The times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1882-1897, 1886-04-30

The house passed bill amending section
$3.50, revised statues, so as TO provide that
every brewer In filing notice OF his inten-
ton to begin or continue business shall ex-
ecute bond to the United States In sum
equal 10 three times the amount of the tax
which the brewer will be liable to pay dur
Ing any one month.
APR L 1G.--AIr. Clements, OF Georgia,
from the committee on foreign affairs. re-
ported back the Dingey resolution calling
on the president for any information in his
possession relative TO the exclusion OF
American fishing vessels from the right to
enter ports OF the Dominion OF Canada for
the purpose Of trading, purchasing supplies,
or landing fish caught i'm deep water for
shipment In bond 10 the United States, or
dong acts which Canadian or other British
vessels are freely permitted to do In the
United States. Also requesting the presi-
dent to inform the house what steps have
been taken TO bring such unwarrantable
and unfriendly acts of the Dominion au-
thorities to the attention OF the British
government. The resolution was adopted.
On motion OF MIR. l.Or.ey. of Nebraska,
n senate bill was passed for the establish
ment OF two additional land districts in
Nebraska.
Mr.. Willis, OF Kentucky, made an attempt
to proceed with the consideration of the
river and harbor appropriation bill, but
gracefully yielded TO IN adverse vote, and
the speaker proceeded to call the commit
tttS iOI ltDOltS Vi ~ pllNWlt lulule. AU Ille
conclusion OF the call the house went into
committee of the whole chr. Hatch of Mis-
souri,, in the chair) on the private calendar
The house then took "a recess until 1:3O.
Tho house at its evening session passed
t0rly-fiye pension bills, and adjourned till
Tomorrow.
April. 17.-When the bill appropriatlng
4l50,0 900 for the Alabama fl od-sufferers
WAS taken up in the House to-day there
was an effort on the part Of Mr.. Hiscock
and Mr. Nelson 10 add an amendment max
ing an appropriation tor the sufferers from
the Minnesota cyclone. Oa's OF Alabama
attacked the constitutiOnality of such legis-
latiOn, and argued that the fact that houses
had been destroyed would make more work
and higher wages. lie quoted from a
Southern newspaper the fear that il there
was an appropriation the first man TO get
his hand on it would skip to Siam.
The House to-day passed u bill relating
to the construction OF public buildings.
1t provides that the estimates for public
buildings shall include the estimates for the
approaches to such buildings, and that the
United States shall not be responsible for
or chargeable with any expense attending
the paving or repavirg of amy streets ada
cent to any public building outside the
District of Columbia.
The House to-day passed without amend-
ments the bill to authorize the establish
ment of export tobacco manufactures and
u
manufacturing export tobacco.
fThe bill provides that it shall be lawful
to establish export tobacco manufacturers
for the manufacture OF tobacco exclusively
for expectation, under such regulations as
the Secretary of the Treasury may prescribe;
and that the provisions OF Sec. 3493 of the
United States Revised Statutes and Secs.
IL and II of the act of May 2S 1850. entitled
IAN act to amend the laws III relation TO
internal revenue" so far rs applicable,
tobacco manufactures. and mat The same
drawback shall be allowed To manuIactu-
rers who shall use sugar or mOlasSeS IN his
export tobacco mandatory upon which
an import duty has been paid that would be
allowed under eXis ing laws To Il person cX-
porting the same, such drawbacks to be al
lowed and paid us now provided by lawJ
april 19.-NIr. Herman, OF Oregon, offer
ed a substitute in the house to-day Tor the
Eads ship-railway bill, which proposes the
construction or thirteen miles OF ship rail-
way on the Columbia river between the city
of The Dulles and Cello in Oregon. This
resolution instructs the commerce commit
tee to report Il bill approprlating S1,3OO,OCO,
which Mai. Jones, of the United States en-
gineers, estimates to be sufficient, whereas
10 construct canal he estimated would
cost S11,0J0,0C0. Mr.. Herman, in his reso-
luton, recltes the supposed ilnpracticabi!i-
ty of the proposed Tehuantepec Edds Ship
railway. and claims that while the Column
ba work will be II success for the size of
the shipping required and give employment
to our own cOuntrymen i'll our own nation,
and add wealth and transportation facilities
to the great Columbia basin, it will also
demonstrate the feasibility Of the more gil
gantic isthmus ship railway of Eads. A bill
was introduced by Mr.. Burrows, of Michi-
gan, to provide for the transportation OF
foreign mails. 1t directs the postmaster
general, before the list of July, 1886, and
To tor itlfn
contracts with the lowest responsible bid
der at q rate not exceeding 30 cents per
mile on the outward trips or actual nautical
miles travelled between the terminal points.
tor the transportation OF mails for the
United States between any port of the
United States and the ports of the Pac1hc
and south Atlantic oceans, the gulf of
Mexico. and the Caribbean sea. The ships
with which such Contracts shall be made
shall be of American register and manned
by American crews. and the contracts shall
extend for term of five years, and all YES
sells so engaged shall in time OF war be sub
ject to purchase or charter by the United
States at reasonable rates. The president
is authorized to enter into treaty negOtia-
tiOnS with the governments OF the several
countries of Central and South America,
Asia, and the islands of the Pacific for the
concerted support Of such steamship mail
facilities as may be established.
Representative Holman Introduced a bill
to prohibit all persons or corporations
which are owners or licen'ecs of patents
granted by the United States from with
drawing any machine OF process from pub
lie use because OF any regulation OF the
tariff charges by the legislature of any
state wherein the machine or process is be-
ing used without the c0nsent of the legis-
lature.
April. 20.-Mr O'Donnell, of Michigan,
from the committee on education, reported
senate bill to provide for the study of
the nature of alcoholic drinks and narcotics
and their effects upon the human system In
the military and naval academies and in
the Indian and public schools of the terri
tories and OF the District OF Columbia. The
bill was placed OIL the house calendar. The
report accompanying the bill states that
nearly two million men and women have
petitioned the legislatures OF the different
states for similar laws, and up TO the pres
cnt year the wishes of the people have been
complied with in fourteen states. AS an
evidence that the people earnestly desire a
law like the one suggested, the committee
points to the fact that petitions bearing the
names of II, GIG persons have been present.
ed to this congress asking fol its enactment
Tine effect Of similar laws in the different
states where they arc enforced has, In the
opinion of the committee, proven most
salutary. Such laws lead TO progress and
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