Rensselaer Journal, Volume 11, Number 30, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 2 January 1902 — MIKING LAWS AT WASHINGTON [ARTICLE]

MIKING LAWS AT WASHINGTON

The Record in Brief of Legislative Work in Senate and House. FOR CONCESSION TO CUBA. President Roosevelt May Succeed in Getting Reductions of Tariffs in Favor of That Island —Great Britain Would Settle Controversies with This Country. Thursday, December 2fl. Rural free delivery mail carriers are to be placed under civil service on Feb. 1. After that date political or religious affiliation of applicants can"hot be considered. Mrs. Roosevelt issued invitations to dancing party in honor of Miss Alice Roosevelt to be given on Jan. 3. Mrs. Roosevelt and children and the White House guests left on three days’ outing down the Potomac. Admiral Evans to be assigned to. the Asiatic station, which he will ultimately command. Armored cruisers of the navy to be -equipped for wireless telegraphy. New canal bid by the Panama company Is forecasted in a private letter telling of a probable reduction of its sale price to 340,000,000. If such a tender is officially made the commission Is likely to recommend acceptance and Nicaragua may lose. President Roosevelt’s order dismissing Historian Maclay .from the Navy Department is carried into effect after a vain appeal to the Civil Service Commission. President Roosevelt telegraphs Governor Shaw that he is delighted with his acceptance of the secretaryship of the treasury and that a letter is on the way. Friday, December :J 7. Gossips talk about the possibility of a clash between President Roosevelt and the Senate, one of the chief grievances being the activity of Senator Lodge at the White House. Captain Richard Phillips Leary. United States navy, first governor of Guam and a notable character in the' Samoan troubles, is dead at the marine hospital at Chelsea. Secretary Root decides to abandonPhilippine transport service and substitute contract system with steamship companies. * Navy Department contemplating establishment of a permanent naval training station on the great lakes, probably at Chicago. Congress will be asked for an appropriation for this purpose. Wu Ting-fang, through the Secretary of State, askedy Congress to investigate workings of Chinese exclusion law before extending it. Congressman McCleary may introduce bill permitting national banks to loan money on real estate. Rural mail carriers are to be paid monthly. • ' Saturday, December 28. President Roosevelt is determined that congress shall make some tariff concessions to Cuba, and it is predicted that he will succeed. The difficulty is in evading the “favored nation” clause in treaties with other countries. Great Britain expected to renew negotiations over controversies growing out of relations between this country and Canada and removal of last of diplomatic differences may result.