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PASSING OF QUEEN VICTORIA--
ENGLAND PLUNGED IN GRIEF
London, Jan. 21. 8:25 a. m.--A spe-
cial train left Osborne at 8 o'clock
this morning with Emperor William,
the Prince of Wales, the Duke of York
and the Duke of Connaught aboard.
Jan. 21, 7:50 a. m.--The queen is still
alive, but all hopes are gone.
London, Jan. 21.--In the closing mo-
ments of Queen Victorla's life another
• grave portent arises, namely, the se-
rious indisposition of the Prince of
Wales. So worrieFl, tired and exhaust-
ed was he last evening that he could
not respond immediately to the sum-
mons from Osborne House. The most
he could do was to promise that" he
would leave London at 8 o'clock this
.morning if possible. It is worthy of
note that, even to-day, the London pa.
pers do not mention, by even the
most veiled alluslon, that the queen
has had a paralytic stroke.
Previous press bulletins since the
queen's illness assumed a serious as-
pect are as follows
Osborne. Isle of Wight, Jan. 19.-
The queen is suffering from great
physical prostration, accompanied by
symptoms which cause anixety.
Osborne, Isle of Wight, Jan. 19, 6 p.
m.--The queen's strength has been
fairly maintained throughout the day,
and there are indications of a slight
improvement in the symptoms this
evening.
Emperor William and the Duke of
Connaught, with their suites, left Ber-
lin by special train for England at 6
o'clock this evening by way of Flush-
Ing.
Cowes. Isle of Wight, Jan. 19.--Mid-
night--The queen of England lies at
death's door. She was stricken With
paralysis to-night. Renter's Telegraph
Company understands that the Prince
of Wales has received authority to act
in her majesty's stead, and thus has
been ereated a practical, though not
Constitutional regency.
London, Jan. 20, 12:30 a. m.--It is
announced that, though there is some
~llght Improvement, her majesty's,con-
dltion is most grave.
The Princess of Wales has arrived at
Osborne.
Cowes. Isle of Wight, ~an. 20, 2:10
a.m.--The queen's condition is un-
changed.
The Prince of Wales will go to Lon-
don this morning, where, with the
Duke of York, he will meet Emperor
WilUam. Whether the emperor will
Proceed to Osborne depends upon the
result of thls intervlew.
London, Jan. 20, 8:50 a. m.~A dis-
patch to the Press assoelation from
Cowes understands on good authority
that the queen's condltlon is critical.
Osborne House. Isle of Wight, Jan.
20, 4:30 p. m.~The following official
announcement has Just been made:
"Her majesty's strength has been
~alrly maintained throughout the day.
Although no fresh developments have
now taken place, the symptoms con-
tinue to cause anxiety.
(Signed) "JAMES REID.
"It. DOUGLAS POWELL."
Jan. 20, 7.'30 p. m.--No further bulls.
tin regarding the queen's health " has
been issued up to this hour, but there
is grave reason to believe that her
majesty's condition is critical.
Jan. 20, 11 p. m.--The Associated
Press learns that a very serious change
has occurred in the condition of Queen
Victoria. The worst is feared before
morning.
Jan. 21, 12:46 a. m.--The queen Is
reported to be sinking fast. The rec-
tor of Whippingham was summoned at
midnight, and he has just arrived in
one of the queen's' carriages.
Jan. 21, 12:15 a. m.--The official bul-
letin issued at midnight says that the
queen's condition late last evening be-
came more serious, with Increasing
Weakness and diminished power of
taking nourishment.
Jan. 21, 2 a. m.--The queen is i~ a
comatose condition and is regarded as
Passing awe y.
Jan. 21, 2 a. m.--Her majesty's phy-
alciaus hope that she may rally by 5
o'clock this (Monday) morning. If~she
does It is expected that she will live
through the day. If she does not, all
hope will be abandoned. Immediately
on the occurrence of the queen's col-
lapse, at about 1O o'clock last evening,
a message was sent to London sum-
moning t,he Prince of Wales and Em-
peror William. "*
The Prince of Wales was in such a
condition of health that it was utterly
Impossible for him to leave London at
that hour, but It is hoped that he will
start for Osborne House at 8 o'clock
this morning.
' Jan. 21, 3 a. m.--The worst Is ex-
Pected at any n~oment, and the mem-
bers of the royal family are now as-
sembled in the queen's bedchamber.
Jan. 21, 3:45 a. m.--The queen stir
lives, and there is no change in hey
Condition.
Jan. 21, 3:45 a. m.--Everybody is up
in Osborne House. and terrible anxiety
pervades all quarters. If the queen
Hves until Tuesday she will sur~prise
her doctors, who have been fearing
that she will not be able to survive
beyond 5 o'clock this morning.
The latest bulletin, with Its fateful
news, was issued too late to become
common knowledge hereabouts. The
exclusive information of the Asso-
cared Press, obtained an hour earlier,
is still less a matter of public knowl-
, edge.
Jan 21, 4 a. m.--No official bulletin
has been issued since midnight.
Doubts are expressed as to whether
the Prince of Wales and Emperor Wll~
liam will arrive here before the end.
London, Jan. 21, 3 a. m.--The city
has abandoned all hope of the queen's
recovery. The grave midnight mes-
Sage from Osborne destroyed the last
vestige of confidence that the skill of
her majesty's physicians would pre-
vail All the morning papers view the
situation despairingly, admitting that
the end of the happiest and most gl~-
rious reign England has ever knowu
is at hand.
Waking London was grief-stricken
beyond the power of words. It is ex-
Pected that late dispatches from Os-
Prince of Wales and the Duke of
York have gone to Marlborough house.
It is believed that they would have
gone earlier has not the queen been
unconscious and therefore unable to
recognize them.
GREAT LENGTH OF
VICTORIA'S REIGN
London, 3an. 19.--Queen Victoria has
reigned longer than any other woman
occupant of a throne.
She has reigned for a greater number
of years than any other European sov-
ereign, if the regency in th9 reign of
Louis XIV. is excepted.
Her reign has lasted sixty-four years
and seven months, exceeding by four
years, three months~ and twenty-six
days the reign of George III., which
was the longest In England before she
came to the throne.
She was empress of India for twen-
ty-five years, having received the title
by proclamation on April 28, 1876.
She has outlived all members of the
House of Lords who were peers of
tile realm at the time of her accession.
except Earl Nelson, and all the peers
who were then or had been members of
the House of Commons ....
She has survived all the members of
her original privy council and of her
first House of Commons, Mr. Gladstone
being one of the oldest former mem-
bers of the latter.
She has seen every Episcopal see va-
cated and refilled at least twice during
her reign.
She saw her Judicial bench recruited
twice, at least, from end to end.
She was a widow for forty years.
She saw five Archbishops of Canter-
bury and six of York, and five Bishops
of London.
She saw eleven lord chancellors, ten
prime ministers and six speakers of the
House of Commons.
Swept Over Nlagar~ lean~.
Niagara Falls, N. Y.. Jan. 21.--John
Wiser and John Marsh of this city at-
tempted to cross Niagara river above
the falls yesterday. They lost control
of Vheir boat and were carried into the
rapids. Wiser, who was unable to
swlm, was swe,pt over the falls and
drowned. Marsh. after a desperate
struggle in the icy water, was rescued
by persons along the shore.
The men were nearly ~alf way across
the river when their boat was caught
in a field of ice. As the beat passed
the power house both men got out onto
the floatin~ ice. The two men, "with
terror written on their faces, floated
down the river side by side. Marsh
was 200 feet from the shore and Wiser
was at least twenty feet further away.
At Willow island several men form-
ed a line and with the aid of a long
pole succeeded in getting near enough
to Marsh to rescue him. Wiser dung
to the ice until he was tossed off lute
the tumbling waters and' drifted over
the brink.
Generml Merrlam on Haa*lnfro
Denver, Jan. 21.--Gen. Merrtam said
last night that he had no doubt that the
action of the West Point Cadets In
promising to abolish hazing would be
effective.
"The presidents of each of the four
classes signed the agreement," said
General Merriam, "and this places the
boys on their honor. I believe that the
agreement will be lived up to to the
letter. It will prove beneficial t~ the
cadets, beyond a doubt. It will remove
all of the objectionable features of haZ-
ing in the military academy and the
"pleb,' or fourth class man, correspond-
ing with a freshman in the colleges,
will be safe from ill treatment. I was
surprised at the action of the boys, for
at frst they were fighting the abolish-
ment of hazing, and even defying Con-
gress. To abolish hazing Is certainly a
good move."
Coal Strike Investt~tUon.
Denver, Jan. 21.--The legislative
committee appointed to inquire into
the causes of the coal strike finished tts
.hearing of the complaints of the min-
ers of the Northern Coal and Coke
Co~apany, and returned from Louis-
vtlle. Colorado, to Denver. At 1:30
o'clock this afternoon it will start on
a tour of the southern fields, visiting
Florence first. The men will be heard
first, and later the operator~
The report of the committee is ex-
pected to be an interesting document,
as the investigation covers ~. wide
scope, and goes into detaiis~
Cu~ HJaq ~ ,LuKht Cold.
Santiago de Cuba, Jan. 20.--This sec-
tion of the island is now suffering from
the. severest cold knvwn here for years.
Much distress has been caused among
the natives, who are entirely without
protection from the rigors of the cli-
mate. A temperature of sixty degrees
is quite unprecedented. Many children
are without suitable clothing and are
very badly off.
A telephonlo, message from the Ouay-
areas mine, forty miles west of Santi,
ago, reports snow on the summit of Mr.
Torquin, at an altitude of 8,000 feet
TeleKraphlc reports from the north
coast say that. a severe norther is rag.
ing and that shipping is delayed.
An Afrlkan~ler Emlm~y,
A committee of Afrikander delegates
is on ~he way to London as loyal su~
Jects of Cape Colony, a self-governing
part of the British empire, with the
purpose of representing to the imperial
authoritle~ certain conditious which
they assert to be in effect in South Af-
rica. They are to protest against the
annexation of the overpowered Boer
republics in the name of Justice and for
the welfare of all South Africa. But
it is not alone for the Boers that they.
are to speak. They are coming to pro-
test against conditions in Cape Oolon~
it~e|f and grievances of the British sub-
Jects of the colony. "They wii! allege,"
says the reports from London, ' that the
borne would cause the Prince of Wales Cape Dutch are denied every liberty
and the German emperor to depart all guaranteed them under the British
nee for the Isle of Wight, but they ] crown. They will affirm that the press
are.still here., . [ ham been muzzled and political autono-
• xne ~amer occupms the royal apart-[my made extinct and that pemonal
meniz at Buckingham palace. The ] ?.~edom no longer exists"
t~UEEN VICTORIA LINGER-
ING BUT NEAR DEATH
London, Jan. 22, 8:35 '~. m.--An offi-
cial bniletin issued at Osborne house at
8 o'clock says:
"The Queen this morning shows signs
of diminishing strength, and her nl;lj-
esty's condition again assumes a more
serious aspect." •
Gowes, Jan. 22, 5 a. m.--The Queen is
expected to live until Thursday morn-
ing, unless unexpected complications
occur.
@owes. Jan. 22, 1 a. m.--The most no-
ticeable feature of yeste, rday was the
satisfactory portion the Queen ~en~ in
consciousness, which she regained early
tn the afternoon and still retained at 10
p.m. At that hour she had not seen
Emperor William. Royalty at Osborne
thus had a chance to recuperate from
the ~errible ordeal undergone during
the early hours of Monday. The mem-
bers of the royal family were called tO
a room adjoining the Queen's bedcham-
ber no less than four thnes yesterday
morning, and were kept in momentary
expectation of being summoned to wit-
ness the end up to 5:30. Her majesty's
physicians then had only a vestige of
hope that they would be able to keep
the Queen's feeble life in existence un.
fil the Prince of Wales arrived.
To secure this result they resorted to
the frequent use of brandy and cham-
pagne. These stimulants, used to an
extent which only the greatest emer-
gency Ju~t-lfled worked their process,
and whefi the Prince oP Wales and
Emperor William entered the castle
grounds at 11:30 a. m., they found the
Queen a trifle better than they had ex-
pected.
The Queen's rally astonished no one
more than bet physicians, and w~en at
4 o'clock yesterday afternoon they
heard her asking for chicken broth.
their amazement almost equaled their
delight. Privately, however, they
build no false h~pes upon these fading
signs of what has been one of the
strongest constHutious with which a
woman, was ever endowed. Degpite
the favorable afternoon, the doctors
dreaded greatly the period between 6
o'clock and midnight. When that
passed they seemed hopeful of her
majesty, at least through another day,
though their memory of the previous
night's relapse kept their anxiety at
high tension.
London, Jan. 22, 3 a. m.--A special
train is held in readiness to convey the
members of the cabinet to Osborne
at a moment's notice. Thus far it has
n~t been required.
Up to 3 a. m. no fur~er bulletin's had
been received in London since the one
issued at midnight.
London, Jan. 22.--A special dispatch
from Oowes this evening says Emperor
William was admitted to the queen's
presence at about 5 o'clock. She spoke
a few words to him, and after two or
three minu~s he withdrew. The queen
took a little nourishment and fell asleep
in the arms of the Princess of Wales.
Berlin, Jan. 22.--The Nord Deutsche
Allgemeine Zeltung makes the follow.
ing announcement:
"Dowager Empress Frederick, be-
cause seriously ill, is, to her very great
sorrow, prevented from going to Os-
borne to meet her exalted mother.
"The effect of the sad news regard-
ing Queen Victoria upon her eldest
daughter has been very unfavorable.
l~lnce and Prlncess Henry of Prussia,
Prince and Princess Frederick Oharles
and the hereditary "princes of Saxe-
Meiningen, who arrived at Crenberg
yesterday will remain with Empress
Frederick for ~ time."
London, Jan. 22.--The following
statement as to the condition of Dow-
ager Empress Frederick appears In the
Daily Chronicle:
"It is with sincere regret that we
announce that the Empress Freder-
lek's condition has become materially
worse. There has been a serious de-
velopment of the disease from which
she is suffering and her physical pain
is intense.
"All idea of any Journey in pursuit
of health has been defiultely, aban-
doned, and it is in the highest degree
improbable that she will ever leave
Cronberg."
Land not under ditch that l~ not ca-
pable of receiving water from an irri-
gating canal, ranges in pries from 50
cents to $5 an acre, according to its re-
moteness from or proximity to city,
town or railroad. Similar land with Jr.
rlgation rights and water ranges in
price from $20 ~o $100 per acre. If in
comparatively close proximity to Den-
ver and suitable for market gardening,
etc., it fetches still higher prlces. Al-
falfa will pay .a fine dividend on the
basis of $50 an acre.
The popular opiniOn regarding apples
Is that full crops and failures alter-
nate with considerable regularity. This
is not always the case In Colorado, for
while orchards seldom bear ~wo heavy
crops in succession, .they usually bear
several paying c~ops hand-running. We
have known the older growers to have
eight full crops of apples in ten years.
There is one man beginning with 1881
who had eleven paying crops in sue-
cession and would have secured a
greater number had hts orchard been
planted earlier dud had not a bad
spring frost appeared to nip things and
break the continuity. One theory of
continual bearing success no dvubt
rests with our irrigation advantage by
being able to supply needed moisture
when the frui~ buds are forming for the
next year's crop.
Here in the far West wehave tomato
the satisfactory conclusion among our-
selves at least that alfalfa hay is essen-
tial to the cheap production of milk
and butmr. Good alfalfa hay contains
over eighty-slx per ,~enr_ as much pro.
tein as bran. The am-unt of p~tein
in alfalfa verier from ten per cent.
when poorly em'ed and roughly han-
dled to sixteen per cent. where the best
care is taken. Average bran contains
lessthan thirteen per cent. of digestible
,protein. With good handling therefore
alfalfa hay can be cured which is
worth more than its weight in hran.
In Colorado our tests show that the
leaves of alfalfa hay contain over four-
teen per cent. digestible protein, so that
a ton of them has the feeding value-
of 2,400 pounds of wheat bran. As
everybody knows the best feeding val-
ue is in the leaves and this shows the
necessity of great care in handling the
ha~.
TO BE APPOINTED
BY TIlE GOVERNOR
Denver. Colo., Jan, 19.--A D~nver
dally, evidently having no regard for
the peace of miml of Govel nor Orman.
prints the following list of official posi-
tions "coming directly or indirectly un.
der the appointive power of the gov-
ernor:
A Judgeship of the Court of Appeals at
$5,000 a year is one of the best plums
to be bestowed.
Unless the ~Mslon Legislatmre sur.
prises itself Denver will remain under
the rule of boards appointed by the
governor, who will have these places
to hand out:
President of the Board of Public
Works, $4,000; two other members,
each $3,000.
This board will have hundreds of
places to give out, the best of which
will be: Secretary, $1,800; highway
commissioner, $2,500; engineer, $4,000.
Fire and Police Board, president,
$3,000; two other members, each $2,500.
The Fire and Police Board has many
plums of its own ~o give out, the gov-
ernor has a police magistrate at $2,500
to select and a maglstrate's clerk at $1,-
600.
private secretary for the governor
at $1,500 a year, a clerk at $1,200 and
a messeager a~ $900 have already been
chosen.
The fees of an. nil inspector amount
to $10,000 a year. This place is still to
be bestowed. There are sixty-seven wa-
ter commissioners at $5 a day to be
chosen. The warden of the reforma-
tory will draw $2,500 and has many
good places, at his disposal. The peni-
tentiary warden draws $2,500 ~d this
place, too, is ¢o be filled. The three
penitentiary commissioners draw $400
each and mileage. The deputy warden
geW $1,800 and the penitentiary chap-
lain $1.000.
The State Land Board, of which the
governor is a member, will fill these
places on Monday: Register, $2,000;
deputy, $1,500; appraiser, $1,500; chief
clerk ,$1,200; stenographer, $900.
Other places to be handed out by the
governor, either personally or as the
head of state l)oards are:
Agriculture board, two members, $4
a day and expenses.
Arbitration board, two members,
each $500; secretary, $1,200.
Game warden, $1,200; expenses, $500;
three deputies, each $900; expenses for
three, $900.
Superintendent of fish hatcheries $1,-
000; three deputies, each $900; ex-
penses for three, $200.
Game and fish commissioner, $1,800;
clerk, $1,000.
State Board of Health: Secretary,
$1,250; three members, no salary.
Horseshoeing examiners, five mem-
bers, no salary.
Insane Asylum Board, one member,
$600 and expenses.
Six irrigation superintendou~s, $5 a
day and mileage.
Two Normal school trustees, at $4 a
day and mileage.
State Board of Pharmacy, three mem-
bers, pald by the day.
SUrgeon general, no salary.
Veterinary surgeon, $1,500; expenses,
$~J0.
Adjutant general, $1,800; assistant,
$1,200; clerk, $1,000; inspector general,
$500.
~ State Board of Charities and Gorrec-
ion, two members, no salary; secre-
tary, $1,500; stenographer, $900.
State engineer, $3,000; deputy, $1,-
800.
Equalization Board. secretary, $1,500.
State geologist, no salary.
Horticultural Board, two members,
no salary; secretary, $1,000.
Boys' Industrial #School Board, one
member, $300; superintendent, $1,500.
Board of Cattle Inspection, nine
members, no salary; ten inspectors,
each $1~200; one secretory, $1,200.
School of Mines, two members, no
salary.
Medical examiners, three membem,
no salary.
State Board of Pardons, two mem-
bers, no salary.
Deaf and blind commissioners, two
members, $150 each and mileage.
Soldiers' and Sailors' Home, two
commissioners, expenses.
Five dental examiners, expenses.
There is a movement to consolidate
such offices as those of coal mine in-
specter and boiler inspector. If they
remain aa at present the salaries wlll
be:
Boiler inspector, $2,500; assistant in-
spector,*$1,500; expenses, $500,
Coal mine inspector, $2,000; deputy,
$1,400; clerk, $900.
The dairy commissioner's depart-
ment may be consolidated with that of
the Board of Health, otherwise the
,'salaries will be:
Dairy commissioner, $1,200; deputy,
$i,000; .expenses, $500.
Then. there are these places under
the State Board of Capitol Managers:
Secretary, $2,000; bookkeeper, $900;
engineer, $1,200; assistant engineer,
$1,000; electrlclan, $1,000; head Janl-
tor, $900; and a large force Of work-
men.
THE INVESTIGATION
AT WEST POINT
West Point, N. Y., Jan. 19.--The con-
gresslonal committee will probably fin-
ish the investigation at the military
academy ~o-morrow.
Cadet A. J. Lynch of New York was
thoroughly examined to-day by the
committeemen, as he is looked upon a~
the authority on fighting at the acade-
my. When General Dick began to
question him he became argumentative
and shook his finger at the chairman
several times When parrying some Of
the generars mild reproofs.
At times he leaned across the table
which separated him from the chalr-
man's table while he spoke in an Inso-
lent manndr to the general, He upheld
the West Point fighting code, and de-
"elated that he would fight any man of
his size and weight, and said that any
man who would not do likewise was
not fit to Join the army.
For the first time during the investi-
gation it was shown to-day that there
are C~adets In the first cias~ who, from
the time they came here as "plebes"
have been opposed to hazing and fight.
• lag. Cadet Francis W. Clarke of Illi-
nois testified to this, and said that these
practices should be abolished. He was
complimented by Mr. Driggs, who maid
that Clarke was a e~dlt to the acade-
my,
WHAT IS BEING DONE AT
THE NATIONAL CAPITAL
Benjamin Klmberly has bee~. named
for reappolntment as receiver of the
land office at Denver.
Senator Vest gave notice of an
amendment he will propose to the ship
subsidy bill applying the provisions of
the anti-trust law to ship building un-
der the bill.
The House committee on public lands
decided against reconsidering the fa-
vorable action they had previously
taken to include salt mines under
placer mining laws.
Col. O. F. Hilder, chief clerk of the
bureau of ethnology of the Smlthson-
Inn institute, died on the 21st inst.,
aged seventy. He was well known as
a magazine writer and lecturer.
The New York Herald's poll of the
House shows that the ship subsidy
bill as It stands will be beaten by
forty-eight votes, but will have eigh-
teen majority for an amended bill.
Congressman :Neville of Nebraska has
suffered a relapse in his condition, re-
sulting fbom a recurrence of hemor-
rhages. They have weakened him con-
siderably, but there are hopes for his re.
covery.
A determined effort was made in the
Senate to amend the army reGrganlza-
tion bill so as to provide against thd
sale of liquor in the Philippines and to
prohibit the importation of any kind of
intoxicants into the islands, but it was
defeated.
The Senate has passed the army re-
organization bill. The measure having
originated in the Senate, the final
question was not upon its passage, but
upon agreeing to the House amend-
meats. They were agreed to by a vote
of 43 to 23.
Secretary Gage has submitted to
Congress an estimate of expenses for
collecting customs for the coming fis-
cal year. For Denver he estimates the
following: Surveyor, $5,000; two depu-
ties. $2,877; inspector, $900; stenograph-
er, $300. Total. $9,077.
The House passed Representative
Shafroth's bill providing for payment
of $3,100 to A. C. Cass, vice president
of the Colorado Fuel and Iron Com-
pany, to reimburse him for a draft sent
him from the Treasury Department
and lost in transmission.
The twenty-five persons, lace oper-
ators and their families, brought from
England by Dr. Dowie and who had
been refused a landing at Portland.
Maine, on the ground that they were
contract laborers, have been ,permitted
by the Treasury Department to land.
The President has so far recovered
as to take Mrs. McKinley out for a
drive to-day behind his new horses.
He was able to drive them himself,
and after a spin of an hour or so in
the frosty air he pronounced himself
satisfied with the team and on a quick
road to recovery.
Richard Sylvester, chief of police of
Washington, has invited the most
prominent detectives of the country to
attend the inaugural ceremonies in the
capital city. The policemen will be on
hand to receive the crooks, whose
movements until that time will be
watched by members of the national
bureau of Identification.
The House naval affairs committee
completed consideration of the naval
appropriation bill and Chairman Foss
was directed to report it. No authoriz-
ation of additional vessels of the Hol-
land submarine class will be recom-
mended. The bill carries $77,000,000,
an increase of $13,000,000 bver that
for the present year. Two battleships
and two cruisers are to be contracted
for.
Efforts have been made by the pro-
ducers of vaccine to have the agricul-
tura~ committees of Congress omit
from the forthcoming agricultural al~
preprlatlon bill further provision for
vaccine made and distributed by the
government on the ground that the gov-
ernment distribution is no longer neces.
sary and is an interference with pri-
vate enterprise.
A bill to regulate filings under the
mining laws of the United States has
been introduced by Senator Stewart of
Nevada. It is proposed by the bill to
restrict one person to one placer loca-
tion in each mining district and m one
quartz location on each vein. The bill
also provides tibet annual assessment
work shall be performed prior to De-
cember 31st of each year.
The naval appropriations bill was
reported to theHouse with an elabor-
ate statement of Its provisions; by
Chairman Foss, of the naval commit-
tee. The bill carries $77,016,635, the
largest ever reported to the House
from the committee on naval affairs."
This is $11,865,718 above the bill of
last year, and $10,229,395 below the
estimates submitted by the Navy De-
partment.
Owing to the President's condition
from the effects of the grip, it lS now
probable that, acting upon the advice
of Dr. Dlxey, the official receptions an-
nounced for the winter, as wen as the
Cabinet dinners, will be canceled. On~
or two of the official dinners may be
given later in the sea.a, but it is be-
lieved it would be imprudent for the
President to undergo the fatigue of a
long reception for ~ome cqnslderable
time:
A bill to prevld'e a home for aged
and infirm colored people was passed
tn the House, It provides that the
money for the construction and main-
tenance of the home shall consist of
the fund now in the treasury due the
estates of deceased colored sol4tets,
~hich amounts to $'230.000. The home
is to be erected In the District of Co-
lumbia on ground now In the possess-
ion of a colored association organized
for that purpose.
An effort of Mr. Mondell of Wyoming
to attach, an amendment to the river
and harbor bill to appropriate $50,000
for constructing reservoirs in Wyom-
ing for the purpose of holding back
the flood,waters of the Missouri river
failed in the House. The amendment
also carried an authorization for $165,.
000 to complete the reservoirs and was
to be th~ entering wedge of the advo-
cates of the Irrigation of the arid lands
in the West.
that it is difficult to enforce the present
laws. and that the poorer classes conse-
quently suffer in having oleomargarine
substituted and forced upon them for
butter. He believes that the eastest
way to protect them would be to tax
colored oleomargarine and thus compel
Its sale uncolored.
In the debate on the army reorgani-
zatlon bill West Point hazing was fu-
riously denounced by a number of sen-
ators. Mr. Allen, Mr. Money of Mis-
sissippi, and Mr. McCumber deeiared'
it to be an evidence of brutality and
cowardice, the MissiSsippi senator
maintaining that a cadet whom others
attempted to haze would tm justified•
in killing his assailants. He declared
that If he were a cadet upon whom
such cowardly brutality were attempt-
ed he would kill those who assaulted
him, If he had to walt a hundred years
for the opportunity.
A most remarkable collection of rare
economic plants and seeds is now be-
ing worked up by the Department of
Agriculture. Barbour Lathrop of
Chicago, with David G. Fairchild as
assistant, recently completed a tour
of the world, covering a period of two
years and embracing travels which
amounted to explorations, and Mr. La-
throp has given the results of the ex-
pedition, undertaken at his o~rn ex-
pense, to the farmers of the United
States. through the medium of the
section of seed and plant introduction
of the Department of Agriculture.
The House spent an entire day on the
bill to refer to the Court of Claims the
claims of the William Cramp & Sons'
Ship Building Company of Philadel-
phia, for alleged damages due to the
delay of the government in furnishing
armor plates and material for the bat-
tleships Massachusetts and Indiana
and the crnisers New York and Colum-
bia. The claims aggregate $1.367.244.
The previous questlon was ordered o~
the bill and the House adjourned. The
ordering of the previous question gives
the bill a tactical advantage which
practically insures a vote on it when
called up again.
Not satisfied with securing a repeal
of that section of the war revenue act
which imposes a tax on legacie4s to be-
nevolent and educational institutions,
several of the colleges of the co~mtry
have banded together in an effort to
recover what has already been paid
into the national treasury under that
law. It is claimed that the amount
of the tax already collected is $2,000.-
000, but it is probably not more than
$350,000. The entire inheritance tax
thus far, since the warm,revenue bill
was passed, has not exceeded $10.000,-
000, including the Vanderbilt, Hunt-
ington, Smith an4 other big estates.
Secretary of the Interior Hitchcock
made a statement to the House com-
mittee on public lands on" the subject
of irrigation, in which he strongly sup-
ports the pellcy of irrigation and says
that a vast acreage, capable of sup-
porting a population of 50,000,000 peo-
ple, 'should not be left a desert. Mr.
Hltchcock points out the remarkable
results experienced in the valley of
the Nile, practically ~deeming Egypt
from bankruptcy. Professor Newell of
the Geological Survey, Professor Pin-
chott of the Agricultural Department,
and Representative Newlands of Ne-
vada, who started the movement by a
bill for irrigation reservoirs along the
Humboldt river in Nevada, also strong-
ly supported the plan.
The Republicans of the Senate Jn
caucus have" decided not to crowd
through the Nicaragua canal bill until
Great Britain has had fair opportunity
to study the amendments ¢o the Hay-
Pauncefote treaty and decide what to
do abont them. There was no dl~o-
sition to abandon canal legislation for
the session, but to move forward and
In order. So long as the attitude of the
British government Is undefined and
so long as It has the treaty under con-
sideratlon, it would be an offensive act
for the United States to take any fur-
ther steps 9r agitate the question. Nev-
ertheless, at the caucus there was ex-
pressed a determination not to let the
session close without passing the pend-
ing bill, and it was suggested Chat the
~eeretary of state might intimate to
England that only forty days remaln.
The War DepaRtment has received
no information from Manila that will
throw light upon the Associated Pres~
dispatches during~ the last few days
concerning a discussion before the'
commission on the subject of teaching
religion in the schools. It would ap-
pear from these publications that the
commission has decided to allow the
l friars to continue to do as they did
during Spanish domination and that
the liberal FiUpinos are earnestly pro.
testing. The War Department does.
not care to comment on the news dl~
patches, but d~es not hesitate to say
that the instrulctions of the commis-
sion did not contemplate such sn ar-
rangement. It .is the policy of the
President to divorce the church from
the civil government abeotute~ and
place it on tha same basis as In the
United States,
A]ls~kl b ]iSee~ NqJ.ee~d.
Alaska, says:
"Last summer 125,000 ~ons of freight
landed at Nome, and the amount would
have bees much larger 1£ shippers
could have found ve~els to carry it for
them, This commerce will increase
rapidty year by year, yet there Isn't a
single lighthouse on the most danger-~
ous coast in the world. There isn't a
lighthouse in all Alaska except one lit-
tle 'bug' light at Sitka,
"Congress has not treated Alaska
4"ight. The people up there have bess
members of the Union long enough to
have everything settled and laws en-
acted for their government. But now
they have none. Nobody can buy land
In Alaska. Nobody can erect a home
there.. Nobody can take u,p a frame-
stead. The land laws of the United
States are not extended to the territory.
Congress evidently thinks ~the ~and
isn'~ w~rth taking up and pa~ys no at~
~ention to ,that subject. People go in
there and squat on the land and do tke
Secretary of Agriculture Wilson was best they can, and govern themselve~
.before the Senate comznlttee on agri- with great pattence and forbearance,
1culture in support of the passage of | and then wait for the government te
the Grout bill. He takes the ground ~ catch up with them."
