The Lebanon express. (Lebanon, Linn County, Or.) 1887-1898, 1889-03-01
FROM WASHINGTON.
oANADA's PARLIAMENT TO BIZ A
GUEST OF UNCLE SAM.
An Agreement Reached on the Direct
Tax Bill-A System of Farmers In
stitutes to Be Established
Army Appropriations.

The President has signed the Nicara-
ua bill.
The bin to establish port of entry al
Port Angeles has passed the Senate.
The Secretary of State says that a
treaty of anity and commerce will soon
be made with Japan.
The two Dakotas win be added to JUS
| tice Miller's circuit, and Washington and
Montana TO Justice Fields.
General Harrison and family are busily
engaged in packing up preparatory Ia
their removal To Washington.
The West Virginia Legislature after
long and hotly contested fight, has elect
ed Senator kenna to the Senate.
| A committee from the Canned Goods
association win visit Washington with the
view of having the duty ON tin removed.
| The hearing of the case OF Chae Chang
Ping before the U. $. Supreme Court,
which was set for March IL, has been
postponed for two weeks.
The court of claims has given a iude-
ment for Sl ,O02 ,5l7, in favor of the Cen
trail Pacific Railway company, in it's suit
against the United States for withheld
dividends.
Senator Stockbridge has presented two
mammoth petitions in favor of Sunday
rest law. II required the combined
strength OF two pages to carry them to
the clerks desk.
The Nevada Legislature has memorial
lied Chngress for suspension OF the
suits against mining corporations and in-
dividual miners for cutting timber from
government land.
Senators Dolph and Mitchell have pre-
sented in the Senate another petition OF
the citizents OF Whitman county, w r.,
demonstrating against the proposed di
vision OF the county.
Representative IafFoon has reported
bill providing for the creation I'm the war
department of bureau of harbors and
waterways, To undertake all river and
harbor improvements.
The House committee ON pensions has
agreed To report fayorably the bill intro
duced by Representative Hermann To
grant Col. VIM. :. Martin, OF Oregon, "A
pension of $50 a month.
The Senate committee on public lands
has decided to report the bill providing
that the lands now subject to private
entry shall, i'm future, I've disposed Of only
under the provisions Of the homestead
law
Senator Cullom has introduced an
amendment to the army appropriation
bill providing the number OF paymasters
in the army, with the rank OF major, shall
be forty, and that the army shall be paid
monthly.
Senator Mitchell has presented in the
Senate a petition from the citizens OF
Waitsburg, W. t., praying for the pro-
posal OF a constitutional amendment pro-
hibiting the manufacture or sale of all in
toxicating liquors.
The amendment appropriating $4,000
each for statues OF Gen. Sheridan and
Gen. Logan, in Washington, was agreed
TO in the Senate, and Senator Daniel
gave notice that he would offer a similar
amendment for statue of Gen. Hancock.
The German government is willing to
accept the proposal of the United States
in the settlement of the Samoan ques-
ton; namely, the establishment of joint
German, American and English control
over the Samoan government through the
consuls of the three countries.
The conferees on the direct tax bill
| in Congress have agreed upon Senator
Harris proposition, that whenever the
sold them at profit, the amount of the
profit so received is to be given to the
owner or the legal heirs of the lands.
A bill has been introduced in Congress
| by Senator Spooner providing that sys-
TEN of farmers institutes shall be main
| tanned as part of the agricultural depart
ment, the annual cost of which shall not
exceed $500, 200, exclusive of permanent
1 Gnl nj hfa l.
tute meetings.
The committee on merchant marine
has been instructed to report favorably
an amendment reducing from twenty to
ten years the term of lease of seal fish
cries, and authorizing any person to
| bring suit against the lessees to recover
/ 800 for every seal taken in excess of
that fixed by law.
The cruiser Charleston, it is learned at
the Navy department, will not be ready
for trial before April. Her builders have
hoped to have her trial take place before
the expiration OF Secretary Whitney's g
/ term of office. No more vessels can be
tried before the next Secretary of the
Navy goes into office.
j Representative Grain has offered a sub
/ stitute for the Cowles bill, with the free
list of the Senate bill. He estimates that
it would thus reduce the revenue
$50, ,Oo0, 900 on tobacco, and $4,000, 600 on
the free list. The Senate could not 20
back on its own free list, and could not,
therefore, afford to oppose the repeal OF
the tobacco tax.
The House committee on agriculture
has decided to report adversely the bills
introduced last session to punish d.
ings in futures in agricultural prod
and to prohibit fictitious and gam
transactions in the prices of article
duced by American farm industT.
the ground that Congress has no
diction over the matter.
In special report Commission
Wright, of the department of labor, re
tive of marriage and divorce in the Unit
States, says: Number of divorces be
tween 1868 and 1886, 33S, ,716; Maine
Connecticut and Vermont are the only
States that show a decrease in the last
five years. Dakota shows the largest in