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Pv n vntn nf 51 tn 4K tllG Senate On
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Secretary Metcalfe of the department
of commerce and labor has asked the
house to furnish money with which to
carry on the investigation of the meth
ods of the Standard Oil company in
Kansas.
By order of congress, Col. William
Michael, chief clerk of the state depart
ment, has published a book giving an
illustrated history of the Declaration of
Independence, with the biographies
and portraits of the signers and the
secretary of congress. Because of the
historic value of the book which Col
onel Michael has compiled, congress
haa ordered it to be printed as a gov
ernment publication.
The senate committee on post office
and post roads has added $1,000,000 to
the original provision.
An Associated Press dispatch dated
Washington, Feb. 18, says: "President
Roosevelt has not abandoned his idea
of obtaining with the leading powers of
the world definite, comprehensive and
effective agreements as to a scheme of
international arbitration. It will bo
his effort to have the matter so pre
sented to the attention of the second
Hague conference which is to be held
at the conclusion of the Russo-Japanese
war, as to Insure favorable action of
a character that will be binding upon
all the powers signatory to the pro
posed new convention. Instructions
will be given to the representatives of.
burg on January 22, but the president,
he said, had not seen lit to send a mes
sage of condolence on that occasion.
Ho was replied to by Mr. Grosvenor of
Ohio, who took the ground that regard
less of the character of the duke or the
question of the right or wrong of Rus
sia's policy toward the subjects, the
president, in sending the message he
did, had done exactly what civiliza
tion considered his duty. The climax
came later in the day, when Mr. Baker
read a resolution on the subject which
he subsequently introduced and which,
in effect, was a reiteration of his re
marks previously made. Ho explained
that it has been suggested that in the
event of his offering such a resolu
tion, a motion would be made to expel
him. He shouted defiance to any mem
ber of the house to make the motion,
a3 he deposited the resolution and took
his seat, amid the confusion of which
the incident had created.
An Associated Press dispatch dated
Washington, D. C, Feb. 19, says: "In'
spite of warnings, congress is rushing
headlong and blind to an $80,000,000
deficit and a possible bond issue. This
was pointed out on the floor of the
house in a remarkable speech by Rep
resentative Littlefield of Maine. The
naval bill was under consideration,
and following the custom which Mr.
Littlefield has pursued during the de
bate on every other appropriation bill
during the present session, he called
the attention of the house and country
rr -Mio fonf thni 4-1, i. i
nW"4 SatCS al tUe conta t trenohment at once or a provision' r
in each department for fiscal year
ending June 30, 1905, are as follows'
Legislative .$ 20,000.00
State department 105,402 39
Treasury department .... 3,757,'780G1
District of Columbia .... 122,088 06
War department 1,916.96939
Navy department 15,071,281 13
Interior department 4,734,058.76
Department of agriculture 3i5G7.G0
Department of commerce
and labor 57,742.84
Department Of justice.... 575.S19.32
Postoffice department .... 23,000,0ui.00
Total $49,304,773.10
Ambassador Jusserand, of France,
has presented to congress the bronze
replica of the marble bust of George
Washington which was destroyed by
fire in the congressional library in
1851. The ceremonies took place in
the rotunda of the capitol where tlio
bust was unveiled.
Congressman Hitchcock proposed an
amendment to tariff bill in the house,
providing that the importation of
opium to the Philippines shall be pro
hibited. In supportjof his amendment,
Mr. Hitchcock saidT "It seems to me
that if the duty of a civilized nation
to a helpless ward of this sort ever re
quired the exercise of paternal care it
i3 required in this particular case. We
should not for a few thousand dollars
of revenue spread opium depravity."
An Associated Press dispatch dated
Washington, D. C, Feb. 21, says: "Sec
retary Morton has reconsidered his de
cision to reject the recent bids for ar
mor plate made by the Midvale Steel
company of Pennsylvania and he will
award to that company, which was the
lowest bidder, a contract for 1,000 tons
of the 8,000 tons wanted.
tails of the instructions have not been
worked out yet, of course, as the time
01 Holding the conference has not been
determined, but it is understood that
the effort of this country will be to
have specified with some definiteness
the subjects which under the proposed
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for which he would never vote. He said
mat rrom estimates furnished to him
he had figured out that at the present
rate congress was appropriating money
the excess of expenditures over receipts
at the end of the year would be be
tween $80,000,000 and $90,000,000 A
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than the general treaties entered ititn
between the United States and other
countries individually. Notwithstand
ing the action of the senate, therefore,
in so amending the treaties as to pre
vent the exchange of ratifications, the
president will endeavor to obtain even
more tangible results through the plan
ho now has in mind. He. discussed the
subject of international arbitration to
day with Hayne Davis jf New York,
who has made a study of the subject'
and Representative Bartholdi of Mis
souri, president of the Inter-Parliamentary
union. Mr. Roosevelt's callers
found him confident that much would
be accomplished in the cause of arbi
tration at the proposed conference at
The Hague, where, he believed, an ar
rangement could be made for the arbi
tration of certain specified subjects to
the exclusion of such others as might
cause either international friction in
the countries affected by the terms of
the agreement or strained relations be
tween any two of the powers signatory
to the' results of the conference.
The naval annronriatinn wii
ing with it the sum of $99,914 395
passed the house Feb. 20. The provision
for two battleships' was retained
Several times during the session of
the house on Feb. 20, Mr Bakor n
New York, referred to the nssSiina
tion of Grand Duke S'ergh's nf Inn"
While the increase of expenses in other
departments in the last eight years
over the previous eight years had been
only 22 per cent the increase for the
army and navy had been 341 per cent
In money it amounted to $988,000,000
I shall probably vote for the army and
navy appropriation bills,' said he. "Tlievr
are undoubtedly necessary, but I wish
to inquire if this house and its com
mittee if it is wise to incur thi ? ex
penditures when the rivers and harbors
of the country and public buildings;
the real monuments of peace must
suffer. We spend millions upon milHons
Snf naV' and nothing for the mer
chant marine, which might be the basis
of the naval estimate. What boots it
to carry the American flag at the ma?
bead of a battleship intogfS e SJn ports'
if the flag of American commerefcannot
SStTJVh Mp-Littlefield then S
mL ? enormous expenditures
must stop, or more revenue be provid
ed. He asked the house which method
it proposed to adopt in order to in-
?w3nrimPOrta.ti0ns' a duty on articles
that are now imported free or,' an in
crease in internal revenue taxation
Representative Foss, in charge of the
naval appropriation bill, in reply to a
question, said that this year's measure
had been considered more carefullv
than any other in the history of the
naval legislation. Already it had been
reduced $20,000,000 below the estimates
bills put together and not a single item
could be cut without destroying the ef
ficiency of the naval estimate. Defi
clencies estimated by Secretary Shaw
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