Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1888-05-04
AT THE CAPITOL TO-DAY.


GOV. swEEFokDs ALLEGATIONS AaAusf n!
The Secretary OF the Interior to-day Transmitted
10 the House report BY Gov. Swfneford, Of Alas
ka upon the operations OF the ALASKA seal ant
Fur Co. ALASKA Commercial Coy In which he al
leges that the company has grossly abused thu
natives, and attaches an af1davit 70 sustain hi.
last annual report that it would be better to allow
every fur-seal 10 be extermnAted than 70 continue
20 6ligating monopoly.
son, resident Of California who says he was In the
employ Of the Alaska company and deputy mar
shal &C onnalsska As an Illustration OF the com
court he details cases where he found himself II
conflict with the company whenever he attempted
that no United states oficiai can properly perform
his duty In Alaska wherever the company has any
interests. without mourning its disploasure and
coming into open hostility with its agents.
THE SEAL FIsHERIsS.
The Secretary OF the Treasury to-day sent to
the House his answer TO the resolution calling fol
Information in regard to the contract OF the
Alaska Commercial Company TO take seals In
Alaska. The Secretary says that the lease to take
years. from Nay l. is7o was sfm made II, s"s Az.
gust 1870. to the Alaska Commercial Com
Pany, corporation established under the laws Of
California, upon condition and under circum.
stances specified In copy Of the lease submitted
and that the condition relative TO the tax oil
90 cents per gallon on seal oil was resctnded by q
Richardson, then Secretary OF the Treasury. The
total receipts BY the Government from the seal
fisheries her from May, 1870. 70 June, 1887, were
count were 99,9O1. The Secretary says that
the records OF the Department as far as he Ia ad-
vised show no violation OF the terms OF the lease
the vessels seized and reported that have been
taking seals without authority OF law.
OIL TRUST INVESTIGATION.
TestimOnv BEFORE the I4ouse co,,mit-
tee ON Manufactures To-day.
Mr.. George Rice, Of Marietta, Ohio, was recalled
at the beginning OF the investigation by the
House committee on manufactures to-day. Wit
ness produced statements showing the difference
In tariff rates on coal oil and cotton-seed Oil on the
Missouri Pacific and the Queen and Crescent Rail-
roads, coal Oil going South and cotton-seed OF
North. The Louisville and Nashville Railroad OIL
Gals have absolutely refused to give witness rates
south from Nashville, and he was obliged to ship
1t in roundabout way, and pay heavier tarifl
than that charged to other dealers. For the past
five or six years he had received sletters from per-
sons buying oil OF him in which they complained
that they had been
THREATENED BY THE STANDARD OIL co.
for purchasing Oil from him. He had large num-
bers OF those letters and would produce them be-
fore the committee. The witness did not think
the interstate commerce act was radical enough.
There were two important amendments needed.
acI should apply to the shipper as Wen as to the
Carrier, and That these 1neS and penalties should
20 TO the informer instead Of to the Government.
District I'm Congress.
THE AMENDMENTS
to be offered to the Farweu bill In the Senate to
authorize the Baltimore and Potomac Railroad
Company to acquire additional property in South
Washington, proposes to exempt all property west
provides that the road shall take no property that
Is used for church purposes
Capitol Topics.
MEMORIALS.
Representative SIS. Cox OF New York, presented
in the House to-day for appropriate reference the
and Slocum, and other members OF the Army OF
the Potomac, asking for an appropriation OF t2 OOC
TO aid in meeting the expenses or the Iraternal
union OF the survivors OF the Army OF the Potomac
and the armies of Northern Virginia, to be held on
the battlefield OF Gettysburg, in July next, "a
commemorate the twenty NTH anniversary OF that
conflict. From Hiram Berdan, OF New York. ask.
ing an appropriation for the erection OF q mOnu.
ment to the first and second regiments Of United
states sharpShOoters at Gettysburg.
SENATOR VOORHEES, CONFINED TO HIS ROOM.
Senator voorhees, did not go to Indiana, as he
had purposed, but he Is confined to his room in
this city with painful carbuncle on one OF his
legs. He has been suffering with 1t for more than
a week, and the last day he was in the senate he
could not stand without pain.
NOTES.
The conferees on the bill providing for a confer.
ence OF American nations have reached an agree.
ment upon the one point at ISSUE The President
is authorized to appoint the ten American com.
mlssiOners by and with the advice and consent OF
the Senate.
The House committee on elections has approved
the report prepared by the subcommittee on the
California contested election case OF Lynch VS..
Vandever In favor OF Vandever.
Representative McMillin OF Tennessee, will ad-
dress the Virginia Democratic Association TO-
mir