The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1907-02-15
AT THE NATIONS CAPITAL
Some Interesting Happenings Briefly
Told.

appointed w. Scott Smith, now MS
private secretary, as superintendent
of the Hot Springs Reservation, Ar
kansas.
The United States has joined Mexi-
co and Salvador in demanding that
| Honduras and Nicaragua settle their
difficulties without resort to war.
The Senate Committee on Com
merce began it's hearing of senators
in support of amendment to the
River and Harbor Bill.
Secretary Taft and General Coun-
sci Rogers were before the House
committee to explain the Panama
Canal contact.
Vice President Fairbanks laid be-
fore the Senate former Queen Liluo-
kalani's petition for settlement of
her claim.
| The Senate passed the Army APP
preparation Bill, carrying $S1,60O,-
900.
The House listened to eulogies on
Representative Hoar, of Massachu-
sets, and Rufus e. Lester, of GeOr-
gia, botny Of whom died last summer.
| Funeral services over the remains
of Representative John F. Rixey, OF
Virginia, were held at the residence
of his brother, Admiral Rixey.
Counsel for Charles C. Bassett has
gone to Omaha, Neb., to defend his
client against suit instituted there
by Mrs. Bassett.
| The expectation of iron and steel
manufactures reached their highest
record last year, being an increase
of rs per cent.
| Changes in the administrative
work of the Postoffice Department
will become effective about the 18th
inst.
| Attorney General Bonaparte is
rapidly recovering from the injury
to his wrist, caused by fall on the
ice.
The Senate Committee on Terri
tories authorized a favorable report
on House bill giving to the Alaska
Railroad Company a government
charter for road from the head
of Cordova Bay to point on the
Yukon River near Eakle, Alaska.
The road will enter the Alaskan cop
per field.
Chairman Payne, of the House
Ways and Means Committee, after
a visit to the President, expressed
the opinion that there was no chance
at this session of Congress for the
enactment of legislation increasing
the compensation Of government en-
ployes.
In his maiden speech in the Sen
ate, Mr.. Frazier, of Tennessee, used
the San Francisco school question
in part to emphasize his opposition
to the encroachment Of the federal
government upon the rights of the
States.
The average citizen of the United
States consumed one-half his own
weight in sugar in the past year.
according to figures compiled by the
Bureau of Statistics of the Depart
ment of Commerce and Labor.
The Senate passed the Indian APP
preparation Bill, after striking out
the provisions giving the Court of
Claims final jurisdiction in the claim
of the Confederated Band of Ute
Indians of Colorado.
The Naval Appropriation Bill,
carrying $95,426,00O, was taken up
in the House, and, under the order
Of general debates, speeches were
| Iudu0 ny MT. IdIudT, VI T IOE1U6, OA
the Railroad Rate Bill.
Over 600 private pension bills
were considered in the House, 1t be-
ing pension day. With only few
exceptions the bills were. passed.
The House passed the bill amend
ing the act relating the withdrawal
from bond tax free of domestic al
cohol when rendered unfit for bever-
age or liquid medicinal uses by mix
ture whit suitable denaturing ma
terials.
Chief Engineer Stevens, of the
Panama Canal, has announced that
he will resign If the construction OF
the canal is awarded to contractor.
A change in the methods of the
Dead Letter Office has resulted in
| the return of a larger percentage of
| unclaimed letters.
An extra session of the Senate is
believed to be necessary to secure
| the ratification of the Santo Do
mingo Treaty.
In the Senate a number of amend
ments reported to the Indian Appro-
priation Bill were rejected.
The President has signed the Gen.
eral Service Pension Bill, recently
passed by Congress
There is danger of another clash
among the Central American re-
publics.
Mr.. Clay tried to get considera-
ton in the Senate of a resolution
calling" upon the Secretary of War
for a complete statement of the gov
ernment's military expenses in the
Philippines, including the cost of
railway tranSnortatiOn The reSO-
luton went over.
Jacob Frazier, of Knoxville, Tenn.
formerly first sergeant of Company
D, Twenty-fifth Infantry, witness
before the Senate Military Com
mittee in the Brownsville inquiry,
said the shooting was done by citi-
zens of Brownsville.
President Roosevelt has received
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