Los Angeles daily herald., 1888-05-08
WASHINGTON VIKINGS.
Notes from Com mmittee Rooms and
Executive Departments.

Notes from Committee Rooms and
Executive Departments.
WASHINGTON, May Bond offers
this morning amounted to $2,769 800.
The Secretary Of the Treasury ac-
cepted $l1 300.
A pension has been granted Jose
Mascarel, of Los Angeles.
Thomas Brown, of Montana, has
been nominated United States Consul
at Paramaribo.
The Senate Committee on Public
Buildings to-day ordered favorable
report on the bills for public buildings
at Reno, New, $50, 900, and Virginia
City, New, $4,000.
Senator Edmunds has reported the
Fisheries treaty adversely, submitting
a written majority report, and Sena-
tor Morgan has submitted favorable
minority report. Edmunds gave no
tice that he would call up the treaty
week hence.
WASHINGTON, May 7. = Secretary
Fairchild has decided that "fiour
sticks'' are dutiable at the rate of 25
per cent. and t'bean sticks" at 80 per
cent. Both articles are imported by
Chinese merchants for making soup.
A question had been raised as to their
proper classification.
RIVER AND HARBoR BILL.
WASHINGTON, May 7. = Several
amendments have been incorporated
in the River and Harbor bill, which
passed the House to-day by vote Of
l61 to 50, since it had been last before
the House. The appropriation for
Humboldt harbor, California, is re-
duced from $3.50, 900 to SIPS, 600, while
that for Oakland harbor is increased
from $175, 900 to 5000, 900.
OREGON ROAD LAND GRANTS.
The House Committee on Public
Lands discussed to-day the subject Of
the wagon road grants in Oregon, but
came to no definite conclusion, pend
ing the introd uction by Chairman
Holman in the House of bill declar-
ing forfeited, the land grants for this
purpose, substantially like that ac-
companying the Presidents message,
and this will form the basis OF any ac-
ton the Committee may take in the
mat er.
BELL TELEPHONE REHEARING.
WASHINGTON, May IA petition
for a rehearing OF the Bell telephone
case was filed in the Supreme Court
to-day by the counsel of the Peoples
Telephone Company, who claim that
Daniel Drawbaugh is the real inventor
of the telephone. The decision will
be announced next Monday. The
application can be granted only by
request of one of the three Justices
who concurred in Chief Justice Waite's
opidion upholding the validity of
SELLS claim.
The grounds of the application for
a rehearing are stated to be, first,
that the court, in its opinion, inadver
tently erred in respect to certain mat
ters of fact and Of law material to
and decisive of these cases; and, sec
ond. that in consequence of these
errors the decision of the court was
against the weight of evidence.
The application for a rehearing is
signed by Lysander Hill, George f.
Edmunds, Con M. Dickinson, Charles
T. Crosby and M. @. Andrews, of
counsel for appellants.
FEW BILLS.
The following bills were introduced
in the House:
By Townsend, appropriating $50,-
900 for the erection offs statue to the
memory of General Hancock.
BY Holman, to forfeit certain lands
granted in Oregon for the construc-
ton of wagon roads.
By Phelan, authorizing the publica-
tion of the Documentary History oil
the Financial, Fiscal and Commercial
Records Of the Confederate States. /"
Representative Brown, of Ohio, to-
day introduced bill modifying the
civil service laws. 1t makes eligible
for appointment, without being re.
quired to pass the civil service exam
ination, all honorably discharged Fed
eral soldierss and sailors OF the late
war upon satisfactory evidence oil
good character and capability.
NEGOTIATIONS WITH MOROCCO.
WASHINGTON, May THE follow
ing statement in regard to the Tangiei
affair is issued by the Department o
State: 1t is not true that there has
been any refusal by the Sultan of Mo
rocco to arbitrate. He proposed K
evils some weeks ago to send a specia
agent to Tangier to discuss with Levi:
the matters of difference, and al
questions upon which they coulG
not agree were to be referred to some
third person with the approval of the
State Department. Lewis agreed te
this, and after some discussion as Il
the details a complete understanding
was reached. Meetings were to begiI
on Saturday last. The presence oftht
Quinnebang at Tangier was casual
and had nothing to do with the dis
cussions.
NEW POSTAL BILL.
Senator Frye to-day introduced il
the form Of bill an amendment