News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1884-01-17
WASHINGTON NOTES.

A Dill mas Deen l0GrOuuCeu Ill Tue
Senate providing fer the establish
nent of government school of med
cine at Washington, designed to adj
nit doctors of all shades of belief to
and practice their pet the
Dries.
The administration organ at Wash
.ngton intimates that Minister Low
ell resigned the St. Andrews rector
ship in obedience to a gentle hint
from the State Department.
Dorsheimer has offered an impor-
tant tariff bill. 1t abolishes all du-
ties on timber, lumber, wood, pulp,
bark and extracts of bark, tirewood.
ties and logs. The bill, If
passed, will effect the chemical sched-
ule of the tariff law, as well as the
wood schedule; extracts of bark 60
under the head of chemicals in the
law. If they should be placed on the
free list, a determined effort would be
made to put sumac there also, both
products being used in the tanning Of
leather.
A subcommittee of the House
Committee on Appropriations have
prepared the Pension Appropriation
bill, which they thought would be pre-
scented to the house on Monday. The
bill reappropriates the unexpended
balances of $50, 100000 of the year
ended June 80, 1888; also the esti-
mated balance of $4,000, 900, which
will remain uneXpended June 80,
1884, and makes fresh approprla-
ton of SIC, 100000, making the total
available funds for the year ending
June 80, 1885, $4,000, 900, which is
s25. 900 less than the estimates
of the bureau. The subcommittee
will propose the amendment OF the
law in respect to fees to pension
agents, 80 as to provide that such
fees shall only be paid when the pen
sion is allowed, the Commissioner OF
Pensions TO make the payment, de-
Quoting from it the amount OF the
pension award. They will also pro-
pose the reduction of the present
number of pension agencies-eighteen
to twelve, and make such provls-
ion for the forwarding of vouchers to
the Pension Bureau and of drafts to
pensioners as will be necessary, con-
sequent upon such reduction of agen-
cies.
A meeting of members of the
House Committee on Agriculture and
the members of the committee OF
cattle men appointed recently at Chi
cago was held at the Capitol on the
morning of January IL. The cattle
men in answer to inquiries of the rep
resentatives present, said that con-
tagious diseases of cattle exists in
Delaware, District of Columbia, Ma
ryland, Pennsylvania, Virginia, Con-
necticut, New York and possibly in
other places. DR.. Law, of the Cattle
Commission of the Treasury Depart
ment, said the disease was undoubted'
ly the result of Importation. Judge
Carey, of Wyoming, gave history
Of the disease, saying that it was
Asiatic cholera, spreading through
Europe and reaching New York about
40 years ago. 1t existed on the con-
tinent of Europe. Great Britain
Australia, New leland and this coun
try. He said if the disease once go
foothold on the western plains i
would spread over the entire country
and could not be stopped. He saiC
500, 900, 900 was invested in the cat
tie business of the United States
Representative Hatch said Mr.. Single
ton, of Illinois, had offered $1,000 re
! ward for animal infected wit
! pleuro pneumonia, but no one had at
! cepted the offer. Several member
of the cattle committee at once of
fered to show the disease to any
doubling its existence. Representa-
tive Weller gave notice that he would
offer bill appropriating $40, 100000
by the government for suppression o.
contagious diseases in cattle. The
sum to be distributed among The
States and Territories in the ratio o
representation in Congress, provided
however, that each State appropriate
a sum equal to the amount given 1t BY
the government.
Since Congress assembled half o
the time has been occupied III the in
PRODUCTION of bills. More than 250i
bills and resolutions have been refer
red, enough to furnish all the com
mittees of the House with work 70
the next five years, and more tha
enough to occupy the time Of tn
House in their discussion and pas
sage for ten years. 1t is apparen
that something must be done to chez
this flood tide of useless and exper
sive measures which have no chanc
of consideration. Any crank ma
embody his ideas on any subject in
bill and get Congressman to intro
duce it. The government is then PIT
to the expense of printing 1900 col
les of it. Moreover, sometimes
bills are identical and 1900 copies {
each are printed. At the beginnin
of a session men who are ambition
to make a record 90 through the filt
of the preceding Congress, sele
bills of which they think they woul
ike 10 be considered the authors, an
: carefully destroying every identity
their copy offer them as productio
of their own. On the first bill day
the present session one member i
troduced 81 bills relating to almo
every conceivable subject of legisl
tioD, and a majority of them were Il
work of men in the last and prece
ing Congresses, and some of the
the result of committee labors exten
} ing over a period of months.
The statement of the expenditur
: of the Department of Justice in Il
2 star route cases has been furnished
, the Senate. it is a document of Il
size, shape and weight of an un
bridged dictionary, without indie
$ summary or condensation, and wi
+. little clue to the vast amount
e vouchers, except as the writer hir
self can furnish. But the book-kee
ing methods are not SO crude that IL
astounding extravaganza of the d
D partment of Justice can be kept s
f cret. The information shows how Il
D Treasury can be plundered in Il
name of reform. Brewster, attorn,
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