The Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Or.) 1862-1899, 1883-12-14
WASHINGTON NEWS.
Tariff on Wool.

will introduce tomorrow if possible, provid-
ing restoration of the duty on clothing
woods, combing woods and carpet and other
similar woods to what they were prior to
the enactment of the present tariff law.
The wool growing industry, he said, is
closely allied to agriculture, and the farm
ing class are interested in the restoration
of the old rates on wool, and this circum-
stance will give the bill strength before the
Representatives of the people.
His state was the chief wool producing
state in the country, aud had suffered the
most severely from the reduction made in
the present tariff law. There were in that
state $4,000 wool growers, aud their loss on
sales of woods of the last annual clipping
amounted to more than million dollars.
The first reduction of the tariff on the
wool product has been felt so keenly in
Ohio that both political parties there have
pledged themselves to work for the restor =
alton of the old rates.
Railroad Grants.
WASHINGTON, Dec.9.-Among the roads
affected by bills to be introduced by Judge
Payson, to fo.ieit lapsed land grants, are
the Oregon Central, from Portland to Asto-
ria, l,I30, 600 acres; the Oregon and Calitor-
mia and the California and Oregon, unpat-
eated lands, 4l6,S37 acres: and certain
lands ef the Northern Pacific, from Wallula
to Portland 5,504,0U acres. The indica-
tions are that tomorrow some thirty bills
will be offered by democratic represena-
tives, affecting railroad land grants.
Penalty for fercing p1oiic lands.
WASHINGTON, Dec. 9.-Senator ingalls,
will soon introduce bill providing that
any person who encloses an area of public
lands to which he has no title shall be liable
to fine of $l00 per day for the time such
encloseure is maintained, and that any
person obstructing the passage of another
over or through the public domain shall,
for every effense, pay the agrieved party
$500. Also, bill authorizing the resurvey
of townships enormously surveyed, or in
which monuments marking the boundary
have been obliterated or removed. Also,
q measure providing for annexation to one of
the Kansas land districts, and for judicial
purposes to the district of Kansas, al I'M
surveyed area lying between Kansas and
Indian territory and authorizing the com
plstion of its survey.
House Bills in Congress.
WASHINGTON, Dec. l0.-Gills were in
troduced by Rosecrans to indemnify Cali
fornia for expenses incurred in Indian wars;
also to prevent undue discrimination in
railway transportation; also to incorporate
the Maritime Canal Company of Nicaragua.
By Summer, to fix and establish the
maximum rate for fares ON Pacific railways.
1t provides that after forty days from the
passage of the act it will be unlawful for
those companies to charge more than three
cents per mile for irst-class passengers, two
cents for second class and one and hall
for third class.
By Tully, to declare forfeited all un-
earned land grants in California.
| By Payson, declaring forfeited Ian d
grants of large number of roads, involving
many millions of acres of land.
| BY Springer, proposing constitutional
amendment prohibiting special legislation
also, to facilitate promotion and retiring
from active service, on one application
:, officers of the army who served in the re-
bellion, and general officers and volunteers
l By Belford, to regulate railroad traffic
also, to authorize the appointment of 1
special commissioner for protecting COM
mercial intercourse between the United
States and South and Central America
also, providing for the deposit of silve
bullion in the treasury, and the issue o
certificates therefor.
By Wait, to limit the purchase of silve
by the secretary of the treasurer.
By Clements, to repeal the internal rev
enue laws.
By Henderson, to establish q board o
commissioners of interstate commerce.
Ey Townsend, to abolish postage OF
second-clsss mailable matter, and reduc
the postage on transient newspapers; ais
: authorizing the president during recess Q
E congress to prohibit the Importation of al
t ticles injurious to public health from coun
l tries which, on the same ground, prohibi
the importation of American goods; also
to place salt for curing meats on the sam
{ footing as that used in curing fish.
By Finnerty, for the construction of fou
gun boats and three additional cruisers fo
! the navy.
By Cobb, to equalize pensions; also,
! prevent the secretary of the interior fror
, issuing patents to lands granted in aid {
: the construction of railroads where tn
railroads are not completed at the tim
fixed by law.
By Holman, to limit the disposal of pub
> lie lands adapted to agriculture to actus
settlers under the homestead laws.
By Calkins, proposing a constitutions
! amendment providing that no state, publ
9 or private corporation, or person, depriy