The Colorado statesman., 1910-01-15
NEWS FROM WASHINGTON.


duced a bill to appropriate $4,000 to
help defray expenses of the worlds
congress for the deaf to be held at
Colorado Springs in August, 1910.
Representative Rucker of Colorado
has introduced a bill to promote Cap
tain James Moynahan of Fairplay to
the rank of major on the retired list
of the army.
1t is announced that the census
enumerators in the sparsely settled
sections of the West and Southwest
will be compensated on a per diem
basis instead of per capita, the rate
of pay ranging from S. to Sc per day.
Wyoming has been allotted four ap-
pointments of. clerks in the census
bureau and has five applicants who
successfully passed the examination.
All of the Wyoming APPLICANTS are
women.
pension of $4,000 a year is que
Mrs. Grover Cleveland, according to
precedent, and Senator Root has pre-
sented to the senate bill making the
grant. The amount is the same as
was allowed to the widowed wives OF
former presidents.
Senator Warren presented resolu-
tions adopted by the National lrriga-
ton Congress favoring the augmenta-
ton of the reclamation fund, and OF
the Sheridan, Wyo., Chamber of Com
merce, favoring opening the Crow res
ervation to settlement.
With the Democrats fighting every
inch of the way. the Mann bill, provld-
ing for the administration of the Pan
anna Canal zone and centralizing the
government thereof in the President
of the United States, passed the
House by vote of 119 to 102. The
vote was along strict party lines.
The United States Supreme Court
has handed down decision sustain
ing the power of the Interstate Com
merce Commission to regulate the dis
tribution of railroad cars among coal
companies. The decision is regarded
by the government as most important
and it is expected to have bearing on
the rate cases still to be heard by the
court.
Clifford Pinchot, forester and inti-
mate friend of Theodore Roosevelt,
was dismissed on the 7th inst. from
the service of the United States by
President Taft for INSTRUMENTATION.
Associate Forester Overton w. Price
and Assistant Law Officer Alexander
C. Shaw, Pinchot's immediate assist
ants in the forestry bureau, followed
their chief out of the government en-
ploy.
The coming fourth Pan-American
conference, in Buenos Ayres in July,
is occupying the attention OF otflclals
of the state department and others in
terested in the meeting. The United
States committee has elected MAJ.
zen. George w. Davis, United States
army retired, as one of its MEMBERS
and appointed a committee to urge
upon Congress the necessity Tor an
appropriation for the proper partici-
patton of the United States.
An echo of the mysterious robbery
of the sub-treasury at Chicago IN l9of
was heard in the Senate rev Gays
since when a bill was passed proVlu-
ing for the crediting of $4,000 to the
accounts of William Boldenweck, the
assistant United States treasurer.
One hundred and seventy-three one
thousand-dollar bills mysteriously dis
appeared from the sub-treasury and
no trace of them was ever FOUND.
Boldenweck was long ago absolved
from all blame.
The passing of the historic fourth
of March as a presidential Inaugural
ton date and the fixing OF the fourth
Thursday of April in its place is pro
vided for in a resolution ordered "a
vorably reported by the House COM
mittee on the judiciary.
The department of Agriculture Is
making a fight against bleached flour.
Its use is not defended by the bakers.
but by the manufacturers of bleach
ing machinery, who are said to nave
raised a fund of 100000 to defeat the