Santa Fe daily New Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1885-1897, 1889-12-18
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WASHINGTON MATTERS.
PROPOSED TARIFF CHANGES.

PROPOSED TARIFF CHANGES.
WASHINGTON, Dec. 1S.-The COMMITTEE
on ways and means held meeting tim
morning and prepared to enter prompt,
upon work preliminary to the preparation
of tariff bill, by providing for numbe
\ of hearings at which interests likely to be
affected by the proposed changes may
give their views. Hearings re fixed as
,ollows: Metals, ores and coal, 26 h sugar
18th ; chemicals, Monday, 3Jth earthel
and glassware, 3lst; wool January 2;
hemp, jute and cotton goods, 4th silks,
9th tobacco, cigars, snuff, cigarettes, 7th
provisions and farm products, oth ; sun
dries, 9Th; wood, woodenware, books and
paper, 10th.
JUDGE BREWER ALL RIGHT.
The senate committee on judiciary Or
dered favorable report upon the nomi.
nation of David j. Brewer, of Kansas, as
associate justice OF the supreme court.
THE sILCOTT CAUCUS ABANDONED.
A Democratic house caucus, which was
called to determine what position if any
the party should lake in regard to the Sill.
colt deficiency has been abandoned
SOME PENSION OFFICE CHANGES.
Commissioner of Pensions Raum has
issued an order directing that forty of the
26S special pension examiners now in the
field be recalled and assigned to duty in
the pension bureau in Washington that
the number of examination fields be re-
duced and their several boundaries ex.
tended so as to cover the entire country,
as now Gen. Raum's purpose in making
this change is to increase the effective
working force of the office.
THE SOUTHERN UTEs.
Senator Teller has introduced bill for
the removal of the Southern Utes from
Colorado. 1t provides for the ratification
of the agreement with the Utes made by
the commission. 1t proposes to pay the
Utes $4,000 and to appropriate $2O, 600 to
buy sheep for them. 1t also apprOprlates
$lo, 900 for buildings on the new reserva-
ton, So, 900 for removal expenses, $4,000
for removal and reimbursement of persons
who have rights Oh the reservation (the |
secretary of the interior to decide how
much cash they are entitled toy an, $5,0 900
for the survey Of the new reservation. 1t |
is provided that the land in the old res
ervation shall be disposed of only by
homestead entry, and that in no case shall
patent be issued until the entryman has
lived on the land five years. 1t is very
stri,t in this respect, and is intended to
cut out spectators.
NOMINATIONS
The president has transmitted the fol-
lowieg nominations to the senate: An
drew W. Craw ford, receiver of public
moneys at Roseburg, Ore.; Frank M.
Foote, receiver of public moneys at
Evanston, Wyo. Fremont Wood, United
States attorney for Idaho; Willoughby
Cole. California, United States attorney
for the southern district of California;
Geo. E. lard, California, United States
marshal for the southern district of Cali
fornia.
THE GOVERNMENT MUST LOSE.
At the session of the Sicott defalcation
committee it became evident that the
majority favor an appropriation bill to
cover the deficiency, but the minority Op-
pose this measure, and, ii necessary, will
make minority report.
CONTEST INQUIRY.
The house has adopted resolution
directing the committee on elections to
inquire into the contested election case
of Clayton against Breckenridge, from
the I'd district of Arkansas, Clayton hay
ing been assassinated while preparing
his case.
IN THE SENATE.
Among the petitions and memorials
presSAled were several for the passage OF
pension laws prepared by the pension
committee of the IT, A. h. one for the
admission of Wyoming as a state one in
favor of the Blair educational bill one
f, ON the Chicago board of trade for cent
letter postage, and several for the passage
Of Il Sunday rest bill.
The senate committee on finance has
ordered favorable reports upon the follow
ing bills:
70 relieve the treasury OF the necessity
of carrying upon its books balance OF
unavailable assets that have accrued since
the formation OF the governmt These
amount to about $2S, 900, 900.
The direct tax bill in the shape in which
it passed both houses of the last congress,
The senate committee on education and
labor instructed Chairman Blair to report
favorably his educational bill. This action
uOeb lOI, HOW cNtIJ Dlhu any nSblDcio vi
the committee as to his action OH the floor
of the senate.
The nomination of VIM. r. Harris to be
commissioner of education was ordered
reported favorably.
The sena,e committee on pensions re-
ferred the dependent pension bill to
subcommittee.
The senate confirmed Solomon Hirsh,
of Oregon, to be minister to Turkey.
He saw Jesus.
New YORK, Dec. T.-Joseph Kracko,
a Bohemian carpenter, berame insane
last night and threw his children out OF a
third story window. He said he saw
Jesus in the yard and threw his children
to him as Christmas presents. They fell
on the fire escape and were seriously in
jured. Kracko then ran amuck and as
saulted several men and women. He was
finally subdued after fierce struggle with
four policemen. He is in the hospital, a
raving maniac.
The Case of Ball Players.
PHILADELPHIA, Dec. 18.--Col. Rogers
as solicitor of the PHILADELPHIA league ball