Show l STATEHOOD KILLED I Bills Rejected By the House Como Com-o mittee 8 to 3 I Washington Jan 2P Statehood legislation legis-lation at this session was killed today by I the house committee o territories rejecting reject-ing the Arizona New Mexico and Oklahoma I Okla-homa bills by a vote of S ejOa 3 The first two measures were bunched and defeated I i Then the Oklahoma bill was taken up and I defeated by tin same vote There was no dissension as It was understood at the last meeting that the vote was to ea taken I I today without further preliminaries Delegates Dele-gates Smith and Ferguson of Arizona and I i New Mexico stated that they wished to put themselves on record that If they were allowed to vote they would vote for I the bills No Duty On Belief Supplies Washington Jan 26The war department de-partment has heen in correspondence with Canadian officers at Toronto with the gratifying results that the Canadian Cana-dian government has consented to admit ad-mit free of restriction all supplies brought into the Klondike region by the United States government refllef The free admission of expedition supplies sup-plies is strictly limited to the government govern-ment expeditions but there is no inhibition inhi-bition upon the sale of the food supplies sup-plies taken In by such of the miners a can pay for them Federal Nominations Washington Jan 26The president today sent the following nominations to the senate Richard C Parsons jr of Ohio to be second secretary of the embassy at Rome Italy Abram lf Tillman Tennessee to be attorney general for the middle district of Tennessee Lieutenant Lieu-tenant junior grade J Dehle to be a lieutenant Rev William T Helms of New Jersey to be a chaplain in the navy Senate Confirmations Washington Jan 26The senate in executive session confirmed the following I fol-lowing nominations George E Roberts of Iowa to be director di-rector of the mint David A Dunne of Oregon to be collector col-lector of Internal revenue for the district dis-trict of Oregon |