him
that the German government had ex.
pressed itself as entirely agreeable to
the presidents proposition and that he
had been directed to open formal nego
uati0ns for such q treaty.