The Idaho Springs siftings-news., 1910-03-12
NEWS FROM WASHINGTON.

Lie I1OuSe dooplcu al
| to the postoffice appropriation bill
which prohibits the sale of envelops
by the government with return ad-
dresses printed upon them.
The Senate passed the postal saw
ings bank bill on Saturday the 5th
| inst, by purely party vote, fifty Re-
publicans voting for and twenty-five
Democrats against the measure.
The tariff commission is receiving
protests from manufacturers against
the low tariff on baseballs. 1t is
claimed that the Japanese manufac-
ture baseballs and undersell the Amer
leans on their own market.
After brief general discussion the
Senate passed the bill authorizing the
issuance of $30.O0O.Oo0 worth of certi-
ficates of Indebtedness for the compile
ton of irrigation projects already un.
der way.
Commander Peary has declined to
submit to Congress the proofs of his
discovery of the North pole. He says
that he could not supply the records
and scientific data without breaking
faith with his publishers.
Representative Mondell secured the
adoption in the House Of an amend
ment to the postoffice appropriation
bill, adding 100000 to the amount car
ried by the bill for maintaining star
route service, raising the amount from
s6,O6O.oOO to $6.160.O0o.
After a dinner given by President
Taft to Speaker Cannon in the White
House, at which there was dancing.
the two dignitaries are said to have
Joined in an old-fashioned, hoe down."
Both were putting when they finished.
One of the most picturesque chief
tains of the Indian race. and his
nephew, both members of the Chippe-
wa tribe in Minnesota. were found
dead in a Washington hotel a few
days since, the victims Of asphyxia-
ton. The dead chief was Pay-Baum-
We-Che- he-Waish-Kung, more than nine
ty-five years old, and his unfortunate
companion was A-Ne-Way- Way-Aush-
It is believed one Of the red men blew
out the gas.
Representative Rucker has present
ed petitions from Colorado citizens IA
voring legislation for the elimination
of stock gambling and the establish
ment of the parcels post. Also a res
olution from Irving Hale camp Of Den
yer, U. S. w. ", favoring legislation
for raising the Maine. and memorial
from Denver Council Loyal Associa-
ton, favoring legislation to allow fra
ternal publications to carry advertise
ments.
Senator Hughes reported favorably
from the public lands committee Gug-
genheim's bill granting the city OF La
Junta 3,S40 acres Of land for park pur-
poses, providing that If the land
should not be used for park purposes
for three successive years. it shall re
vert to the government; also authoriz-
ing the secretary Of the interior to
grant leases and permits for lands and
for developing the resources of the
Mesa Verde national park, the funds
derived from this source to be devoted
to Improvement of roads and the pro-
lection of ruins in the five-mile strip
south of the park.
The House passed Representative
Mondell's bill permitting the secretary
of interior to withdraw from settle
ment lands intended to be segregated
under the Carey desert land act.
Senator Gallinger has introduced
bill to incorporate the Rockefeller
foundation for general philanthropic
work on all lines. The incorporators
named in the bill are John D. Rookie
feller, John D. Rockefeller, Jr., Fred
T. Gates, Starr J. Murphy and Charles
O. Heydt, are authorized to select as
sociates. not to exceed twenty-five.