Seattle daily post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, W.T. [Wash.]) 1881-1888, 1884-03-16
WASH ,NGTON.
tee Rttz John Porter Rln VIII Gone
Up AEasa.

WASHINGTON, March l5.-Is has been
0nderst 'od that the Fitz John Porter
bill, having been returned TO the HOUSE
Tor concurrence IN the Senate amend
ment, would 70 10 the foot of the list o!
measures on the Speakers sbie. and be
Covered by the loo Senate bills lying
there A Rent!etn u we'll posted in the
rules OF practice If the House stated to
dav, however, that this bill. under the
rules, vas readily accessible, and could
BE- taken I'D any day when a majority
desired 1t. Under the rules, after the
morning honr has expired. a motion 10
90 to the Speakers table may be car
ried by majority vote. The order o.
business thsn is TO take up first, eXecu-
tvs communications, which are nomi-
nally disposed of as they are received
next, 10 take up the bills returned to the
House from tn Senate With amend
aen's. Under this holding the Fitz
John Porter bill would be quickly
reached, as there are bat one or two
measures ahead of it. So the bill.
which many thought WAS pIgeon-holed
FOR awhile, NAV he brought up any dAy.
II Is expected by some members that 1t
will be taken up the first part of mex,
week.
Counterfeit silver Certificates.
The Secret Service division of the
Treasury Department report that it is
believed that certain voonterfeiters are
concerning measures simultaneously TO
pass upOu the public, especially In the
South and West, counterfeit so silver
certificates. A sample of the same has
Just been received at the Office of the
Secret Service Division. The issue is
of the series of $780, signed by James
GIltiiian, Treasurer of the United States
The paper is thick. greasy and stiff.
The note Is e-eighth of an inch
shorter than the genuine.
A N"te from Minisier Lowell
Minister Lowell has written the De-
partrnent of State regarding the preva-
lence of the foot and mouth disease
among cattle in England. He says the
prevalence of thu disease has been
adroltly used by the friends of protec
ton and the enemies of the party in
power, TOR the purpose of bringing to
the surface ami rendering active a cor
tain amount of political discomfort. 1t
has no: been difficult to persuade the
agricultural CLASSES that their losses
have been due to unwiSe, even culpable,
iaxity Oh the part of the Government in
the admission of foreign cattle. The
questi 70 has assumed so much political
Importance As TO give some anxiety to
the Government. Lowell refers to the
bill passed by the HOuse of Lords with
respect to the Import ,tion of cattle. and
says 1t now goes to the Commons with a
probability of passage. The wish of
farmers is, he says, for absolute exclu-
sion, but this will be difficult to obtain.
The Privy Council may, on account of
clamor, find themselves forced to sup
port measures which in principle they
dlsapprove. Should the proteosionists
and farmers succeed in bringing about
anything like an exclusion of foreign
cattle, there would soon be even more
powerful reaction brought about by the
high prices of meat that would newt
ably follow, and which it is the thinly
yelled object of the agricultural inter
ests to produce.
Lowell recommends vigorous inspec-
ton and answering resolution in stamp
ing Oat every spark of the ex-
listing cOntagiOn. We're such a
course persevered in, he says, it would
produce such conviction in England as
nothing else, especially no amount of
argument, ever could or will.