The times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1882-1897, 1885-01-23
WASHINGTON.


Andrew Devlne, who has been appointed
by Speaker Carlisle official reporter OF the
House of Representatives. IS one OF the
men displaced by Speaker Keller.
1t is expected that an onslaught will be
made In Congress upon the Bureau Of AMI
alton Is asked for it. Members who do not
believe much In peuro-pneun0nia aud kiu-
dred diseases are decidedly opposed 10 The
bureau.
No definite indication appears so far rs to
the probable action of The Senate on the
Interstate Comm srce bill. 1t IL said by
those who profess to know that all the r.
publican> In the Senate, with the pos 'ibe
exception of Van Wyck, will vote for the
Cullom Commission bill, and that probably
some Democrats will also vote for it. Ii
this proves true the entire subject will have
to be settled by conference committee.
Secretary of tho Treasury McCullOch
says that he Is not In favor of reducing the
whisky tax, as has been reported, from 81
to 80 cents. He thinks, however. that il
would DO desirable to so amend the inter-
nal-revenue laws as to require the payment
of the tax only upon withdrawal for con-
sumption. The Secretary Il opposed to a
reduction OF the tax on distilled spirits. In
regard to the bonded warehouse period, he
thinks that 1t should be indefinitely extend
ed or done away with, and that the tax
should be collected only when the spirits
are withdrawn for consumption.
Congressman manifest disposition to
settle the Oklahoma question finally, either
by opening the country or by adopting
some eftectlye measures To keep people
from going there. party OF Senators
called upon President Arthur the other day
to obtain his views upon the subject. MIR.
Arthur said that in his opinion it was right
That intruders should be kept out of the In
dian country by force OF arms IL necessary.
Oklahoma was small tract OF few hum
dred thousand acres, surrounded Oh all
sides by Indian reservations. There was no
civil law there, and collisions would almost
inevitably occur between the Indians and
whites. III the tract was to be opened to
settlement the way should be prepared by
the enactment OF proper laws.
THE BARTHOLDI STATUE.
Representative Nuttng, from the com
mittee Oh library, has presented for print
ing and iecommittal a favorable report
on the joint resolution introduced by Mr..
Cox, OF New York, approprating 100000
to aid in the completion Of the pedestal for
World" The report says: The statue
was magnificent gift from the people of
France to our whole people, and not to the
people OF New York, and it belongs to the
people rs nation. 1t would be arrogance
for the state of New York to pay for the
pedestal and claim the statue as its own.
The statue Is national symbol. 1t is
national property, and congress should, in
the opinion Of your committee, finish what
has been begun so WELL"
EXPORTS OF BREADSTUFFs.
The following figures show tho exports
of breadstutfs for 1854, corresponding with
1888 They show in u striking manner the
fall in the price of wheat. We exported
10,0O0,O00 bushels more in 1854 than in 1883,
and got over S4,C00,000 less for it. The
flour shipments are almost exactly the same
in quality and more than -, 5OO0J0 less in
value: