Pullman herald. [volume] (Pullman, W.T. [Wash.]) 1888-1989, 1889-03-23
FROM THE CAPITOL.
CONTRACTS FOR THE CONSTRUCTION
OF NEW wAR-SHIPS.
A Long List of Presidential Appoint
ments American Ship building to
be raged-Annexatiop
of the Hawaiian Isles

minister to Japan.
Secretary Blaine advocates an extra
session OF congress.
Arthur G. Milette has been appointed
governor Of Dakota.
Thomas w. Palmer, of Michigan, will
be minister to Spain.
President Harrison believes in the pro-
visions of the direct tax bill.
Since April 18th the treasury has paid
out $l45, ,23l ,5S7.96 in bond purchases.
Lewis Wofey, of Tucson, Arizona, will
succeed Governor Zulick of that territory.
A broad educational policy for the In
dians is being urged upon the President.
Walter Blaine has been appointed ex-
aminer of claims in the state department.
Eugene Schuyler, of New York, has
been appointed assistant secretary OF
state.
jeremiah Sullivan has been appointed
collector OF customs at Fort Benton, Mon
tana.
is. CIarkson, of Iowa has been ap-
pointed first assistant postmaster gen.
eral.
Cornelius G. Hanford has been con-
frmed as justice Of the supreme court of
: Washington territory.
1t is authoritatively announced that
Senator Chase, of Rhode Island, will
shortly resign his seat in the senate.
President Harrison and all those who
accompanied him from Indianapolis to
Washington paid regular railroad fare.
The time within which the railway
mail service is to be brought within the
civil service law has been extended from
March 18th to May 1st.
1t has been rumored at Washington
that General Longstreet will succeed
General Joseph E. Johnston as commits
sioner of the Pacific railroads.
Secretary of the Navy Tracy has ex-
tended the time for receiving proposals
for the construction OF an armOred coast
defense vessel from March 18th to April
Sd.
The contractors who are building the
new cruiser Charleston at San Francisco
have informed the navy department that
the vessel will be ready for trial next
week.
The Interstate commerce committee
has issued an order saying that all ad-
vances or reductions in general tariffs
must be plainly printed and publicly
posted.
The New York Herald's" Washing
ton special says that in the event of Ger
many's taking possession of Samoa the
United States will annex the Sandwich
islands.
Senator Stanford has made an urgent
appeal to the President for the appoint
ment of Osborne, of the Los Angeles
* Express" to the Office of government
printer.
Secretary Proctor is an advocate of the
Sunday rest law, and in consequence he
will soon issue an order abolishing Sun
day dress parades at all points through
out the army.
The President in his forthcoming mes
sage to congress will recommend the es-
tablishment of American shipping inter
ests and clearer and closer relations with
our South and Central American neigh
bors.
The conference of the interstate rail-
road commissioners at Washington has
adjourned after having thorougly dis
cussed the subject of accidents and their
prevention.
The office of sub-treasurer at San
Francisco remains vacant, and the Pres
ident is unable to fill it. The men he
prefers for the place don't want it, and
the large number who clamor for it he
won't have.
The President is authorized by the re-
cent legislation to open to settlement
about 100000 acres of land in Okla
homa, and the opinion prevails that he
will shortly issue his proclamation add
ing this acreage to the public domain.
John A. Kasson, of Iowa, William
Walter Phelps, of New Jersey, and &. II.
Bates, of Delaware, have been appointed
commissioners to represent the United
States at the Berlin conference In the
! Samoan matter.
It is said that President Harrison will
not be content with the eight war YES
sells. which will be let by contract after
June 30th. He will advocate in his mes
/ sage to congress the building of very
strong and modern navy.
The resignation OF Senator Chase, OF
Rhode Island, from the United States
senate, because OF the small salary paid
to members and the great cost OF living
in Washington, will probably have the
effect OF increasing senator's salaries from
$4,000 to $40, 900 a year.
The latest advices at the state depart
ment show that there was no basis for
the sensational rumors Of an engagement
between the Nipsic and the German cor
yette Olga. On the contrary the Ger
mans have given up their aggressive pol
lev and abandoned all claim to the right
of searching foreign vessels for contra
band of war.
After the beginning Of the next fiscal
vesr. July 1st, contracts will have been
! let for the construction of new war YES
sells which will increase the tonnage Of
the navy 1900 tons. Although small,
they will embody in their construction
the latest improved ideas of high speed
and heavy armament, and will be very
formidable ships of war.
The reply OF the commissioners OF Tue
District of Columbia to Senator Ed
mund's resolution for information con-
cerning the exclusion of persons from any
charitable institution in the district " on
account of race, color or previous condi-
ton of servitude," I" shows that the color
line is very distinctly drawn so far as as
sociation in the institutions is concerned,
although the treatment Of both races is
generally the same.