The Idaho Springs siftings-news., 1908-05-23

CONGRESS AND THE CAPITAL
The eradication Of mosquitoes on
the Potomac flats has greatly decreased
the death rate in Washington.
The house, under suspension of the
rules, passed a bill allowing the state
of Idaho to reclaim 100000 acres OF
land belonging to the public domain.
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 bill extending
the acreage limitation of the Carey
land act to 2 900, 900 acres in the state
of Idaho
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
Frank E. Ferguson, of Hagerstown,
Maryland, has been appointed assist
ant director of the bureau Of engraving
and printing by Secretary Cortelyou-
Mr.. Ferguson has been connected with
the bureau for thirty years.
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.
The forest service has announced
the following appointments on Colo
RADIO national forests: John b. Cam
mon, forest guard Gunnison national
forest; J. A. Peterson, G. X. Munsell
and Edgar J. Fitzhugh forest guards
San Juan national forest.
The Senate adopted the conference
report upon the enlarged homestead
bill, the committee having modified
its report SO that the states of Idaho
and California will be excluded in ac-
cordance with the wishes Of senators
from those states.
Secretary Taft went to Nashville.
Tennessee, to address the Tennessee
Bar Association Thursday night. He
will then go to Cleveland to attend
reunion of the Western Federation OF
Yale clubs. to be held Saturday. and
return to Washington Monday.
Senator Carter secured an agree
ment to make the postal savings bank
bill a special order in the Senate for
December 14th next, this action being
the present session to permit senators
to speak on the measure.
The Senate agreed TO the conference
report on the agricultural appropria-
ton bill AS passed by the House the
bill carried Sll sos, SOC which was in
creased by the Senate to $12, so, 406.
The conference decreased this amount
by taking off appropriations aggregat-
ing $4So,3S0.
That President Roosevelt has au-
thorized no one to speak for him re-
garding the anti-race gambling legisla-
ton pending at Albany, was the only
comment obtainable at the White
House regarding the report from AL
bany that the President had privately
expressed himself on that subject.
Nineteen men passed and eleven
failed of the thirty who presented
themselves for the April examinations
for the grade of consul and appoint
ments to the student interpreter
corps. This is higher proportion of
successful candidates than at any pre-
vious examination. Among those who
passed was Cornelius Ferris of Colo
RADIO.
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.
600, 900 acres of land under the Carey
desert land act.
An omnibus territories bill embrac'
ing fifteen measures favorably con-
sidered by committee was passed by
the House under suspension OF the
rules. The various provisions of the
bill deal exclusively with legislation
pertaining to the territories, the most
important of which is one regulating
the sale of liquor in Alaska.
Secretary Taft arrived at Charles
ton, South Carolina, Sunday. on board
the cruiser Prairie from Panama, and
left the same day for Washington via
the Atlantic Coast line. The isthmus
now presents" he said, "an appear
ance not unlike factory or mill viii
lage, or succession of villages, clear
across, and the lights at night and the
noises, too, might keep one awake If
not tired enough to sleep WELL"
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
The passage by the house Monday of
the general deficiency bill, carrying an
appropriation of $17.63S,532, marked
the completion by that body of the last
of the great supply measures of the
government. The bill was put through
under suspension of the rules with no
time allowance for general debate.