Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1883-12-11
thony, Blair, Palmer, Fair, Jones OF
Florida and Brown.
JOINT Select Committee on Additional
accommodation fo1 the Ltbrary-Messrs.
| Voorhees,, Butler and Dolph.

thony, Blair, Palmer, Fair, Jones OF
Florida and Brown.
JOINT Select Committee on Additional
! accommodation Jo1 the Li6rdry-Messrs.
voorhees,, Butler and Dolph.
TO EXTEND THE BONDED PERIOD.
Representative Willis, of Kentucky, has
! received and will shortly lay before the
House number of petitions from distil-
lers, bankers and merchants in various
parts OF the country, asking for an extern
| sion of the bonded period for two years,
upon all distilled spirits remaining in dis
tillery warehouses on December l..
The taxes falling due upon
distilled spirits from December
/ 6, 1888, to August "a, 1884. will amount to
more than $25, 900. The petitioners
/ say that large sums of money have been
! advanced upon distilled spirits in distil-
/ Iery warehouses, and that if the owners
OF such spirits are compelled to pay the
/ taxes it will result in a great depression
| OF values and the serious tinahcial en-
barrassment of many firms of high COM
mercial standing. The petitions are
| signed by business men and distillers of
Kentucky, Cincinnati, Philadelphia, Pitts
burg, BellesNernOn, Pa, New York, Bos-
ton, Chicago, Indianapolis, Detroit,
| Omaha and Denver, and by members of
the Western Export Association, repre-
senting 7S distllleries in the Northwest.
ROBINSON GIVES THE LIONS TAIL A
TWIST.
Richelieu Robinson, by his O'DOnnelI
resolution, commenced to worry the Brit
| ish hon again to-day. In conversation
tonight he said that he is going to intro
! duce a resolution asking how it is that
Minister Lowell, at London, while hold
! ing office under this government is allowed
to accept the Rectorship of st. Andrews
| College, an office under the English Gov
ernment. This, he says, is in conflict
with the letter and spirit Of our glorious
| Constitution. He has even another resOlu-
| ton OF inquiry ready to be fired off.
| He is going to ask why Rear Admiral
| Baldwin, of the United States navy, who
attended the coronation at St. Petersburg,
under the law accepted as a gift 1900
snuff box from ''that greatest of modern
| despOts, the Gar of Russia" CATER
that" concluded MIR. Robinson, 81 will
have more ready for him.
GEORGIA BILLS OF INTEREST.
The Georgia bills of interest introduced
| to-day are as follows:
By Mr.. Blount-To appropriate $125, 900
for public building at Macon; to appoint
a clerk each for the United States Circuit
| and District Courts in the Southern dis
trict, one clerk to reside at Savannah and
| the other at Macon.
BY Mr.. ClementS-TO appropriate $10,-
| 600 for road from Marietta to the Fede-
raj cemetery near there; to settle the
claims of Southern railroads on the basis
of the Western and Atlantic settlement
The same bill has been introduced in the
! Senate by Mr.. Brown.
| By Mr. Nicholls-To direct the Court of
! Claims to examine into all claims of citi-
zens of Georgia for the cotton or other
| property seized during the late war and
certify them to the Secretary of the Trea-
| sury for transmission to Congress.
BY Mr.. Turner-To pay to the State of
| Georgia $27, 900 for money expended by
her in her defense during the Indian war.
A BOY WHO DIsLIKED THE IRoN-CLAD
OATH.
A boy about 10 years old was appointed
page in the Senate Saturday. He was
called up to-day to take the oath of office
before the Sergeant-at-arms. The IRON
clad oath was commenced to be read to
him. He called a halt and said that he
did not want to take that oath. He wanted
to be sworn in by the modified oath. The
| Sergeant-at-ArmS was amazed, but laugh
ingly consented to administer the modi-
fed oath to the yOungster who could not
! cOnscientiously swear that he had never
borne arms against his country.
PROTECTION FOR AMERICANS ABROAD.
! Senator Morgan introduced in the Sem
| United States citizens residing abroad.
1t is identical with one offered by him in
| the last Congress, and names as among
| such rights that of security of the person
and house of citizen, and his papers
and effects, against unreasonable search
| and seizures and the right on demand of
| himself or counsel to be informed of the
nature and cause ofthe accusation against
him when under arrest.
/ Am ROD urI1r cCrrnOrc
| The bill which was introduced by Mr..
| Hewitt, of Alabama, in the House to aid
! in the support of common schools, is the
| old Sherwin measure, except that it pro-
| yides that for ten years instead of five
after its passage $10,000,000 shall be ap-
propriated annually by the Secretary of
| the Treasury to be apportiOned among the
States according to illiteracy.
VOORHEES, ELECTION PLAN.
Mr.. VOORHEES, offered a joint resolution
the same as that of the last Congress pro-
yiding for an amendment to the COnstitl-
| tion requiring all POstmasters, Revenue
| Collectors, Judges, Marshals and United
States Attorneys to be elected by the peO-
! pie of the States in which their duties are
| to be performed, the several Legislatures
to prescribe the methods of election.
FLORIDIAN BILLS.
The following bills, of Florida interest,
were introduced: To appropriate $780,
600 for public building at Key West;
to appropriate $4,000 for beacons and
! lights for St. Johns bar; to pay the State
! $92, 900 for money expended in Indian
wars; to appropriate $3.50, 900 for public
| building at jacksonville.
ABLOw AT SPECIAL LEGISLATION.
Representative Springer, of Illinois,
| offered to-day an amendment to the Con-
sttution prohibiting special legislation
| by Congress, and requiring all claims to
be adiudicated by tribunals provided by
| Congress for that purpose.
PENSIONS FOR MEXICAN VETERANS.
The Mexican war veteran reunion,
which has just closed here, certainly gave
the proposition to pension those veterans
| a boom. At least One-fOurth of the men,
| bers who were heard from to-day intro
! duced bills to that effect.
RICE AND SUGAR NOT TO SUFFER.
| Representative Morrison. who will be
| Chairman of the Ways and Means Com
mittee, has assured the Louisiana men,
| bers that the rice and sugar interests
| shall not suffer.
THE GEORGIANS IN THE HOUSE.
| Georgia will have but four or five sub