Los Angeles daily herald., 1888-04-17

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stood in the House that the Mills
Tariff bill will be called up for con.
sideration to-day. No further action
has been taken on the subject by the
Committee on Ways and Means
whose regular meeting is to-day.
The President this afternoon sent
to the Senate the following nomin-
ations: Frank Nicholson, of Missouri,
to be assayer Of the United States as
sayer's Office at st. Louis, Mo. Rob.
ert Colvert, Wisconsin, surveyor oi
customs for the port of Lacrosse Wis.
w. T. Walthall, Mississippi, consul Of
the United States at Demarara; Har-
vey E. Shields, Indiana, receiver oi
public moneys at Seattle, formerly
Olympia washington Territory.
At a special meeting of the Com
mittee on Labor yesterday morning,
Chairman O'Neill, of Missouri, was
instructed by unanimous vote tore
port to the House his Arbitration bill,
which embodies, in addition to the
features of bill already agreed to,
provision for the appointment of a
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vestigate all strikes and report the re-
suit OF the inquiries toCongress. He was
also instructed to report bill restrict
ing the sale OF convict-made goods to
the State in which they are produced.
The Conference Committee upon
the bills which have passed both
houses of Congress, providing for q
conference in Washington next spring
OF the representatives of various
American governments, reached an
agreement to-day. The bill. as agreed
upon, will appropriate $4,000 and
will declare that the subjects of dis
cussion must be fully specified in ad-
vance and will authorize the appoint
ment of ten delegates-six by the
President, two by the Senate and two
by the House.
The Comptroller of the Currency
has authorized the Ellensburg Ma
tional Bank, of Ellensburg, w. T., to
begin business with capital of $780,
600.
The Senate Committee on Public
Buildings and Grounds yesterday
passed favorably upon the bill for the
public building at San Diego, CAL, at
a cost of 100000.
The President yesterday returned to
the Senate unsigned acts granting
pensions to Hannah Langdon, Betsy
Mansfield and Laura A. Wright.
These acts are vetoed ON the ground
that death did not result from injuries
received during the war, or sickness
incident to army services.
Repree ative Amos Cummings, of
New York, yesterday introduced two
amendments to the Interstate Com
merce bill. One provides that all
contracts between railroads and others
for freight or passenger traffic shall be
public, and the second prohibits all
such transportation in bond through
the Canadian territory as now takes
place between San Francisco.
The Commissioner of the General
Land Office has sustained the decision
of Surveyor. General Heise in denying
the application of j. A. Reavis and
wife for preliminary survey Of the
alleged Peralta private land claim in
Arizona,
Anderson, of Kansas. has intro
duced a bill which proposes a new
solution of the Pacific Railroad prob
lem. The bill is drawn for the ppr-
pose of providing 1easible method
for operating the Pacific road after
its acquisition by the foreclosure Of
the Government g moNgage-a method
which shall at once yield to the
United States an assumed income on
it's investment, and also secure the
people against the abuses OF dis
elimination.
POOLS AND MONOPOLIEs.
For this purpose it enacts that the
Government shall purchase the first
mortgage bonds with the surplus in
the Treasury to protect the second
mortgage, and after the foreclosing OF
the latter the road shall be operated
as public highway and be open to
any carrier of freight upon the pay
ment of uniform and regulated tolls
for the use of its track.