Show AROUND THE CAPITAL What Transpired at Washington Washing-ton on Tuesday FACTS FROM FOREIGN LAND o The Grown Prince Francollngilan Alliance BUinarck From Berlin Ber-lin Gladstone General Capital Jottings CLEVELAND TO VISIT FLORIDA WASHINGTON February 14 The President expects to leave Washington next Tuesday for a short visit to Florida Flor-ida He will be accompanied by Mrs Cleveland the Secretary of the JNavy Mrs Whitney and Colonel and Mrs Lamont The party will go by special train and no stops will be made unless an hour at Savannah for a drive through the city One day will be spent at Jacisonville and one at St Augustine The narty will return to Wasdington Saturday OF LAND EKSEEVATIONS In lieu of various propositions which have been introduced during the session ses-sion to modify the alien land law Senator Sen-ator Stewart from the committee on mines and mining today reported a bill to amend the law by providing that it shall not in any manner affect the title to mineral lands or mining claims in the Territories which may be acquired ac-quired or held under the mineral land laws of the United States nor to mills or other reduction works or property used in the reduction ot metals from mineral lands in the Territories Senator Stewart today reported I favorably from the committee on mines and mining the bill introduced by him to amend the mining laws The provisions have been published SIOUX EESEEVATION3 The House committee on Indian affairs today decided to report in lieu of others on the subject a bill providing for the division of the great Sioux reservations and the relinquishment of the Indian title to the remainder The practical effect of this measure if it becomes a law will be to open > o settlement over llOOOXXK acres of the 22000000 acres comprising the great Sioux reservation in Dakota There are two general reservations created by the bill one in the not th and the othr in the south of the present reservation The Crow Creek and Winnebago reservation remains as it is with the exception of a few townships town-ships which are excluded There is also a small reservation created opposite Fort Thompson on the lower Missouri River which is set apart for the occupancy occu-pancy of the Lower Brule Indians if they care to take it The principal portion of the present reservation which is thrown open to settlement lies between be-tween the White and Cheyenne rivers SUSPENDING AQKICULTUBAL ENTRIES Acting Land Commissioner Stock slage has issued an order suspending all agricultural entries and railroad selections in township 8 north rauge 3 West Helena Montana land district pending investigation of their alleged mineral character Stockslager said today that it is his purpose upon concurrence of the Secretary of the Interior to send a mineral expert into this section as well as into Wyoming and certain localities in Arkansas to determine the character of the land with respect to minerals The acting commissioner has instructed the government agent at Bozeman Montana to suspend action ac-tion in the matter of the seizure recently mado of timber and crossties cross-ties cut from the rigat of way of Rocky Fork and Cook City Railway in Montana Mon-tana It appears that a notice of acceptance JHst year of maps of location of this road through a small section of public land on either side of the Crow reservation reser-vation where surveys were made through inadvertence not reach the general land office until today hence the seizures and order of suspension MAXWELL LAND GRANT Senator Blair introduced a resolution resolu-tion today which recites that the soc so-c lled Maxwell land grant is required re-quired to be treated as public land but that this tract is now being treated asa as-a private land claim It directs that inquirv be made into the matter by a committee from the Senate with the view to a relief of settlers CHOLERA AND CURRENCY The United States consul at Callao reports that cholera is abating at Valparaiso I Val-paraiso and Santiago and that owing I to lack of confidence in the Peruvian government the paper money recently issued by it has so depreciated as to be almost worthless PLAN OF REORGANIZATION WASHINGTON February 14The special spe-cial committee have reported to the citizens committee a plan to reorganize the government of the District of Columbia Co-lumbia by the appointment of one commissioner com-missioner and fifteen councilmen by tne President The commissioner is to have supreme direction of the citys af lairs and the councilmen are to sustain very much the same relation to him that the aldermen bear to the mayor in other cities |