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which passed the Senate some time ago
and which is at present held tightly In
the room of the House Committee.
/ would be brought out and put on its
passage before adjournment. Mr.. Muir
the insurgents say are being engineered
| In view when he introduced his bill.
! Colorado is going to celebrate in No
| vember the discovery Of Pixies Peak.
The celebration will be at Denver. but
for excursion purposes to places Of in
| terest Denver will only be the center
of activity. Colorado has drawn one
great big card already. President
| Roosevelt will attend the celebration
| and speak. That means that the State
will scarcely hold the crowds. Nobody
| has consulted the weather prophet, to
ascertain what brand of weather will
be dished out next November. 1t is
I safe to say, however, that it will be as
| cold as Greenland. SO that will Chill the
| crowds a little, and yet. If the sun likes.
it can shine as soft as in July even up
there close to the Continental Divide in
| November.
Here is something Of interest which
| Justice David Brewer. of the United
| States Supreme Court, gave utterance
to at the Mohonk Peace Conference.
| He said that the United States could
| stop armament with absolute safety
| and that no other nation on earth is SO
we'll situated to do it.
THE theory that Manila and San
tiago led to Portsmouth" he continued.
lis epigrammatic. but fear that 1t will
not bear the test of history. No nation
| will attack us. Many a foreign diplo-
! mat l know feels that this is Nation
that it is not safe to attack. If we lin
| tied our ornaments we could go to The
Hague and say We are doing it. Fol-
low in our footsteps
Representative Murphy. Of Missouri.
who has been nursing Crouch" ever
since the Statehood bill fight. is the au-
| thor Of bill Ito provide for the free
expression of Representatives in Con-
gress on bills, measures. resolutions and
rules and for punishment for Interior
| ing therein" The bill makes it a fell
ony, punishable by two years Of impris-
| onment and disqualification to hold any
office of profit or trust for any Repre-
sentative or Speaker in Congress to
| promise to support or influence the pas
| sage of any bill.
Daniel N Lockwood. a well-known
| lawyer and former member OF Congress
| from the Buffalo District, died there
last week. He nominated Cleveland
| for Mayor Of Buffalo in 1881, nominated
him for Governor Of New York In 1882,
and in the National Democratic Con-
Presidency. Indeed. he may be said to
have made Cleveland.
The body Of Senator German was
| laid away in beautiful Oak Hill Gene
terry with the simplest Of ceremonies
would not have q Senatorial funeral.
More and more the sensible men OF the
country are growing to dislike that sort
of thing. 1t would be q blessing IL the
Congressional funeral could be eternal
ly barred.
There Is a feeling Of resentment
among members Of Congress just now.
and the. President hears from 1T every
little while 1t Is said that the Presi-
dent has instituted a secret investiga-
ton into the personal habits and ways
OF life of every Postmaster in the Unit
ed States. 1t is said that IL the Presi-
dent finds that any OF them are living
beyond their little old salary without
visible reason. why. things are going to
happen. Several members declare that
things will happen IL the President
comes into their Districts with his Sc
cret Investigations.
There is to be great time in Phila-
delphia, June Is and 19, the 50th ami
| versary of the first Republican National
Convention. The National League of
Republican Clubs has the thing in
hand. Speaker Cannon has promised
| to be present and to deliver an address
The committee also called on Vice
President Fairbanks to request that he
| make an address on the occasion of this
jubilee. and made similar request OF
Il
speak. Mr.. Moore, Chairman of the
Committee. stated that they expected
| there would be $4,000 men in the pa
rade on the 18th instant. Many Of the
States Of the Union will be represented
at this convention.
The first Republican National Con-
| vention nominated for President John
C. Fremont known throughout the
country as the pathfinder" The plat
form adopted denounced both polyg-
amy and slavery.
| The United States battieship Louis
| lana was placed In commission at the
Norfolk Navy Yard last week. The
Louisiana sailed for New York for her
| three and six-inch guns. and from
| there will go to New Orleans, where she
will be presented with a handsome sill
yer service. the gift Of the people Of the
| State of Louisiana.
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| ness to sail for New Orleans about the
| last week in August
| The Louisiana Is of 10000 tons dis
placement. The nearest vessel of her
\ size in active service Is the Rhode
| Island. commissioned on April IT.,
which IS of 14.948 tons. Not only is
| the Louisiana larger. but her arma-
| ment is more powerful. She carries in
the main battery four 12-inch breech-
loading rifles. eight 8-inch. and IL 4
inch. The 20 3-inch 14-pounder rapid
| fire guns. IL 3-pounder semi-automatic
| guns six 1-pounder automatic, two l.
FOUNDER semi-automatic. two 3-inch
field pieces. two machine guns, caliber
80. and six automatic guns, caliber 30
l The big 12-inch guns are mounted
in pairs in two electrically controlled
balanced elliptical turrets on the CEN
ter line, one forward and one aft, each
4 with an arc Of fire Of about 270 degrees
The 8-inch guns are in pairs in four
turrets, two on each beam, at each end
of the superstructure The finch guns
are mounted in broadside on pedestal
mounts on the gun deck behind finch
armOr. Each gun is isolated by nickel
4 steel bulkheads. The forward and af-
ter guns are arranged to fire right
ahead and right astern. respectively,