Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1890-05-27
NATIONAL CAPITAL.
Burrows Chosen Speaker Pro Tenn. to
act in the Absence Of Reed.
DISCUSSING COAST DEFENsEs
Blair Wants England to Take all
Her War Vessels from Amer.
lean Waters.
trnc1AI DISPATCHES TO THE nroo.D-Us,os.,
WASHINGTON NOTES.

Condition of Measures Which Effe.s the
Pacific Coast.
WASHINGTON, May 26th.-The conference
on the San Francisco Postoffice site again
failed to reach decision to-day. Another
meeting will be held Wednesday.
A bill was introduced by Senator Sanders
to-day providing that no patent issued tC
the Northern Pacific Railroad Company
shall be construed to convey to the com.
pany any mineral lands, iron and coal
lands excepted.
The conferences on the customs admin.
istratiye bill reached an agreement. The
law is to take effect August 1st, but the sec.
ton providing for the appointment of nine
general appraisers will go into effect al
once.
The Senate to-day adopted resolution
introduced by Stewart. calling on the Sec.
retary of theInterior for information of how
much of the money appropriated for irri.
Cation surveys, etc., last year, had been di-
verted to topographic surveys and by wha,
authority.
Wilson of Iowa, from the Committee on
Judiciary, reported the following substi
tute for the original package liquor bill
now under consideration by the Senate
THAT when intoxicating LIQUORS are trans.
ported from one State or Territory to an.
other, or from any foreign country, such
liquors shall, when the actual and contin.
uous transportation of the same shall have
terminated, be considered to have ceased tc
be subject of interstate commerce and be
part OF the common mass of property
within the State or Territory, and subject
to the respective powers of such State OF
Territory in respect of all the police regu-
lations or prohibition legislation or taxa
tion."
The Senate Committee on Public Lands
reported voluminous substitute for the
House bill TO repeal the timber culture
laws. The bill repeals the timber culture
Act of 1878, except as to Nebraska, and all
Acts supplementary thereto, with provisos
that no valid rights under the Act shall be
disturbed, etc.
The Act of 1877, making provision for
the sale of desert lands, is amended by the
addition of five sections governing the
issue of patents for lands to be irrigated
and giving parties the right to associate
together in the construction of irrlgating
canals and bitches. The bill further pro.
vides that no public lands will be of.
fered for public sale except the abandoned
military reservations, isolated and discon-
nected fractional tracts, and mineral and
other lands. Provision is made for enter
ing town-sites in Alaska, limited to 16C
acres, and for the requirement of tracts, not
exceeding 160 acres in extent, bv manu-.
featuring or trade associations, at 50 80 an
acre. From the operation of these provi.
slons are excepted coal lands and land con-
tanning precious minerals. public reserva-
tions. fish culture lands on the Kodiac and
Afaquak Islands and the islands of the
Pribyemov group, and tracts of land not
exceeding $40 acres in extent, occupied as
missionary stations. The right to regulate
the taking and protection of salmon is also
reserved. Town-site entries may be made
by incorated towns and cities on mineral
lands, but they shall not acquire title to
any vein of mineral ore.