The Colorado statesman., 1908-12-26
NEWS FROM WASHINGTON.

Senator Burkett of Nebraska made
a strong argument in favor of postal
savings banks.
The Senate has confirmed the APP
pointments of Byron p Blair, regis
ter of the land office at Montrose, and
]. II. Weiss, receiver at Del Norte,
Colorado.
Capt. John w. Batin, chief of the bu-
reau of steam engineering, has been
found to be incapacitated and will be
placed upon the retired list with the
rank of rear admiral.
Instructions have been sent by the
State Department to American Min
lister Furniss at Port au Prince to &C
cord recognition to the new govern
ment of Hayti, headed by General
Simon.
Government records, charts, maps
and photographs valued at more than
100000 We're destroyed in a fire which
broke out in the Geological Survey
building The damage to the build
ing itself was slight
President Roosevelt stated that
there was no lrutA in printed story
that he had had a disagreement with
President-elect Taft about the candi
dacy of the latter's brother, Charles p.
Taft, for the senatorship from Ohio.
Secretary Loeb at the White House
stated that in the event of Secretary
of State Root being elected to the Sen
ate from New York, January 10th, he
will probably resign his present Of
flee and be succeeded by Assistant
Secretary Bacon.
Secretary Newberry has advised
President-elect Taft that the armored
cruisers North Carolina and Montana
will be placed at his disposal when Mr..
Taft and his party, that is to be com
posed OF a number of engineers, go to
Panama next month.
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 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 S2,000,000 increase in the appro-
priation for national forests. He urged
the necessity for providing 1,400 more
foresters and government officials in
connection with the policing and sale
of timber of the forest reservations,
and asked for a larger fund for the es-
tablishment of trails and roads
throughout the reserves.
President Roosevelt has vetoed the
joint resolution recognizing the recent
interior department survey and loca
ton of the thirty-seventh parallel
which by law forms the boundary be-
tween Colorado, New Mexico and Okla
homa. He cites the fact that the pro
posed adjustment would take five post
offices from Colorado and add them to
New Mexico without the assent of the
Legislature of Colorado.
Senator Clark of Wyoming has intro
duced a bill relieving ]. B. Schoenfelt
of Wyoming, former Indian agent at
Muskogee, Okla, from liability for de-
falcation of his clerk, Lyman X. Lane,
of $7,444 during the period of his en-
ployment under Shoenfelt.
At the request of w. G. NJ. 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.