Los Angeles daily herald., 1888-09-01
WASHINGTON WAITS.
The Senatc's Busy Finance Com
mittee-NOteS.

mittee-NOtes.
WASHINGTON, August Ex-senator AL
lison, Chairman OF the Subj Committee
of the Senate Committee on Finance,
having in charge the preparation of the
Tariff bill, gives notice in accordance
with the understanding reached at last
nights conference, that parties who wish
a hearing before the Committee must
make their appearance in ten days.
Hearings by the Committee began
May 26th, last, and have been
continued almost every day since.
Several hundred interested parties
have been heard, including many delega-
tions of workingmen, and information
has been sought from every possible
source. The evidence has been steno-
graphically reported and printed from
day to day for the information of any
who cared to examine it. The next ten
days, it is expected, will be busy time,
since, in addition to hearing evidence,
the subcommittee will have to COM
plete its elaborate report on the bill.
BILL TO RESTRICT EPIDEMIC DISEASES.
Senator Harris, from the Committee
on Epidemic Diseases, reported to-day
the substitute bill prepared by the
Treasury Department to prevent the in
PRODUCTION Of diseases from one State to
another. 1t authorizes the President to
cause the Secretary of the Treasury to
make and promulgate such rules and
regulations as in his judgment may be
necessary to prevent the spread from
one State or Territory to another OF
cholera, yellow fever, smallpox or
plague, and to employ as many inspectors
and other persons as may be necessary
to carry the regulations into effect. 1t
is made a misdemeanor, punishable by
fine and imprisonment, to violate the
regular orders.
sUNDRY AMENDMENTS AND RECoMMENDA-
TIoNs.
Senator Manderson to-day reported
favorable. with amendments, from the
Military Committee, the bill introduced
by Senator Sawyer to give to soldiers
who served ninety days, or more, and
were discharged on account of disease
contracted in the line of duty, the same
bounty to which they would be entitled
if discharged for wounds.
Senator Farwell to-day offered an
amendment to the law relating to the
immediate transportation of dutiable
goods, the effect and intention of which
is to permit an importer in the interior
to ship portion instead of the whole of
an importation to an interior place of
destination, and pay the duty on the re-
mainder at New York, without providing
separate invoices and bills of lading.
PATENT OFFICE BUSINESS FALLING OFF,
B. J. Hall, Commissioner of Patents,
in his annual report to the Secretary of
the Interior, says: The total number of
applications received during the year
was 40,177, decrease of S47. The num-
Der OF patents granted and trade marks
and labels registered was 22,1O1, as
against 23,217 for last year. The total
receipts for the year were I,122, ,944, a
decrease of 1894. The expenditures
were 1858, ,730, a decrease of $27 ,9l4, the
surplus being $3.50, 1854. On June 3Oth
last there were 7,227 cases on hand
awaiting action, as against 1901 on June
80, 1887.
HABEAS CORPUS COURTS UNDER CONTROL,
Assistant Secretary Maynard has writ
ten S. d. Lucas, of Fort Madison. Ia. in
reply to a letter from him, informing
him that the Treasury Department is en-.
deavoring with all the means at its dis
posal to carry out the requirements of
the Chinese Restriction act so as to pre-
vent the introduction of Chinese labor in
the United States, adding that the De.
partment has now control over the action
OF the United States courts which have
allowed Chinese laborers to enter the
United States under writs of habeos
CORPUS