The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1890-06-15
Combinations Forming in the
House and Senate.
Census Superintendent Reports No
Tronbls II New States.


WA&ufXE30X 1fTT, June I1.-Ihe40 Was
great danger lev days ago that . fres
coinage bill vould pass the Senats. but
postponement Of the vote seems 10 have
given the men Who favor ! more con-
servafise measure time 70 puli themselves
together. An agreement was today circu-
lated by senator Spooner and signed BY
twenty eight Republican senators, piedging
their votes against Tree coinage unless some
satisfactory silver bill vas passed. There
are auout Scxen senators who would not
sign the agreement, among them being
Sanders and Power Of Montana. and
Mitchell Of Oregon There are i've Demo
cratic senators who viii not vote for free
coinage. and Is y almost apparent that .
free coinage amendment would not carry.
some OF the senators who would not sign
the agreement say they will vote for an
Amendments which viii make . satisfactory
silver bill
There II . feeling on the part Of the silver
men in the Senate that they ought to send
70 The House free coinage bill and COM
;,sl them to strike ont the bullion clause in
tho bill recently passed. The Republicans
OF the House are in considerable Of di-
iemnsa, and = majority Of them have de-
tcrmined TO prevent free coinage u possible.
Senator Dolph. speaking a his bill to an-
thorise the erection Of branch Soldiers
home in Oregon. said that he feared he
would have some difficulty in securing
favorable consideration Of the bill, g the
national board Of managers were opposed
to further branch homes, favoring state
homes instead Of nation Il homes; that un-
der the exi sting laws the states are allowed
100 per annum for each inmate Of state
home for disabled soldiers: thar he had ~
eertained from the pension Office that there
were | $50 Union veterans drawing pensions
in Oregon, 1.74l in Washington and $40 in
Idaho; that he believed that the number Of
er-Union soldiers in the Northwest would
justify the state OF Oregon in making pro-
vision for . home, and that when the home
was once provided, the allowance by the
general government ought to be sufiiciens
or nearly 80 70 pay Tor the expense Of
maintaining Il
The House committee on mines and min
ing today agreed upon bill having for it,
object better protection Of the lives OF per-
sons employed In coal mines in the terri
tories. There are bat three territories that
VIII ~ e6ectsd by It's passage Alaska,
Idaho and Indian territory. - these ars
The only ones In which there ere coal mines.
rbs bill provides 11or the appointment Of
mine fnspsetpsss md foe insnishins sho
mincs with s0achin0y and other appli-
ances necessary 10 the safety OF employees
where they are inadequate. compels the
owner and managers to provide atleast two
shafts. slopes or other outlets separated by
- sfp 80 <~f q 4 f~--S
breadth. by which shafts. slopes or outlets
distinct means OF ingress and cxress shalt
always be available to persons In said
mines. and makes the employment of
child labor in mines misdemeanor.
The reports We have received from the
census supervisors in the new states are
very satisfactory" said Superintendent
Porter today. ave have had fewer con-
plants than We anticipated. From South
Dakota there have been none, and from
Montana and Washington there has heen
nothing that could have been called a COM
plainf. We are watching these states with
good deal OF interest IL Was natural to
expect that the rivalry between Seattle and
Tacoma might bring those two cities to our
attention, but we have had nothing to in
dicate that the work Is not being done
fairly and satisfactorily there
T. II. Cavanaugh OF Olympia. has been
sp pointed abstracfor of the census.
Representative Payson OF Illinois today
reported from the COMMITTEES on public
lands . substitute for the senate bill for the
acquisition OF land for townsises and CON-
mercial purposes in Alaska. The commit
tee in an accompanying report says:
While the Senate bill proposes partial re-
lief il does not go far enough The report
refers to the fact that during the twenty
two years Alaska has been in the posses
sion OF the United States there has been,
with the exception Of the mining laws, alb
soiutely no legislation tending TO oencourage
development or afford protection for the in-
vessment OF capital and the labor of several
fhnY3arI A paa vteanz thera