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Newspaper
Washington Post
Location
Washington, Washington Dc, United States of America
Date
Mar 03, 1905
Page
49
Visitors thronged the Capitol last evening, filling the Rotunda and galleries as Congress neared adjournment. Senators and members moved through corridors, many first-time visitors, while the House and Senate halls buzzed with quick activity, reading clerks, and minor debates amid bright lights and packed desks.
The House of Representatives lingered past midnight, passing a quarantine district bill urged by President Roosevelt and approving several interstate and territorial measures. A leprosarium proposal failed after heated debate, and conference actions on Indian and Osage issues proceeded as the chamber adjourned at 1:22 a.m. to reconvene at 11:30 today.
Senate conferees concede no compromise with House on abolishing the canal commission. Spooner act authority may let the President proceed with canal construction but government of the Canal Zone remains disputed. House insistence on ending the canal commission blocks accord. discharge requested if two houses fail to agree. Piloting roles and conference managers named. Also telegraph underground rule and agricultural appropriation bill advances. President Roosevelt portrait offer noted for Washington Post promotion.
Government vote to fund a $250000 celebration of Jamestown's 1st English speaking settlement on Hampton Roads gained 192 to 81 in the House under suspension and later moved through the Senate. Virginians urged supporters as critics called costs dubious. Exposition runs May 13 to November 1, 1997.
Representative Babcock moved in the House the conference report on a bill authorizing the Anacostia Surrattsvile and Brandywine Railway Company to extend into the District. Opposed by Bartlett and Davis, the measure allows freight cars for milk and garden truck to Anacostia and limits Washington city operations to passenger cars. The free transfer amendment was removed in conference and the bill passed.
Postponed pay for New York and other ports due to delay in passing the deficiency appropriation bill. Treasury funds are unavailable until the bill is enacted, delaying February wages for customs officers and employees. The New York payroll runs about 150000 dollars biweekly. Funds expected to become available once the measure passes, possibly Saturday. President Roosevelt also signed the army appropriation bill as the second major supply act reaching him in finish form.
Advertises Skinhealth Treatment claiming to cure skin scalp and blood diseases caused by germs. Packages include HARFINA SOAP, SKINHEALTH OINTMENT, and TABLETS with promises of free first set upon mailing coupon to Philo Hay Specialties Co. Newark New Jersey. Consumer urged to fill form and send.
Final conference reports on the post office appropriation bill set today in Congress. The Senate added 300000 for pneumatic tube service and extension, increased postal car service by 75, retained veteran preference in railway mail transfers, kept 345000 for foreign mail transport, and dropped a 3 cent per pound rural free delivery rate. Senate increases for warning branches were retained.
Conferees reached agreement on Indian appropriation details, striking sectarian school ban and adjusting land lease extensions and royalties. Provisions cover Colville and Pima irrigation, Osage town sites, Uintah opening timing, and church land grants in Montana, with many agency payment claims largely removed.
A letter from Faivae and Western Tutuila district chiefs to President Roosevelt commends Commander Edmund B. Underwood. Roosevelt replies through Governor Moore expressing satisfaction with Underwood’s leadership and urging continued progress in education and good citizenship. He pledges to appoint future governors who advance happiness and enlightenment for Tutuila and Maoua.
President appoints H A Gudger of North Carolina to judge the Panama Canal Zone Supreme Court in place of Osceola Kyle who resigned. Gudger, consul general at Panama since July 1897, is familiar with local people and conditions. Taft says no reflection on Kyle.
Senator Platt of Connecticut, long opposed to a House Delegate for Alaska, told the President yesterday he favors a special agent appointed by the President to protect Alaska interests in Washington. The role would have official standing and be as valuable to Alaskans as a delegate. Congress recently created a new Illinois judicial district, moving Southern district officers to the new district and appointing officials for the Southern district. The President has not yet chosen whom to appoint, with Illinois delegation recommendations on file.
Commissioner West praises Senate amendment to divert structural steel from the government exhibit building in St. Louis for a Washington convention auditorium. A 90 day decision window, estimated $20,000 removal cost, and a possible $102,000 steel value are cited. If not usable, the building reverts to the United States.
Ricardo Iglesias, US Naval Academy graduate and Costa Rican native, arrived in Annapolis to apply for naturalization papers to join the US Navy as an ensign. The report notes his 1903 academy class and a prior obstacle requiring congressional action. Also mentioned are naval assignments, examinations for army assistant surgeons, and ships movements including Nicholson, Solace, Paul Jones, Nero, and Saratoga beginning a West Indies cruise.
The ship Saratoga, carrying eighty boys of which thirty are first timers, will visit Santa Cruz, St. Thomas, St. Kitts, and Porto Rico, returning about May 1. A string of officers receive leaves, reassignments, and new duties across Fort Bliss, Vancouver Barracks, Hot Springs, Jefferson Barracks, and other posts as detailed in a series of orders.
A March 1 cablegram from Gen. Davis, governor of the Canal Zone, notes one death in the past month, W. B. Ledyard, seven yellow fever cases among U S employees and families, and three deaths since May 1904.
Rumors swirl around the United States district attorney's office as Morgan H Beach and aides press for details amid a busy period of conferences led by Special U S Attorney Hermes Conrad. Grand jury plans for a special session fuel speculation of new indictments in the Crawford-Machen-Lorenz post office case and related inquiries into the beef trust. Beach remains tight lipped and rarely allows visitors to his private room, where his desk is stacked with law books and documents.
Letters from Hartford and Washington praise Seawright Water for cures of rheumatism gout and other ailments. Testimonials mention relief after limited use and recommend shipping cases to friends and relatives including a student audience. Endorsements come from MRS ROBERT B TENNEY UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA and LUCIUS F CARY.
Collected testimonials from well known physicians across eastern cities extolling Seawright Water. They claim it balances the system, aids diabetes mellitus, tones broken health, improves bladder inflammation, eruptions, and alt. alpinura cases, with one Baltimore doctor reporting dramatic recovery in a severe eruption.
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