Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 38, Number 30, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 29 December 1905 — National Capital Notes. [ARTICLE]

National Capital Notes.

Representative Bennett of New York has introduced a bill reducing the representation of the Southern States in Congress because of the disfranchisement of negroes. The Naval League of the United States heard addresses by Secretary Bonaparte, Admiral Dewey and Gen. Horace Porter. The delegates were received at the White House in the afternoon. Prince Min, the Korean minister to France, who has been in Washington for several days past, called by appointment upon Secretary Root at the State Department and had a conference with .him lasting nearly half an hour. Secretary Shaw, responding to the Tillman resolution, adopted by the Senate, sent to Congress a statement that except in one or two cases, details of which he did not give, no campaign contributions are made by national banks. In a short time President Roosevelt probably will nominate W. T. Vernon, principal of the industrial institute at Quindaro, Kan., to succeed Judson W. Lyons of Georgia as register of the treasury. Mr. Vernon is one of the best known negro educators of the West and has the unanimous support for the appointment of the Kansas congressional delegation.

Representative Sulzer of New York introduced a resolution to save "Old Ironsides” (frigate Constitution), which requests the President to prevent the destruction of the frigaie and to recommend measures for preserving what remains of the historic craft. President Roosevelt informed a delegation of Shakers that called on him that he did nqt think the disarmarnem: of nations was practicable nt this time. He added that he regarded a recourse to war as entirely proper in the case of a great and unprovoked wrong affecting the honor of a nation.