The Colorado statesman., 1909-02-13
NEWS FROM WASHINGTON.

An amendment to establish a quar-
termaster's depot at Denver, has been
introduced 10 the army appropriation
bill by Senator Teller
Senator Guggenheim has offered an
amendment to the postoffice appropri-
alton bill to increase the wages of la
borers in the Pos stoffice Department.
The Supreme Court of the United
States has decided that an admitted
trust, organized contrary to the Sher-
man antitrust law, cannot use the
courts to collect debts.
Despite opposition led by Mondell of
Wyoming and Cook of Colorado, the
appropriation of S4,646,0OO for the for
est service, for the coming fiscal year
was voted in the House.
Congressional leaders have informed
President Roosevelt that owing to op-
position in the Senate there is little
chance of statehood for Arizona and
New Mexico this session.
The appeal of the government in the
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS murder case in
western Colorado has been set for
hearing in the United States Supreme
Court March 1st.
Representative Mondell has entered
n protest with the secretary of the in
terror against the high price which the
geological survey has placed upon pub
lie coal lands. He asserts that the
price being fixed so high retards de-
velopment
Representative Haggott has secured
from the Postoffice Department a rul-
ing placing the town of Edith on post
office maps and records as being in
Archuleta county, Colorado, instead of
in Rio Arriba county, New Mexico, as
heretofore.
Senator Guggenheim received a tele-
gram signed by Governor Shafroth and
all other Colorado state officials, urg-
ing him to aid in securing an appro-
priation of $237,O for the work of
the bureau of soils of the Agricultural
| Department.
African hunts and magazine writing
will not be necessary as the occupation
of eX-Presidents of the United States
If a bill introduced by Representative
Volstead of Minnesota be enacted.
This measure provides a pension of
$4,000 annually for every President
after he leaves the White House.
To prevent the loss of life by catas.
trophe at sea such as SO nearly hap
pened when the liner Republic went
down recently, the president sent to
Congress a message urging the pas
sage of bill similar to that intro
duced by Representative Burke Of
Pennsylvania, requiring the equip
ment of ocean going vessels with wire
less telegraph apparatus.
During a discussion of the Kittridge
bill TO raise the limit of cost for the
Panama canal to 100000, Sena-
tors Kittridge, Teller and Foraker de-
clared their belief that great mis-
take has been made in adopting the
lock plan. Senator Kittridge, in an
swer TO inquiries, said that it is not
yet too late 10 return to the sea level
canal
Senator Guggenheim proposed an
amendment to the Indian bill to ap-
propriate $4,000 to continue the Fort
Lewis Indian school another year. He
will endeavor to have his bill to trans
fer this school to the state of Colo
RADIO passed by the House, bill hav-
ing already passed the Senate. 1t
would take a year to have the transfer
made, should it be authorized, and
Senator Guggenheim hopes to secure
an appropriation to keep the school
open meantime.
The House passed Delegate An
drews' bill extending the time from
March 4, 1909, to March A. 1910, for
filing with the surveyor general pri-
vate land claims. provided the extern
sion shall not apply to lands included
within the limits of confirmed grants.
Senator Teller has presented in the
Senate a memorial of the Colorado
Legislature favoring legislation to ere
ate a Civil War officers annuity roll
and pay surviving officers of the volun-
teer army half the pay of the highest
rank held by them during the Civil
War.