The Springfield herald., 1909-02-12
NEWS FROM WASHINGTON.

The House has passed bill Great
ing a new land district in South Da-
kota. to be known as the Belle Fourche
district.
The President has nominated the
shall Moore. Fort Collins; William c.
Sloan. Creede.
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
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.OOO 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.
Friends of William Loeb, Jr., secre-
tary of the President, state that he is
tn become collector of the port of New
York at the beginning Of the next ad-
ministration. Mr.. Loeb, it also Is
stated. is to become the confidential
political adviser of the next President
OH New York matters.
Two striking amendments to the
Senate rules have been introduced,
both prepared by Vice President Fair
banks. Their effect is to prevene a
senator from referring extensively to
either the President of the United
States, the courts or to the House, and
to put an end to the reading of docu-
ments for the purpose of filibustering.
The House passed Representative
Mondell's bill providing that railroad
rights of way granted across public
land shall be forfeited If construction
is not undertaken within five years.
also the bill authorizing the secretary
of the interior to cause resurveys of
public lands to be made without au-
thority of act of Congress and when
ever he deems it necessary.
The House committee on military af-
fairs reported favorably the Senate res
o!ution directing the secretary of war
to prepare and present to Orville and
Wilbur Wright appropriate gold
medals with suitable emblems and in
scriptions In recognition and appre-
citation of the great services rendered
the science of aerial navigation in the
invention of the Wright aeroplane and
for their ability and success in nayi-
eating the air."
The hopes of the army for suffi-
cent money to continue its expert
ments in aeronautics were blasted
when the House reconsidered its ac-
tion of last week and by vote of
almost two to one withdrew the in
crease of 100000 then made.
An agreement was reached in the
Senate to vote on February 23rd on
the Aldrich substitute bill for the ap-
pointment of court of inquiry to de-
termine the qualification for re-enlist-
ment of the discharged soldiers of the
Twenty-fifth infantry. as the result of
the Brownsville incident.
The Senate finally passed the Sen
ate bill to pension federal judges who
are seventy years old and who have
served ten years on the bench. The
bill was amended as to prevent a dis
trict judge from retiring as a circuit
judge after serving short time.
The House Public Lands committee
ordered favorable report on the Mon
dell bill providing that hereafter phos-
phate lands shall be entered under the
placer mining law only. The effect of
the bill II passed will be to restore to
entry all phosphate lands which are
now withdrawn.