Show Till CIIITAI tttler EIeoiineLW fot flluili 1lpTbeAIbe Irloltu VASHISQTOS Feb 12lion I J R ChilmetBui 1Isbllpl l ninilo an argument today before the House I committee on elections the President Presi-dent and VicePresident on tho subject sub-ject of Uie necessity of a federal election law for the State of Mississippi Missis-sippi lie said he would trust his lite with a Southern democrat but declared when they stole or robbed the ballot boxes they thought they were doing thuXord a service Congress Con-gress should pass an net to enforce In this South the Fifteenth I Amendment Amend-ment Congress hail a right he said to provide a federal election Uw It > ns not necessary to apply t Ef the remedy u here it was not needed but where it was needed There it i should be applied Ho favored the bill introduced by Kelly of Kansas with some modifications CENSUS AnviMananr William Anderson was today nominated for supervisor of census for ths Second DMrlct of California Califor-nia COAL LANDS Senator Wolevlt today Introduced a bill authorize the acquisition of ftt lt lands fur coke ovens and other Improvements Im-provements and for a right of way for wagon roads railroads and tram nays in connection with coal mines The bill provides that any person or association qualified to cuter coal lands ot aJ corporation owning c OiJIli r1 not less than MO acres of coal land and desiring to open and operate the lime shall be entitled to take I and enter at the proper land otllce I not exceeding IM acres of public I lands for the purpOMi of erecting n suitable pi int necessary for the operation ope-ration of such coal mines The bill also grants a right of way to any per i > en over any public land for the purposeofconstrueting wagon roads cII sgu railroads I or tramwo RUed In connection con-nection wllh the operation of the mine TilE IIVLLOTTOY IXVEST1OAT1OX After hearing a number of wit net es developing nothing of im potLincc the ballot box luvestlgat lug committee discharged all l the wltuesug 1 and 7Qil an adjournment subject to the call of the chairman Before the committee adjourned Governor Forakerneumed the stand or tho purpose of making an explanation expla-nation of various matters which weresiiokenof ofiii the course of the Investigation Ho referred to t various IOUS I-ous Incidents which tended to confirm con-firm In hU mind the belief of the senuloenes of the ballot box paper Wood never told him the names would not stand nor did he use any worJa calculated to put Foraner an Ills guard In any manner The Governor never had said to Wood oran or-an one that hew ould uv the paper Rutterworth Ioraker denounced denounc-ed Wood ss a notorious forger and perjurer nnd declared he courted tcveiityiiluo unqualified nod unmItigated un-mItigated faloehaocdsin hlsWoods testimony The affair has been to hima very bitter experience men tiding and humiliating to the last dcgreebut from the beginning to the Itt tlllre had cover been a moment when all the worM might not have had all the Information he hid He could think to tho day or his ilelitll tint behind all this there was some virtofa paper but he did not want any man 10 imagine tint anyone whose name was on that forged paper was on the paper he I believed rv r lt dfd h to have existed He did not believe Wood could have conceived the coneutof the p1ler out ot his own Imagination and must have received aid from some other paperor > erson Wood resumed tho stand for a fen minutes and nsoerted that the whole thing originated with lItd ell He nevertavv ally paper but what For iker and Had Jen had said was impressed im-pressed on his mind when thy talked about the ballotbox contract Ho thought they knew what they were talking about Hadden told him the Governor wanted a Milulfer and Forattr got a lilutTer tt blaIr Den Hutterworth Wood declared ho understood tlie paper was never to leave Foratcrs haiid ° but 1 was to be used as a blufT TUB AlACHE 11USOM3SS General Mllu1 General Armstrong ind Governor WoIIIty of Arizona will appear before the House committee com-mittee on Indian affairs Friday next In connection with the rc < olu tlou by the committee providing for the removal of tlie Apacliu prisoners now confined at Mount Vernon barracks Alabama to Indian Terri tory PILOT POOP The House committee on merchant mer-chant marine nnd fisheries has by a vote of 7 to 0 authorized n favorable favor-able report on the bill Introduced bj Representative Dinghy of Maine exempting American coastwise sail Ing vessels nlloted bv their licensed I masters or by United States pilots from obligations to pay State pilots for sorviecs not rendered JI01taAh yOMIXATlOJf In executive session the Senile finally disposed tithe nomination of Morgan to be Commissioner of In titan affairs The case was dlSlUd for nearly four hours The roll call shoncdSS votes In theafilrmative and 10 In the negative so General Morgan was confirmed Two republican re-publican Ingalls nnd Pierce voted against his confirmation Plumb and Davis were net present but troriaii lIonl Innflftflnft Fire democrats voted i for the con firmation JIodgettCoI < juItt Pugh Reagiii and George A roll call on confirming Dorchester nomination dl closetl the lack of a quorum nnd the Senate adjourned ECCKETARY ELAIJiE RESCUES Blainc resumed his ofllclal duties at the S Lite Department this mom ins the first time since his recent her ovexnrnt menLCOSIIIDIED COM JJU1ED Ij W Myers consul Victoria R Uj Kllbourn turveyorof toms San Francisco United States IDIIlh3lL S harm District of Oregon H 8 Wilte DMrhtof We t Virglnis O P Porter of OrjSon District of Alaska D S Ransdell Indiana District of Columbia Postmaster Colorado T J Howard La Junta Supervisors of Census Arizona T S Clarke Washington J M Hill Second District California J F Sheehan first A + 15 Lemon third H Wallace fourth |