The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1888-03-23
ouse then adjourned .
COMMITTEES Work.

Committee Work
WASHINGTON, March 22.-The Senate
committee to examine into the present
condition OF the civil service organized
this morning, and subcommittee was
authorized to go to Philadelphia next
week to examine witnesses.
The committee on ways and means,
to day. formally directed favorable
report for the Mills tariff bill. The bill
Was amended this morning at the in
stance of Democratic members as fol-
lows: The 25 pr cent. duty on tarle-
tans, mulls and iiGrinoline5 was changed
TO the present Iutv, 40 per cent. The
duty on paddy was fixed at cent per
pound, whiting and Paris white were
stricken rom the free list, and the duty
fixed at 20 Ter cent. al UdIOrcm. LIN
seed was removed from the free list and
lie duty fixed at 10 cents per gallon;
are bfIcK W alS0 exempted from the
free list. the committee adjourned
subject to the call OF the chairman. The
present understanding is that the bil.
will be reported to the House on Satur-
iav.
The House committee on revision of
laws decided almost unanimously to
report joint resolution, proposing an
mpndment to the Constitution for the
election of United States senators by
direct votes of the people.
The House judiciary committee has
ordered th5 OateS bill. King the salaries
of United States district judges re-
the Judge of the northern district OF
y oil
western districts are increased from
$500 to $4,000.
Favorable reports were ordered by
the House committee on public lands,
on the following resolutions: Blu
rhan2ns, calling on the Secretary of
thu Interior for iufOrmat ton in regard
alleged frauds perpetrated by the
California Redwood Company; Whites
calling for information respecting TIL
Rocky Mountain forest lands; White s.
call ng for the report of Special Agen'
Bower on timber lands; Peters, calling
for information in regard to certain
delays 10 enti OF public lands, and
one by Anderson, of Kansas, cal ing for
information n regard to the condition
of land granted aided Pacific railroad
companies This last resolution was
amended by striking out the last para
graus, directing The committee to
rra,ne 3 bill declaring the forfeiture OF
grants, which was d lie because the
natter Is already under consideration
~ tie committee in connection with
the general subject of forfeitures.
II BEGIN ENQUIRY.
A Subcommittee oil the House COM
mitsee on military affairs organized to-
day to begin an enquiry into the mat
'ers alleged in the Grosvenor resolution
as to using the insertion of unofficial
lists in the rebellion records. Nj Culcbon
submitted the memory of facts in The
case as revealed by the records that
they relate eGtir ly to the conduct of
the Fifteenth Pennsylvania Cavalry at
The battle of Murfressboro. Aad II IS
ated that il the appendix OF volume
20 series l, part ., prepared by Colonel
Lazelle, is a list of 453 mem
bers of this cavalry orga who
are REPRESENTED as having gone to
he front and as having been engaged
in the battle OF Murfree s5oro. when the
body OF the same volume shows the lis
of nut about 200 of those engaged. It
is stated that while the list given in the
appendix .urporJs to have formed part
of an official report to General f jss-
Grams, it is really an article which ap-
peared in several Philadelphia
newspapers. Officia. reports in the
body of the work show q total of sixty
four names of members of the regime
who took part in the ba tie which d.
not appear in this appendix. The
committee decided to subpoena Colonel
LazelIe, III charge of the records of pub
Iication. General GroSyenor, mover OF
the resolution, and General Rosecrans
to appear before it and give their testi
mODy.