Seattle daily post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, W.T. [Wash.]) 1881-1888, 1884-02-27
WASHINGTON.

WASHINGTON.
Ne1v1n Green Before n Senate Cam.
0lteee.
WASaIN0rox, Feb. Is. - When DR.,
Noevin Green. President Of the Western
Union Telegraph ComuaGv, appeared
befeee the sub Committee Of the Senate
on Post O6ees and Post Roads TO-DAY,
senator Hill asked that all contracts
with the Press Association be laid be
fores the committee. DIR. Green re-
quested that the question Ut furnishing
the sub committee with copies of the
contracts With railroad companies. "a
bic companies and press associations,
Be referred TO the whole oommis tee.
He claimed that neither the sub-oom-
mitteo, nor the whole COMMITTEES, nor
the senate had the power b require a
witness to produce said contracts. Be-
sides copies of them cannos be made
without the consent of the Board OF
Directors nor could they be produced
without the consent Of the other par
ties TO the contracts. DR.. Green de-
elined 10 furnish information concern
sAS& AOSObRso AAOhAA tA0 0SsJSA Vi bo0 tpsC-
graph company and from cable con-
tracts, which he vas not willing the
committee should know, but he declined
to answer on general principles, ~ the
inquiries were inquisitive in their ma
ture.
Senator Hill said: You are a public
corporation are yOu not Congress
has right TO leRislats in the matter
has il not p
mo, sir. not the least in the world IS
replied Gwinn, counsel for DR.. Green.
Senator Hill" Do you deny the right
OF Congress 70 regulate your interstate
business p
Gwinn-"No, bat Congress has no
right TO interfere with the management
Of our private business"
HILL cannot agree with you on
that; consider the questions pertin-
snt."
Gvinn-"vsry vol. We will try that
With you any day"
DR.. Green here eaid that he had Just
received a telegraGA-fsom Mr.. William
Henry Smith, General Manager of the
New York and Western Associated
Press Association, in relation to what
he, DR.. Green, Vas reported t. b ave said
yesterday. He asked il the committee
would ask Mr.. Smith TO appear IN por-
sOn before the COMMITTEES, ~ that
would be better than to receive tele-
gram.
Csuarmstlsus.
Horatio G. Borchard, of Illinois, az
Director Of the Mint; Eugene .. Fcchat
of Michigan, ~ Consul At PasO Del
NortA.
fhe 0aak Nsse BiIl.
At a meeting of the Committee on
Banking and Currency, Buckner moved
an issue of treasury notes to take the
place Of bank notes. The substitute
was rejected by 3tO .. The COMMITTEES
then, BY vote Of to I, authorized
wilkins 10 report to the House the Nc
Phers0n bill Al il passed the Senate.
The Danvtlle gsvesat9nsien.
Stephen Lang testified before the
Danville Committee that no was in q
hardware store on the day before the
fight, and saw two white men loading
about 125 double barrellsd guns. He
went t. another hardware store and
there found white men loading double
barrelled guns.
Rufus Hauchett heard white men say
in the post Office, White folks are
going to r1ls this town, If We have "a
kill all the niRRcrs."
A iDeGaal Marshal.
Ex- Marshal Turner, of Alabama, was
before the House Committee investIgat-
ing expenditures in the Department Of
Justice to-day and was examined by the
10 tod in
examination by the examiners of the
department who were present, and said
that il he had them in Alabama, be
would have them all in the penitentiary
He exhibited two affidAvits from per-
sons who denied having made certain
afidayits that the examiners held.
Aduleesased Teas.
Representative Hewitt has been au-
thOrizod BY the Ways and Means Com
mittee 70 report bill 10 prevent the
importation Of adulterated teas. The
bill WAS passed ON the recommendation
Of the Secretary Of the Treasury.
The German liberals speak.
speaker Carlisle has rec lived letter
addressed ~ him personally by several
If the most prominent members Of the
Liberal party in the German keichstaR
expressing their high sense of apprecia-
tiOn of the action taken by the House
Of Representatives No token Of respect
for the memory OF the late Herr Lasker
The letter expresses the hope that the
two nations may develop and continue
in friendship. Among other signatures
are those Of V. Bruns0n, who visited
America during the past summer, and
Henry KApp, formerly n lawyer in New
York aud now member of the Execu
tive Committee Of the Liberal party.
4 vtnaicatisa 81 Osr Meg.
Commissioners LoriuR laid before the
President the report Of the com ission
appointed 70 examine the swine indus
try in tho United States. II 10 emphatic
In the statement that th re is no condi
ton surrounding the industry which
tends TO propagate disease, or render
pork unhealthful. From the returns Of
some railroad and transportation COM
paniss. slaughter houses. packers and
shippers, confirmed by these from
boards Of health, humane societies and
experts employed by tue commission, it
appoars that the utmost care Is pre-
served throughout (; that dead hogs are
never transported tbst humane laws
and sanitary regulations exist in all
stock yards, enforced By local inspect-
ors under penalty, Ans, etc.; that .
rigid scrutiny IL enjoinsd at all
slaughter houses, that the methods Of
packing and selecting material used.
etc., are regulated by the rules Of
chambers Of commerce and trade, and
constant care II exercised to zee that
no unhealthful means h employed In
any branch. The report states shat the
examination proves orr pork to be fully
equal, perhaps saperiOr. TO that Of Ger
many or France. No general disease
exists, and the occasional presence Of
triohina = comparatively unimportant.
The report u signed BY George b. LOr-
inc, Chairman Of Tie Beard.
CU9gD ~ LAuGnTER.
In q treaties on laughter Joubert gives
q curious instance. A patient, being
low with fever, and the physician in A.
tendance At . lon a. TO how he should
produos reaction, had ordered dose Of
rhubarb; bat, after the medicine had
been prepared. fearing its facilitating
Effects, the order was oountermaudsd
Not lone after . pet monkey belonging
70 the patient, that had teen ia the room
all the time, seeing the goblet contain.