The Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Or.) 1862-1899, 1884-05-02
WASHINGTON NEWS.
For the Admission of Tacoma.

For the Admission of Tacoma.
WASHINGTON, April 25.-Platt yesterday
made favorable report to the senate on the
bill to admit part of Washington and
Idaho territories, under the name of
Tacoma. The report accompanying the
bill states that the senate committee on
territories were investigating the question
and had concluded that this part of the
country has sufficient population to en-
title it to admission as state, and believ-
ing that the admission of new states is for
the best interest of the whole country, the
bill is recommended for passage. Appended
to the report is a statement of the popula
ton, resources and wealth of Washington,
prepared by Delegate Brents.
WASHINGTON, April Ex-senator Miller
introduced bill yesterday recommended to
him and the whole California delegation by
the chamber of commerce of San Francisco,
amending section 297l of the revised
statutes so as to provide the goods mer-
chandise remaining in government stores or
bonded warehouses beyond three years, on
which duties have been paid, shall not be
sold but shall be kept by the United States
so long as the duty is paid. The present
law, under a recent decision of Attorney
General Brewster, provides that all mer
chandise SO stored shall be considered aban-
doned at the end of three years, whether the
duty had been paid or not. In the petition
which accompanied the bill, and which
Senator Miller had referred to the COM
mlttee of finance to whom the bill went,
the chamber of commerce state that i'm
mense losses are annually offered by mer-
chants In consequence of the present con-
dition of the law, which, since the decision
OF the attorney general, is being enforced
all over the country, although for years it
has been dead letter.
Petitions from the chamber of commerce
of San Francisco were presented to the
senate by Miller, and in the house by Rose
Grams, to-day, asking congress to make an
monitor Monadnock, now lying at the
Mare Island navy yard, and describing the
defenseless condition of San Francisco. AL
so asking that suitable appropriations be
made for the equipment and strengthening
of the Presidio at the same city.
The Swindling Pension Agent
WAsHINGToN, April 29.-Nearly 500 let
ters are received daily from soldiers, in
quiring into the status of claims which they
have been induced to file, uuder pretense
that they are entitled to additional bounty
under alleged new laws. They are per
suaded in this way to pay an advance fee of
from $50 to $50, to attorneys to prosecute
the claims. The claims are rejected, of
course, and never heard of until they apply !
to the department. The attorneys pay no
attention to the..cases after receiving the ad-
vance, as they know they are without merit. |
Soldiers are also induced to send their dis |
charge papers to these attorneys, who refuse
to return them, in the hope that they may
be of benefit to them in the event of legis-
lation in the future, similar to the terms to
the proposed equalization of the bounty
act. Nearly all bounties payable under the
existing laws have already been paid. The
second auditor suggests as one method of
preventing these frauds that claimants who
suppose they are entitled to additional
bounty write directly to his Office for infor
nation on the subject.
Orange Judd, Editor of the American
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