Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 36, Number 73, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 6 May 1904 — In the National Capital. [ARTICLE]

In the National Capital.

The Comptroller of the Currency has authorized the Traders' National Bank of Clarksburg, W. Va., to reopen. Secretary Hitchcock ordered that onefourth of the bids in the Indian warehouse business shall be opened at St. Louis. The District of Columbia Court of Appeals sustained Justice Pritchard of the criminal court in holding that the statute to punish conspiracy covers the charges made in the indictments against former Assistant Attorney General James N. Tyner and former Law Clerk Harrison J. Barrett of the Postofflce Department. These indictments were returned as the result of the postal investigation. The Lattimer good roads bill will be reported favorably by the Senate committee on agriculture early in the next session of Congress. An agreement to that effect was reached nt a meeting of the committee. It was decided to ameud the bill by fixing nt SIOO,OOO the minimum appropriation which each State shall reccivs first, the balance of the appropriation to bo shared by each' State in proportion to its population. The House committee on merchant marine nnd fisheries authorized favorable reports on Senate bills revising the laws regulating steamboat inspection nnd supplementing “the crimping’’ legislation by making it unlawful to Collect nny fee or charge from a sailor for shipping him. The case of James M. A. Watson, accused of embezzling $73,000 from fnnde in the custody of the auditor of the District of Columbia, was ended by the discharge of the jury and the arrest of ons Of the Jurors, Arthur L. Orrison, for contempt of court. Orrison was given two months in jail.