The Red Cloud chief., 1888-01-27
GRAIN BOUNTIES.
, Points Of Turner'S Bill to Pay
an Export Duty on Co.
reals.
The Bounty to Go to American Vessels
The Massachusetts, Peace Com
mittee Received.
Complaints of Poor Mail Service in Kan
sas-Sigual Service Financially
Strappsd-Etc.

WASHINGTON, Jan. 23.-Congressuan
Turner, OF Kansas, introduced a bill to-day
to pay. q bounty On all expectations OF
American wheat, -four and corn. The
bounty on wheat will be fixed at sever
cents a bushel, which on "a, O93, ZOO bushels,
the amount exported last year, would be
t6, ,O0Q The bounty on q bushel OF corn
will be the same, seven cents, and as the
exports Of corn last year were 36,OOO.OO0
bushels, the bounty on that amount would
be S2,52O,0O0 100000 0 barrels OF flour were
also exported last year. and At the rate Of
so cents Q barrel, which is the amount OF
bounty proposed in the bill, 1t would be
e8, OOO, 900. The annual bounty upon wheat,
corn and -four, provided the amount OF
annual exports remains the same as last
year, would be SIG. 100000. This, 1t Is
claimed, is exactly the amount Of money
which was paid for freight on the exports
Of wheat, corn and -four last year from
New York to Liverpool.
The present rate on wheat or corn is. &c
peI hpShel, and on flour soc per BARREL and
the author OF the bill hopes to remove
this shipping charge by the payment OF Q
bounty equal to it, and thus AFFORD the
farmer q higher price for his products
without increasing the cost 10 the Ameri-
can consumer. Then, to add to the en-
enlargement Of American shipping inter-
e0ts, he proposes to pay a bounty OF EXC
Dor bushel to all owners Of American YES
Dels which shall carry the exports Of
wheat, corn or -four, the only stipulation
being that the vessel shall be American
built and shall be owned by citizens Of the
Hy>sAAA 0knHAs HYN4~ Cha hneya ~ Iaat
years exports, the annual bounty to Amer
lean vessels would amount to g. 46,O 600.
UNIVERSAL PEACE.
WAsHINoToN, Jan. IA memorial from
the Massachusetts, committee Of fifty re-
Gently formed to cooperate with the Brit
lsh ~dcputation of peace and arbitration,
representing 2S3 members Of the House Of
Commons, which visited Washington in No
vember, was presented to the President
on Saturday by Mr.. Edwin D. Mead, Of
Boston, representing the committee. The
memorial is signed by the Governor Of
Massachusetts,, the mayor of Boston, Presi-
dent Eliot Of Harvard University, Presi-
dent Seelye of Amherst College. Edward
Everett Hale, Rev. Phillips Brooks,
Rev. Joseph Cook, Andrew p. Peabody,
Leverett Saltonstall, Alexander II. Rice,
Charles Theodore Russell, and many Of tho
leading scholars and business men Of Mas
D~achusetts. MI. Mead, in behalf Of tho
committee, urged the importance of the OBJ
portunity offered by the proposition Of the
British memorialists for a definite step In
the Inauguration Of q settled policy Of arbi-
tfation with Great Britain, which could not
DO without signal influence upon the world
At large. The President, while conscious
Of certain practical difficulties, expressed
warm sympathy with the general :causc,
and his belief that the time could notrb6
distant wien the nations ::would.l6ok back
with amazement upon their present system
Of wars. A similar memorial from the Mas
sachusetts committee will be presented by
Mr.. Hoar in the Senate.
PooR NAIL SERVICE.
>wAsn1Ss1SS,. Jan. ea:cRsPresentative
Perkins, Of KANSAS, wants the railway
mail service regulated in the West. he
offered . resolution in the House Saturday,
which was prefaced by q long editorial
from . Topeka paper, complaining Of the
service In Kansas and characterizinR il -
the worst on record. Mr.. Perkins SAYS the
complaint Of poor mail service is universal
in Kansas, aud not oniy is Topeka discom.
NODDED, but that every town in the State
suffers from q mail service that instead Of
getting better gets worse. He, therefore.
asked leave 70 presents resolution calling
lpon the Postnas,er-Genera for informa-
ton IS to whether the inferior mail ser.
nee complained OF results from the ap-
continent. OF inexperienced or incapable
from inadequate appropriations
% meet the q of the Post Office De-
partment and tho needs Of the people, or
from any other cause which may be rein
sdied. SeveEPl 0 the Democratic members
nterpOsed with q demand for the regular
order, aud the resolution was withdrawn.
THE SIGNAL SERVICE.
WAsnIScToN.' Jan. 2s-Gencral Greely.
Chief Signal Officer, was before the House
Appropriation COMMITTEES SATURDAY. 10 urge.
that Immediate .rn-=--s.. Ia: = - g
mai2tain SigSal Service statloas IN various
places nrincinaiiv ~ tho West, nauy of
which had already been discontinued. and
sther s~tatiops'at important points would
befO$ci TO discontinuance unless
prompt action was taken TO provide the
means to pay he necessary expenses.
General Greeiy stated that the usefulness
81 the Signal Ser.icc was greatly crippled
because the last Congress cut down appro.
priati2ns to the n~arrowe,t limit. BE prc.n-
tsed the conmt.ss tina, II this mitter was
gixen pg2SptS ftentlon the.weAern sta.
tf9hs Void be prefer rcd in r~e-es,ablsh-
ment and mainten1nc,.
Villas vExEp.
WAsrtSGroS. Jan. 3i-Secrc,ary vl,ux
has q SmallsiEtd row on his hlnd< with htx