Show TOPICS washington march 3 senator spooner from tho the committee oa on public buildings and grounds today to day submitted to tha the benato senate the result or of the committees investigation of 0 allegations madday mado bythe the citizens ot of springfield mo concerning the selection ot of a elte site tor for a PU public bile building and making certain cottain insinuations against the supervising architect of the treasury in connection with the matter the report stales states that the committee after bearing hearing a large amount of testimony aro are unanimously of the opinion 0 that there ia is nothing whatever in t the b la evidence which impeaches in any way the capacity or int integrity errity of architect the senate confirmed confirm ad jose joseph ph pink ham as united states marshal from idaho A rumor is current to the effect that upon information cabled by the chinese minister here the chinese government entered an objection to senator blair as minister to that country aitor the he chinese minister being in peru pera mr yo ono one of the attaches of the lV legation gation today to day said there was absolutely no truth in the report and added the cablegram was of course sent but it was a mere announcement I 1 an and d no word baa has been received from the chinese govera government ament in answer to the message any ae action cioll hostile to the appointment would be taken presumably oa on information sent from here and nothing against mr air blair has been sent or is likely to be sent we ile have of course made an investigation but all we a have found out Is favorable to th the e a appointment ointment rather than against it move 1 have been in this country long enough to know a fake lake even if I 1 do not use the word myself and I 1 should call the whole 0 story t 1 about mr blair a fako fake mr B blaine 1 said eo so far as he knew there was nothing whatever in the story this congress is to having a remarkable closing there is an air of extraordinary tra calmness about the proceedings ce which consume ti hie le closing I 1 twenty tour four hours of congress and they aro are almost devoid of interest there Is perhaps a more than usual rush in the lobbies by those who are eager to press through their measures the lobby is very active and ia Is in a measure successful though all that was expected in the way of getting sitting little measures flir brough ough ZI will not be accomplished tb the a work done today to day was chiefly in conference committees the two bouses merely acting on reports friends of the tile copyright bill are working hard to have the sherman amendment given up by the senate as they feel that if the senate does not recede the bill will fail fall tho the result of the struggle to put miscellaneous items on appropriation bills to ise baill tillin in doubt I 1 I 1 ah I 1 11 I 1 therefore it Is not possible at this time to tell just what the aggregate of appropriations for the 8 session will be these miscellaneous items count up enormously dur during i ng the rush of ho tha co closing sing hours of the cession session at the c close 1 ose of the last session a very liberal estimate was made by the committees mit tees fixing the sum of those items 8 at t but it turned out that the av aggregate regate was it is bate safe to eay say the aggregate ang regate of all appropriations will exceed and possibly will be considerably ino more r e A an r i evening paper says the president said to callers cillers yesterday that the report that tha be intended to send a special message urging the passage of the fe federal deral elections bill was not me it would be he said both superfluous and useless the president said to these gentlemen pent lemen be he bad had no idea an extra session of congress would be feces necessary As to the talked of special sees session sart in of the senate the president said ho he bad had no intention of calling one there was he said nothing in the present outlook of public business which would require it the president then told his hie callers he was going on a shooting trip about a week after the adjournment of congress to be gone a few days the conferees on the diplomatic appropriation p bill settled the only y remaining point in dispute by striking tri ing out the proposition for a cable between the united states and hawaii Train sito gularte Hn Hu larte widow of general barrundia Barru odia in her own name and as the representative of her six minor daughters and ano ramon as th the r representative e e ese of his wife barran d dias as tr laughter laugh g ator tor have filed with the E ecret of state tate a claim against ainest the united arit states ate for one rail million g 10 dol dollars are for having surrendered barrundia Barr to the guatemalan authorities at whose hands he lost his life there is a defeet defect in the claim which antho in the opinion of the state department officials will prove fatal to it and that is tha the fact that it is made by citizens of a foreign country without the knowledge and consent of that country it 11 is said at the department that it is a well established principle in this country as well as others that claims of citizens of one country against another are recognized only when presented in the name of the country of which the claimant is a citizen the conferees on the reorganization bill reached an agreement regarded as a fair compromise by both sides in general terms the bill will provides for organization of artillery in certain regiments and for the adoption of the plan of a three battal battalion to org organization Iza tion T there he r a will be no increase 1 in the number of officers or men inen the conferees on the deficiency bill reached an agreement on many points but will report disagreement on other amendments including french spoliations claims and pacific railroad provisions |