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VOLUME 5, NUMBER 8
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S Week at Washington g
I Justice Wliltc called attention to um
fact that In assessing name slocks
much property of an intangible char
acter must be taken into considera
tion, which is not true in cases in
which the assessment is made on visi
ble property, as is required in the case
of state banks. Justice Brewer deliv
ered the dissenting opinion, in the
course of which he said: 'Whatever
may be the effect of the statute creat
ing or opening the door to discrimina
tion, no one can read it and say that
there was an intent on the part of the
legislature of California to discrimi
nate injuriously against national
banks. The statute is positive in its
language that national bank shares
shall be taxed and assessed as is
other property, and there was beyond
doubt an attempt on the part of the
California legislature to cast only an
equal burden of taxation on such
shares. Of course there can not be im
puted to this court an intention to
favor national bank property in the
matter of taxation and to lay down one
rule for its benefit which is denied to
all other property.' "
mli omnin fintvimltfnn Oil COIIinierCC
completed the river and harbor bill
i ii ..!,. nimrniirtiillnnR Jlf-
ailll 11 I1UW Villliua uiiiui.imMv..u o
'grogatlng $3S,0i8,SC7, a three million
dollar Incrcaao over the bill as it
was passed by the house.
Chairman Payne of the house com
iniltee on ways and means has filed
a report favoring the passage of the
Curtis bill. This bill provides for the
free entry of products from the Philip
pines, except sugar and tobacco on
which products 25 per cent of the Ding
ley tariff is to bo collected. Chair
man Payne's report declares that "the
logical result of our possession of these
islands is free trade, and it further
says: "At present, according to the
whim of congress or the executive,
they are considered as American or
foreign, or as neither American nor
foreign. In justice to both the Fili
pinos and ourselves they should be
considered as altogether American or
altogether foreign. So long as we re
tain them we favor the establishment
and maintenance of free trade betwixt
them and the United States."
President Roosevelt has transmitted
to congress a statement of the expendi
tures for quarters for troops in the
Philippines. It is said that the amount
of the appropriation was $1,500,000 and
previous reports covered the expendi
tures of $1,183,720. The present re
port includes the expenditure of $07,106
for material in the United States, $183,
819 for construction, $57,834 for re
pairs and $105,740 for rent. This to
tal includes $98,25G, subsequently ap
propriated, on which no report is required.
An Associated Press dispatch, dated
Washington, D. C, Feb. 25, says:
"Tho supremo court of the United
States today decided the Inv nnsna nf
tho National bank of San Francisco
favorably to the bank. The case in
volved the state law directing tho as
sessment of tho stock o national
banks in California, while assessment
on state banks was made on their prop
erty. Tho opinion was by Justice
White, who hold that the effect of the
law in this case was to work discrimi
nation. Tho finding of the state court
was reversed. Tho chief justice and
Justices Brewer, Brown and Peckham
dissented. In the course of his opinion
Admiral Dewey, who had intended to
go to the nayal station at Guantanamo,
Cuba, to Inspect and review the vessels
of the North Atlantic fleet, has aban
doned his idea owing probably to the
state of his health.
amount of tho appropriation Is $31,
022,59.7. President Roosevelt has received an
invitation to attend tho national camp
firo of the Spanish war veterans to bo
held March G at Washington. He will
try to make it possible to be present
on the occasion.
The homestead bill, introduced by
Representative Martin, extending the
area of a homestead in South Dakota
from 1G0 to 640 acres, has passed the
house after a hard fight. It is believed
that the bill will be killed in the senate.
The senate has passed the bill
amending the laws for the government
of Hawaii, relative to the election and
appointment of local officers.
An Associated Press dispatch, dated
Washington, D. C, March 1, says: "The
house committee on interstate and
foreign commerce today unanimously
authorized a favorable report on a
resolution prepared by Mr. Lovering of
Massachusetts, providing for 'a con
tinued inquiry into Panama canal mat
ters. The resolution recites that:
'Whereas, It is necessary to the speedy
and economical construction of the
isthmian canal that the fifty-ninth con
gress shall have an early and accurate
report of the construction of the canal
and the operation of the Panama rail
road as soon as possible in order that
it may legislate promptly and intelli
gently; that the committee have au
thority to sit, by sub-committee or
otherwise, as it may designate, at any
time or place in the United States or
at the isthmus of Panama, March 4,
1905, and the assembling of the fifty
ninth congress.' "
Secretary Hay and Minister Corea of
Nicaragua have signed an extradition
treaty between this government and
that of Nicaragua.
Judge Charles Swayne, acquitted
Monday by the senate on the impeach
ment charges, has been granted a
leave of absence for two months.
Judge Swayne expects in that time to
undergo a surgical operation.
The monthly statement of the public
debt shows that at the close of busi
ness February 28, 1905, the debt, less
cash in the treasury, amounted to
$989,574,143, which is a decrease for the
month of $365,461.
ONE-AVAY KATES
Every day from March 1st to May
15th, 1905, Inclusive, the Union Pacific
will sell one-way tickets from Missouri
River Terminals (Council Bluffs to
Kansas City, inclusive) as follows:
$20.00 to Ogden and Salt Lake City.
foS l? H!?ena and Blltte Montana,
?2.50 to Spokane and Wenatchee,
Washington.
$22.50 to Huntington and Namna
Idaho. '
15.00 to Portland, Tacoma and Seattle.
J25.00 to Vancouver and Victoria
$25.00 to Ashland and Astoria, Oretron
via Portland. b '
$25.00 to San Francisco, Los Angeles
and San Diego.
Correspondingly low rates to manv
other California, Oregon, Washington,
Montana, Utah and Idaho points.
Through Tourist cars run every dav
on Union Pacific between Missouri Riv
jr and Pacific Coast; double berth
$5.,5. For full information call on or
Address
E. B. SLOSSON,
Gen'l. Agent, Lincoln, Neb
The following nominations have
been sent to the senate by the presi
dent: Consul General at Panama
Joseph W. J. Lee, Maryland. Second
Lieutenant of Infantry William L.
Patterson, Maryland. Postmasters
Iowa, Roscoo C. Saunders, Manilla;
Norman D. Anthony,. Ruthven
A Washington dispatch to the Chi
cago Record-Herald, under date of
Washington, Feb. 28, says: "An in
crease of tho president's salary to $100 -000
a year wa3 the plea made in con
gress today by Representative Lomr
worth of Ohio. He urged also that
diplomats be given more remuneration
and declared that an absolute neces
sity existed for the immediate in
crease of salaries of ministers in for
nix uuihuus. in emphasizing his ar
gument Mr. Longworth related what he
said was an authentic case where an
American minister received and en
tertained diplomats in a three-room flat
filled with the odors of cooking He
received in his shirt-sleeves, and when
his visitors arose to go he would pre
The interesting facts brought.to light
in the Swayne impeachment case, just
closed, have caused some concern about
tho expenses of judges and the Asso
ciated Press says: "The temper of the
house regarding the Swayne impeach
ment verdict was shown when amend
ments were attached to the bill re
stricting the $10 a day limit for ex
penses of United States judges, so that
expenditures above $5 a dav shall ho
certified on vouchers, with the further
proviso that a judge who presents a
false claim for expenses shall be fined
not less than $100 and imprisoned for
not less than ten days. In committee
of the whole an appropriation of $190 -000
was voted for mileage or senators
and members for attending the second
session of tho present congress, about
the legality of which some question
was raised. The committee's action
was sustained after the bill had been
reported to the house and after Mr
Underwood of Alabama had forced a
separate vote on the provision."
biUtlfe'Tast1 dofflCn nCy "Wroprlatlon
me!U ess clrlhe
from h " "" " l"uue ot estimates
The Jamestown exposition has been
voted an appropriation of $250,000 by
the house of representatives, as a re
sult of hard work on the part of the
Virginia delegation and General Fitz
nugh Lee.
diiLC?nCrPOnt resolutin was intro
duced by Representative Kehoe of Ken-
toUtuy;tUnTdXDUbUCOlPa
An Associated Press dispatch, dated
Wash ngton, D. C, March 2, says- "At
a final meeting of the conferees on the
Panama canal bill today after the sen.
fbuitv ofesfhad reported verbally
t l y f th0 rePre3entatives of the
two houses to ert. tn, " , .ue
sent back to try" again he ful ility of
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