Show TRAVEL PAY FOR SOLDIERS u 4 > HOUSE MILITARY COMMITTEE REPORTS BILL ON SUBJECT Object is to Relieve Paymasters of Army Who Paid Traveling Allowances Allow-ances to Torrcys Rough Riders TRIBUNE BUREAU 601 Fourteenth street t Washington D C April 24 I 1900 Representative Mondoll of Wyoming Wyo-ming from the Mlllltary faIrs committee com-mittee ot the House today reported favorably the bill which recently passed the Senate 4o authorize the payment of traveling allowances to enlisted men of the regular and volunteer volun-teer forces when discharged by order of the Secretary of Var and stated by I him to be entitled to travel pay The Immediate object of this bill Is to relieve re-lieve the paymasters of the army w ho paid traveling allowances to Torreys reolmcnt of rough riders which payment pay-ment was consequently checked up against them although It had been authorIzed by the Secretary of War The bill Is so eminently Just that there passage Is scarcely a doubt as to ultimate I INCREASE OF PENSION John Castles of HIko Xcv has been granted an Increase of pension from G to iS per nfonlh PATENTS FOR IDAHOAN William D Reynolds of Mounlaln home Ida has been granted patents for a water wheel 1 and an alarm device for sheep folds POSTMASTERS APPOINTED Utah ilatton Mlllurd county W H Robinson vice J A Whltaker resigned re-signed Mammoth Juab county D A Lindsay vice George Nesbllt resigned Rockport Summit county E M taker vice Joshua Doraey resigned Wyoming Stanley Ulnta county C r Budd vice Stephen Daniels resigned re-signed CLAIMS OF LETTERCARRIERS The Senate Committee on Claims has authorized Senator Warren to report favorably the bill to provide for the I payment of overtime claims of Mter i I carriers excluded from Judgment us barred by limitation Thcae claims are I for time I h worked iy t l letterearners I > n j ue excess of eight hours per day between the years lbS3 and 1S3I and not paid under the various deficiency appropriation appropria-tion bills paused for tills purpose The aggregate amount of these claims Irt i 220000 which will be distributed among letlorcarrlers l In I nearly every free delivery office in the country TROOPS FOR FORT RUSSELL Gen Miles today issued orders directing di-recting two companies of the battalion of the Twentythird United States infantry In-fantry recently ordered to Fort Douglas Doug-las Utah to take station at Fort Rug sell Wvo These troops are now on their way from the Philippine PERMANENT CAMP GROUNDS Representative Hulls bill I appropriating appropri-ating 10000 to defray the expensen of making surveys etc with the object of establishing camp grounds In tho north east south and west for military mili-tary purjwsos was today favorably reported re-ported POWKR PLANT ON RESERVE Delegate Wilson of Arizona today Introduced In-troduced a bill to authorize the Arizona Ari-zona Water company to construct SLower SL-ower plant on Pinui Indian reservation reserva-tion In Mirlcopa county Ariz |