The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1884-04-24
WASHINGTON NOTES.

IOllCicS Is Qul6C IN our county, 0n(
candidates are slow to announce.
WASHINGTON NOTES.
WASHINGTON, D. c., April IT,
Gen. Terry will return to Fort Smell
ling tomorrow. He has been il
consultation several days with Gen
Sheridan upon the proposed conceIltra
ton of military posts of the dep art
ment of Dakota. Gen. Terry viii
propose estimates for an extension tt
Fort Smelling.
The treasury department to-da.
purchased four hundred Thousand
ounces of silver for delivering to tn
Philadelphia and the New Orlean
minis.
The house committee on education
decided to ask that the Blair educa
ton bill, which recently passed The
senate, be taken from the speaker
table and referred to the committee
The postmaster-general was before
the committee on post-office and pos
roads to-day, by invitation, to give
his views respecting the proposed re
vision of the method of compensating
railway companies for carrying the
mails. The bill prepared by the com
mittee appointed to perfect the new
plan Of compensation was discussed
and the postmaster-gener1 said j
was good bill, but he expressed
his opinion that the rates Of
compensation named in it were
too high. At a meeting
to-day of the house committee on the
law respecting the president and vice
president proposition, to limit to
twelve months time during which q
cabinet officer may perform the duties
Of president, it was acted upon favor
ably. 1t provides that if the duties of
the presidency fall upon member OF
the cabinet more than twelve months
before the next ensuing presidential
election, he shall in such case issue a
proclamation for special election.
Representative Beach was in
structed to day by the house commit
tee on public health to report a resolu-
ton authorizing the cHmlnittee to in
quire into the extent of adul-
terated food and drugs imported into
the United State, or exported there
from. The resolution provides that
Uuo S11d44 oull11S LILO
summer recess.
Mr.. Batemanl banker, who yester-
day furnished copy of his charges
against General Swain, says this af-
ternoon that the $1,000 due bill men
toned therein having to-day been re-
turned to his firm, and suit against
them based upon it by parties to whom
it was transferred having been with
drawn, lhe has written the secetary of
war as follows: "Dear Sir-Suit
against our firm on due bill mentioned
in my charges yesterday against
Gen. D q. Swain having been with
drawn, and the differences between
Gen. Swain and myself satisfactorily
settled, 1 hereby Withdraw the charges
contained in my letter of April 10th
against said Gen. Swain, he claiming
they were made under misapprehen-
sion of facts, which 1 concede.
WASHINGTON, ID. c., April 17.-1n
the senate to-day Wilson offered the
following preamble and resolution,
which, at his request, were permitted
to lie On the table, to be called up in q
few days for reference to commit
tee:
Whereas, the constitution delegates
to congress have the power to regu-
late commerce with foreign nations
and among the several states, and
also with the Indian tribes; therefore,
be it resolved, that it is competent for
congress, in the exercise of the power
so delegated, to provide by law for
such a regulation of the transports
tion of commerce among the several
states as shall include a system OF
maximum and minimum rates OF
charge for same for free competition
within the limits fixed, and for pro.
hibition of discrimination of any kind
whatever, either in favor or against
cities, towns or other localities
whether same be competing or non
competing points, and also for apply
ing same principles to transportation
for individuals, firms, associa
lions or corporations in all
matters relating to commerce
among the states /; for the preserva
ton and enforcement of the right Of
shippers to select the lines and parts
of lines over which their shipment:
shall pass, to the end that shippers
NAV avail themselves of all rail Oh
part rail and part water routes of the
country; for the prevention of sucf
pooling arrangements and agreements
to refrain from just competition as
may tend to impose an unreasonable
burden upon such commerce between
the states; for the protection of sucl
commerce against the unjust exac
tions Lased upon class securities com
monty denominated "Watered stocks;
and for the promotion of the true in
terests of both the corporations EN-
| ployed in such transportation and tn
people and localities engaged in sucl
Commerce, by the enforcement of tn
| principles hereinbefore stated, an,
| thereby to induce harmony and sta
| bility in the affairs of such corpora
lions, people and localities.
WASHINGTON, d. c., April 18th
house committee on foreign affairs to
day directed representative Lamb t
report to the house the following
Resolved-That the president be d
rected to bring to the attention of tn
government of Venezuela the claiI
of John E. Wheelock, a citizen of tn
United States, for indemnity for tn
gross outrageS and tortures inhicte
upon him by officers of the Venezl
ala government, and to demand an
inforce, in such a manner as may /
deemed best, an immediate settlemeI
of said claim.
The report accompanying the resC
luton SAYS Your committee is {
opinion that more vigorous measuri
than diplomatic correspondence
necessary to secure justice for either
of the United States thus grievols
wronged. Wheelock's claim is fl
$4,000.
WASHINGTON, D. c., April IT,
Attorney General Brewster tod
sent to the senate letter concerniI
the action of the department of ju
tice in relation to fees of special
. torneys in the star route cases,
( which he says that had it been @
> iginally supposed that the cases won
7 occupy the time they did, probab
r the rate fixed would not have be-
asked or given. When, however, T.
!, trial was tediously protracted by t
S policy of the defense, and the sum I
: tai paid for services TO Bliss did a
pear excessive, he urged some abai
t ment be made by him, and 9th