The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1886-12-16
coNeREssroNAL.
TIE SENATE

I En6 6AHATEa
morrill,, from the committee on finance,
! reported back fayorsbly bill to the sen-
ate Tor the retirement and fecoInage Of
trade dollars and bill to prevent frauds
on American manufacturers,
Among the bills introduced and referred
were the following:
Marrison, By request. to increase the
ensions of those who have disabilities
equivalent to the loss OF hand or foot.
On motion of Hosr, the house amend
ments tothe electoral count bill were non
concurred in by the senate, and confer.
euce waS asked.
Mcpherson introduced q bill to amend
the oleomsrgariae bill. Also q bill for
The presentation of medals to each of the
officers and soldiers who volunteered for
three months setv3ee under the Presidents
cellln April Is, 1851.
On motion OF Ingalls, the senate took
up the bill directing that none Of the ave-
hues, streets, alleys OF reservations Of
the city Of Washington be occupied for
other than ordinary purposes without
the consent of congress being first OBJ
tanned After considerable debate tue
bill passed.
peAltDG the tenure OF office Law, and
Edmunds took the floor in opposition to
the bill.
's-'{ 81 HOUSE,.
The speaker lHlo before the house Q
letter from the secretary of the treasury
submitting hook of estimates for the
fiscal year of 1888.
Belmont OF New York, from the COM
piEcee on foreign sffairs, reported back q
resolution calling on the secretary Of the
treasury for information as to what in
terpretatiCn is gwen bV the treasury
department to the tariff law Of 1888,
which In one section declares that fresh
fish for im mediAte consumption shall be
free OF tax on arrival at our sea and lake
ports, and In another section declares
that foreign caught f1sh and imported
fresh fab shall be taxed at the rate OF
fifty cents per hundred pounds. Also
r. requesting him to trans NIT copies OF all
Off 3lal correspondence on the subject
with q statement Of the duties collected
each year STAGE 1855 on several deecrip-
lions OF fssh caug ht on the lakes OF Can
ada, the tributaries thereof or In the
north Atlantic. Adopted.
The house then went into q committee
of the whole, Hammond Of GcorgIs In
the chair, on the sundry civil Appropri-
alton bill.
Mir. Ryan of Kansas and Mr.. Long OF
Massachusetts criticist d the bill IS being
inadequate and commended that the ap-
preparations we're made not with an eye
to the public service. but with a view TO
preparations of This year should exceed
the appropriation of last year for q
similar object. Mr.. Long also took oc-
IcAsion to criticise the president for fail
ing to make permanent appointment OF
q superintendent Of the coast survey.
Phe president was forgetting that So
public office ia q public trust" was neg
Letting bis duty and was making the
coast survey the sport of public ridicule
An failirg to make this appointment.
PRESIDENTIAL APPOINTMENTS.
/ The president TO day sent 70 the senate
for confirmation another long list Of re-
cess appointments. Among them are
the following collectors Of customs {:
Danq MaRone, New York city; D. J..
osmpsn, Detroit, Mich. Collectors Of
Internal revenue: Nelson T. Acers, dis
itrict Of Kansas; s, 81. Calhoun, district
,of Nebraska; Q. B. Morton. OF Maine,
commissioners OF navigation. Post
masters: Efank Cummings, Ashland,
Kss; z P Bancroft, MankatO, Kas; Jno.
Boston, New Kiowa, Kas; G. M. Moore,
P'esssnton, Kae; w. r. Cannon, Norton,
! .Gs5u GOV. ROBINSON APPOINTED.
Charles L. Robinson, the WEE COVER
nor of Kansas, has been appointed SUI
,perintendent OF the Haskell Industrial
school for Indian children at Lawrence,
Kan, vice Arthur GFAbOweski, resigned
F ~ APPOINTED BANK EXAMINER.
The cnmptroIler Of the currency has
appointed Homer w. Nash TO be bank
Examiner for The Detroit district in the
place # John p. Hogarth, deceased.
oLEOMARGARIEE COLLECTIONS.
The secretary of the treasury to- day
transmitted 70 the senate q report pre-
pared by Mr.. Miller, commissioner of
the internal revenue In answer to Senator
Ingalls, resolution calling for information
IN regard tn the operations OF the Oleo-
margarine laws. By this report IL ap-
pears that since November i, the date al
which the law W.nt into operation spec
sal taxes proyided for therein have been
assessed On thirty -f'"r manufacturers
Of oleOmarparine, on 2C6 wholesale deal
ers and 2,l45 retail dealers The num-
Der OF pounoa of oleemarHarines sesessed
at 2 cents per pound was ,430,1 IVA. A
table is given. showing the number Of
persona and firms WHO have paid Jhe
special taxes imposed and the quantity
IF the oieomargarlDe assessed 10 eacn
collection district OF the U0ited States.
This shows that the principal collections
were In the First Illinois district, where
256l3, 200 pounds were taxed. The other
uistTicIs where the collections were
above the average were as follows
Colorado, 101 951 pounds Kansaa, 27S, =,
551s Taird Massachusetts,, $50 1914; Flrs,
NJ w York, 191 979; Second New York,
255 454 Rhode IsIand, 24S, 1928. OF the
manufacturing establishments ten ara In
the First Illinois dIstricr, five in Kansas,
three in the s. cond New York, three 10
rhe Eighteenth Ohio and five In Rhode
Island. In the case OF Rhode IsINnd the
collection returns are complete only to
November 10, v hich is also the csse with
many of the districts to which the COL
lections appear 70 be small,