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Show To Americans, the known foreign news most welcome will be that from the battleship fleet now in the Mediterranean, Med-iterranean, where the time of tho officers and men Is divided between giving aid to the earthquake victims nnd the reception of much hospitality in half a dozen ports. Appropriation bills will claim tho attention of both houses of the United States congress for a portion of the time during the present week. full of flght. Should Senator Foraker j receive from the secretary of the treasury the requested information us to how the emergency fund of 1899, amounting to $3,000,000 was expended, expend-ed, he too Is likely to flJxl something to' the news in another speech th.it may reintroduce the Brownsville affair. af-fair. . , . The president on Monda will deliver de-liver an address at tho convention of the African Jubilee of the Methodist , Episcopal church. ' Another Investigation scheduled for Washington is the inquiry of the , grand jury of the District of Columbia Colum-bia Into certain alleged libelous publications pub-lications charging scandal In connection connec-tion with the purchase of the Panama canal and which recently were made the subject of a special message from the president Half a dozen correspondents corres-pondents for various newspapers have been summoned to appear before the district grand Jury Tuesday There seems no doubt that the Investigation at Washington as well as the one at New York Monday as to how the government's gov-ernment's determination to Institute criminal libel action a proceeding without precedent, It Is declared. This is President-Elect Taffs last week at Augusta prior to his departure depart-ure next week for the canal zone. The trial at Nashville, lenn., of Col. Duncan, B. Cooper. Robin Cooper and John D. Sharp, charged with the murder of former Senator Edward W. I Carmack. will begin this week. At Philadelphia Monday will assemble assem-ble the National Council of Jews. The Child Labor conference will open In Chicago Thursday. TILLMAN IS OF FIGHT Foraker May Stir Up the Brownsville Affair; Pan ama Scandal a Feature . Though tho little unpleasantness at Washington appears to have rassed the acute stage, a half dozou committees com-mittees of both branches of oon?ress are busy with the work that ha fallen fall-en to them, as a result of the clashes between tho president and tho r. ulcti-al ulcti-al legislative budy. The deliberation? of these committees nro ,re;tv turo to make up, a conslderablo part of the news of the week. Sonuio' TiU-iuaa TiU-iuaa Is said by his Irieuds still to bo |