Connecticut western news., 1884-04-23
WASHINGTON NOTES

also made, making the sum total $49, 75O, 400. The Hoase provisions reducing the compensa- tion of railroads per cent, and requiring lana grant roads to carry the mails for 5O per cent. less than the rate charged for other roads, were stricken out.
 MT. Wilson offered resolution in the Senate declaring thatit is competent for Congress, by law, to prevent freight pooling agreements among railroads, and by his request 1t was tabled, in order that he may ask unanimous consent on calling it up in few days to make a spel ch.
 The House considered the Pensions Appro- priation bill without final action. proviso that no proof shall be required as to the physi cal condition of a soldier at the time he was mustered in, and that all claims heretofore re- jected for lack of such proof shall be reheard, was ruled out on point of order.
 The Secretary of the Navy has issued proclamation offering 6 reward of $25,00 for the discovery of Greedy.
 Emancipation Day was celebrated by the colored citizens of Washington in a manner which equalled any celebration of the kind in past years.
 Representatives of boards of trade and chambers of commerce appeared before the House Coinage Committee and recommended the suspension of silver coinage.
 The President has recommended to the Sen ate the removal of the Collector of Customs at Key West on account of his al eged sympathy and collusion with the Cuban tilibusters.
 A number of representative business men appeared before the House Coinage Committee and made arguments Tn favor of the suspension of silver coinage.
 Bills to prevent polygamy in Utah were discussed by the House Committee Un Territor- es The Cassidy bill was taken up, and a sub stitute for it was offered by Mr.AleIander, but was defeated. The Cassidy bill va5 then voted down by a vote of to 5.
 The House determined, by vote of 40 tn tO pOnai1er The debate was opened by Mir. Morrison in au extended speech in defence of the measure.
 Mir. Turner (Ky) introduced bill in the House to equalize taxation. It recites that the bondholders and milionaires have paid no tax on incomes to support the Federal Govern ment for over twenty years; that taxes should be justly imposed, that there should be no favored class, and enacts that an income tax of per cent. on over $5, 900, 5 per cent. on over $10,000, and 10 per cent. on over $10O,000 shall be levied.
 The Senate has begun the consideration of the bill to es ablish uniform system of bank ruptcy throughout the United States.
 The Naval bill passed the Senate sub stantially in the form in which it was reported by the committee. he appropriation of two million dollars for completing the monitors was agreed to without division, as well as the amendment directing the Secretary of the Navy to prepare plans and estimates for the con struction of an iron-clad of not more than eight thousand five hundred tons displacement.
 FOREIGN ITEMS.
 The Spanish Minister at Morocco reports active and aggressive intrigues by the French in that quarter.
 The Pope's Encycical has been presented to the College of Cardinals.
 It is rumored that Mir. Parnell will soon retire from Parliamentary life, because he Is tired of it and his party of him.
 The French have captured the citadels of Phulam-tram. where tEe leaders of the Black ing the Tonquinese in the south.
 It is reported that Fl Mahdi has been twice defeated by the Tegre-ba tribes. Zebehr Pacha is willing to act at Khartoum under tbe authority of the Khedive only.
 -Advices say that great fire is raging at Rangoon, the capital of British Burmah, and that Mandalay, the capital of Burmah proper, which was recently half destroyed by con fla grafton, has been afflicted with another ex- tensive fire.
 The situation in Egypt is critical. The re- treat from Khartoum to Berber is cut off by the rebels. A lady has offered E20,000 for the rescue of General Gordon.
 The Irish dynamiters in France have re- ceiyed $3, 900 in the past week from America. More arrests in England are considered prob able.
 A brilliant gathering at the Edinburgh University witnessed the conferring of honor arydegrees upon distinguished visitors, among them being the Hon James Russell Lowell and Professor William Henry Green, of Prince town.
 The Pope's promised Encyclical letter is very severe on Freemasonry and secret societies.
 King Alfonso expresses the fear that the United States will not take cognizance of the protest of his government in regard to the Cuban expedition.
 It is believed that Gen. Gordon has re- ceived message from the English govern ment urging him to withdraw from Khartoum, but he ignores the advice.
 The Mahdi commands the Arab tribes to push forward the siege of Khartoum.
 Irish dynamiters are said to meet regular ly twice week in Paris to perfect plans for further explosions in England.
 China is indignant at the recent successes of the French In Ionquin, and officials in any way responsible for the reverses are being de- graded. The officers responsible for the loss of Bacninh have been condemned to be be- headed.
 Sixteen Aberdeen fishermen have been drowned in gale.
 In the regatta at Nice the American yacht Gitana. owned by Mir. Weld, won the race for schooners of over thirty tons, beating the English yacht Gladys, belonging to Mir. Collins
 An attempt was made to assassinate the President of Guatemala. General Barrios was slightly wounded.
 The internal machines found on the dyna- miters in England are said to have been made in America.
 A statue was erected to Gambetta at Cohors.
 At Naples drunken soldier fired at a number of comrades rooming in the same dor mitory with him, killing five of them and wounding three.
 -'n official dispatch from Cuba to the gov ernment at Madrid reports that band of forty-two insu gents under Duran, who in- tended joining Aguero, were attacked by troops and thlrty-elSht men were killed.
 The English are preparing for an Egyp- tian campaign in the autumn; meantime it is probable that conference of the European Powers on Egyptian finance may be held.
 Numerous trade strikes are occurring in Germany.
 MT. ParnelPs scheme for a fund to pay the Irish members of lis own percussion is meet ing with some success. Barrett, the American actor, had magnif- ieent triumph in London and was thrice re- called.
 -Daly and Egan, the suspected dynamiters, were remanded for examination in England, and Fitzgerald, another recently arrested sus- pect, was remanded i'll Ireland. It Is said that none of the men have had any connection with the American dynamiters. It IS now reported that France Is ready to talk with China about peace and that Tseng has been called home apparently to take part in the negotiations. The suggestion that France shall secure her expected indemnity by selzlng some island on the coast has been so strongly opposed by English merchants that the British government will make forcible ob- i jection if necessary. London journals are calling upon America 1 to put stop to the dynamite war. It IS said | tlat there is coalition of French German | Irish and English dynamiters. Hong Hoa was bombarded for six houra on the 9th inst, and was finally evacuated by l the Chinese.
 POLITICAL. | -The Indiana Democratic Association held meeting and formally announced the candi- | dacy of ex-Senator Mcdonald for the Presi- 1 dency.
 The Delaware Republican State Conven- ton elected delegates to Chicago instructed to