Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1888-01-23
General Washington News

An Associated Press reporter tonight IN
quired of Speaker Carlisle what truth there
was in the report that he would on Monday
send a letter to the House requesting that
the Thube- Carlisle case be reopened and
that "A committee be sent into the sixth Ken
lucky district. The speaker authorized the
following denial of the report to be made
public: Il have not contemplated such
step. The House must take its own course
dictation from me.
The sessions of the fisheries commission
were resumed this afternoon.
1t is stated that L. B. loumans, chief
clerk of the treasury department, is about to
resign to engage in private business.
Acting Commissioner Stockslager of the
general land office, has recommended to the
secretary of the treasury that li,ljO acres in
the indemnity limits and 2761 in the granted
limits of the branch line of the Chicago, St
PAM. Minneapolis 4 Omaha railway, lo,SSS.
in the indemnity limits and 1890 in the grant
ed limits of the main line of the same road,
be approved and carried into patent. The
acting commissioner has approved and sent
to patent during the week 1888 cases.
So far as can be learned at this time the
republicans in Congress have adopted no
fixed policy with regard to the surplus but
will wait tor the democrats to propose some
measure. no matter " hat. that they may op-
pose it, The democrats in this Congress, as
in the last, are without II leader. In the
last Congress they we're simply a disorgan-
lied mob Mr. Mills of Texas, has been
recognized by them as a leader, but his inn
petuositv one day last week with regard to
trivial matter which came up in the House,
caused good many of his friends TO desert
him.
Tht democratic plan is now to hold eau
Gus aud there settle upon some plan for the
reduction of the tariff. The low tarif wing
of the party is nevertheless in much trepida-
ton lest their high tariff colleagues should
manifest a non-compromising spirit This
spirit has already been shown by Mr.. Randall
and others. They are quite willing for re-
duction of the tariff so long as that reduc-
ton does not change the duties Oh articles in
which they are specially interested. 10 add
To the complication it is said that the Presi-
dent has resolved to veto any measure which
fails materia ly short of the recommendations
OF his message.
Senator FRYE is preparing to make tariff
speech in the Senate on Monday which will
be an elaboration of the speech he made at
the Home Market club in Boston last fall.
The democrats are sending out the PreSl-
dents message by the ten thousand all over
the country and the republicans feel that
they need some speech more popular in char
acter than Sherman's to go with the latter to
meet the President before the people. Mr..
Frvc is expected to furnish speech which
can be distributed to advantage east and
west Meanwhile Mr.. Blair is fretting be
cause senators who wish to speak on the
Blair educational bill do not finish their
spa,aI.l tlat he ga uptg "A tb,,
bill
Mr. Dockery of Missouri, recently intro
duced a bill which aimed at claim agents who
seek to work mp business at the expense of
pensioners. 1t provides that no attorney
shall receive any fees on account of any ad-
vance of the rate of a pensioner, providing
such advance in rating is on account of the
disability which existed at the time of the
original rating. Mr.. D0ckery said that every
new pensioner in his district, and he found
on inquiry that the same is true of other dis
tricts, receives soon after his pension certifl-
cate is issued, a circular from some Wash
iugton claim agent assuring him that his rat
ing is too low. and that if he will retain the
claim agent aforesaid the injustice will be
remedied. The fact is that such ratings can
be made only on report of the local board
of medical examiners, and the pensioner has
only to apply to the pension bureau TO obtain
authority Ia appear before such local board.
The bill mas the approval of the members of
the committee on invalid pensions, without
distinction of party, and also of the commits
sioncr of pensions.
Representative Dunn of Arkansas today
obtained leave to have printed in the Record
the following amendment, which he proposes
to offer TO the Wilkins banking bill That
F Sc. h.s,l
gold and silver bullion with the treasurer or
assistant treasarers in amounts not less in
value than $4,000, and receive therefor
certificates in denominations of 50, slo, $50,
$50, sl00 or $500. as the depositor may elect
fractional parts of sl0 or any deposit of
bullion to be paid for in coin. Such certihi-
Gates shall be receivable for all public dues.
and shall be legal tender except where pay
meut in coin is expressly stipulated. They
( shall be redeemable III coin on presentation
at the treasury OF at the sub-treasury in New
York.
I That the value or ratio to gold at which
certificates shall he issued on silver bullion
shall be its actual ratio or market value at
( the time of deposit, 10 be determined by the
secretary of the treasury for each calendar
month by taking the average selling price of
silver bullion as expressed in gold dollars in
the open market at New York during the
preceding month which price shall be the
value OF ratio to goll at which certificates
shall be issued during The succeeding months
provided, that certificates shall not be issued
in silver bullion at value above the ratio
of silver 10 gold as now fixed by law fol-
standard gold and silver coins. That when
any of the certificates are redeemed in coin
they shall be cancelled and destroyed, but
certificates received for public dues, or il