Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1889-01-15
CAPITOL TOPICS.
SENATOR MAyDERsoy REFLECT,

SENATOR HENDERSON REFLECTED.
Senator Henderson this afternoon re-
ceived telegram announcing his re-
| election by the Nebraska legislature by a
vote Of 104 to 90. Erick Johnson, prohibit
| zionist, supported him, while labor repre-
sents W. united with the % democrats against
him
tt AMEND THE NATURALIZATION LAWS.
The House judiciary committee to-day
| authorized the subcommittee on naturalization
to draft bill amendatory of the
naturalization laws in lieu of many
bills on the subject referred to the committee.
Mr.. Oates, chairman of the subcommittee,
| briefly sketched his ideas of the bill
| which should be prepared, proposing to
dispense with the present declaration of
intention on the part of the immigrant who de-
sires to become citizen, making 5-years resi-.
dence In the country necessary condition of
citizenship and requiring the applicant for
naturalization to prove his good moral charac-
| ter and fitness for citizenship before the proper
officer in the presence of some person repre-
senting the interests of the government.
SMALL FEE.
Representative Campbell, of Ohio, to-day
made argument before the House Judiciary
Committee upon the bill to pay $1,000 to Dis
trict Attorney Burnett Of Cincinnati, O.,
for services rendered In connection with the
prosecution of President Harper and Cashier
Hopkins, of the failed Fidelity National bank
Mr.. Campbell said that for six months hard
work upon these cases, involving forty days
proceedings in court, Mr.. Burnett received the
munifcent fee Of $40 from the government.
COLUMBIA RIVER NAVIGATION.
Secretary Endicott to-day transmitted to the
House letter of the chief of engineers con-
tanning copy of the second preliminary re-
port of the board of engineers appointed to ex-
anime the distractions to navigation in the
Columbia river at The Dalles and Cello Falls
and at Three and Ten Mile Rapids. The chief
of engineers says that the board has given the
subject full and careful consideration, and
after discussing the various projects presented.
concludes that single track protage railway
estimated to cost S431 500, which could be con-
structed in one year, would undoubtedly be
the cheapest and quickest solution of the ex-
listing difficulties. The chief of engineers SAYS
he agrees with the board in these views.
NOTES.
The members of the press galleries of the
Senate and House have, through Gen. Boyn-
ton, received the customary invitation to at
tend the card receptions at the White House.
The invitation arrives considerable later this
season than has been usual in past years.
Mr.. Chas. F. Scott, of the Capital Common
,ceaul of Topeka, Kan, made his first appear
ance in the press gallery to-day as the WASH
ington correspondent of that journal.
Senator Chandler yesterday introduced bill
to revive the grade of acknowledgement of the
army.
What the Farmers Want.
LAST TARIFF HEARING BEFORE THE SENATE
FINANCE COMMITTEE.
The last hearing before the Senate finance
committee in charge of the tariff bill was upon
garden produce to-day the orator being l.
Eugene Parker, of Shelter island, Suffolk
county, New York, who said:
The farmers demand duty of Is cents
bushel on potatoes, Is cents a bushel on
turnlps, cents head or a cent pound on
cabbage and sauerkraut, which is a form of
cabbage taken off the free list; barrel or /
cent pound on caulilower in salt or brine; 5
cents dozen on eggs, or 3 cents dozen on
egg-yelks or eggs preserved in any form"
Mr.. Parker sustained his demands by long
statement showing the production of garden
truck and eggs in this country and the great
amount of both imported under the present