Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1886-06-25
Late Eastern News.
Collector Bescher Before the Senate
Committee.

Collector Bescher Before the senate
Committee.
WASHINGTON, June 23.-Daniel
Kepler and H. N. Temple, of Wash
ington Territory, appeared yester-
| day before the Senate Committee on
Commerce, to oppose the confirma-
ton of Ii. F. Beecher, son Of the
great preacher, to be Collector OF
Customs for the District of Puget
Sound. Kepler is the man who sent
by the hands of Captain Beecher a
sum OF money to lie turned into
money orders and mailed to parties
i'll the East. Temple Is The man to
whom Beecher says he gave the
money for the purpose indicated
The money orders we're never re-
ceivei by Kepler's correspondents,
aud the investigation developed an
issue of veracity between Temple
and Beecher. Temple stoutly de-
MED before the committee that
Beecher handed him the money
Capt. Beecher and George Jones,
Of the New York Times, are in at
tendance.
Canada Ordered to Pause.
OTrAwA, June 22.-The latest re-
vel,tion in the fisheries question
shows that the Imperial Governm mt
has intimated by cable through Sir
Charles Upper that under no cir
cutnstances must the present position
of Canada on the fisheries question
be maintained. The British Gov
ernment had expressed itself as de-
ternined, not only not to back Can
ada up, bu! to take such measures
as will stop oil such proceedings in
the future. 1t is this cablegram
received by Sir John Macdonald,
which has brought about the conces-
sions which the Dominion Govern
ment now proposes to make. There
has evidently been piece of mal-ad-
ministration on the part of the Dom
ion Government in not knowing
where it stood.
The A. on. w.
MINNEApoLIs, June 1S.-This even
ing the Grand Lodge Ancient Order
of United Workmeu elected the fol-
lowing officers: Supreme Master
Workmen, Geo. W. Badgerow OF
Toronto; Supreme Foreman, w. H.
Jordan Of Oakland, Cal. Supreme
Overseer, c. NJ. Masters of Sparta,
Wis; Supreme Recorder, Nj. W..
Sackett of Meadville, Pa; Supreme
Receiver, j. II. Henhart OF Mead
vile, Pa; Supreme Guide, A. r.
Graham of Cedar Falls, Iowa; Su-
premo Waterman, John A. Childs
of Portland, Or; Supreme Trustee,
three years, d. b. LOOMS, Buffalo,
N. Y; Supreme Medical Examiner,
Hugh Doherty, Nj. D., Boston, Mass.
Drouth in Kansas.
LAWRENCE, Kan, June 1S-Col. n.
5. Goss, State Bird Commissioner
has returned from southwest Kansas.
lie travelled extensively through
Seward and Marion counties, and
states that many men are hauling
water eight and ten miles for families
and stock, while fuel and wood must
be hauled from tue Arkansas river,
forty and fifty miles away. The
grass is only an inch high, while the
highest weeds are only two or three
inches. There will be absolutely
nothing raised south of the Arkansas
and west of Crooked Creek. From
Crooked creek east they have had
more rainfall, but not sufliciency
to promise crop.
Extending the Presidential Term.
WAsuINGToN, June 1S.-The Sen
ate to-day, by q two-thirds vote,
passed the joint resolution intro
duced by MIR. ingalls,, providing for
the submission to the several States
of a Constitutional amendment ex-
tending the period of the President
term and the second session of the
Flftieth Congress until April Both,
1889, and substituting April 30th
for March 4th as the commencement
in the future of presidential and
Congressional terms. The measure
now goes to the House OF Represen-
tatives for concurrence.
Mormonism in Switzerland.
WAsHINGToN, d. G. June S.-The
United States consul ut Balse, Swi.-
zerland, writes to the Department
of State that the Swiss government
is becoming seriously alarmed at the
great number of converts tie Nor
mon church is making among women
of that republic. He says Mormon
missionaries have been working in
that field for years. They have es-
tablished mission schools, and are
educating children by hundreds in
the doctrines of the Mormon church.
The Swiss authorities have written
to their minister at this place, ask
ing him to inquire OF Secretary Bay
ard if this Government will regard
it as an unfriendly act on their part
if they shall break up the schools
and drive the Mormon missionaries
out of the country.
Women and Children Stop q Train.
At Chicago, the other day, an at
tempt was made to move some cars
loaded with nails made by the new
men at Cummins' works. The wives
and families of the former employees,
numbering 200, packed themselves
in solid mass on the track, and the
attempt was abandoned, but this
afternoon when the engine appeared
again, sixty police officers appeared
on the scene. Two thousand women
and children, feeling sure they would
not be dubbed, thronged the tracks.
The police finally dispersed the mob,
but the cars were not moved. More
trouble is expected tomorrow.
The Cottage Where Grant Died.
WASHINGTON, June 15.-Months
ago a bill was represented in the
House to accept the offer of A. j.