| Show nU QTO IBUIO Hllltarr Ainilni in Oklahoma Clrll Mnlee Inqnlrr Etc WASIII > QTOX Feb 2 The House committee on Agriculture continued the hearing of persons In cnJnne tereted in tlie bills for the regula lion of the tax on lard 1 compound A representative of N K Fairbanks Fair-banks the largest manufacturer claimed that Congress had no cme Congf power pwer t make tuch a law as the compound com-pound Is plainly branded assucl and is not deleterious to health The refcult of the agitation was t curtai the export demand for American epr laid and unjustly give It a bad renu tation Lard exports last year fel i 005500000 pounds The proposed I pnl legislation was in tho Interest of a rival firm in Boston Under existing exist-ing conditions foreigners could buy crude lard In this country ship I abroad adulterate it and underset American compound lard TIltfCMON inox WORKS The request of the Union IronWorks Iron-Works of Han Francl co to b relieved lee of the penalties attaching by pnJlt reason of the horepower developed devel-oped by tho cruiser Uharlriton Cnll luc blow the contract requirement was favorably acted ujxm by tlie Bent naval allolrs committee this morning A bill will lie reported relieving tlie company of the payment pay-ment of about 33000 tlie penally which jected it would otherwise bsub CONFIIU1ED Cornelius H Hanford Unit States judge District of Washing 101 101Tit Tit URGENT DEFICIK CV BILLs BILL-s completed I makes the total appropriation 23659213 of which 711C 9 i appropriations t pay Ule two and three years volunteers aunty and soldiers commutations I for rations and hon Other terns of importance are For pubic pub-Ic buildings 28000 internal revenue i > 000 collecting customs cus-toms ruenue > s 1S5000 toldlers homes 70000 patent ole 30 oj Iud otllcu clerks 2S000sur V s 10000 Indian MippIIe Kt j for survivors nnd widows of solJIerx of the Mexican war and war of 1S1L o93S31 artificial Imb O United fctates cum itness fits 200000 Under the head of naral estalilish mel the bill prox Ides for the e lenses incurred In thu purchase hlpmentand discharge of coal at Par lao Samoa 30041 I to b > aid from tho appropriation ofIO U for establishing the Etatldn made last j ear EXECUTIVE SESSION The committee appointed t Investigate In-vestigate tlie methods by which the nroceedings of Senate executive sessions Imo public resumed sittings sit-tings this afternoon and began questioning tioning newspaper men astotnelr sources tri U Tho committee are binning to discover that newspaper correspondents corres-pondents n not the only ones who are aware of what occurs in execu tUe sessions One of the witnesses today tUIctmt l It was a frequent custom for prominent men who nominations were bcln contested to establish themselves In committee rooms near at band In order t receive information from time to time ceive Inforton Crm tme t tme of how the fight was progressing behind tho coW doors The day Moruans nomination was up he had seen the present commlMioner of Indian affairs around the Senate and had no doubt but Morgan knew what was going on The query now i how do thee men receive their Information and If Uiey should b kept posted why not the public also Frank Hatton editor of the foil when asked what his instructions t the reporters w ere replied To get everything going on end If they fuf h are v ry successtul they get their salaries raised AOAtSST SECRET SESSIONS A special meeting of the Senate committee on rules a held today to consider Tellers resolution of frreU lat spring providing for tho consideration of nominations in open or legitlaUve sessions On tbe question ques-tion Shall the rules of the Senate b changed there was a tie vote ebang The Teller resolution did not met with the approval of any member of tlie committee Aldrich and Blackburn Black-burn however for modification of thu present rules t the effect that nominations b considered in open OpD session unless the committee reporting porting them shill ask reconsideration reconsider-ation in executive session and n statement of the action of the Senate Sen-ate In such executive session b fur nMied for publication OKLAHOMA JIIIJTAItV OIKKATIONS In response t the Senate resolution resolu-tion the Secretary of War today transmitted t Congress the papers relative to the actions of Ppl rlte acton mi tary in Oklahoma One Interesting feature 1 the charge against thu military of undue and harsh exer ci e of authority The officers In charge reply that they found large numbers of lawless people and the action taken by them was necessary for the preservation of peace The charges ore said to have emanated from discontented gamblers and others whom the military prevented from causing trouble As to pre venUng an election on September 21st It was done by request of tbe ulZ rrh regularlyconstituted 1 officers ot the city and witli a view to preventing I serious trouble which would certainly cer-tainly have occurred The call for an elecUon was Issued by discontented discon-tented and unruly citizens and contrary con-trary to the city charter General Schoflcld thinks considering consid-ering the delicate service required it Is a matter of congratulation tbat it was performed so well and with BO few mistakes cmi SEIIVICB nmsnaAno The Investigation into the charges against the civil service commission commis-sion was resumed today ExCom missioner Olierly went over the Campbell examination matter and said he did not think Campbells offense waa such as to call for h dismissal JIIss Dabney who first told Cora miSKloner Oberfy I of the a > erp said tbat when she went tn Flynn for instructions he offered to sell for 25 a list of quesUons which vtouUbc asked but she did not have the money She failed at the examina Uon pn account 6f sickness and afterward on a friends advice told Olierly of the offer made her Later at Oberlys request she borrowed the papeta ofFiynn Oberlybcre took the stand again and showed that the pa pets obtained of Flynn were not secured by the latter until after the examination Flynn was called and said he had received tha papers from a Mrs Smith They were old and of no Importance Miss Dabney took them away without bis permission He declared her statement that hew he-w to sell the papers was false Jr Campbell testified ln the same UneasXymanandOberly but there was a conflict in his testimony as to whether he copied the papers before or after Smith asked him for them The next charge was that Edmund Ed-mund D Bailey was promoted from clerk to stenographer when tho commission had more competent and deserving men Commissioner Lyman raid Bailey waa promoted because of seniority The work tWo wa pot exclusively ten graphic |
