Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1886-05-29
AT THE CAPITOL TO-DAY.
ONLY THE HOUSE IN SESSION.
Knights Of Labor and Oleomargarine
House OF Representatives.

House OF Representatives..
The Speaker laid before the House q commu-
nication from the Secretary of State submit
ting an estimate Of $1O6, 100 for inaugurating
the statue Of liberty enlightening the world.
Referred.
Mr.. Merriman IN. ", from the committee on
amending the statutes relative to the trans
mission Of obscene matter through the mails.
House calendar.
KNIGHTS OF LABOR AND oLEOMARGARINE.
The House then went into committee Of the
whole (Mr. Springer, of Illinois, in the chair
the oleomargarine bill, the pending amend
ment being that offered by Mr.. Townshend
unD, reducing the tax on oleomargarine from
ten cents to two cents per pound.
fact that various proteIts of knights of Labor
against the bill had been presented, he wished
to have the following telegram to Speaker Car
"CLEvELAND, O.-Acting under instructions
from the General Assembly of Knights of Labor
thorized to speak fyr this organization, either
In thelahrmative OF negative, on the question
of the regulation of the sale of oleomargarine
now pending before Congress. Please bring this
to the attention of the proper committees.
I. v. PowDERLY, Grand Master,
Knights OF Labor
providing that the tax of ten cents pound
shall be imposed only on oeomargarine, which
is manufactured and sold, or removed for con-
sumption as butter. He had understood the
chairman of the committee on agriculture to
say that he did not desire to impose the tax un-
less the oleoInargarine was manufactured and
SOLD as butter, and this amendment would make
the meaning of the bill clear.
The bill was discussed by Messrs. Hatch,
thought that the taxes imposed were too high,
Mills lTex.) (who denounced the doctrines con-
tanned in the billy, Alien (N.Y.) and others.
Capitol Topics.
REPORT In FAVOR OF THE EADS SHIP RAIL-
WAY BILL.
In the Senate yesterday Mr.. Conger sub
mltted a favorable report. from the commerce
committee, on the Eads Ship railway bill. The
report argues in favor of the feasibility of a
ship railway, and asserts that the government
would not lose anything by giving the guar
ntee desired.
FIVE MORE PENSION BILLS VETOED.
The President yesterday vetoed five more
pension bills, for reasons substantially the
same as those assigned in his former mes
sages of tt is kind. With reference to the bill
"for the relief of Rebecca Eldridge," the Presl-
dent concludes his veto message follows:
"Without particle OF proof, and with no tact
established which connects the fatal accident
in the remotest degree with the wound re-
ferred to. it Is proposed to grant pension to
the widow OF S12 per month. It is not pleas
ant thing to interfere in such case. But We
are dealing with pensions and not with gratui-
ties"
NOMINATIONS CONFIRMED.
The Senate has confirmed the following nomi-
nations: c. r. Greenhouse, of California consul
general at Kanagawa; Hughes East, register OF
lands at Yankton, Oak; X. d. Lancaster, sur
veyor OF customs at st. Louis; d. G. Fulton, L.
S. marshal of Wisconsin; ]. NJ Martin, receiver
of public moneys at New Orleans; J. c. Garland,
U. s. attorney for Dakota; u. f. Bird, u. 5. at
torney for Maine; also IA number OF postmasters.
A NEW EDUCATIONAL BILL.
Attic meeting of the House committee on
education yesterday Representative Miller, OF
Texas, introduced substitute for the Blair
educationa, bill. 1t appropriates $4,000, 600
annually for ten years, TO be distributed among
OF illiteracy as established by the census OF
1880; to be paid on the LIST of each July, begin
ming with July LIST, 1897, and expended by the
under the state laws. The provisions of the
Blair bill requiring reports from the states re-
garding the disbursement of the money, and Il
which objections have been made on the ground
OF interference with states rights, are eiimi-
ma ed from the bill. In states in which sepa
rate schools are maintained for white and col
ored children the bill provides that the money
given the state shall be apportoned between
white and colored schools in the proportion tina,
the total number of children of each race OF
school age bears to the total number of children
OF school age in the state, as shown by the scho
lastic census. Mr. Miller agreed to Introduce
the bill in the House and have it printed, in
order to give mem 6ers time to examine it be-
| fore next Friday, when its final consideration
will probably be had.
L.
The rules and regulations governing the Cap
itol rigidly forbid anything being sold or offered
for sale in the building or the soliciting of con
tributions, aims, etc., in the building. Yesterday
the police arrested female for soliciting money
and she exhibited written permit signed by
the President of the Senate and the Speaker OF
the House to collect funds for Decoration day.
NOTES.
The Senate was not in session to-day.
Representative o. l.. Jackson, OF Pennsyl-
vania, has been renominated for Congress.
The Senate spent the whole OF yesterdays
session in debate upon the Northern Pacific
land grant forfeiture question.
The House yesterday spent the entire day in
debate upon the Oleomargarine bill, but no
action was taken.
In yesterdays debate In the Senate Senator
Edmunds said that the proceedings thus far on
the Northern Pacific forfeiture bill had just the
same result it the Senators had all been EN-.
plOyed by the railroad company TO "bedevir'
the bill, and to do nothing at all in the matter
to which 1t related-by the submission OF propo.
stions that raised open and disturbing ques-
tions-Questions which the experience of sena-
tors led them to believe were not likely to be
decided.
The Senate yesterday afternoon adjourned
until next Tuesday and the House agreed to ad-
journ from to-day until Tuesday.
Secretary Bayard was on the floor of the Sem
ate yesterday, his first visit to the chamber since
he entered the cabinet. He was warmly greeted
by his former associates.
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