The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1885-12-23
CAPITAL CHAT.
What TRANSFERRED in Washing
ton on Tuesday.
COMMITTEE APPOINTMENTS
yhe Germans and Americans -Cabi
net Meeting-EVarts Says Beck
Is Right-ESc.
WASHINGTON WHISPERS.
wse Statesmen AgItated over the
Appcintment Of Committees.

me statesmen AgItated over the
appointment Of Committees.
WASHINGTON, December q. = The
speaker Of the House Is now at work
arranging committees; it is said they
will be given out for publication as soon
A completed. not waiting for Congress
70 meet There is considerable uneasi7
ness among tins members to know
where they will be assigned. Their
anxiety has kept many In Washington
COR the holiday recess. Had the COM
rittees been announced before adjourn
ment il is probable most of the mem
bers would have gone home for their
Christmas dinners, but under the
existing circumstances only seventy
Eve have taken advantage of the oppor-
taDitv. The remainder, or most of
them viii stay in the city.
Senator's Mitchell and Dolph and
representative Herman, of Oregon,
visited the storehouse of Washington
monument this afternoon. where the
Oregon stone now lies, and formally
presented it 70 the monument commls-
zion, as q gift of the State of Oregon.
The stone is an elaborate piece of work.
It is ~ feet long. feet wide and 6
inches thick, and consists of three diff
ferent kinds of Oregon stone. The
stone itself is Of brown granite sand
stone, and bears on the face a land
Scape, with Oregen's coat of arms sur
rounded by fruits and flowers, the
whole enclosed with 8 raised moulding
AZ in Cut,dpFn-n md 3 b -
State seals arc thlrty-two stars of green
ism syenite. Snow capped mountains
are represented by white marble from
Southern Oregon, also set in brown
sandstone.
THE GERMANS AND AMERICANS.
The annual report of Jacob Muellers
United S ates Consul at Frank
fort-on-the Main, Germany. has been
received at the State department. He
calls attention to the re dictionary ten
denotes prevailing in that country on
the industrial and comm ercial relations
With the United States, which as says
explains the iu-will Of Official and rul
lng spheres against the United States.
They dread, ne says, American hogs,
MhCds anu q ulCAACdu AlupUEbo kEnETdllH,
put still more the importation of Ameri-
can ideas; not oely is the tendency to
rstrogrCsslon noticeable. he says, in the
political, economic and religious species
Of lie, but the barriers existing between
mankind are also fostered and multi
OliedtO such an extent that the spirit
Of caste IS again becoming prominent
and the feudal system resurrected. He
auudes 20 these tendencies as the prin-
opal reason for the prevailing anti.
AmerlcaniSm, and in order that the
United States government may be pre-
pared not 20 anticipate from official
Germany or Austria, hostile as they are
20 American liberty and prosperity,
any gratuItOuS acce ssIOns. The Consul
reports that he depressed state of trade
and industry in Germany continued
during the past year and the new tariff
system has proved a failure. He de-
clared the value OF exports from Ger
many to the United States during 1884,
amounted to S59, 768, a decrease of S., 881,-
30 as compared with the previous
year. The principal decrease was in
China and porcelain wear, hat bands
and ribbons, hides and skins, linens,
silks and dress goods, jewelry, etc.
there was an increase In exports of
drugs and chemicals. wines and liquors,
ron and steel guards, hair. glass,
plate, etc. The imports from the
United States are confined to agricul-
tural, mineral. animal and Vegetable
products. Emigration from Germany
60 the United States has fallen
of 40 per cent. during the first
nine months of 1885. There is
strong ieallg OF antipathy tow ards
thu FfnTNnH -
OF emigration and every effort is re-
sorted 10 to discourage it. The great
import Of foreign wheat has caused a
demand for higher duties which would
amount practically to prohibition. In
conclusion, Counsel Mueller saws that
Jhe present strife of the nations for IN
uuSJTlat and commercial supremacy
suggests an American policy of free
Su!ps, OF industries untrammeled by
ouFdenSOme taxes and of a vigorous
projections of the Americans abroad.
CABINET MEETING
At Cabinet meeting, to-day, it was
decided that in addition to closing the
deparm ents on Christmas and New
Years trey would only be closed at
noon on each Of the days Immediately |
preceding those holidays, snd that. |
contrary to the long-established Gus
ON they would be open for business |
IS usual in the interim. This course |
vas adopted in view of the representa-
1ons that the business in the several
departments. notably the Treasury, is /
somewhat IN arrears, and might &C |
to serious proportions if the !
lo1rs were shortened, 2s usual
RECESS APPOINTMENTS.
It's said al the White House that /
nth two or three exceptions, al recess
have now been sent TO the I
enase for confirmation.