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POOR SHOW FOR THE PASSAGE OF BILLS on
THE HOUSE CALENDAR-TBE LYNCHBURC
OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES ADMISSION OF DA'
! KOTA TERRITORY--fBE ISTER-OCEAN COM
MERGE BILL--REPoRTED CABINET CHANGES
| POLITICAL NOTES - PENSIONS FOR TIKI
WIDOWS OF DECEASED Observation-Disclosures
NEWS ITEMS.
From Our Regular Correspondent
WASHINGTON, March 27.-It Is very evil
dent that thoughtful members Of Congress
have come TO the conclusion that bills on
the House calendar have poor show OF
passing; hence 1t is that, although the bill
for the erection OF custom-house at Lynch
burg has been reported TO the House with q
favorable recommendation, Senator john
ston has just introduced duplicate in the
Senate, thinking T. may go through that
body and get to the House before the House
bill can be reached. The House bill for the
admission OF Dakota Is in a similar condi-
ton, and It's advocates have been congratu-
latng themselves that the Senate Com
mittee on Territories had also report
ed a bill for Dakota's admission into
the Union. They were not little set
back, therefore, this morning, when Sem
ator Vest arose and asked that this bill be
recommitted to the Committee on Terrific
ries, saying IL had been reported during
his absence, and before he could make an
argument, as he had intended, against it,.
Senator Butler, Of South Carolina, another
member OF the committee, who has been
away, made like statement, while Senator
Garland, also member OF the committee,
urged its recommittal on similar grounds.
Senator Hale. OF Maine, favored the same
thing, for the reason that the intended re-
pudiation OF the Yankton bonds should be
inquired into by the committee before
a bill is reported to the Senate for
Dakota's admission MS State. Sem
ator Saunders, chairman Of the COM
mittee, and Senator Mcmillan were
willing, for the reasons set forth by Sena-
tors Butler and others, to recOmmit, but
not for those urged by the Senator from
Maine. The bill went to committee,
where it will be fully ventilated. Senator
Plumb, Of Kansas, during the considera-
ton OF this motion, called attention to the
fact that there is reputation elsewhere
than in Dakota, specifying Elizabeth City,
n. j., and another town in that State,
which recently failed to pay the interest
on their bonds. Mr.. Hale, by his course
in regard to Dakota and the Yankton
bonds, has evidently aroused the ire OF
those Of his brethren who want Dakota
admitted as a companion Of Nevada.
THE PROGRAMME OF THE HOUSE COMMERCE
COMMITTEE.
The House Commerce Committee Is now
hearing it, own members on the interstate
commerce bill. This disposed of and the
river and harbor bill completed, the COM
mittee will take up the general subject OF
the navigation laws. Hearings will be
given the advocates OF free ships, OF subsi-
dies. and those with other plans for reviv-
ing American commerce and ship-building.
Personal NEWS ITEMS.
Secretary Hunt, OF the Navy Depart
ment, will have TO step down and out. Mr..
Teller tonight is again set down as the
certain successor of Secretary Klrkwood.
Senator Van Wycke made a humorous
tariff speech to-day. Distinguished sena-
tors pronounce Senator Slater's speech on
the tariff one among the finest efforts OF the
session. Oregon and the Democratic party
have reason to be proud OF him. He is as
unassuming rs he il able and thoughtful.
A Richmond man said to-day that he fell
more interest in having the street rail-
way run up your Main street than in
the Geneva award, the Tariff Commits
SION, or the anti-polygamy bill. He added
"Your City Fathers must legislate on q
broad gauge ii they want tomake Richmond
a biz city," General Bigelow, counsel fol
| Sergeant Mason, entered solemn protest
in the Supreme Court to-day against the
motion made by the Messrs. Libby, OF New
York, Friday, for writ OF habeaS corpus
He said he is the real counsel, and viii
make this motion for Mason. In the
Mackey-O' Conor-Dibble case the Hous'
Elections Committee to-day decided in IN
vor of the contestant Mackey Republican)
Tomorrow the committee will decide.
hear, against General Chalmers, Of Missis
sippi, and in favor OF Lynch, colored con
testant. Mr.. Smalley, the New Yorl
Tribune correspondent, is Just from
Ohio, and thinks it is now yer
close in that State between the Repub
licans and Democrats. He says tn
Republicans need something to them
Ohio elects congressman and Legislatur
this fall. The Maine Republicans are sore
ly alarmed, and hence their desperate fgh
in favor of Senator Hale for chairman o
the Congressional Executive Committee
They need substantial aid, and heap OF II
The appointment to-day OF S. c. Rounds
of Chicago, as Public Printer, is credited
to Senator Logan, OF illinois. Mrs. Thomp
sons disappointment as postmaster at Lou
isville is acceptable to all parties. Gov
ernor Brown, Of Georgia, made a tart
speech to-day. W. a. Pledger, appointed
collector of internal revenue at Atlanta, Il
colored Republican leader in Georgia.