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Show FACE LOHBSESSIOH Congress May Sit Until After National Na-tional Conventions. SUPPLY BILLS ARE FOUGHT Deadlock Between House and Banal Might Lsav Departments of Government Gov-ernment Without Any Visible a Mesne of Support. 1 By GEORGE CLINTON. Washington. This year in congress there has been a disposition to tack : extraneous legislation" onto the appropriation ap-propriation bills. Under the Republican Republic-an rule no legislation was put on tbe supply measures except that which the party members claimed bad a rightful place there. Years ago there was adopted In congress what waa called tli Ho! man rule prepared by Representative Repre-sentative Holman of Indiana, 'the watchdog of the treasury." This rule allowed legislation to be put on tbe supply measures provided it was la-tended la-tended to decrease government ei-pendltures. ei-pendltures. The Republicans repudiated repudi-ated the Holman rule, but the Democrats Demo-crats have reinstated It The army appropriation bill carries l'-glslatlon reducing the cavalry of tbe srniy from 16 regiments to 10. and It contains some other legislation which , the Republicans say Is "extraneous." The senate Is Republican and It seems to be opposed to the action of the Dem-ocrata Dem-ocrata In attaching legislation to tbe supply measure. There are arguments for and against the course which the Iteniocratic majority In the bouse Las followed, but (be right or Ibe wrong of the thing sslde, tbe fsct remains that the senaie is likely to get a loggerheads log-gerheads with the house over th matters and as a result It may be that congress will alt until a time long after the national conventions bave, been belJ. I produces Now Situation. If either bouse wishes to do It, It ran hold up appropriation bills and by (f , 'using to sanction them can leave ds- j pari merits and branches of govern- ' merit without visible moans of support, 1 provided, of course, that adjournment J cornea before the supply bills bave been sanctioned. If tbe senate shall agree with the bouse and paas the an- ' proprlatlon measures with their riders It Is possible, perhaps even probable, ' In one or two Instances that the presl-dent presl-dent will veto the bills which he does not like, ir he should veto the army 1 hill, for Instance, because of attached legislation of which he disapproves, the army officers and the 60.000 or 70,- t 000 enlisted men would be left without r a cent of pay, and more than this, f there would be no money for the pur- chase of supplies. This thing did bap- t pen once sway back in the time of i President Hayes. He vetoed an army appropriation bill because it had a t rider on It to which neither the presl- dent nor his party could subscribe. Tbe t matter which was put onto the bill at that time, however, waa to some ex- r lent political and controversial in its t nature. Nothing has been put onto r the appropriation bills thla year which I Is not either directly or Indirectly con- , nected with the service for which the c money supplied by tbe bill is voted. It Is said that there has been no situation a Jiwt like this within the memory or t the oldest member. f Indians Visit Taft f President Taft waa vlxlted a day or t two ago at tbe White House by three i bands of Sioux Indians from the Ban- I tee. the line Ridge and the Rosebud t agencies. The braves of tbe Pine f Ridge were led by Jack Red Cloud, c i son of Old Red Cloud, w ho died a 1 a year ago and who In bis day ' was one of the great warriors of tbe t Dakota nation. Jack waa dressed In a tbe clothes of civilization. In a way he looked well enough, but not altogether alto-gether comfortable. This sou of a c warrior of many tattles baa se-'n some fighting himself. He wss "out" t with the bsnds of Kicking Hear and t Short Hull In tbe last uprising against the whites in tbe days or tbe Ubost n Dance erase. Tbe last time tbat one a white man who waa at tbe White ( House when tbe Indians called saw t Jack Red Cloud, the Indian waa tear- D Ing down tbe trail leading past tbe trader's store st Pine Ridge snd c emptying his Winchester wltn a glee- ful disregard or the terror tbat be v waa causing. R At tbe time of Jack'a escapade In , December, 1890, be was not thirty years old and be was full of war and , enthusiasm. He bad left tbe hostile , camp beyond White Clay Creek bent K on a frolic on bis own sccount On ,j his pony, painted, red flanneled, and feathered, be dasbed through the t agency emptying bis gun ami nearly ( scaring tbe lire out of halt a dozen newspaper correspondents who bap- , pened to be in the trail. fl Sullenly Surrenders. p Young Red Cloud on that day rtr J cled tbe agency, snd before tbe troops e could kill Dim or arreat him be was o beyond tbe danger line, beaded t straight for the boatlle camp. t The day or the Indian' call on tbe president, Ueneral Mllea walked up Pennsylvania avenue through a snow- v storm looking not much older than be g did when be was In command of line tl Ridge agency twenty-one years sgo p last December and January. He was n told tbat Jack Red Cloud was at tbe n White House and said that be would S like to see Ma and tbat if be was as f good looking man as bis father be c must be a One, upstanding Indian, s Tbe general recently received a let- o ter rrom Short Bull, one or tbe Bloux e chieftains h led hi tribe on tbe t warpstb against the white tmmed stely following the killing or Hittin Hull by the Indian police near tttanc Ing Rock Agency. Hhprt Hull Is not leading a laxy life of retirement o tbe sgency. His warpath days ar over, but he was xealous for tight score or years sgo snd with Klckln, Hear be waa declared ao dangerou that the two were led captives to For Sheridan near Chicago. While the Sioux were still on tb warputb early in the month of Jan tiary. U91, Red Cloud, Jack's tstbei wbo was too old to go on tbe wai path no matter what bis yearning were, was sent out by bis lulllur: authorities to tbe hostile camp to us bis best endeavors to Induce tbe in dtnns to surrender without furthe fighting There bsd been a tight a Wounded Knee, where ninety of thi Seventh cavalry were killed ant wounded, and where Hlg Foot's bant or Sioux virtually bad been wiped ou or existence. The authorities did no want any more of It, If they couk bring tbe thing to an end peaceably Red Cloud went out on his ralssloi and when be came back be said tbai bla appeals bad been or no avail. Craft of the Redakln. After tbe surrender one or tbe Sloul warriors was asked what Red Cloud said to them when be was deliver Ing tbe soldiers' message asking foi peace." Did he deliver It T Not if tb youths of hla tribe tell tbe truth They said that the chief came to then; and that bis bleary old eyes lighted and bis voice wss young when be told them thst wsr was for men, and peace waa for cowards. An attempt was made after tbe sur render to get Red Cloud to tell the story of the Fetterman fight. In wblct be led the Sioux. Jack Red Cloud brought to bis father a granddatigbtei wbo spoke English, and she wai asked to act as Interpreter, but UJ old msn refused to tell the story, say Tn tbat It waj opt ffl I warrior t tiial, a'nj tbep be added Chat som white man might tell tbe story. It was not long after tbe Civil wai that Red Cloud met In battle the field tried soldiers of that conflict and the found htm worthy to meet them. Mia eral wealth bad been discovered ' Montana and tbe rush of prospector! and settlers mads It necessary for thi government to erect a military post long the trail leading; over th prairies to the mires. On ths tral to the Powder River was built Fori Phil Kearney. While the troops ordered or-dered to the new post were on the' inarch a scout came riding Into tb -olumn with his horse under spur Uter Red Cloud with bis braves met retterman In battle and killed bla nd fifty followers. Circles the Globe. One man In Washington Is in touch, y wire snd wireless, with every cor ter of tbe United States, even up to art heat Nome. Alaska. And t.iMH lame man, by wire and wireless. Is In ouch with the whole world with th ilx or seven hundred wireless tele-;raph tele-;raph shore stations scattered all over be globe, not to speak of tbe op-iratora op-iratora on the ships sailing tbe seas ot he globe. If be so desired, and if the govern-netit govern-netit which pays him bis salary In tbe lepartment of war so ordered, this nan could talk with the operator in "astport, Maine; the Harvard Unlver-lty Unlver-lty laboratory, the llgbtehlp "Skunk" iff tbe English coast, with the Rus-ian Rus-ian station st Vladivostok, Siberia; rlth Perlm or Zanxibar, some miles o the southward. If it was neces-ary neces-ary to do so, words could be flashed rom Fort William McKlnley acroes o Fokul, Japan, and no one sailing indcrneath the flying message need e the wiser. And every day the num-er num-er of these points In the gigantic orld-circllng system or Intercoinmunl-atlon Intercoinmunl-atlon Increases both In efficiency md certainty. The one man in the var department at Washington will isve his hands full, and be can talk ill be wants to. Will Be No Babel. "The ether." says Commissioner 'hamberlaln of the bureau of navlgv Ion. "Is common property, and with he cheapest apparatus unrestrained rlvlal messages can create babel." Vbat a magnificent babel It would be r the tribes and tongues were at war rlth each other! Hut, despite the in-enulties in-enulties of the ever-present practical pract-ical Joker, there Isn't going to be any bl. Aa long ago as 1906 the Imperial rerman government, observing th eed for the regulation of wireless elegraphy, and in order to secure the reatest benefit from It and prevent he establishment or a world-wide rlrelees monopoly. Invited other na-Ions na-Ions to Join It In adequate interna-lonal interna-lonal regulation the only effective ind. as wireless defies boundary ines It seems that the delegates from he I'nlted States were Influential In haplng the international agreement, ut, owing to a peculiar circumstance, hey are powerless to further the ratl-catlon ratl-catlon by this nation. Tbe reason la Imple: the land telegraphs of Europe, span and nations generally are own-d own-d by the government and are usually perated by tbe national poatoT.ce sys-rm sys-rm also always a government Inatl-utlon. Inatl-utlon. Where the Hitch Come. In tbe I'nlted State, or course, prt-ate prt-ate capital control the land tel raph line Now. tbe Iierlln con Tenon Ten-on fixe the rate or wlrele dl atche and provide for their trans-liaaion trans-liaaion over land line to their ter llnu and from tbelr point of origin om people say that without either Mleral ownership or else federal ontrol or land lines It will be tapo tble for this country to Jotn th reel f the civllUed world In a con trad saentlal to tbe well being of wlreleei tlegrspby. |