Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-03-14
ESPECIAL TELEGRAM TO THE p1spArcH.l

ESPECIAL TELEGRAM TO THE DISPATCHl
WASHINGTON, March 13.-Several Sen
atorial junketing trips will start out from
Washington as soon as the warm weather is
fairly established. The Senate at the regu-
lar session that closed on March didn't
authorize as many of those rowing commits
sions as usual, still there is almost dozen
that have been intrusted with the duty of
looking into various subjects of more or less
importance.
The first one that will take the road is the
special committee appointed "to consider
the Presidents message transmitting the
report Of the Pacific Railway Commission"
Senator FRYE is chairman of this committee,
and his colleagues upon it are Messrs.
Dawes, Hiscoek, Morgan, Butler and
Hearst. On April 6 they will leave Wash
ington for personal inspection of the lines
Of the CentraG and Union Pacific roads
and all their feeders. The party will visit
Denver, San Francisco, Los Angeles, Port
land and every other place where these two
great systems run, and they intend to
actually ride over every mile of track which
the two big corporations operate. 1t is un-
derstood that the committee are to be the
guests of the road on their jaunt, which may
last six weeks.
NOT ALL A PICNIC.
The committee on our relations with
Canada, of which Mr.. Hoar is chairman,
and the subcommittee of the Interstate
Commerce Commission, ordered to examine
the charges of monopoly and discrimination
on the part of the Canadian roads, and of
which Senator Cullom is chairman, were
both authorized to travel where and when
they please, to take testimony, send for
persons and papers, etc. They haven't
yet decided what course they will pursue,
or mapped out their line of work.
As soon as the present session of the Senate
adjourns they will do this. The Hoar COM
mittee are likely to go for a short trip to
Canada, and Senator Cullom will take the
members of his committee all along the
border and hold sessions at all the points
where Canadian roads enter this country,
and make thorough investigation of the
question of the shipment of goods in bonds
across the United States.
The Committee on Indian Affairs, of
which Mr.. Dawes is chairman, will not
forget its usual summer picnic into the wild
western haunts of the red men. A sub
committee will be formed, and as soon as
warm weather sets in thev will 90 to the
towns along the northern border of the
United States, and also to the Indian Terri
tory. There is no pressing subject relating
to the Indians to be investigated at present,
but one will be looked up before the time
arrives for the committee to start.
ARID LANDS RECLAMATION.
Senator Stewart, of Nevada, is Chairman
of a special committee appointed to lock
into the matter of the irrigation and recla-
nation of arid lands. One Of the regular
appropriation bills of the last Congress con-
tsined an appropriation for the preliminary
work IN this direction. The Western Sena-
tors feel confident that the experiments will
prove so successful and popular that the
subject of retaining all the waste arid
lands will be soon engaging the attention of
Congress. The committee will personally
visit the desert places, and report next win
ter as to how much water and money is
needed to make them blossom as the rose.
The special committee, with Senator Vest
at its head, that last fall took testimony in
the principal Western cities as to the al
legged combine meat products, will continue
Its work during the coming recess, and sub
NIT an elaborate report in December.
In addition to these travelling committees
that viii take the road in the spring, others
have been authorized to make inyestiga-
tions as follows:
COMMITTEES THAT WON'T TRAVEL,
The Committee on Epidemic Diseases
Senator Harms, Chairman, to examine the
cause of yellow fever in this country. and
discover method Of preventing its intro
duction and spread. The Subcommittee on
Public Buildings and Grounds, Senator
Spooner, Chairman, to continue the inyesti-
cation of the manner of the letting of the
contracts for public building by the Super
vising Architects Office, and the Committee
on Mines and Mining, Senator Stewart
Chairman, to investigate the matter of filing
OF suits against miners in Nevada for cutting
timber on public lands.
These committees do not expect to travel,
and will not work outside of Washington.
They will take testimony from time TO time.
and then leave to the respective chairmen
the task of preparing the rennrts-