The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1886-05-15
FROM WASHINGTON.
The Amendment to the Post office
Appropriation Bill Not Con-
Cured In.
A Protracted Deadlock Considered
Likely to Result.
Praying for Passage of the AntI-o OLE
omargarine Bill.
rSpecial to the Press. !

| NAShlNGION, w Nldy lit I1UuoO Sohi-
mittee onpost offices and post roads today by
a.party vote, decided.not to concur in the
| 100000 ocean mail amendment to the post
! office appropriation BILL The Senate will
| undoubtedly insist upon the amendment and
protracted deadlock is likely to ensue.
Chairman Blount of the House committee
| says he had rather have the bill itself fail
than have the amendment adopted. Friends
of the measure, however, do not give up the
hope that it may yet succeed in passing the
| House.
Mr.. Reed Presents Petitions.
Mr.. Reed has presented the petitions of
| citizens of Naples and North Berwick, pray
| ing for the passage of the Interchangeable
| bill and of the Maine branch of the Indian
| Association for passage of Senator Dawes
bill for advancement of the Indians.
a Maine Man Removed.
Charles D. Lynch of Maine, has been dis
charged from the rolls of the supervising ar
chitect of the Treasury Department, to take
effect May 10Th,
Nominations Confirmed.
The Senate today confirmed the following
nominations:
S. T. Houser, to be Governor of Montana.
G; Montague, to be superintendent of the mint
at New Orleans.
j. T. Healey, Of Illinois, to be assistant U. s.
Treasurer at Chicago.
r. s. Shields, of Ohio, to be United States At
torney for the northern district of Ohio.
J. r Kimball, OF Pennsylvania, to be director OF
the mint at Trieste.
E. L. Gilrcelon to be Postmaster at Winchester,
Mass.
Presidential Nominations.
The President sent the following nomina-
tions to the Senate today:
Henry F. Seyern, to be United States judge for
the western district of Michigan.
David e.. Fulton. to be marshal OF the United
States for the western district of Wisconsin,.
Thomas E. Kelley, to be marshal of the United
States for the district of Nevada.
A Nomination Again Rejected.
The Senate in executive session today
again cleared its calendar of unObjected cas-
es. Nearly an hour was consumed in the
discussion of motion to reconsider the vote
by which the nominee for postmaster at
Lynchburg, Va, named Button, was reject
ed. His nomination was again rejected, only
four senators voting in his favor. His Of
fence was the alleged publication in his
newspaper of uncomplimentary comments
upon several prominent senators.
Another Urgent Deficiency Appropri-
. alton Bill.
The appropriation committee of the House
has completed another urgent deficiency ap-
preparation bill. 1t appropriates $6,000,0O0
for pensions, 1929, 900 for public printing,
100000 for the army and 5000 for expenses
for advertising for Indian supplies.
A Crank in the Capitol.
An unknown man supposed to be insane,
undressed himself in one of the inches near
Statuary Hall in the Capitol about 10 O'Clock
this morning then Sprang upon one OF the
pedestals and struck a statuesque attitude
He was taken away by the Capitol police
and placed under arrest.
Relating to Maine Customs Dis
trictS.
WASHINGTON, May 1.-THE Secretary of
the Treasury sent to Congress today, in
compliance with resolution of enquiry, a
list of customs districts in Maine where the
cost of collecting dollar exceeds the sum
collected These are the districts and the
COSTS
Belfast........ Isl Is 8aco; /
Frenchman's Bay. ESQ Wiscasset. ......... 4.91
Kennebunk ....... 40 York;. .....; 9.24
MachiaS.-.. 2.O6I
He recommends the abolishing of the col
lectors' offices in these cases. He also rec
ommends the following salaries to collec-
tors: AroOstook, 81 1000; Passamaquoddy,
$1,000; Bangor, $1,000; Bath, $1,000; Port
land, $1,000. He recommends that the sala-
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Assistant Secretary jerks Resigns.
The Assistant Secretary of the Interior,
G. A. jerks, has rendered his resignation to
the President.
A Customs Decision Concerning Ger
tain Fine Weights.
The Treasury Department has made de-
cision in a customs case that certain crystal
weights, intended for use for weighing with
delieately adjusted scale, which were spec
tally imported for the use of the chemical
laboratory of the Massachusetts Institute of
Technology, are entitled to free entry under
the provisions of the free list.
MIR. CIeveIand's Wedding Day.
Lawyer Bissell of Buffalo, Mr.. Cleveland's
former law partner, has been in Washing
ton He says that Mr.. Cleveland intends to
be married in Buffalo, June II, if circumstan
ces will permit. Miss FolSom'S mother is i'll
at Rome, and this may cause postpone
ment.