Show WASHINGTON Mondays Gatherings hom Lbs Capital Washington 14The Senates extremely ex-tremely decisive rejection of tin I steamship mail subsidy amendment to the postoflice appropriation bill II this afternoon was a general surprise sur-prise as its adoption appeared yesterday yes-terday to bo completely assured and the result was rendered still more incomprehensible by the fact that a number of senators who up to almost the last moment had warmly advocated the subsidj appropriation were recorded on tin final roll call as voting against it The explanation of this seeming inconsistency in-consistency however is found in the fact that the senators want to allow the money to be paid for mail service in foreign as well as American Ameri-can built ships provided only that the vessels in each case should be owned and manned by Americans and when it became apparent from the rejection of Morgans amendment amend-ment and a similar proposition that the original proposition wdulu be construed as prohibiting foreign built ships from being brought into competition by American purchasers pur-chasers for the benefits of the subsidies sub-sidies the free ship men including Senators Farley Maxey Brown and others all voted on principle against the whole project The bill introduced by Represent ative Page today directs the secretary sec-retary of the treasury to admit fret of duty to the port of New York certain jute machinery for use in the San Quentin state prison Berry today presented in the House the resolutions of the California Cali-fornia legislature favoring a congressional con-gressional appropriation for the construction of the breakwater etc at Trinidad 1 Theannou cement the death of Fernando Wood causes sorrow n social as well is political circles ii Washington He had kept a hospitable hospit-able house in Washington for manj years and was personally liked by everybody The news of the death reached the House of Representatives Representa-tives about 1 oclock this afternoon and created feeling of profound regret among his late colleagues Mr Tucker of Virginia who is second sec-ond on the ways and means committee commit-tee will succeed by reason of Mr Woods death to the chairmanship The announcement in the Senate was immediately followed by ad journment in respect for his mem oryand this circumstance prevented the holding of an executive session at which the Chinese treaties were expected to come un for consideration considera-tion Representative Weaver writes that there is no truth in the pub lished story that the nationalists in Congress are endeavoring to organ ize a peoples party and to that end intendto hold a conference at Chicago Chi-cago The national party he suys is the peoples party in the truest sense of the term and under its banners will rally all who wish to rescue the liberties of the people from the graspof banking railroad and other monopolies The bill reported by Senator San ders to establish the territory of Pembina proposes to form a new territory from that portion of Dakota lying north of the forty sixth parallel Upon inquiry at the treasury department de-partment today as to whether the matters recently passed upon by the board of supervising inspectors of steam vessels had been annroved bv the secretary it was ascertained that the work was but partly prepared pre-pared but will be ready for submission submis-sion to the secretary in a day or so The amendment to rule ten adopted by the board which reduces the space between woodwork and boilers from sixteen to four inches has been referred to the solicitor of the treasury for an opinion upon some legal points |