The Portland daily press., 1883-01-19
WASHINGTON.
The Jeanette Inquiry.

Inc JoannSGLe inquiry.
WASHINGTON, Jan. 1S-The Jeanette
board will hold secret session Monday, to
consider the preliminary report upon the in
yestigation. 1t has been charged that Bartlett
and his companions have been kept in Siberia
to prevent their testifying regarding the De-
Long Collins trouble and the board do not con-
slider that they have finished their work until
they have given thesemen an opportunity of
testifying.
National Board of Trade Favors Postal
Telegraph.
The National Board of Trade TODAY unani-
mously adopted resolution favoring the es-
tab,ishment by the government of postal tele-
graph and telephone.
The Remains of DeLong and Comrades.
Secretary Chandler received the following
telegram from Minister Hunt at st. Peters
burg:
"The government finally authorizes the re-
moval OF the remains Of DeLong and COM
rades."
Secretary Chandler telegraphs to Minister
Hunt to have the remains transported BY way
of IrkutSk.
Fined for Not Shoveling Off Their Side
walks.
A large number of prominent citizens of this
city were fined So each in the police court to-
day for neglecting to have the snow removed
from their sidewalks. Among them were
Gen. Hazen, chief signal officer, and Green B.
Raum, commissioner of internal revenue. At
torney General Brewster failed to appear when
his name was called, and as he had neglected
to furnish collateral the prosecuting attorney
said he should have to ask that warrant be
issued for him.
The Shipping Bill
The Senate committee on commerce took up
the House bill to promote the revival of Amer
lean shipping and referred it for preliminary
report to subcommittee composed of MeSsrs
Conger, Miller of New York, and vest.
The Senate committee has discovered a seri-
GUS mistake in the shipping bill as 1t passed
the House. The measure provided that the
tonnage duty of 80 cents should be reduced to
six cents, which shall be charged for Eevery en-
try into port, provided that no more than 80
cents should be charged in single year except
on vessels running to Canada and the West
Indies This exception causes the mistake,
and was inserted in the bill while
it was under consideration in the House
About the way American steam vessels run to
Canada and the West Indies, one line owned
In Boston and going to the provinces would
be obliged to pay under the bill SLIGO ton in
stead of 30 cents. Mr.. Conger says that the
exception must havesbeen mistake and prom
ises to rectify it.
Malone and the Democrats.
Senator Malone, upon being visited by the
Southern delegations, spoke of the Democratic
party as the ''old enemy which would be de-
feated in the election of 1884, and left the im-
preston that he would work with the Republi.
can party, or at least against the Democratic
party in the Presidential campaign.
The Bankruptcy Bill.
A delegation of the National. Board of Trade
called upon Senator Hoar.this morning to ex-
press the interest of the board in the Lowell
bankruptcy bill now pending in the Senate
and the hope that it may become law at the
present session, also to thank the Senator for
his earnest interest in the matter.
Harmony Of the Republican National
Committee.
Members of the Republican National Com
mittee say the meeting was entirely harmoni-
ous, despite the contrary reports, and that there
was confident feeling that the Republicans
would recover their losses of last fall.