The Lamar register., 1908-05-20

9l edCu Dy tNc Will Oh their idtheis
Solomon Perry Slemens, just filed at
Pittsburg. Pennsylvania.
CONGRESS AND THE CAPITAL
The eradication of mosquitoes ON
the Po' omac flats has greatly decreased
the death rate in Washington.
President Roosevelt has accepted the
presidency OF the International Con-
gress of tuberculosis which will be
held in Washington City in the autumn.
The House committee on public
lands has reported a bill extending
the acreage limitation Of the Carey
land act to 100000 acres in the state
of Idaho.
y bill authorizing the appointment.
as an addition to the regular military
establishment, of fifty captains to COM
mand the Philippine scouts was passed
in the House.
The endowment of schools of mines
and mining from proceeds of public
land sales outside the irrigation states
is provided for by bill passed by the
Senate. 4,
After a brief debate the House
passed the Mondell dry farm bill. per-
hitting the homesteading of not to ex-
coed 800 acres of nonirrigable, nom
mineral and non-timbered public
lands.
Senator Clark of Wyoming secured
the incorporation of an amendment in
the civil appropriation bill increasing
fees of witnesses in United States
courts in Colorado. Wyoming and
other Western states to SO day. .
Returns Indicate that there will be no
difficulty In securing the 5000 recruits
wanted by the Navy Department. The
good times that the boys on the Allan
tic fleet are having on their long cruise
may have something to do with this.
According to a reported interview
with Representative Townsend of
Michigan, President Roosevelt will not
insist upon anti-injunction and Sher-
man antitrust law amendments in the
present session of Congress. and there
will be no such legislation.
The Senate adopted the Guggenheim
amendment to the postoffice appropria-
ton bill, giving railway mail clerks ex-
penses not to exceed one dollar per day
while absent from home on postoffice
business. The bill carries an appropri-
alton of 100000 to meet this charge.
The forest service has announced
the following appointments on Colo
RADIO national forests: John b. Cam
mon, forest guard Gunnison national
forest; ]. A. Peterson, G. X. Munsell
and Edgar J. Fitzhugh, forest guards
San Juan national forest.
Senator Teller secured an amend
ment in the Sunday civil appropriation
bill by which Colorado is to be in
cluded in the provision which was
placed in the bill at the instance of
Senator Warren, granting the states of
Wyoming ard Idaho an additional l.
100000 acres of land under the Carey
desert land act.
Three members of the United States
Senate have received letters from Pres
ident Roosevelt within the past few
days declaring his supremacy as COM
mander-in chief, in all matters referring
to the control of the army and navy. He
denies that he was under any obiiga-
lions to give the discharged soldiers
or Colonel Stewart court of inquiry.
Mrs. Sarah Platt-Decker of Denver
has been appointed a member of the
executive committee of the National
Civic federation. Among other mem
bers are Mrs. Andrew Carnegie, Mrs.
Murray Crane, Mrs. Frederick Dent
Grant, Mrs. George Westinghouse, Mrs.
John d. Rockefeller and Mrs. Nicholas
Longworth.
Senator Guggenheim has received
kilograms Oh protest from many con-
stituents against permitting the en-
larged homestead bill to go through
with that part of Colorado east of
Meridian 102 eliminated from its pro-
visions. On the strength of Senator
Guggenheims representations the con-
ference committee probably will
amend the ill so as to include the
entire area of Colorado within its
scope.
In the senate Senator Warren Sc
cured the incorporation in the sundry
civil appropriation bill of an amend
ment adding 100000 acres to the
grant of the state of Wyoming under
the Carey land act. His bill for this
purpose previously passed the Senate,
but was defeated in the House.
Senator Guggenheim secured the in
corporation in the sundry civil appro-
priation bill of an amendment appro-
priating $4,000 for the transmission of
silver dollars by registered mail or
otherwise and free transmission where
an equal amount has been deposited by
the applicant.
by lHe VI tHe SeHdtts anu
House conference committee the sal
aries of surveyors general will be In
creased from $4,000 to $4,000 in Cali
fornia. Colorado. Idaho, Montana, Ore
gon. Utah. Wyoming and Washington
| and to $500 in Arizona, Nevada and
| New Mexico.
The Manila Chamber OF Commerce
| is sending cable messages to Washing
ton urging their desire that the battle
ship fleet be allowed to remain there
upon its arrival las long as possible -
The messages set out the great advan-
tage which will accrue to the islands
through the presence of the fleet.
Senator Rayner introduced a resolu.
ton authorizing the President to con
vene court of inquiry to investigate
charges against Colonel William F.
Stewart who has been detailed to serve
until retirement at the abandoned mill.
tary post at Fort Grant, Arizona.