The Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Or.) 1862-1899, 1884-01-18
WASHINGTON NEWS.
THE POSTAL TELEG RAPH.

| WASHINGTON, Jan. ll.--At a meeting
this morning of the house committee on
postoffices and post roads the bills of Auder.
son of Kansas and Sumner of California,
providing for the establishment of postal
telegraph, were referred to a subcommittee,
with instructions to formulate bill and
report on the project.
! The same committee on postoffices has de.
cided to take up the subject at its next
meeting. and so projects for postal tele.
graph are we'll under way. The senate
committee has three bills before it, of which
E,lmunds is author of one. Hill of Colorado
another, and Dawes third.
| Sumner who has been looking over the
ground, stated to-day that he believed that
if bill could come up this month, so as not
to get crowded in with the appropriations
and tariff measures, it would stand first
rate chance of passing. He says some of
the leading members of the house have ex-
pressed themselves in favor of a postal
telegraph.
General Bingham of Pennsylvania, who
was chairman of the postal committee i'll
last congress. and who is one of the sub
committee to whom the house bills were re-
ferred this morning, said to-day that it
would be ten days before the committee
could get a bill in shape. 81 would not be
surprised, =" said he, "If E lmunis' or some
other telegraph bill is passed. by this con
gress. There is, of course, considerable
opposition to the government taking hold
less opposition to great reforms like this,
but to my mind there should be no objec-
tion to it. Lines of telegraph that may be
used by the common public at a reasonable
expense should be controlled by the gov
ernment, and it. is on!ya question of time
when 1t will be done. If delayed by this
con. .ress it will come up again in the next
and continue to come up until adopted. l
have cast about considerably On the subject
and hear no opposition except from monopo-
lists. All the bills except Hills are simi-
lar in their provisions. Dawes bill, intro
duced yesterday, provides for fourth as
sistant postmaster-general to take charge
of the telegraph system anil for putting the
whole matter in charge of the postoffi:e
department. Hills bills looks to the uiti-
mate absorption of the present lines of wire
opened by the Western Union AMI other
companies. The other bills contemplate
the construction of new lines -..
STARCH SUGAR.
| WASHINGTON, Jan. l2-The National
Academy of Sciences, through President 0.
c. Marsh to-day, made a report on glucose
to the commissioner of internal revenue.
After stating what starch sugar is, how
manufactured and chiefly used, the report
says the starch sugar industry in the Uni
ted States gives employment to twenty fac.
tories, having an estiln lte capital of S5,-
O0O, ,000 consuming 40, 900 bushels of corn
per day, and producing grain sugar and glu
cose of the annual value of $40, ,OOO, 600 In
Germany in 1881 and 1882 there were
thirty mine factories of this sort, consumiu
SO, 900 tons of starch. and producing 10000
tons of starch sugar. A thorough investi
CATION of the whole subject was made by
members of the academy, and as result
the following facts appear That the man
4 ufacture of sugar from starch IS a long es
tablished in iustry, scientifically valuable
anil commercially important; that the pro
cesses employed at the present time are un-
Objectionable in character, and leave the
product uncontaminatel; that starch sugar
thus made and sent into commerce is ex
ceptional in purity and uniformity of COM
position, and contains no injurious sub.
stances, and that having at the best ouly
about two thirds of the sweetening power O
cane sugar, yet starch sugar is in No way i'll
ferior to cane sugar in healthfulness, there
being no evidence before the committee that
maize starch sugar, either in the norma
condition or fernlented, has any deletoriou.
effects upon the system, even when take'
in large quantities.
PACIFIC COAST BUILDINGS.
Il WAsHINGToN, Jan. l3.-In addition tt
regular appropriations and those asked fol
by members from the Pacific coast for the
. improvement of rivers and harbors, there
are OLilS DSioiC COO lOA SosCihu
} buildings, all of which should pass. The,
, are Tulley's and Glasscock's bills, appro
priating sl5O, 900 and 500, 900 respectively
: for new postotfices at Los Angeles and Sac
: ramento, Rosecran's, bill, appropriatin.
1 500, 600 for new postoffice at San Fran
: cisco, and Dolph's bill, appropriating moi
. more than $500, 600 for custom house a
/ Portland. The first and last named wer,
: introduced this week, aud are last on th'
) calendar of the committee to whom the,
were referred.
Randall, of the appropriation committe
intends to force economy, Notwithstanding
/ there is likely to be . treasury surplus o
$4,000, 900 this year, and all appropri stiol
: bills outside of rivers and harbors, and ex
penses of the government, will have t.
stand aside. Although he does not say SO
Randall desires to change the policy of tn
democracy from tariff for revenue to- re-