Omaha daily bee., 1889-01-26
THE SENATE SUBSTITUTE
Probably Going to the Ways and
Means Committee.
IT HAS PASSED THE SENATE,
Paddock's Land District Bill--Arrival
of Nebraska's Electoral Mcssen-
ger at Washington-ScCrc
whitney's Queer Order.
wAsmxeroN BuRsAu The OMAHA BEE,
5l3 FOURTEENTH STREEr,

The tariff bill reached the house this af-
ternoon and is still on the speakers table.
1t will be laid before the mousse tomorrow,
and the probability is that no effort will be
made TO keep it out of the hands of the com.
mittee on ways and means. The solid vote OF
the democratic senator's against the bill has
aided the free trade leaders of the house in
subjugating the rebellious members of their
side, and all the talk of the latter about a
reference of the bill TO some other committee
has ceased 1t is doubtful If such a motion
will be made, but there can no longer be any
doubt that the bill will go TO the committee
on ways and means. Most of the leading
members say that under these circumstances
the bill cannot possibly pass the house, and
will perhaps never be discussed there
pApDoCK's LAND DISTRICT BILL.
In the senate this afternoon MIR. Paddock
called up and had passed, his bill, introduced
on the lith inst, establishing two additional
land districts in Nebraska. n very full
synopsis of the measure was given in these
dispatches of that day. and was published in
The BEE of Tuesday, the 18th. They are
to be known as the Broken Bow and Alliance
land districts. Senator Paddock has secured
q favorable report on the bill by the house
committee on public lands, and says 1t will
probably be adopted by the house within
few days. He has pushed the subject with
vigOr. impressiug all who have had to deal
with it, with the necessity for additional
land office facilities IN the territory named,
NEBRAsKA's ELECTORAL VOTE ARRIVES.
George H. Hastings, of Crete, the messen-
ger bearing Nebraska's electoral vote for
General Harrison, delivered his returns to
President Pro TEN. Ingalls, in the senate
this morning. Nebraska's contribution to
republican success and the countrys pros
perity was deposited i'll q safe with the others
of Il similar character all of which are under
day, the 18th of February Mr. Hastings is
accompanied by Charles +. lddmgs, of North
Platte.
PETTY SPIRIT.
Secretary Whitney certainly shows very
small spirit with reference to the forthcom-
ing inauguration of President elect Harri-
son. The famous Marine band, which is
under his control, has been awarded the con-
tract to furnish promenade music for the
inaugural ball This contract called for fifty
musicians, and as the band only consists of
forty men, it became necessary to employ
ten additional musicians When this came to
the attention of Secretary Whitney he issued
an order prohibiting the engagement of mu-
sicians other than those regularly enlisted in
the service. He has followed this up with
another order requiring the band to be pres
ent at guard mount each day. Military men
are laughing at the spectacle of twenty ma
rines performing the duty with full band
of forty pieces.
THE INTERSTATE LAW AMENDMENTS.
There was another long meeting at Senator
Cullom's committee room this afternoon of
the conferees on the amendments to the in
ter-state co mmerce law. The points of con-
tention between the two houses have been
given in full in these dispatches. The meet
ing to-day did not result in an ultimate
agreement, although report is to be made
by the conferees on the part of the house,
and further instructions requested. The
Standard Oil amendment, requiring railroad
companies to give the same rates for the
transportation of oil in barrels as that car
ried in. tanks, will probably be stricken out:
the conferees on the part Of
the house indicating, this afternoon
The house recedeS from the uniform
classification cause, the principal point at
ISSUE and really the only question which the
conferees will have to refer to the house for
instructions is that giving state courts iurls-
dicton. This is an original house clause,
and is the main feature. 1t will be remem-
bered in keagon's original Interstate COM
merce bill. The house has contended ever
since the Interstate commerce law was pro
posed that the state courts should be given
jurisdiction, while the senate has taken the
position that only federal courts should have
jurisdiction, because the question is
national one and the law authorized by the
federal constitution.
NEBRASKA LAND CASE DECIDED
The secretary of the interior has reversed
the decision of the commissioner of the gen.
eral land Office in the case OF A. E. White VS.
James Meahen, from the McCoOk land dis
trict. Meahen appealed from the decision Of
the commissioner, which held for cancella-
ton the final certificate for tract OF land in
the district named, and he has Won
OF INTEREST TO SOLDIERS.
Private Dalzell, of Ohio, has published as
fact that soldiers s-prisoners of war-were
entitled, on application to the accounting
officers here, to % cents day for the time
they were in prison. He has also asserted
that soldiers are entitled to cents per mile
on account of transportation and that they
are entitled to communication of rations for the
time they were on furlough. General
McFeely, chief of commissary and subsist-
ence, war department, states in communi-
cation to-day TO Senator Manderson, that as
u rule soldiers were PAID thelr commutation OF
rations while on furough by the proper com
missary in the field, on their return;
that soldiers furloughed to go home to vote
were not entitled To IA communication at all, and
that if not paid in any given case they can
apply and the claim will be adjusted, pro-
vided they forward their original furlOugh,
the latter being prerequisite in these cases,
as the officer invariably, when liquldatlng
these claims, indorsed payment on the fur
Tough, and that secondary evidence OF the
existence merely of the furlough will not en-
title the claimant TO pay. He also says that
soldiers are not entitled to cents per mile
on account of transportation, as stated by
Dalzell. Senators are deluged with letters
from veterans COnceTHluR JnlS HldIlcT anu IL
is giving them and the soldiers also great
deal of unnecessary annoyance.
FOR DAKOTA RAILROAD.
A favorable report was to-day made to the
senate, from the committee on public lands,
on the bill granting rght-of-way to the For
est City & Watertown railroad company
through the Sioux Indian reservation in
Dakota There were few unimportant
amendments made to the measure, which
will probably be adopted by both houses.
ARMY ORDERS.
Private John w. Nichols, company /,
Eighth infantry now with his company at
Fort Robinson, is transferred to the hos pital
corps as private
The unexecuted portion of the sentence
imposed by general court martial, on May
90 1856 is RENTED in the case of John Hart,
late recruit (unassigned) sTwenty-frst in
fantry, and he will be released from cOnfine-
nlent on receipt OF this order AT the military
prison at Fort Leayenworth.
Private Charles A. >. Barrus, company g,
Second infantry now with his company at
Fort Omaha, will be sent TO Hot Springs,
Ark, to enable him 10 enter the army and
navy general hospital at that point, reporting
upon his arrival 10 the surgeon ia charge of
the hospital. The commanding officer at
Fort Omaha will forward by mail 10 the sur
geOn in charge Of the hospital at Hot Springs
his descriptive list and account Of pay and
clothing prior TO his departure from that
post, The quartermasters' department will
furnish the necessary TRANSPORTATION,