Seattle daily post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, W.T. [Wash.]) 1881-1888, 1884-03-21

car, lying In pool of blood. and was ri
| first feared ~ be dead, but after helms
removed to the open air revived. His
| injuries are not considered fatal.
WASH NGTON.
Increase In Naval Appropriations.
WASHINGTON, March 19.-The Appro
| prlatlous Committee of the Senate
agreed today to make public the com
munication sent them at their request
10y the Secretary of the Navy recon
InendinR appropriations for the naval
servic. additional TO those contained in
the naval appropriations bill as it pass
cd the House. In this communication
this Secretary Of the navy asks that the
individual items of the House bill he in
creased as follows: Pay, miscellaneous
from $4,000 to $4,000: Bureau OF
Naviga ion, from $4,000 to fl3l 600
Contingent NAVY expenses, from $50,
GU to $4,000; Bureau of Equipment
and Rebuilding, from 1901 900 to *.sr3.
90; Bureau of Medicine and Surgery
from 81 900 To *25, go; Bureau of Steam
Engineering, from 100000 to *l.IOO,-
UOO. lie asks that an appropriation for
the Bureau of Ordnance TO made is
follows: General appropriations, in
Guiding civil establishments, xl32, "a
miscellaneous items, f592.OOO; purchase
of torpedo beat and working drawings
for same, $4,000: machine cannon
Gatling guns, magazine, rifles and ma
chine tools, $237 ,2l0; for additional
steel breach loading guns, 1884 ,OOO,
and states that tn sum OF $2O0,eOO ap-
propriated by the House bill for the Bu-
reau Of Yards and Docks is manifestly
| inadequate To meet the requirements Of
that bureau. Each request for An add
tional appropri ,tion il accompanied by
a statement frem the chief of the bureau
for which it Is asked, setting forth the
nee ssity of such increase. Other add
toe Il appropriations recommended by
the Secretary of tho Navy are as fol
lows: Completing batteries and new
cruisers, *5U3,s92; completing four
don ole -turreted monitors and ordnance
for same, $2O,0OO.OO0; also that there BE-
appropriated 81, 800. 100 towards the CON
| structiou of Two cruisers, one dispatch
vessel, two heavily armed RunbOats, two
| light RunbOats, one steam ram, one
cruising torpedo and two harbor torpe-
| do boats.
Free VI Revenue Tax.
The House Committee on Agriculture
| has authorized favorable report to be
made on the bill to allow any person t.
manufacture wine or brandy out of ap
pies peaches, grapes or other perishablt
fruits raj ed by himself or his tenants
free from any internal revenue tax OIL
revictiOns.
The Postal Telegraph Company.
George ID. Roberts. representing the
Postal Telegraph Company, appeared
before the sub committee of the S-nat,
Committee on Post Offices End Posi-
Reads today and submitted PROPOSE
ton III the fOim of bill directing the
Postmaster General to enter into con
tract with the Postal Telegraph Com
pany.
The New Fast Natl Service.
Postm aster General Gresham has 70
turned from the West after completing
the arrangements for the new fast mai
service west of Chicago. The neeotia
lions with the Northern Pacific Rail
rotd resulted In an agreement with
that company 10 start at O'Clock in the
evening with the Eastern mail from St
Paul, which now leaves at & p. n. This
train will place st. Paul mails i'll Port
land, Or, II or % hours earlier than
under the present schedule. Speaking
of the fast mails Postmaster General
Gresham says: I'VE are simply using
the means at our command to give the
public the best possible service. The
new mail service has not cost the public
| dollar more than the old service did
and the people will get improv d facili-
| ties without extra COST
VIII Pay II Back.
WASHINGTON, March 20.-The House
COMMITTEES on Foreign Affairs tod, ~
agreed to report .voraSly the hill au
thorizirg the return to China of the
residue of the Chinese indemnity fund
Government Reservations.
The House Judiciary Committee to-
day agreed to report favorably Repre-
sentative Broadhead's bill, providing
that any process, OWL or criminal. Is
sued by any Territoriali COurt. may be
executed and served in any Indian or
military reservation, or within tie Vel
lowstone National Park. provided that
such reservation is within the limits of
the county or district over whioh such
court has jurisdiction.
Postal telegraph Representative Re
fore . House Censwsitaee.
George D.. Roberts of the Postal rele-
graph Company appeared before the
House Committee on Post Offices and
Post Roads TODAY aud made au argu-
ment in support ut the proposition Of
that COMPANY to enter into contract
with the Government for telegraphic
service. Representative Budd of Cali
fornia also appeared before the commit
tee and argued that the proposed con-
tract with the Postal Telegraph Com
pany was defective IN form and sub
stance. In conclusion. Bu Id denounced
the bill ~ a job, which should be stran-
pled in its incipiency, and declared that
nothing short of a postal telegraph sys-
TEN would satisfy the people.
The situation NJ Neosha Falls.
CHICAGO. March 3O.-Simon Beatty. a
representative of the Breeders Ga-stte
of this city, tele9raphs to the Associat-
ed lress tonight from Neosha Falls,
Kas., where he has been Investigating
the -eported case of foot and mouth
disease. ~ follows: i waited the two
herds most affected in this district to
day, and found them much the sumo as
those in Iowa and Kansas. l ctn see nc
indications of contagious foot and
mouth disease in them, and belive that
| there ia noue. There are two professors
two veterinary surgeons and two prom
inent cattle men here. think they arr
weakening some from the opinions ex
pressed"
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