Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1885-01-31
WASHINGTON NOTES.

Representative Oates, from the Commit
tee on Public Lands, prepared a report on
the bill to prohibit aliens and foreigners
from acquiring or owning lands within the
ported to the House with q recommends
tiOn for its passage. Oates said: Your
committee has asC6rtained with reasonable
certainty that certain nOblemen from
Europe, principally Englishmen, have &C
quired and now own IN the aggregate about
q, 10000 acres in the Southern States. We
have not sufficient information to state the
aggregate of aliens. This alien, nonresi-
dent ownership viii in the course of time
lead to a landlOrdism incompatible with
the United States. The foundation for
such a system is being laid broadly in the
Western States and Territories"
At a secret session of the Women. Suf-
frage Association, Mrs. Blake, Chairman of
the Committee on Plan of work, made
report, which was adopted, recommending
that the women of the several States labor
with their Legislatures for the passage of
suffrage laws and mark every member an
tagOnizing measures in favor of women in
order to oppose them. The work before
Congress for the passage Of the Sixteenth
Amendment is to be continued. Women
in the several States are also requested to
oppose the reelection Of Senators and Rep
resentaives voting against woman suf-
hage.
A session Of the WOman's Suffrage AssO.
citation was held in the Riggs House begin
ming on the 10th inst, Miss Susan B. An
thOny presiding. Among those present we're
Miss Laura White, of Kentucky; Sarah N.
Perkins, Of Cleveland, o.; Ellen Sulley Fay
Of Toledo o.; Clara B. Colby, of Nebraska
Margaret Bowen, of Colorado; Laura De-
fore Gordon, of California; DR.. Alice B.
Stoekham, Of Illinois; Annie i. Diggs,
Kansas Mary b. Mcpherson, ofIOWa; Mrs
Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Mrs. Lille DeVereuZ
Blake and Mrs. Amelia P. Post, OF WyOm-
ing.
There is considerable excitement in Lon
don over the intention Of Turkey to send
troops to Egypt. 1t is understood that the
British ministry have determined not to
allow the Turks to interfere in Egyptian
affairs by placing an armed force in any
part Of the country. High officers Of both
Governments have held a conference.
Secretary McCulIoeh sent to the House a
draft of the bill prepared by the Commits
sionel of the Internal Revenue to amend
the law relating to the entry of distilled
spirits in dishllery and special bonded
warehouses, and the withdrawal Of the
same therefrOm.
The annual report Of the Department of
Agriculture places the yield Of corn for
1884 at ], 795, 600 bushels; wheat, 513 600 600
bushels; oats, 58S, 600, 600 bushels. These
aggregates are the largest ever recorded.
The members of the House Committee
on Public Health express the opinion that
il viii be impossible, owing to so short
time remaining before the adjournment Of
Congress, to pass q bill, providing for regu-
latiOns Of public health.
Congressman Oates claims that English
nObiemen now own about q, 100000 acres
Of land in the United States. His bill, if
passed, win prevent aliens and foreigners
from owning land in this country.
President Arthur gave the second OF the
regular receptions Of the season at the
White House on the night Of the Doth, in
honor Of Congress and the Supreme Court.
Washington dispatches gives the prOvis-
ions Of the bill passed providing for the
building of a bridge across the Mississippi,
north Of the city Of St. Louis.