The Ketchikan miner., 1908-05-23
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lock on the currency question. The ! Nreeland bill recently passed by the
 House is not satisfactory 10 the Senate
 and the House members will not agree to accept the Asdrich bill pass. ed by the Senate few days ago. The result will be that both bills will die ] in the hands of the committee and nC curreacy measure will be enacted al ] this session.
 l Washington, May 21.-The Senat c
 today passed bill which will permit ] the purchase of five thousand acres oi
 government and at Cordova by John ] McGraw and D. A. Mckenzie, to be
 laid out into townsite, the purchase
 price to be g. 50 per acre.
 i Washington. May 2o.-Senator Piles
 of Washington made an energetic at tempt to get a hearing of the bill pro- vi6iug that cases carried up 10 the Appellate Court from Alaska be heard in Seattle instead of San Francisco, a
 change that has long been desired by practically all Alaskan interests. Sem
 ator Flint of California interposed
 objections and succeeded in getting
 the measure shelved. giving no chance of hearing during this session. Washington. May 2o.-Senator New lands of Nevada has introduced bill authorizing the appointment of com
 mission by the president 10 investi-
 gate fully all such questions as were recently discussed at the conference
 of governors. It is planned to have
 such a committee composei of men
 who can give their whole time to the
 work and who are competent to pass judgement and make recommendations on all matters relating to the consera- lion of the nations natural resources. The duties of the commission will be very wide and il is believed that no other method will be successful in gathering and investigating the vast nun Der of questions that will arise in this liDe. The board, if appointed. will deal with the question of inland
 water ways. the irrigation of the
 great tracts of Western land which
 are TOW awaiting reclamation, will investigate and make recommendations on securing sanitary water supplies
 for municipalities. will recommend
 measures, where needed, for protec-
 tion against food, and will even ex- tend its investigations into the mining industry in an endeavor to protect the
 reckless waste of mineral resources TOW practiced in some parts Of the country.
 Washington. May 2l.-The commit . tee appointed to investigate the char ges recently made by Congressman
 Lilley of Connecticut, wherein he ac-
 cused several members of the house
 of accepting money for their influence in behalf of the submarine boats bull by the Electric Boat company, has re-
 ported emphaticaIly against Lilley,
 and the house today adopted the re- port, the Connecticut memebrs voting against it. The report of the com init i tee scorcbes Liliey, declaring that he had acted in bad faith in bringing his charges and exonerating Congress
 man Loud of Michigan and others in-
 yolved John Sharp Williams, mi nority leader. addressed the house in
 bitter arraignment of Lilly, declar- ing him guilty of the worst kind of treason to his fellow members of the house and stating that the only reason
 Lilley was not instantly expelled from the house was that he had not been placed on trial.
 Harrisburg. Pa.. May 2l.-Bryan's $
 victories in the Western states have
 been offset to large degree by the action of the state democratic conven-
 tion in session here which has just voted to send Pennsylvania $ deiegteas to Denver uninstructej. 4 hard fight was made to get an indorsement for
 Bryan, but when put to vote the en- dorsement was showed under amid
 wild uproar. The Bryan forces admit that this is the worst defeat for the Nebraskan encountered in the entire
 campaign for the nomination.
 Seattle, May 2l.-Mayor Brown of
 Valdez is here making a great effort
 to secure part of the fleet for visit to Alaska. When 'he petition was first presented in behalf of Alaska,
 Secretary Metcalf wired that he would ] take up the matter when he reached
 Seattle but now he finds that it will be impossi ble for him to get to Seattle | at all. The Seattle Chamber of Com
 inerce has taken up the Alaskan pro- l ject and has telegra phedthe Secretary
 strongly urging that the request of 1 Alaska be granted.
 Washington, May 2l.-The appro- priation for the Alaska exsposition is
 still held up. the committees being ! unable to reach an agreement. Chair i man Tswney's proposition 10 pass the i bill after reconstructiDg it so as to omit certain sums for minor details 1 wiIl probably prevail.