The Colorado statesman., 1908-06-06
DoINGS AT WASHINGTON.

Postmaster General Meyer all
nounces that an agreement has been
reached with the British government
providing for letter postage of two
cents an ounce between the United
States and Great Britain and Ireland
to become operative October 1st.
The employers liability act of 1906,
which the United States Supreme
Court in January last held repugn9nt
to the constitution of the United States
and non-enforcible in the states has
been held constitutional to the Distric,
of Columbia by the Court of Appeals.
Practically complete returns elfrom
the primary election held Tuesday in
Iowa show that United States Senator
William B. Allison has been nomi-
mated to succeed himself, defeating
Governor A. B. Cummings by ma
jority in the neighborhood of 10000.
While President Roosevelt was out
horseback riding on the I'd inst, hi;
horse reared and fell over backward
with him. precipitating both man and
horse into a small stream, a distance
of ten feet By good horsemanship the
President kept from falling under the
horse and was unhurt
Beginning June 10th payments for
bullion deposited at the mints and as
say offices of the United States will
be made in coin or bars or by check
of the local sub-treasury or United
States depository bank in the city in
which the mint or assay Office is To-
Gated, as may be desired by the de-
positor.
President Roosevelt has accepted
the resignation of Jackson Smith,
member of the Isthmian Canal COM
mission and manager of the Depart
ment of Labor, Water and Subsist-
ence, with headquarters at Culebra,
Canal Zone. Mr. Smith has been in
the service three years, and the Pres
ident in accepting the resignation
complimented him on his work
The reclamation service reports that
1850 cubic Yards of masonry was laiu
on the Pathfinder dam, Wyoming, dur
ing May. This dam, which is on OF
the largest being constructed by the
reclamation service is sixty-seven per
cent. COMPLETED. Contracts involving
excavation of 10000 cubic yards of ca
nails and materials under this project
were awarded during May under the
cooperative plan followed by the recla.
nation service.
After knocking at the door of Con-
gress for fifty-three years Tor recogni-
ton, the surviving officers and en-
listed men of the Texas volunteers
won their long fight for pensions, by
the action of the House at the close of
the session in passing the Senate bill
making provision therefor. These men
were employed in the defense of the
frontier of Texas against Mexican
marauders and Indian depredations
from 1855 to 1860.
A bill relating to coal deposits
in Alaska has been signed by the Pres
ident. Its principal provision includes
an attempt to prevent monopoly by re-
stricting holdings to 1850 acres of coal
lands, and providing penalty of for
feiture of all holdings by persons in
dividually or in combination who get
possession of more than this number OF
acres. 1t also gives the government
the first claim on coal that may be
mined, thus guaranteeing fuel supply
for the navy.
The coinage executed at the mints
of the United States during MAY. 1908,
| amounted to $20,491 ,275, as follows:
Gold, $19,1S2,120; silver, $1,OS5, 900;
minor coins, $225,155. In addition,
z.291,1 ,110 pieces were executed for the
Philippine government.
Former Senator James X Jones o.
Arkansas died at his residence III
Washington June 1st at the age of
sixty-nine years. He had been i'll only
few hours. Senator Jones served
two terms in the United States Sen
ate and was chairman of the Demo-
cratic national committee during both
of Bryan's campaigns.