Los Angeles daily herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1884-1890, 1885-12-22

WAsHINoroN, December 2l.-Repre-
sentative FELTON, will offer bill to raise
the duties on raisins to five cents, and
on prunes to three cents. II the bill
passes he believes II will make differ
ence to the growers of these fruits in
California of quarter Of million dollars
annually.
The Senate in executive session con-
firmed the nomination of John Bigelow
to be Assistant Treasurer of the United
States at New York.
A large number Of recess appointments
were sent by the President to the Senate
to day for confirmation.
The Commissioner of Pensions has
rendered decision upon the application
for pension OF an ex-veteraD who de-
serted after bis re enlistment and never
returned TO his command. The Com
missioner holds that his discharge from
the first an enlistment contract perfected
his rights Hereunder, which were not
forfeited by his failure to comply with
the terms Of the subsequent contract
The Chinese bill introduced to-
day by Congressman Morrow extends
the period of exclusion to twenty years
from the passage OF the bill; limits the
life of certificate to two years; pro-
hibits the landing Of Chinese without
certificates; excludes all Chinese who
have been absent from the United
States for period Of two years. whether
they have return certificates or not;
limits the number Of Chinese who, with
certificates eau come on any one vessel,
to one Chinaman to each fifty tons Of the
registered tonnage of the weasel; re-
ouires the Secretary Of the Treasury to
prescribe rules and regulations for the
Identification of Chinese In transit
through the territory Of the United
States, 80 as to protect their
coming and remaining in the
country under pretense Of being In
transit; requires the Secretary OF the
Treasury to provide for the policing Of
the frontier; requires reports from Col
iectors of Customs, showing the number
OF arrivals and departures Of Chinese at
the several ports Of the United States,
and public action Of such reports.
Representative FELTON, will offer bill
to Congress to forfeit all unearned lands
Of the Atlantic 4 Pacific Railroad Com.
pany in California and along the line
between Mojave and San Buenaventura
and from San Baenaventura and San
Francisco. He says it is doubtful II the
entire land grant to the railroad can be
forfeited and he wishes simply to re-
claim the lands in California claimed by
the road, for pre-emption aod SETTLE
ment.
Secretary Whitney positively donies
that he endorsed the object Of the re-
cent meeting of silver men in New Y ork,
and has declared himself in favor of the
suspension OF silver coinage.
Among the bills introduced and refer
red were the following:
BY Van Wyck. to provide for the or.
ganization of that part OF the United
States now known as Indian Territory
and the public land strip into terri.
tory to be known as the Territory OF
0klohama; to provide a temporary gov
ernment for the same, to allotment Of
homesteads to Indians in severalty and
to open the uuoccupied lands to Indian
settlers.
BY Henley. of California, declaring
forfeited certain lands granted to aid in
the construction Of the Northern Pacific
Railroad; also to declare forfeited GER
tain lands granted to aid in the construc.
tion OF the Southern Pacific.