Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1908-02-29
WEEK ENDING FEB. 20, 1908.

The President sent special message to
Congress urging provision for COM
plete system of internal waterways; the
President sent to the Senate the thir-
teen treaties proposed by The Hague
peace conference; President Roosevelt In
a speech to school superintendent de-
clared there would be no letup in his
crusade against "rottenness and corrup-
ton in public affairs. Secretary Cortel-
you called. in $35, 600. 600 Of public money.
The Senate military affairs committee. by
a vote of to 5, sustained the President
in his discharge Of the negro troops for
the Brownsville ARRAY. The Senate fur
Their considered the currency question;
the bill to revise the criminal laws and
the Indian appropriation bill were passed.
General debate on the army appropr1a-
ton bill in the House brought out argu-
ments in favor of increased pay and the
restoration of the canteen. Representa-
tive Dalzell made an extended speech in
defense of republican policies. The pro-
vision for increased pay for enlisted men
was stricken out OF the army appropria-
ton bill on point Of order and later
was restored; a resolution requiring the
ways and means committee to move to
the new Office building was adopted. Sam
uel Gompers, president of the American
Federation Of Labor, severity criticised
the Supreme Court for its declaration that
dent w. w. Finley called upon the gov
eminent to investigate the wage dispute
between that railroad and its employees.
The tunnel under the Hudson river, the
first Of the McAdoo system, was opened.
Foreign.
The new education bill, the naval esti-
mates, the Macedonian and Congo ques-
tiCns. the licensing bill and the womans
suffrage bill were laid before the British
parliament. The combined British army
and navy estimates showed an increase
of 5000 900; the naval plans provided for
an expenditure of $4,5OO.OOO more than
last years figures. Lord Fitzmaurice.
under secretary to the foreign office, de-
fined in the house of lords Great Brit
aims attitude toward the Congo ques-
ton, laying stress on the desirability of
cooperation with the United States. The
report that Sir Henry Campbell-Banner
man had offered to resign the premiership
was denied. A bill wiping out 10000
liquor licenses IN Great Britain was in
PRODUCED by the chancellor of the ex-
chequer. Two hundred and sixty men,
berS of the duma were received in au-
dience by Emperor Nicholas at Tsarskoe-
Selo. Gen. Stoessel sentenced to death
for the surrender of Port Arthur ap-
pealed to Car Nicholas for a pardon.
The Russian ponce established very
extensive system of espionage over emil
grants as part of the campaign against
ter1orists. Seven of the terrorists ar
rested in st. Petersburg February 20
were condemned to death; among them
were two women; three others Were
sentenced to fifteen years imprisonment
at hard labor. Private advices to Ger
man firms trading in Japan confirmed
reports of serious financial trouble in
the eastern empire. Nunzio Nasi. former
minister of public instruction, was SEN
fenced by the senate. sitting as a high
court at Rome, to eleven months and
twenty days in prison for thefts from
the state treasury. The German colonial
secretary. in a discussion of East African
affairs. charged the planters with cruelty
to the blacks. The Prussan house of
lords ratified the principle of Polish ex-
preparation by a decisive vote. A bomb
was thrown against the carriage in which
President Alcosta was driving at Buenos
Aires. but it failed to explode. An at
tent pit to assassinate the Shah of Persia
failed. The American battleship fleet
sailed from Callao for the California
coast.
In the District.
The bill introduced by Representative
AchesQn to prohibit betting on horse
racing and all other forms of gambling