The morning call., 1890-06-19
The Third Payment on the Mon
terey Now Due.
Increased Appropriations in the Senate
River and HarbOr Bill.
White Mountain Apache ReserVatOn-The
Silver Bill Sent 10 the House
Coinage Committee.
Special Dispatches to THE MonSISo CALL.

WASHINGTON, y u0c 16.--1ne government
inspectors at the Union Iron Works have
reported to the Navy Department that the
armored coast-defense vessel Monterey has
been three-fourths completed and the con-
of S146,605.
The River and Harbor Bill as reported
to the Senate to-day, makes the following
changes from the House bill: Examination
for the location of deep-water harbor on
the Pacific Coast, $4,000 for Yaquina Bay,
100000 has been added to the appropria-
tion; for improving the canal at Cascades,
Oregon, an addition of $4,000 is made; i'm
proving the mouth of the Columbia River,
$4,000 is added; Tor improving Lower
Willamette and Columbia rivers. an addi-
tion OF $4,000 is made; for Cowlitz River,
Washington, an addition of $4,000 is made I;
improving Columbia River, from the head
of Rock Island Rapids, to connect Lakes
Union. Washington and Swamomish with
Puget Sound. $4,000 is appropriated. For
surveys, the appropriation for general sur
veys has been increased $4,000.
Delegate Marcus A. Smith of Arizona
called again upon the President this morn.
ing to urge that the White Mountain
Apache Indian Reservation be broken up
for settlement. Mr.. Smith is very anxious
to secure from the President proclamation
to this effect.
Charles NJ. Ogden was to-day nominated
for Receiver of Public Moneys at Seattle,
Wash. He was for many years the Wash
ington agent of the California Associated
Press, from which service he retired on ac-
count of ill-health. The office to which Mr..
Ogden has been appointed is a lucrative
one, paying $4,000 or $1,000 year.
Secretary Window said to-day that he did
not know whether a special age Mt on pub
lie building sites would be sent to San
Francisco or not. He said they were in
quandray about the matter and did not know
how soon further steps would be taken in
the matter.
At the Treasury Department among the
subordinate officers the opinion prevails
that two of the nine new appraisers to be
appointed will come from the Pacific Coast.
To-night's Critic publishes an article
tending to show that Harrison expects to
retire from public life at the close of his
Presidential term, and that he will have no
hesitancy in vetoing the free coinage bill.
1t was discovered tonight that the silver
bill that passed the Senate had been sent to
the House Committee on Coinage, Weights
and Measures, instead of to the Speakers
table, as has been done always. Clerk of
the House Harry Smith says this is the
proper disposition of the bin under the new
House rules. Silver men are suspicious of
this move. They say it was advised by
Speaker Reed, and that the Coinage Com
mittee may let the silver bill sleep.
Senator's Jones and Stewart are very
much elated over the success of silver in
the Senate. The latter said tonight:
1.-The House cannot dodge the silver ques-
tion. 1t may defeat legislation at this ses-
sion or the bill may be vetoed, but 1t will
ultimately win" He added significantly:
"The man who stands in its way will be
destroyed. The Republican party has been
the party of progress and the party to meet
great issues. | hope this issue Is not too
great for our party. am anxious that the
present Administration shall right the
wrong of rs If it does not, but ins tead
obstructs legislation, the consequences will
be disastrous"
There is a strong probability that the
difficulty arising over the position in which
tile Republicans in the House found them
selves, in consequence OF the passage OF the
free-coinage silver bill by the Senate, will
be overcome by the reference of the
measure to the Coinage, Weights and
Measures Committee. Indeed it was
said the Speaker had late this evening or
dered the bill to the committee. Repre-
sentative Conger, Chairman OF the Coinage
Committee, had several interviews with
Reed during the day and supported by other
members of the House, urged that under
the rules the ouly proper thing for the
Speaker to do was to make the reference
mentioned. COnger, at II o'clock tonight,
said he did not believe Reed had decided
the question. though he might have done so.
Under the rules this reference could be
done at any time and nothing more
would be necessary than the Speak
er's order. 1t is believed by
the friends of the original House
bill that this reference would result in Sc
curing time within which to reach a CON-
promise basis upon which both the Senate
and House can stand. Some of the silver
men are of the opinion that the outcome of
the proposed reference of the bill back to
the committee would be the passage of
liberal silver bill and the defeat of the
Senate bill,