The Lamar register. [volume] (Lamar, Colo.) 1889-1952, 1908-12-23
NEWS FROM WASHINGTON.

NEWS FROM WASHINGTON.
Senator Burkett OF Nebraska made
strong argument in favor of postal
savings banks.
The Senate has confirmed the ap-
pointments Of Byron p. Blair. regis
ter of the land office at Montrose. and
J. II. Weiss. receiver at Del Norte,
Colorado
Instructions have been sent by the
State Department to American Min
lister Furniss at Port au Prince 10 &C
cord recognition to the new govern
ment Of Hayti. headed by General
Simon.
Government records. charts. maps
and photographs valued at more than
900 were destroyed in a fire which
broke out in the Geological Survey
building The damage to the build
ing itself was slight
The secretary Of the treasury has
recommended that 100000 be appro-
priated for irrigation projects on In
dian reservations for the coming fiscal
year instead of 100000. the amount
included in the regular estimates.
Senator Clark Of Wyoming has intro
duced bill relieving J. B. Schoenfelt
I Of Wyoming. former Indian agent at
Muskogee. Okla. from liability for de-
falcation of his clerk. Lyman X Lane.
Of s7.44i during the period of his en-
/ ployment under Shoenfelt-
J. o. B. Thompson of Richmond. In
I diana. who has passed much time in
Africa. has told Mr.. Roosevelt that
his greatest danger in Africa would
not come from wild animals OF rep
tiles, but from poisonous insects He
said the bites of some of these had
been known to produce blood poison
/ ing He recommended that the Presi-
dent sleep at night in an insect-proof
place.
At the request of w. c. ". Stone.
| president Of the Colorado state For
estry Association, Senator Guggenheim
has amended his bill providing for in
struction in forestry in agricultural
colleges. SO that the appropriations for
this purpose may be derived from any
money paid TO or received by the for
| est service.
Secretary Garfield has told western
senators that the withdrawal of phos-
phate lands in the west is to be tenn
porary and was made primarily TO pro-
tect home interests from prospective
acquisition Of these lands by foreign
corporations and the phosphate trust.
which. it had been reported, had $780,
100000 ready to use in acquisition Of
all available phosphate beds.
The House has passed the bill which
passed the Senate at the last session.
appropriating $4,000 to pay William
Radcliffe. a British subject. for dam
ages caused by the destruction of his
fish hatchery and other property at
Delta. Colo, by a mob in 1901. This
bill has been before Congress seven
years and originally was introduced by
Senator Teller.
Before the House committee on ag-
riculture Chief Forester Pinchot ex-
planned his reasons for asking for
nearly $1,000 600 increase in the appro-
priaton for national forests. He urged
the necessity for providing 1.40O more
foresters and government officials in
connection with the policing and sale
Of timber of the forest reservations,
and asked for larger fund for the es-
Enlistment of trails and roads
throughout the reserves.
A special message by the President
in which he defends the government
and denounces the authors of the Pan
anna scandal charges, declaring that
Joseph Pulitzer of the New York
World should be prosecuted by the
government for libel, was made the oc-
casion of hilarious laughter in the Sen
ate. The message states that the at
torney general is preparing to take
action.
Among a large number of war claim
bills passed by the House is one for the
relief OF the Citizens bank of Louisi-
ana for s215,s2O. The bill has passed
the Senate many times. The claim
arose over the seizure of the funds of
the bank by General Benjamin F. But
Ter in 1852.
President Roosevelt declined an in
vitation to attend a banquet to be given
IN New York by the Aero Club of
America in honor of the Wright
brothers. The President told a com
mittee he would be glad to give a re-
ception at the White house in honor
of the aeroplanists-
The director of the mint estimates
the production of gold in the United
States during 1907 to have been $780,
435.700. and silver for the same pc
riod 5G.514,7 200 fine ounces of the COM
mercial value of s37 299.700 at the av-
erage New York price of silver for the
calendar year 1907. namely, &C cents
a fine ounce
Willis Moore. chief of the United
States weather bureau. has asked for
$4,000 to establish a permanent sta
tion on the top of Pixies Peak. in
stalled in a granite building and with
high substantial steel structural
J tower for observation purposes.