Evening capital. (Annapolis, Md.) 1884-1910, 1889-01-14
A TEMPORARY TRUCE.
MT. Weaver Subsidies, and the House
Gets in Days Work.
END OF THE TARIFF BILL.
Its Reading Completed, but Numerous
Paragraphs Remain to BE Taken Up.
MIR. NIcAdoo Wants Foreign Min
listers Abolished-OtherG Gossip.

listers Abolished-OtherG Gossip.
WASHINGTON, Jan. 14-In the senate con-
sideration of the tariff bin was resumed, and
some important amendments were adopted.
Few changes were made in the administra-
tion section of the bill and at :45 the read
ing of the bill was concluded. The senate
then took up the section relating to methy-
lated spirits for use in the arts, and ON
motion OF Mr.. Allison, made changes so as
to include other substances beside naphtha
A considerable number of paragraphs which
were passed over will now be taken up for
debate in their order.
A temporary truce was declared between
the friends and enemies of the Oklahoma
bill, and the house proceeded with its regu-
lar business Two appropriation bills were
passed and several other important measures
acted upon
MR. McADoo's REVOLUTIONARY NOTION.
During consideration of the diplomatic and
consular appropriation bill Mr.. McAdoo, of
New Jersey, said that he could not allow the
bill to pass without emphasizing what he con-
sidered to be the popular demand for abolish
ing United States ministers abroad. One of
the great countries of Europe was unrepre-
sented by a minister in this country. The
British government had refrained from send
ing a minister to Washington for the pur-
pose of resenting what it considered to be an
insult. Ninety-nine per cent. of our people
did not know nor care whether England sent
! minister or not, and the interests of the
United States weuld not suffer if it did not
send a minister to England or anywhere else.
It was most absurd thing to his mind that
the United States should send ministers to
royal courts. They came in at the tail of the
bespangled befeathered, bedizened diplo-
mats of the world. The system was abso-
lutely untitled to the character of free
country
Mr.. McCreary, of Kentucky, was not pre-
pared to say that the diplomatic service
should be abolished. The United States had
had many distinguished men to represent it
abroad, who had reflected much credit upon
the country.
AGRICULTURAL REPORT.
The December report of the department of
agriculture, which publishes in detail esti-
mates of some of the more important crops,
make the product of corn 1881, 900
bushels, grown on 1862, 763 acres, valued
on the farm at S6T7, ,56l, $50, or 81 / cents per
bushel, against A for the crop of 1887,
decrease of % per cent, the product of 1887
being 81 per cent. less in volume than that of
1883. The average yield of the commercial
belt, or seven corn surplus states, averages
50 2 bushels per acre the Atlantic coast,
south of the Potomac, averages IL. 9 bushels,
of comparatively poor quality.
The wheat aggregate is Ala, S6S 600 bushels,
grown on 81 ,336 1873 acres, valued at $751;
24S,03O The average yield, therefore, is IL 1
bushels per acre, winter wheat 1L6 bushels
and spring wheat 10. 8 bushels per acre. The
average farm value is %. 6 cents per bushel,
against 6S1 cents for the previous crop, a
difference due more to foreign than domestic
scarcity.
The aggregate for oats is 7O1, 737 900 bushels,
grown on 6,99S, 2S2 acres, and valued at
! S195, ,424, 240 This is 27.8 cents per bushel,
against 80 cents for the crop of 1887.
! A comparison of aggregate values shows
that the present corn crop is worth only
S3l, coo more than the previous one;
wheat, S74. .0O0, 600 more; oats, s., 600 900 less
MRS. cLEvELAND's RECEPTION.
Mrs Cleveland's first public reception of
the winter to the ladies of Washington
/ brought a large crowd to the presidents
mansion, long before the doors were opened
at o'clock. The weather was beautiful and
probably 1900 ladies, but few of them ac-
companied by gentlemen, passed through the
Blue room and shook hands with the presi-
dents wife, Col Wilson made the intro
ductions Mrs Cleveland was assisted by
the following ladies: Mrs. Brice, Mrs. Cover
nor Green, Misses. Bayard, Villas Garland,
Letter, Trowbridge, VOORHEES,, Pinchott,
French Mary Wilson, Davis, Page, Morgan,
Berry, Steele and Baroness Van Roeder.
FOR AND AGAINST UTAH.
4 The house committee on territories COM
menced hearing as to the propriety of adj
mitting Utah as state There is a delegation
of twenty-five from Utah, all of whom in the
course of the hearing viii give their views.
j Franklin s. Richard, whose father is a
Mormon apostle, made an hours speech in
favor of admission. He was followed by E.
p. Ferry. who opposed the admission on the
ground that the whole territory, its courts,
its laws, its schools were dominated by the
! Mormon church.
TO INCLUDE VETERANS IN THE CENSUS
Mai Warner, commander in chief of the
g. A R., and Hon. L. E. Atkinson, member
of the house, appeared before the committee
on census of the senate, and urged the neces-
sity of embodying in the next census report
statistics as TO the surviving soldiers.of the
war Of the rebellion, indorsing the views Of
Mr.. Henry Hall, of The New York Tribune,
as contained in his communication to Sena-
tor Hale. Mr.. Halls proposition is to have
recorded the name, age. residence, length Of
service and command in which each vet
+ eran served Mai Warner said that this
would be of incalculable service to those en-
titled to pensions, and would furnish desira-
bic information for the commissioner of PEN
sions; that it would meet the approval GER
tainly of all soldiers, and, he thought, Of the
people generally.