Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1886-05-05
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Tho dairy interests of all sections OF the
country are represented before the Senate
committee on agriculture to advocate the
placing of a tax upon the manufacture and
sale of oleomargarine AMI other limitations OF
butter. Several representatives of the dairy
interests have made strong appeal to the com.
mittee to pass tho pending bill toprevent the
illegal sale of all limitations of dairy products.
A considerable feeling is being aroused in
Congress in favor of the bill to establish
commission to have charge of the erection Of
government buildings hereafter the plans to
be submitted to competition among private
architects.
The President has pardoncd W. II. GoodelI,
master of the schooner Gov. Robe of Maine,
who was convicted Of ilI-treatmcnt of his
crew, and sentenced to pay fine of $500 and
to be imprisoned for four months.
Secretary Manning has definitely notified
the President that h will not SO back to t'o
Treasury Department even if he Ic-
gains, in n measure, his health. Mr.
Cleveland has accepted the resignation
and is now thinking over the succession.
He would like TO promote Assistant Secrc-
tary Fairchild, but that gentleman is rather
independent politically, and the stalwart
democrats say that tho President will select
one of their number If Fairhid is put at
the head of the department, they will regard
it as n declaration that they are not wanted
A bill has recently been introduced into the
Senate, provides that on the first of July next
the signal service bureau shall be abolished
and in its place shall be established bureau
to be styled the weather bureau, to be under
the direction of the secretary of war.
The House committee on foreign affairs
have agreed to report favorably Mr. Bel
mont's Chinese indemnity bill which appro-
PIRATES STAG, 900 to indemnify the Chinese for
losses incurred by the Rock Springs riots
TIE House has made a favorable report on
the Morrow bill which places further restric-
tions upon the entrance of Chinese into the
United States
Chan Yen Woon, Chinese minister TO the
United States, has delivered his credentials
as minister penipotentiary to the President.
The agricultural department is now sending
ont large quantities of the eggs of tho silk
worm by mail to all parts of the country.
The only creative industry in Washington
worth mentioning is house building. And
now the trades unions connected with 1t have
ordered strike for eight hours work, to be-
gin shortly.
The action of the foreign affairs committee
in the house practically puts an end to any
hostile Chinese legislation this year.
The senate committee on education and Ia.
Dor has reported favorably the joint resolu.
ton to provide that all per diem employees of
the government shall be allowed Decoration
Day as a holiday, and shall receive the same
pay as on other days.
The Presidents veto of the bill devoting
bodies of certain paupers in the District OF
Columbia to anatomical purposes has been
sustained by the Senate.
The house committee has agreed to report
favorably bill for public building at Do.
yer, N. H., which has already passed the
senate. In the house it is proposed to cut
down the amount from 500, 900 to $4,000,