Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1906-12-15
THE WEEK ENDING DEC. Is, 1905.

President Roosevelt received official no
tice that the Nobel Peace Prize had been
awarded him: the President made bitter
| reply to the charge of former Amba ssador
Bellamy Storer that he used his influence
to have Archbishop Ireland made a cardi-
nal: President Roosevelt sent a special mes
| sage to Congress urging that the rights
of citizenship be conferred on Porto Ricans.
Secretary Hitchcock's annual report shows
a remarka BILE prevalence of land frauds
and similar offenses Secretary Taft agreed
to consider individually the reinstatement
of the negro soldiers dismissed from the
18th Infantry. Secretary Root delivered a
speech in New York advocating the policy
OF centraliZing power in the federal gov
eminent: his sentiments were received with
vigorous opposition from republicans
well as democrats The Senate, in execu-
tive session. confirmed the nominations of
William H. Moody to be associate justice
of the Supreme Court. and of Charles ].
Bonaparte, Victor H Metcalf and oscar
S. Straus for cabinet places. The Algeciras
treaty was ratified In open session SEN
ator Rayner spoke on the Japanese school
question. Senator Dubois. in a speech ia
voring the exclusion of Senator Smoot, pic
tured President Roosevelt the friend of
the Mormons. The House adopted a
clause in the general appropriation bill de-
signed to do away with the ''simplifed"
spelling in public documents; the President
later announced that he would reScind his
300-word order. The House voted to in
crease the salaries of cabinet officers, the
Vice President and the Speaker to $1,000
but voted down the proposition to raise the
i salaries of members of Congress. Cardinal
Gibbons in interview in Baltimore up
held the attitude of the Roman Catholic
Church in France, saying that the situa-
ton was misunderstood here. Henry Wat
terson deprecated the tendency toward CEN
tralization in a speech before the Kentucky
Society of New York. The proposed $780,
100000 stock issue of the Great Northern
roll yuayy hxyt ha OF
torney general of Minnesota. Five thou
sand cigarmakers in Tampa, Fla, struck
as protest against poor street car serv-
ice. The Colorado river again broke its
bounds and flooded the Salton Sink. Ches-
ter E. Gillette was sentenced at Herkimer,
N. Y. to the death chair for the murder
| of Grace Brown. Mrs. Angie Birdsong was
convicted of manslaughter for killing DIR.
L nomas Butler. and was sentenced to five
years imprisonment. Among those who
died was Ex-Governor Franklin ]. Moses of
South Carolina, from aSphyXiation at Win
throp Beach. Mass.
Foreign.
The extreme Russian revolutionists de-
cided to reopen campaign Of terrorism.
Armed men entered a bank in Odessa, and
stole $14, 800; four reyolutionistS were eX-
ecuted at Moscow. The French church and
state separation law was put into effect
and the secretary of the papal nunciature
caused at the Vatican by this act; the pope
| decided to accept responsibility for results
in France. Catholic priests throughout
France held services in churches in defiance
of the law, and police were on hand to note
violations. Mr.. Birrel announced in the
house of commons that the government
had decided to reject all the amendments
made by the house of lords to the educa-
ton bill; this practically kills the measure,
a new bill to be introduced at the next
session. The German and navy
budget appropriated $l93, 1856, $40; the reich
stag having voted to reject the supple
mental appropriation for German southwest
Africa, was dissolved by the emperor and
a new election ordered. Great Britain.
France and Italy reached an agreement
on Abyssinia. The Nobel prize was
awarded at Christiania to President Roose-
welt, and was received on his behalf by Mr..
PIERCE. the American minister The
Ecuadorian government announced the de-
feat of the rebels. American artists in
Rome signed petition asking that the
tariff on art works be removed by Congress.
Mexico was reported to be on the point of
concluding big railroad merger. Ferdi-
Academy, died in Paris.
In the District.
The Commissioners presented to the
House committee on appropriations the
proposition that thirty-five privates should
be added to the force of the fire depart
ment. Three bills drafted by the Commits
sioners of the District were introduced In
the Senate by Senator Gallinger. The SEN
ate passed without amendment the bill to
rectify the boundary of Rock Creek Park.
The House District committee favorably re-
ported on nineteen bills providing for street
openings and extensions. Mr.. Louis c.
Wilson assumed his new duties as assistant
assessor of the District. Representative
Green of Massachusetts, introduced bill
directing the restoration of all school
teachers dismissed by the board of educa-
ton. William f. Chancellor, superin-
tendent of the District public schools. re-
turned from his southern trip. Prof. Os-
born declined the position of secretary of
the Smithsonian Institution recently Of