Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1886-04-29
WASHINGTON.
THE FRIENDS OF THE BLAIR EDucA.
TroNAL BILL DETERMINED.
The Members 10 be Put on Record-A Ma
hone sAppointee- Small Distille-
ries-Porsonal Notes.
frrom our pcuuIar corcspondent.l

friends Of the Blair educational bill
while unanimous in opinion that the
substitute reported from the Labor
Committee is an attempt TO strangle
legislation on the subject, will hold q
conference In regard to the matter
early next week. 1t is conceded
that the Senate bill which was
referred, after its receipt from
that body, to the Committee on
Education will never reach the
floor of the House. In order to test
the strength Of the House on the Blair
bin il is proposed TO move it as a SUBJ
stitute for the Labor Committees bill
when the latter comes up for considera-
ton. This may result in the defeat OF
the bill, but it is the only way out OF
the dilemma, and will at least put the
members on record for the guidance OF
their constituencies.
The choice Of Senator Kenna, OF
West Virginia, to be chairman Of the
Democratic Congressional Executive
Committee, is regarded as a fitting re.
cognition Of this able and rising young
senator.
The Committee on Invalid Pensions
is trying to migrate through 5000 bills
and 1927 petitions referred to it du-
ring the present Congress.
aAHoSE APPoINTEE.
Senator Malone has succeeded in Sc
curing an appointment in the Govern.
ment printing. ofiice for j. j. Verser, OF
Danville. Verser was connected with
the revenue department under the old
Republican regime, and is said to be
one Of the most offensive partisans in
the Danyille district. He made conf
dent Of a gentleman at the printing
Office whom he supposed was Repub-
lican, and proved by his conversation
that be has not reformed his politics
one iota.
Congressman Brady says that the
House Judiciary Committee is COM
posed Of such profound constitutional
lawyers that his bill in relation to the
Virginia debt will never see the light Of
CAV OUTSIDE INC COlhlitiblcc-IOuuls
TO REIMBURSE.
Senator Allison, from the Committee
on Finance, reported back to the Sem
ate, without amendment and with the
recommend alton that it pass, the bill
to reimburse the National Home for
Disabled Soldiers for losses incurred
through the failure of the Exchange
National Bank of Norfolk, Va.
Senator Call introduced bill grant
ing leave Of absence of fifteen days,
with compensation per annum, to
employees of the United States
navy-yards who have already served
one year also, leave of absence and
compensation to employees injured in
The service during the time Of their dis
ability.
A half dozen petitions from principal
cities Of the Union, signed by thousands
OF merchants, were presented to-day
sgaiDSt the themselves imposed on COM
mercial travellers in certain States and
Territories.
Lieutenant Curry, Of the United
States army, has filed an affidavit in
favor Of the claim of Charles w. Hick-
man, farmer on the Virginia penin-
sula, for property taken and destroyed
by United States troops during the war.
THE EDMUNDs UTAH BILL.
The House Judiciary Committee
will hear arguments in favor of the
Edmunds Utah bill Friday and Satur-
day this week. Judge Baskine and
Ex-Governor Boutwell,, of Massachu-
sets, will present the case for the Gen.
tiles. 1t will require good deal Of
testimony to induce the committee TO
make a favorable report on the bill.
While the members express themselves
in sympathy with the objects sought
by the Edmunds bill, they regard the
methods fixed upon to obtain them as
both outrageous and unconstitutional.
SMALL DIsTILLERIES.
The conference of the Virginia and
North Carolina delegations has resulted
in bill presented by the Ways and
Means Committee. 1t authorizes the
Secretary Of the Treasury to exempt
all distilleries which mash less than five
bushels of grain per day from the ope.
ra,ions Of section 2j5 of Revised Sta
tutes except as 10 payment of tax,
which shall be levied and collected on
capacity Of the distilleries, and they
shall be run without storekeepers or
" storekeepers and gaugerS." The dis
tilleries Of five and less than twenty
five bushels capacity per day may, at
the discretion of the Commissioner Of
Internal Revenue and Secretary Of the
Interior, be exempted from the opera
tons Of spirits except as to payment of
tax. Special warehouses may also be
established by the Commissioner for the
deposit of the product of any number
Of distilleries, subject to all laws and
regulations as to bonds and taX-remoyals
as other warehouses. Section 1855 Of
the Revised Statutes is amended to
provide that the Commissioner, with
the approval of the Secretary Of the
Interior, may exempt distillers of
brandy made exclusively from fruit
from the provisions of the title re-
lating to the manufacture Of spirits.
except as to tax, when expedient to do
so." 1t also provides that when q
judgment of forfeiture in any case of
seizure is recovered against any dis
tiller, used or tit for use in the produc-
ton Of distilled spirits, because no
bond has been gwen, or against
any distillery used or fit for use in the
production Of spirits having register
ed capacity OF less than $50 gallons a
day, every still. doubler, rm.tub,
rssh-tub, and iermenting-tub therein
shall be sold, asiu case Of other forfeit
ed property, without being mutilated
or destroyed. And in case of
seizure OF still, doubler, worm,
or other distilling apparatus of any
kind, for any offence involving for
fixture Of the same, it shall be the duty
of the seizing officer to remove the
came from the place where seized to
place Of safe storage, and the property
30 seized stall be sold as provided by !
law without being mutilated or de-
stroyed.