Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1890-02-12
LEGISLATION IN EMBRYO.
Subjects Of Interest Considered In Capt.
toll Committee Rooms.

A strong effort is being made to de-
1t is claimed that enough votes
are now secured against it TO
defeat it. The opposition il more
active in the Senate than it has ever been
before, for the reason that If it should get
through there and come over to the House il
would be almost certain to become . Law.
THE WIND BLEW THROUGH THEIR wHIsKKRs.
Sinuously. and without making themselves
apparent to the outside door keepers, chilly
breezes and drafts Of more moderate
temperature have succeeded in entering
the Senate chamber, where they dali
dignified Legislators whose seats are near the
north corridor doors. The smooth shaven
features Of the Vice President were also
wind-swept. and that gentleman endured
the Ills he had ~ long az he could.
This afternoon he fed to those he knows not of
screens erected which would shield
him from the active air currents. Col.
Canaday, however, suggested the clos
ing of the lobby doors and the
experiment is being tried. In the meantime
the four doorkeepers. who prevent the general
baked to death within the little Enclosure.
The senatorial whiskers now wag only az the
senat orial chin wags.
TWO MORE NEW STATES.
The House committee on territories has
decided to report favorably q bill to admit
Wyoming and Idaho as states Of the Union.
PUBLIC BUILDINGS.
The House committee on public buildings
and grounds has authorized favorable reports
on bill appropriating $125,OOO for a public
building at Lynn, Mass., and CSC, 900 for a pub
lie building at Springfield, Mo.
THE coNaER LARD BILL.
The House committee on agriculture today
fixed next Wednesday as the time for begin
ming the hearing upon the Conger bill, which
puts the manufacture Of compound lard under
license and regulations, the latter to be
enforced by the internal revenue department.
1t is expected that the hearing will be finished
in two or three days.
SERVICE PENSION.
Gov. Alvin P. Hovey of Indiana, president OF
the service pension association Of the United
States since 1887, appeared before the House
committee on invalid pensions yesterday in be-
half Of the principle upon which the associs-
ton is organized.
SENATOR EDMUNDs ILL.
Senator Edmunds did not attend the meeting
Of the Senate committee on foreign relations
this morning. He has not been at the Capitol
since the day when he stated in the secret SEES
sion Of the Senate that he intended to resign
his place on the committee on foreign
relations. Senator Sherman, the chairman of
the committee, went to Senator Edmunds' COM
mittee room this morning to see if he was at
the Capitol and to urge him to attend the COM
mittee meeting and forget his words of last
week, but he was informed that Mr.. Edmunds
was confined to his home by illness and would
probably not be at the Capitol today.
NOTES.
The Senate naval committee today ordered a
favorable report, with some unimportant
changes, upon Senator Chambers bill to trans
fer the revenue marine to the naval establish
ment.
Messrs. Mckinley, Springer and Mcmillan
will discuss the rules in the House tonight
Senator Cullom Ull.) has gone to New York
where to night he will deliver an address be-
fore the Young Mems republican club in con-
nection with the clubs celebration the ami
versary Of Lincoln's birthday.