Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1884-04-12

elares the charges not sustained by the eyi.
dence, and that there Is no ground for any
action by the House, 1t was adopted with
out division.
MT. Ellis, Of Louisiana, from the Com
mlttee on Appropriation, yesterday re
ported the Senate bill authorizing the Sec
retary OF the Navy to offer q reward of
zo.UO0 Tor the recovery Of or ascsrtaining
tne tate oil the Greely expedition, aud the
Dill was passed by a unanimous vote
The House Committee on Public Lands
yesterday began the consideration of the
various propositions which provide for
me repeal OF the homestead, pre-enpIion
and timber culture acts.
The House Committee on Commerce yes
terday directed favorable reports to be
made on bills as follows: Authorizing the
construction by the Chippewa Falls and
Western Railway Company Of railroad
bridges across the st. Croix river in the
States OF Wisconsin and Minnesota; the
construction by the WInona, Alma and
Northern Railway Company of bridges
across the Wisconsin, Chippewa aud st.
Croix rivers Of Wisconsin; and by the
Chicago, St. Paul and st. Louis Railroad
Company OF bridges across the Mississippi
river.
A favorable report was agreed upon by
the House Judiciary Committee yesterday
on the bill to prohibit counterfeiting in
the United States Of notes, bonds or other
securities of foreign governments. Adverse
reports were formulated upon bills allow
ing delegates to Congress from territories
the right to vote in the House and provid-
ing that no person shall be licensed to deal
IN intoxicating liquors as beverage until
such person has first secured q license
therefor from the local authorities In the
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carry on such traffic.
Representative Payson, of Ohio, in speak
ing Of the probabilities of adjournment
yesterday, said that he did not see how
Congress could adjourn before August 1st,
and IL there is TO be q tariff discussion he
predicted q much later date. There ap
pears TO be no disposition to hurry, and
the general impression is that it is not de-
sired to adjourn until after the Chicago
Convention.
The sub committee Of the House Com
mittee on Appropriations, having in
charge the bill making appropriations for
Notifications, is inclined to report sum
sufficient to rehabilitate the tortifcatiops
and coast defenses. Messrs. Townshend,
Randall and Holman, OF the com mittee,
are said to oppose it, and threaten to fight
it if reported to the House.
Representative Warner has reported
from the Committee on Pensions, Bounty
and Back Pay bill providing that every
person specified in the pension law who
served tor a period of two months or more,
who has an honorable discharge and is not
receiving q pension or greater pension than
that provided for by the bill and who is
now disabled by reason of wound, injury
or disease which there is reason to be.
lieve originated in the service shall be en-
titled to receive pension during the con-
tionately to the degree thereof. The bill
further provides that dependent parents
shall only show by competent evidence
that they are without other means of sup
port than their own manual labor or con-.
;ributions from others not legally bound
FOR their support.