By an odd coincidence, Mrs. Sarah
Motcalf Beam Kelly and her son, Wil
lard Beam, were granted Interlocutory
decrees of divorce on the same day at
San Francisco. Added interest ac
crues from the fact that Mrs. Beam is
a sister and young Beam a nephew of
former Secretary of the Navy Victor
H. Metcalf, and members of promi
t ent families in the state of Wash-Inton.
CONGRESSIONAL.
Suffrage parade special investigat
ing committee reported disorder of
March 3 was due principally to un
usual crowds and praised work of the
police.
The HouBe met at noon Thursday
and adjourned until noon Monday, out
of respect to the memory to the late
Representative Forrest Goodwin,
Third Maine district.
A memorial from the Denver Cham
ber of Commerce, representing a hun
dred or more commercial organiza
tions and banks of Colorado and pro
testing against free sugar, was pre
sented to the Senate by Senator, Shaf
roth by request
After a sharp debate over terms,
the Senate adopted a resolution in
structing the judiciary committee to
investigate the charge that a lobby is
being maintained in Washington, or
elsewhere, to Influence pending Leg
islation, with particular emphasis on
its efforts for or against the Under
wood tariff bill, now before the fi
nance committee.
WASHINGTON.
Thad Thompson, a wealthy business
man of Austin, Tex., has been appoint
ed minister of Colombia, to succeed
Minister Du Bols.
Although the American reply to the
Japanese protest against California
land legislation was made two weeks
ago, there has been no rejoinder, for
" mal or informal, as yet.
The United States census explodes
the fallacy of the vanishing Indian
race; showing that in the past ten
years there has been an increase o'.
