Idaho semi-weekly world. [volume] (Idaho City, Idaho Territory) 1875-1908, 1889-02-12
FROM WASHINGTON.
THE PRESENT OUTLOOK REGARD
ING GERMAN INTERFERENCE.
A Novel Sch eme for Coast Defence-The
Report OF Mexican Outrages I'm
founded-More Bills for Ter
ritorial Admission.

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Charges of bribery were made II
the Senatorial contest in Minnesota.
The Senate has adopted the sugar
bounty amendment to the tariff bill
The Lord Mayor of London gave :
banquet last week in honor of Mr.
Phelps, the American ambassador
The Secretary Of State has received
cable from the consul at Colon, say
ing that affAirs on the Isthmus are
quiet.
The English cabinet disclaims co
operation with the United States re-
gsrding the present misunderstanding
with Germany.
Vice President-elect Morton has
leased the residence Of Alex Graham
Bell, at Washington, and will occupy
it for the next four years.
The supreme court has decided that
broker who fails TO obey the instruc-
tons of his principal in a stock trans.
action, is liable for damages.
The United States District Court al
Baltimore, in a recent de cision, says
tina, the law OF civil rights must be
interpreted by public opinion.
Senator Dolph has presented in the
Senate petition OF sixty-eight citi'
zens Of Bellevue, Idaho, praying fol
the enactment OF prohibition laws.
The War department has been in
formed that rapid progress is being
made by the contractors in supplying
heavy guns and armor- plate forgings,
and rapid firing guns.
The Department OF State is in
formed that the japanese government
has abolished the export duty on
drugs, woven goods, timber, cereals
spirits, beasts, fuel, etc.
Dispatches have been received al
he State department from the Amer
lean minister at Berlin in regard to
the Samoan question. Thar con
tents are withheld from tue public.
A late dispatch to a French journal
from Zanzibar says an American sail
ing veesel, bound from Zanzibar t.
Madagascar, was fired on by ii German
vessel. One of her masls was broken
IL is CHI ,rged that attorneys and
middlemen h We used up ove' vi 900
600 Of the W 900 600 awarded by Con
gress to the Choctaw claimants and
that the latter will get little or moth
ing.
United States Consul Willard, al
Gu ,ymas, Mexico, has sent dispatch
to the State department denying the
report that number of American cit
IL ms had been killed by the indiana
in Sonora.
Many leading Senators and Repre-
-entatives of all parties scout the ldes
Of war between the United State
and Germany. Nevertheless the arm
ament and equipment OF war ship'
is being pushed ut the various navy
yards.
Representative Springer will intro
duCe in the House another omnibus
bill, providing an enabling act for the
admission Of Arizona, Idaho and wy
oming. The bill embodles all the
features of the omnibus bill recently
passed by the House.
Petitions, said to contain the sigma
lures OF Ala ,734 persons, were filed
| in the Senate at Washington last
week. praying for the passage Of Sen
ator Bluir's sunday rest bill, and al
were prepared, bill aud all, by the
Women's Christian Temperance
| Union.
The conferress on the bill to amenC
| the interstate commerce law upor
three amendments Of Importance
agree, with the exception that the
House members recede from the one
|, requiring the commissioners TO adopt
uniform clasiiiications for all rail
roads.
A letter from the Secretary OF the
Interior in response to II Senate reso'
| luton says there is not on the tile'
of his department anything to show
what part the citizens OF Washington
Territory aud Idaho took in volun
teer service 10 suppress the Nee Per
cos war.
The report of the commissioner Of
schools of Utah, for the year 1888
says the taxation in the erritory ioi
school purposes is in insufficient And
that the leaders OF the Mormon
church are actively pushing the
scheme to establish Mormon denomi
national schools in each county in tn,
territory.
Congressman Morrow says his view
OF the Samoan affair are positive, and
that the statu quo at the time the rep
resentatives OF the United States, G .,
many and England met, must be re
stored, and this would necessitate the
replacement OF King Malietoa IN the
position he was 50 unjustly r. III rveu
by the German agents sent 10 the Mar
shall islands.
The Canadian iumbermen are re-
)oicing over Il measure which has
oeen introduced in Congress. aud
claim that it will protect the Cana
dian forests fron American invaders
IL is provided that no raft OF logs OF
timber shall be brought into or taken
out of any harbor or port of the Unit
ed States, or brought into or upon any
of the great lakes, from any part OF
Canada.
1t is stated that powerful com
pany OF capitalists has proposed to
the government plan to defend the
entrances to the harbors by forcing
petroleum to the surface of tue water