The Lamar register. [volume] (Lamar, Colo.) 1889-1952, 1910-03-23
NEWS FROM WASHINGTON.

The white slave" bill will become
law as soon as signed by the presi-
dent.
A number of changes will be made
in the railroad bill. This announce
ment after a conference of Senate
leaders with Secretary Wickersham.
An invitation will be extended at
Chicago for the holding of the 1913
Knights Templar conclave in Denver,
and. 1t is thought. will be accepted.
Denver postoffice bids were opened
Tuesday. There were eighteen. II is
believed Colorado marble will be used.
The lowest bid for this material was
s1.362.1S2.
President Taft on Tuesday sent n
special message to Congress urging
the adoption of measures for the pro-
Paul and st. George.
A naval board of inquiry is at work
at the Charlestown navy yard investi-
eating the theft Of $500 from the pay
masters safe on board the United
States gunboat Castine.
The House committe on naval af-
fairs has favorably reported a bill ap-
propriating 100000 to raise the wreck
OF the battleship Maine in Havana har-
Dor. The action was taken on the
statement Of the navy department that
the wreck was a menace to naviga-
ton.
The Navy Department has ordered
the taking over from the contractors
the new big battleships the Delaware
and the North Dakota. sister ships Of
10000 tons each. The Delaware will
be commissioned at Norfolk. April
ith. and the North Dakota at Boston.
two days later.
According to close friends of Miss
Agnes p. Gerard. the Daughters of the
American Revolution clerk who was
discharged for alleged characterization
by Mrs. Matthew T. Scott, the presi-
dent general. Miss Gerard will soon
institute suit for o!ander against Mrs.
Scott and sue for 100000 damages.
The proposal to have Congress re-
ward Commander Peary for his discov-
cry Of the North pole met with an
other set back in the House committee
on naval affairs Tuesday and incident
ly Representative Englebright of Cal
ifornia. his principal advocate in the
committee, was badly outvoted.
Army staff officers in Washington
exert influence because they attend
pink teas and dance with the girls"
declared Representative Sulzer of New
York in the House. in suggesting that
! opposition in the House to the Senate
amendment to the army appropriation
bill bestowing the rank of major gen.
eral on several officers of the line, had
its origin with staff officers. The
House rejected the amendment.
By an equally divided court. the SUI
preme Court of the United States Mon
day affirmed the decision of the Fed
erai Court of California, which held
the grazing of sheep without permits
sion on forest reserves was not vio-
lation of law.
The government proposes to inter
vene in the Bethlehem Steel Company
strike, where a large number of men
have been out for four weeks. An Of
| fetal of the department of commerce
and labor has gone to South Bethle-
hem. Pa, and will go over the situa-
ton carefully.
Senior Murguindo. Uruguayan con-
sui general, died Wednesday.
Satisfied that the present methods
of operating its seielters by the Ana
conda Copper Mining Company are not
only destructive of the surrounding ma
tural forests. but unnecessary. Attorn-
ey General Wickersham has caused a
bill in equity to be filed at Helena.
Mont. against the company. The bill
asks for permanent injunction to
compel the company to operate its
plant at Anaconda in such a manner
as to end the destruction complained
Of