assist the Philippine constabulary in the maintenance of order in the Philippine Islands may be placed under the command of officers serving as chief or assistant chiefs of the Philippine constabulary: Provided, That when the Philippine scouts shall be ordered to assist the Philippine constabulary, said scouts shall not at any time be placed under the command of inspectors or other officers of the constabulary below the grade of assistant chief of constabulary.

An act approved February 12, 1903, "to fix the salaries of certain judges of the United States," made an increase of from 20 to 25 per cent in those salaries. The compensation allowed by the act are: Chief Justice of the Salaries of Supreme Court, $13,000; Associate Justices, $12,500; circuit Federal Judges. judges, $7,000; district judges, $6,000; Chief Justice of the Court of Claims, $6,500; Associate Justices, $6,000; Chief Justice of the Court of Appeals of the District of Columbia, $7,500; Associate Justices, $7,000; Justices of the Supreme Court of the District of Columbia, $6,000.

By the act making appropriations for the Department of Agriculture, approved March 3, 1903, it is provided that the Secretary of Agriculture, whenever he has reason to believe that articles are being imported from Importation of foreign countries which, by reason of such adulteration are Adulterated Foods. dangerous to the health of the people of the United States, or which are forbidden to be sold or restricted in sale in the countries in which they are made or from which they are exported, or which shall be falsely labelled in any respect in regard to the place of manufacture of the contents of the package, shall make a request upon the Secretary of the Treasury for samples from original packages of such articles for inspection and analysis; and the Secretary of the Treasury is hereby authorized to open such original packages and deliver specimens to the Secretary of Agriculture for the purpose mentioned, giving notice to the owner or consignee of such articles, who may be present and have the right to introduce testimony; and the Secretary of the Treasury shall refuse delivery to the consignee of any such goods which the Secretary of Agriculture reports to him have been inspected and analyzed and found to be dangerous to health, or which are forbidden to be sold or restricted in sale in the countries in which they are made or from which they are exported, or which shall be falsely labelled in any respect in regard to the place of manufacture or the contents of the package.

By an act approved February 2, 1903, entitled "An act to more effectually suppress and prevent the spread of contagious and infectious diseases of live stock and for other purposes," it is provided that the powers conferred on the Live Stock Secretary of the Treasury by Sections 4 and 5 of an act entitled "An Diseases. act for the establishment of a Bureau of Animal Industry, to prevent the exportation of diseased cattle, and to provide means for the suppression and extirpation of pleuro-pneumonia and otner contagious diseases among domestic animals," approved May 29, 1884, are hereby conferred on the Secretary of Agriculture, to be exercised exclusively by him. He is hereby authorized and directed, from time to time, to establish such rules and regulations concerning the exportation and transportation of live stock from any place within the United States where he may have reason to believe such diseases may exist into and through any State or Territory, including the Indian Territory, and into and through the District of Columbia and to foreign countries, as he may deem necessary, and all such rules and regulations shall have the force of law.

Whenever any inspector or assistant inspector of the Bureau of Animal Industry shall issue a certificate showing that such officer had inspected any cattle or other live stock which were about to be shipped, driven or transported from such locality to another, as above stated, and had found them free from Texas or splenetic fever infection, pleuro-pneumonia, foot and mouth disease, or any other Infectious, contagious or communicable disease, such animals, so inspected and certified, may be shipped, driven or transported from such place into and through any State or Territory, including the Indian Territory, and into and through the District of Columbia, or they may be exported from the United States without further inspection or the exaction of fees of any kind, except such as may at any time be ordered or exacted by the Secretary of Agriculture; and all such animals shall at all time be under the control and supervision of the Bureau of Animal Industry of the Agricultural Department for the purposes of such inspection.

The Secretary of Agriculture shall have authority to make such regulations and take such measures as he may deem proper to prevent the introduction or dissemination of the contagion of any contagious, infectious or communicable disease of animals from a foreign country into the United States or from one State or Territory of the United States or the District of Columbia to another, and to seize, quarantine and dispose of any hay, straw, forage or similar material, or any meats, hides or other animal products coming from an infected foreign country to the United States, or from one State or Territory or the District of Columbia in transit to another State or Territory or the District of Columbia, whenever in his judgment such action is advisable in order to guard against the introduction or spread of such contagion. Any person, company or corporation knowingly violating the provisions of this act or the orders or regulations made in pursuance thereof shall be guilty of a misdemeanor, and on conviction shall be punished by a fine of not less than $100 nor more than $1,000, or by imprisonment not more than one year, or by both such fine and imprisonment. By an act approved January 12, 1903, Congress Incorporated the General Education Board. The corporators named are William H. Baldwin, Jr., Jabez L. M. Curry, Frederick T. Gates, Daniel C. Gilman, Morris K. Jesup, The General Robert C. Ogden, Walter H. Page, George Foster Peabody and Education Board. Albert Shaw, and the object of the incorporation was declared to be the promotion of education within the United States

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without distinction of race, sect or creed. For the promotion of such object the said corporation is to have power to build, improve, enlarge, or equip, or to aid others to build, improve, enlarge, or equip, buildings for elementary or primary schools, industrial schools, technical schools, normal schools, training schools for teachers, schools of any grade, or for higher institutions of learning, or, in connection therewith, libraries, workshops, gardens, kitchens, or other educational accessories; to establish, maintain,. or endow, or aid others to establish, maintain, or endow, elementary or primary schools, industrial schools, technical schools, normal schools, training schools for teachers, or schools of any grade, or higher institutions of learning; to employ or aid others to employ teachers and lecturers; to aid, co-operate with, or endow associations or other corporations engaged in educational work within the United States of America, or to donate to any such association or corporation any property or moneys which shall at any time be held by the said corporation hereby constituted; to collect educational statistics and information, and to publish and distribute documents and reports containing the same.

An act approved January 15, 1903, entitled "An act to provide rebate of duties on coal, and for other purposes," authorized and required the Secretary of the Treasury to make full rebate for one year of duties imposed by law on Rebate of all coal of every form or description imported into the United States Coal Duties. from foreign countries. It also directed that the provisions of the Dingley law should not hereafter be construed to authorize the imposition of any duty on anthracite coal. By the act making appropriations for the naval service, approved March 3, 1903, the President is authorized to have constructed by contract or in navy yards three first class battleships carrying the heaviest armor and most powerful Increase of ordnance for vessels of their class upon a trial displacement of not the Navy. more than 16,000 tons, and to have the highest practicable speed and great radius of action, and to cost, exclusive of armor and armament, not exceeding $4,212,000 each; two first class battleships, carrying the heaviest armor and most powerful ordnance for vessels of their class, upon a trial displacement of not more than 13,000 tons, and to have the highest practicable speed and great radius of action, and to cost, exclusive of armor and armament, not exceeding $3,500,000 each; two steel ships, to be used in training landsmen and apprentices, to be propelled by sail, and to cost, exclusive of armament, not exceeding $370,000 each; one wooden brig, to be used for training landsmen and apprentices at stations, to__be propelled by sail, and to cost, exclusive of armament, not exceeding $50,000. The Secretary of the Navy is also authorized to expend $500,000 in the purchase of subsurface or submarine torpedo boats.

By the same act it is provided that there shall be allowed at the Naval Academy two midshipmen for each Senator, Representative and Delegate in Congress, two for the District of Columbia, and five each year at large: Provided, Increase in That the additional Congressional appointments authorized shall be the Naval made at such times as may be determined by the Secretary of the Cadet Corps. Navy, who shall equitably distribute the increase among the several States, Districts and Territories, so that ultimately, if practicable, each Senator, Representative and Delegate may recommend for appointment during each Congress one midshipman.

The Secretary of the Navy shall as soon as practicable after the fifth day of March in each year notify in writing each Senator, Representative and Delegate in Congress of any vacancy which may be regarded as existing in the State, District or Territory which he represents, and the nomination of a candidate to fill such vacancy shall be made upon the recommendation of the Senator, Representative or Delegate. Such rcommendation shall be made by the first day of June of that year, and if not so made the Secretary of the Navy shall fill the vacancy by the appointment of an actual resident of the State, District or Territory in which the vacancy exists, who shall have been for at least two years immediately preceding his appointment an actual bona fide resident of the State, District or Territory in which the vacancy exists and shall have the qualifications otherwise prescribed by law: And provided further, That the Superintendent of the Naval Academy shall make such rules, to be approved by the Secretary of the Navy, as will effectually prevent the practice of hazing; and any cadet found guilty of participating in or encouraging or countenancing such practice shall be summarily expelled from the Academy, and shall not thereafter be reappointed to the Corps of Cadets or be eligible for appointment as a commissioned officer in the army or navy or Marine Corps until two years after the graduation of the class of which he was a member.

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The provisions for the increase of arpointments of midshipmen to the Naval Academy shall continue in force until June 30, 1913; and thereafter one midshipman shall be appointed for each Senator, Representative and Delegate in Congress. after there shall be at the Naval Academy one midshipman from Porto Rico, who shall be a native of said island, and whose appointment shall be made by the President on the recommendation of the Governor of Porto Rico. After January 1, 1904, all candidates for admission to the Naval Academy at the time of their examination must be between the ages of sixteen and twenty years.

By the same act it is provided that to increase the efficiency of the Marine Corps the following additional officers, non-commissioned officers, drummers, trumpeters and privates to those now provided by law for said corps, are hereby Increase in the authorized and directed, namely: One colonel, one lieutenant Marine Corps. colonel, five majors, twelve captains, twenty-five first lieutenants, twelve second lieutenants, one assistant adjutant and inspector with the rank of lieutenant colonel, two assistant adjutants and inspectors with the rank of major, one assistant quartermaster with the rank of lieutenant colonel, five

assistant quartermasters with the rank of captain, one assistant paymaster with the rank of lieutenant colonel, one assistant paymaster with the rank of captain, one sergeant major, forty quartermaster sergeants, twelve first sergeants, sixty-five sergeants, fifty-five corporals, ten drummers, ten trumpeters and five hundred and twenty-seven privates.

But it is provided that the vacancies now existing in the line and the staff departments of the Marine Corps and those created by this act below the grade of brigadier general shall be filled, respectively, first by promotion by seniority and then by selection and appointment as now provided by law, excepting that vacancies in the grade of second lieutenant shall be filled first, as far as practicable, from graduates of the Naval Academy each year on completing the prescribed course at the Naval Academy, exclusive of the probationary tour of sea service before final graduation, then from meritorious non-commissioned officers and from civil life between the ages of twenty-one and twenty-seven years.

Other acts and joint resolutions passed were as follows: Refunding the duties paid on merchandise brought into the United States from Porto Rico between April 11, 1899, and May 1, 1900. and on merchandise brought into the Miscellaneous. United States from the Philippine Islands between April 11, 1899, and March 8, 1902; increasing the limit of cost of certain public buildings, authorizing the purchase of sites for public buildings and the erection and completion of public buildings; amending the Civil Code of Alaska, providing for the organization of private corporations; providing for the compulsory attendance of witnesses before registers and receivers of the Land Office; providing for an additional circuit judge in the Eighth Circuit; providing for an additional district judge in the District of Minnesota; providing for an additional distric judge in the Southern District of New-York; regulating the importation of breeding animals; providing for the printing of a digest of the laws, decisions and opinions relating to pardons and other acts of executive clemency under the United States and the several States; amending the Alaskan Homestead law; reimbursing the losses of the officers and crew of the cruiser Charleston, lost off Camiguin Island, in the Philippines; appropriating $50,000 for the expenses of the Anthracite Coal Commission; creating the Wind Cave National Park in South Dakota; authorizing the erection of monuments on the battlefield of Gettysburg to certain regiments and batteries of the United States Army; authorizing the erection of a building for the Department of Agriculture at a cost not to exceed $1,500,000; incorporating the Association of Military Surgeons of the United States; providing for the erection of statues in Washington of Brigadier General Count Pulaski and Major General Baron Steuben, of the Continental Army; permitting officers and men of the army and navy to wear the distinctive badges adopted by military societies based on service in the Chinese relief expedition of 1900; providing for the erection of a union railroad station in Washington; amending the Automatic Coupler act; amending the laws against_counterfeiting; providing certain souvenir medallions for the benefit of the Thomas Jefferson Memorial Association of the United States; amending the remarried widows pension act of March 3, 1901; increasing to $12 a month the pensions of all survivors of the Mexican War now on the pension roll; increasing to $40 a month the rate of pension for total deafness; increasing the pensions of those who have lost limbs as follows: One hand or one foot, to $40 a month; arm above the elbow or leg above the knee, $46; arm at shoulder or leg at hip joint, $55; one hand and one foot, $60; both feet, $100; amending the Bankruptcy Act of July 1, 1898, and effectuating the provisions of the additional act for the protection of industrial property.

TREATIES WITH

FOREIGN COUNTRIES.

TRADE RELATIONS WITH CUBA FINALLY ESTABLISHED.

The Senate, called in extraordinary session on March 5, ratifled on March 19, by a vote of 50 to 16, a commercial convention with Cuba. By the terms of this convenThe Bliss-Zaldo Convention.

tion all articles of merchandise, the product of the soil or industry of either country, now admitted free of duty by the other country, are to continue to be so admitted. All taxable articles, the product of the soil or industry of Cuba, imported into the United States, are to be admitted at a reduction of 20 per centum of the rates of duty levied thereon by the Tariff Act of July 24, 1897, or hereafter to be levied, All articles of merchandise, the product of the soil or industry of the United States, not already imported free of duty into Cuba, except as hereafter specially enumerated, are to be admitted at a reduction of 20 per centum of the rates now fixed, or hereafter to be fixed, by the Cuban customs tariff. The articles excepted are classified in three schedules, as follows:

Schedule A-At a reduction of 25 per cent-Machinery and apparatus of copper or its alloys or machines and apparatus in which copper or its alloys enter as the component of chief value; cast iron, wrought iron and steel, and manufactures thereof; articles of crystal and glass, except window glass; cotton and manufactures thereof now classified under Paragraphs 114 and 116 of the Customs Tariff of the Republic of Cuba; ships and water borne vessels of all kinds, of iron or steel; whiskies and brandies; fish, salted, pickled, smoked or marinated; fish or shell fish, preserved in oil or otherwise in tins; articles of pottery or earthenware now classified under Paragraphs 21 and 22 of the Customs Tariff of the Republic of Cuba.

Schedule B-At a reduction of 30 per cent-Butter; chemical and pharmaceutical

products and simple drugs; malt liquors in bottles; non-alcoholic beverages; cider; mineral waters; colors and dyes; window glass; complete or partly made up articles of hemp, flax, pita, jute, henequen, ramie, and other vegetable fibres now classified under the paragraphs of Group 2, Class V, of the Customs Tariff of the Republic of Cuba; musical instruments; writing and printing paper, except for newspapers; cotton and manufactures thereof, except those now classified under Paragraphs 114 and 116 of the Customs Tariff of the Republic of Cuba (see Schedule A), and except knitted goods (see Schedule C); all articles of cutlery; boots, shoes and slippers, now classified under Paragraphs 197 and 198 of the Customs Tariff of the Republic of Cuba; gold and silver plated ware; drawings, photographs, engravings, lithographs, cromolithographs, oleographs, etc., printed from stone, zinc, aluminium, or other material, used as labels, flaps, bands, and wrappers for tobacco or other purposes, and all the other papers (except paper for cigarettes, and excepting maps and charts), pasteboard and manufactures thereof, now classified under Paragraphs 157 and 164, inclusive, of the Customs Tariff of the Republic of Cuba; common or ordinary soaps, now classified under Paragraph. 105, letters "A" and "B", of the Customs Tariff of the Republic of Cuba; vegetables, pickled or preserved in any manner; all wines, except those now classified under Paragraph 279 (a) of the Customs Tariff of the Republic of Cuba.

Schedule C-At a reduction of 40 per cent-Manufactures of cotton, knitted, and all manufactures of cotton not included in the preceding schedules; cheese; fruits, preserved; paper pulp: perfumery and essences; articles of pottery and earthenware now classified under Paragraph 20 of the Customs Tariff of the Republic of Cuba; porcelain; soaps, other than common, now classified under Paragraph 105 of the Customs Tariff of the Republic of Cuba; umbrella3 and parasols; dextrine and glucose; watches; wool and manufactures thereof; silk and manufactures thereof; rice; cattle. Any laws or regulations adopted, or that may be adopted, by the United States and by the Republic of Cuba, to protect their revenues and prevent fraud, shall not impose any additional charge or fees on articles imported, excepting the consular fees established, or which may be established, by either of the two countries for issuing shipping documents, which fees shall not be higher than those charged on the shipments of similar merchandise from any other nation whatsoever.

Tobacco of the United States, or of any of its insular possessions, is not to enjoy the benefit of any concession or rebate of duty when imported into Cuba,

The rates of duty granted by the United States to the Republic of Cuba are and shall continue during the term of the convention preferential in respect to all like imports from other countries, and, in return for said preferential rates of duty granted to the Republic of Cuba by the United States, it is agreed that the concession herein granted on the part of the said Republic of Cuba to the products of the United States shall likewise be, and shall continue, during the term of this convention, preferential in respect to all like imports from other countries: Provided that while this convention is in force no sugar imported from the Republic of Cuba, and being the product of the soil or industry of the Republic of Cuba, shall be admitted into the United States at a reduction of duty greater than 20 per centum of the rates of duty thereon, as provided by the Tariff act of the United States approved July 24, 1897, and no sugar, the product of any other foreign country, shall be admitted by treaty or convention into the United States, while this convention is in force, at a lower rate of duty than that provided by the Tariff act of the United States approved July 24, 1897.

Any tax or charge that may be imposed by the national or local authorities of either of the two countries upon the articles of merchandise embraced in the provisions of this convention, subsequent to importation and prior to their entering into consump tion in the respective countries, shall be imposed and collected without discrimination upon like articles whensoever imported. In case of changes in the tariff of either country which deprive the other of the advantage which is represented by the percentages agreed upon, on the actual rates of the tariffs now in force, the country so deprived of this protection reserves the right to terminate its obligations under this convention after six months' notice to the other of its intention to arrest the operations thereof. And if, at any time during the term of this convention, after the expiration of the first year, the protection herein granted to the products and manufactures of the United States on the basis of the actual rates of the tariff of the Republic of Cuba now in force, should appear to the government of said Republic to be excessive in view of a new tariff law that may be adopted by it after this convention becomes operative, then the said Republic of Cuba may reopen negotiations with a view to securing such modifications as may appear proper to both contracting parties.

It is provided that the convention shall go into effect on the tenth day after the exchange of ratifications, and shall continue in force for the term of five years from date of going into effect, and from year to year thereafter until the expiration of one year from the day when either of the contracting parties shall give notice to the other of its intention to terminate the same. But it is also provided that the treaty shall not take effect until the same shall have been approved by the United States Congress. The House passed Nov. 19, the Senate Dec. 16, a bill affirming the treaty.

A DISPUTE WITH CANADA SETTLED.

The Senate ratified on February 11, 1903, a treaty between the United States and Great Britain providing for the settlement of certain questions with respect to

The Alaska
Boundary Treaty.

Britain and Ireland.

the Alaskan boundary line. The convention contained seven articles. Articles I and II provided for the creation of a tribunal of six members, three appointed by the President of the United States and three appointed by the King of Great They also fixed the details of the presentation of the points in

dispute by the two governments.

Article III provided that in the settlement of the questions before it the tribunal should consider and be guided by the text of the treaty concluded between Great Britain and Russia on February 28, 1825, which text is:

"La ligne de démarcation entre les Possessions des Hautes Parties Contractantes sur la Côte du Continent et les Iles de l'Amérique Nord-Ouest, sera tracée ainsi qu'il suit:

"A partir du Point le plus méridional de l'Ile dite Prince of Wales, lequel Point se trouve sous la parallèle du 54me. degré 40 minutes de latitude Nord, et entre le 131me et 133me degré de longitude Ouest (Méridien de Greenwich), la dite ligne remontera au Nord le long de la passe dite Portland Channel, jusqu'au Point de la terre ferme où elle atteint le 56me degré latitude Nord; de ce dernier point la ligne de démarcation suivra la crête des montagnes situées parallèlement à la Côte, jusqu'au point d'intersection du 141me degré de longitude Ouest (même Méridien); et finalement, du dit point d'intersection, la même ligne méridienne du 141me degré formera, dans son prolongement jusq'à la Mer Glaciale, la limite entre les Possessions Russes et Britanniques sur le Continent de l'Amérique Nord-Ouest.

"Il est entendu, par rapport à la ligne de démarcation déterminée dans l'Article précédent: "1. Que l'Isle dite Prince of Wales appartiendra toute entière à la Russie. 2. Que partoute où la crête des montagnes qui s'étendent dans une direction parallèle à la Côte depuis le 56me degré de latitude Nord au point d'intersection du 141me degré de longitude Ouest, se trouveroit à la distance de plus de dix lieues marines de l'Océan, la limite entre les Possessions Britanniques et la lisière de Côte mentionée ci-dessus comme devant appartenir à la Russie, sera formée par une ligne parallèle aux sinuosités de la Cote, et qui ne pourra jamais en être éloignée que de dix lieues marines.

"Il est convenu en outre, que nul Etablissement ne sera formé par l'une des deux Parties dans les limites que les deux Articles précédens assignent aux Possessions de l'Autre. En conséquence, les Sujets Britanniques ne formeront aucun Etablissement soit sur la Côte, soit sur la lisière de terre ferme comprise dans les limites des Possessions Russe, telles qu'elles sont désignées dans les deux Articles précédens; et, de même, nul Etablissement ne sera formé par des Sujets Russes au delà des dites limites."

The tribunal was also to take into consideration "any action of the several governments or of their respective representatives preliminary or subsequent to the conclusion of said treaties so far as the same tends to show the original and effective understanding of the parties in respect to the limits of their several territorial jurisdictions under and by virtue of the provisions of said treaties."

Article IV provided that the tribunal should answer and decide these questions: What is intended as the point of commencement of the line?

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2. What channel is the Portland Channel?

3. What course should the line take from the point of commencement to the entrance to Portland Channel?

4. To what point on the 56th parallel is the lire to be drawn from the head of the Portland Channel, and what course should it follow between these points?

5. In extending the line of demarcation northward from said point on the parallel of the 56th degree of North latitude, following the crest of the mountains situated parallel to the coast until its intersection with the 141st degree of longitude west of Greenwich, subject to the condition that if such line should anywhere exceed the distance of ten marine leagues from the ocean then the boundary between the British and the Russian territory should be formed by a line parallel to the sinuosities of the coast and distant therefrom not more than ten marine leagues, was it the intention and meaning of said convention of 1825 that there should remain in the exclusive possession of Russia a continuous fringe or strip of coast on the mainland, not exceeding ten marine leagues in width, separating the British possessions from the bays, ports, inlets, havens and waters of the ocean, and extending from the said point on the 56th degree of latitude north to a point where such line of demarcation should intersect the 141st degree of longitude west of the meridian of Greenwich?

6. If the foregoing question should be answered in the negative, and in the event of the summit of such mountains proving to be in places more than ten marine leagues from the coast, should the width of the lisière which was to belong to Russia be measured (1) from the mainland coast to the ocean, strictly so called, along a line perpendicular thereto, or (2) was it the intention and meaning of the said convention that where the mainland coast is indented by deep inlets, forming part of the territorial waters of Russia, the width of the lisière was to be measured (a) from the line of the general direction of the mainland coast, or (b) from the line separating the waters of the ocean from the territorial waters of Russia, or (c) from the heads of the aforesaid inlets?

7. What, if any exist, are the mountains referred to as situated parallel to the coast, which mountains, when within ten marine leagues from the coast, are declared to form the eastern boundary?

Articles V, VI and VII provided for the meeting of the tribunal at London, and required that its decision should be given "as soon as possible after the conclusion of the arguments in the case, and within three months, unless the President and His Britannic Majesty extend the time therefor." If a complete decision should be made, an expert joint commission to lay the boundary line anew was to be appointed. In case of total disagreement the commissioners were to report the same to their respective governments.

The President of the United States named as members of the tribunal Elihu Root, Henry Cabot Lodge and George Turner. His Britannic Majesty named Lord Alver