The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1882-08-01
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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-l Ourth 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 inded-
niLely, as great efforts will be made
to secure some bill that the Presf-
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 a 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 If
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 unsVailing.
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 StillWeu,
and the committee, after examing
the record of the investigation in
the department of justice, promptly
agreed to report Hoover favOrably.
OHeials at the Chinese legation
say story that thousands Of Chi
nese desire to pass through this
cogntry en-R0tte homo is 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
lOin, is in disgrace owing to certain
Illegal transactions while on
his search for the JeG117sette. and
that he has been relieved from
command of the CoTtOiD 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
a0in. He was IL 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
from the Arctic and has never been
in disgrace.
The House committee on foreign
affairs reporte /, to-day, in favor of
correspondence with theV Venezuelan
government on the subject Of new
commission to consider the claims
of American citizens against that
government, as provided for by the
treaty. This commission is to sit
in Washington and to pass on all
claims. including those considered
by The former commission. Accord
ing TO the committee report the fol-
mer commission was not a COM
mission, but conspiracy, and it IS
absolutely immpossible to separate
the fraudulent from the honest in
their transaction.