Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1888-02-03
AT THE CAPITOL TO-DAY.
District In Congress.


PROPOSED LAND COURT IN WASHINGTON.
The committee on private land claims will re-
port general bill TO the House. prepared by the
chairman, Mr.. McCreary, establishing land court
in Washington to settle all the private land claims
In the territories
SUITABLE PREMISES FOR TIE CITY rosr-oFFrcr.
In the House to-day bill was favorably reported
from the post-office committee to empower the
Postmaster General to lease suitable premises IN
the city OF Washington for the purposes Of the
washington city post-ofhce.
The Lowry White Contest.
IT GOES OVER UNTIL To-MoRRow-THE REPUBLICANS
MAKING A SHARP FIGHT.
The republicans are going to make a hard tight
to retain Mr.. White In his seat. The grounds upon
which IL is proposed to unseat him is that he was
not naturalized citizen OF long enough
standing to entitle him to sit in
Congress He claims that he was naturalized
twenty Yeas ago, and that the failure Of the
records TO show this is due to the neglect Of the
clerk of the court. He presents In proof
NJ Hesses ems to his naturalza S papers
There VIII be hard fight over the case and It is
believed that the democrats will not be able TO
cans viii resort to filiOasterins. i VIII Be
asserted that there are other members in the
House who might be unseated II they were
required TO show OF record that they were prop
erly naturalizsd. II is said that Mr.. Farquhar, OF
New York, would find 1t difficult to show records
citizenship The records in his case were destroyed
at the Chicago fire, and his own private papers
were lost during the war.
Capitol Topics.
THE BRITISH EXPOSITION TREATY.
The features Of the pending exIradition treaty
with Great Britain, making persons extraditab!e
for larceny or ENLIGHTENMENT as well as for assaults
upon life with dynamite and other explosives are
not new. They were in the treaty as 1t
stood before the Senate last session, and that
was the great bone OF contention that under the
dynamite clause Irish patriots taking refuge In
this country could be eXtradited. The embezzle-
ment feature is the one OF importance to the
United States, in order that Canada may no
this country. II is understood that the
foreign relations committee made some change in
tnese features looking to q clear distinction
between political Offenses and crime under the
dynamite clause, but the provisions are not new.
WAR CLAIMS.
The House committee on war claims reported to
the House to-day the bill TO reimburse the several
states for interest on moneys expended by them
on account OF raising troops to suppress the re-
bellion.
PENSION FEES.
The House committee on invalid pensions will
report favorably Mr. Dockery's bill prohibiting the
allowance OF any fee on acclaim for increase Of
pension en- account or the increase of disability
Ior winch the original pension was allowed.
THE PROPOSED TRUST INVESTIGATION.
The subcommittee OF the House committee on
manufactures to whom was delegated the matter
OF determining upon some line of action In regard
to the proposed investigation into trusts pools and
other combinations, was unable to report at this
mornings meeting OF the full committee anything
lurthur than that progress was being made Some
delay has been caused owing TO the illness OF Mr..
Bacon, chairman OF the committee, but he now
says that the investigation will soon begin, and
that the committee VIII be glad to receive any
data In regard to POOLS trusts &C., from any per-
sons VINO have any knowledge OF this character.