Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1890-01-27
AMONG THE LAW MAKERS
Topics Of Interest In the Committee
Rooms Today.

Rooms Today.
PUSHING THE ADMINISTRATIVE CUSTOMS BILL.
The Senate committee on finance 10 bent on
q law - soon as possible. The public printer
has been requested TO supply the committee
With copies Of the bill as il passed the House on
Saturday at the earliest possible date, and then
work will at once be commenced on il on the
senate side. The subcommittee expects to get
through with il within seven or eight days and
there is every probability Of its being reported
70 the senate before the close of next week.
OKLAHOMA TOWN SITES.
The Senate committee on public lands at its
meeting this morning ordered the Senate bill
heretofore reported to be reported TO the Sem
ate as substitute for the House bill on Okla
homa town sites. There are a great MANY
points OF difference between the bills. the prin-
cipal OF them being the provision for ousting
deputy marshals and others who obtained pos
session Of land illegally in the Oklahoma coun-
try. which is found in the House bill but not in
the Senate measure. The House debated this
provision at some length.
FARM STATISTICS FOR THE CENSUS REPORT.
Mr.. Hale introduced in the Senate TODAY a
bill evidently designed as q substitute for the
enc introduced by Mr.. Berry and heretofore
debated in the Senate making II the duty of
the superintendent of census Ito ascer-
tain the number of persons who live
on and cultivate their own farms
and who live in their own homes and
the number who hire their farms and homes,
and the number Of farms and homes which are
under mortgage, the amount of mortgage debt
and the value of the property mortgaged. He
shall also ascertain the objects for which mort
gagged farms and homes have been mortgaged
and the rate Of interest paid upon mortgage
loans" The bill appropriates Sl,O00,000 to
carry out the provisions of this law.
OPPOSED TO THE WINDOW SILVER BILL
Senator Teller Of Colorado made an argu-
meut today before the House committee on
coinage on the subject of silver coinage. He
expressed his disapprobation of the Window
silver bill, regarding il as hostile to the silver
producing interests of the country. The Win
dom scheme. he declared, was illogical and was
Wall street measure.
The Silcott investigation committee met to-
day and took up for consideration the various
reports and requests that have been referred to
1t, but adjourned without taking any action.
PASSED BY THE HOUSE.
The administrative customs bill was passed
by the House Saturday afternoon by q vote OF
1873 to III.
NEED OF COMMITTEE ROOMS FOR THE SENATE.
The Senate committee on rules met this
morning and had under consideration the ques-
ton of leasing building for the use of Senate
committees not now provided with committee
rooms. No conclusion was reached. Ii is in-
tended to call the matter up for general dis
cussion In the next secret session of the Senate.
Mr.. HITS WORLDS FAIR RESOLUTION
Mr.. Hit offered his resolution, referred to in
Saturdays STAR, increasing the worlds fair
committee from nine to thirteen and taking
from the committee the jurisdiction over the
site question As to the selection of the site il
provides that on one day the represe natives of
the competing cities shall present their claims
and on the following day the members shall
vote their choice Of location. The resolution
TARIFF HEARING TODAY.
Mr.. Galpin Of New Haven. wire drawer,
made brief argument before the ways and
means committee this morning in favor of the
reduction Of the duty on imported wire rods
from which wire is drawn from six-tenths to
four-tenths of a cent per pound
COTTON SCHEDULES OF THE NEW TARIFF BILL.
The ways and means committee further pro-
crossed toward the preparation of a tariff bill
at its meeting this morning by ordering the
cotton schedules Of last years Senate bill to be
attached to tie schedules already passed upon
The democratic minority confined its opposi-
ton to Offering as substitutes the cotton
schedules OF the Mills bill, which were rejected
by party votes.
PURCHASE OF THE BUTLER BUILDING RECON-
MESDED.
Secretary Window has sent a letter to the
House of Representatives recommending the
purchase OF an additional building for the use
of the coast and geodetic survey and inclosing
a letter from Superintendent Mendenhau set
ting forth the crowded condition of the pres.
ent building and the urgent necessity for more
room. The building recommended by the
superintendent to be purchased by the govern
ment is what is known as the Butler mansion.
and is adjacent to the present quarters of the
survey.
NOTES.
Mr.. Comstock introduced in the House TODAY
a bill for the relief of those settlers on the
Northern Pacific indemnity lands who were af-
forwards deprived OF their holdings under a
decision that the lands were really within the
Northern Pacific grant. Persons who settled
on the lands and failed to make final proof
also come within the provisions of the act
On motion of Mr.. Williams of Illinois in the
House Saturday, February Is was assigned as
the day for the delivery OF addresses in respect
to the memory Of the late Richard W. Town
shend of Illinois.
Representative Fornev, who is quite i'll at
the Metropolitan hotel, was no better this
morning.
The House committee on public lands has or
dered favorable reports on the bill to establish
two additional land offices in Montana and the
bill to grant certain public lands to the city o
st. Augustine, Fla, for park purposes