The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1882-08-01
NO48
ARLINGTON.

Chicago, 3i.-Monday's Journals
Washington: With one exception.
no Congress since the war has re.
manned in continuous session so
long as the present one. The ex-
ceptiOn was the first session of the
FOrty-lOurth Congress. which lasted
till late in August, 1876. Even now
it is impossible TO state whether
there will be an adjournment in.
one, two or three weeks. If the
river and harbor bill should he We
toed, the members of the House
commerce committee SAY the result
might continue Congress inde6-
nitely, as great efforts will be made
to secure some bill that the Presi-
dent would approve, or devise other
means of obtaining appropriations.
River and harbOr Improvements
will not entirely stop If no appro-
priations shall be made for the ap-
preparations in the general apPrOpri-
alton bills do not lapse at the end Of
the fiscal year, if not used, but con-
tinue as permanent apprOpria-
ton. There is now more than S4,500,-
600 in the unused appropriations
to the credit of the river and harbOr
bill fund from last years bill The
members OF the Senate commerce
committee have indicated that IL
the bill shall be vetoed, there would
be no attempt TO pass another by
that committee. Consequently any
efforts on the part Of the House
would be unavailing.
The Senate judiciary committee,
to-day, decided to report favorably
the nomination of w. w. Hoover,
of California, to be associate justice
of Arizona. Judge StillWell was re-
moved to make place for Hoover,
and StllWell's friends were disposed
to oppose tie confirmation. Charges
had been preferred against Stillwel,
and the committee, after examing
the record of the investigation in
the department of Justice, promptly
agreed to report Hoover favOrably.
Omcials at the Chinese legation
say story that thousands Of Chi
nese desire to pass through this
cogntry en-Ronte. home is a gross
exaggeratiOn. They say there are
some Chinese who want to reach
there via. the United tates but they
are to be numbered by the dozen
rather than by the thousand has
been reported.
The Presient has approved the or
der Of secretary of the treasury pur-
mittins shipment of iquars for me-
deal purposes to the citizeng Of Sit
ka' The scarlet fever and measles
prevail at that place.
| The Baltimore Herald, to-day,
! printed story saying that Captain
Hooper, of the revenue cutter Cor
1Oin, is in disgrace owing to certain
illegal transactions while on
his search for the Je0197sette. and
that he has been relieved from
command of the C0TzOifl and
placed in waiting orders. This
story is denied and officers Of
revenue marine service say that
Captain Hooper has not been placed
on waiting orders and he is not IN
Washington. but is in San Francisco
in command of HIS vessel, the Cor
min. He was III Washington for
some time, but while here was en-
gagged in the preparation Of his re-
port of the expedition. BE has been
= constantly on duty since his return
2 from the Arctic and has never been
in disgrace.
: The House committee on foreign
affairs reporte !, to-day, IN favor OF
correspondence with theVenezUelan
government on the subject Of new
: commission to consider the claims
of American citizens against that
government, as provided for by the
3, treaty. This commission is to sit
! IN WASHINGTON and to pass on all
, claims, including those considered
{ by The former commission. Accord
. ing 10 the committee report the fol-
, mer commission was not a com
: mission, but a conspiracy, and 1T Is
: absolutely immpossible to separate
. the fraudulent from the honest IN
their transaction.