Pullman herald. [volume] (Pullman, W.T. [Wash.]) 1888-1989, 1890-06-07
THE NATIONAL CAPITAL.

The subcommittee on Iniian schools
| in the House has notified Representative
| Carter that his bill for an Indian school
| in Montana received favorable action,
and that it had been decided 10 allow the
state $50 900 for an Indian school, the
purpose being to educate Indian children
now sent to Carlisle.
Senator Allen says that the general
! bills that are now before the Senate pre-
vent the consideration OF all bllls OF
strictly local interest, and Senators from
| the four new States are simply waiting
! for an opportunity to get thro gu
the bills they have on the calendar, with
little hopes OF doing anything at present
The land grant forfeiture bill reported
to the House by Paysou (Il.) is made up
of the Senate bill and of the bill originally
reported by the House committee. Sec
ton two Of the original House bill allow
| ing settlers to make entry OF forfeited
/ lands under the provisions OF the home
| stead law is part of the new bill. The
rUnst to settlers of restored lands is fixed
at 81. n ar acre.
Representative Wilson has been in
formed by the superintendent OF the
railway maI service that additional serv-
ice on the Union Pacific Ioad would
advance the delivery OF mail from Pen
dleton to Spokane Falls about twenty
four hours This was in response to
request for better service laid before the
Postofice Department from the business
men OF Spokane Falls.
Superintendent Porter of the Census
Bureau has been the recipient OF numer-
GUS communications on the questions OF
compensation for enumerators in dis
/ tricts where the nature OF the country is
such that the work OF enumeration Will
be necessarily difficult. In answer to
those from Washington State, he wrote
Senator Allen that in many parts OF that
State the per CAPITA basis OF payment
would not be enforced, but that the max
imum, as per day, would be allowed.
The President has appointed the
Worlds Fair Committee at re, as fol-
lows: August Bull 0 k, Miss ssippi, with
Henry Ingalls,, Maine, alternate; Thomas
0. Palmer, Michigan, and Joseph @ liver,
Indiana, Il te,nate; Richard w. Kerns,
Missouri, and Robert w. Fumes, Ne
bra ka, alternate; Edwin w. Ammidown,
New York, and Marlin w. Allen, New
York, alternate; Peter A. D. Wiedler,
Pennsylvania, and John w. Chifant,
Pennsylvania, alternate; Samuel w. In
man, Georgia, and William Lindsay,
Kentucky, alternate; Henry Ewall,
Texas, and Henry L. King, Texas, alter
nate; Mark L. Mcdonald, Colorado, and
Thomas Burke, Washington, alternate.
When the reading clerk came to the
few names mentioned in the river and
harbor bill in Washington State, he
stumbled over them and mispronounced
as if they were Russian instead OF soft
calling Indian names. Washington has
got hut very little in the Till, only enough
to show that the State has rivers and
harbors The delegation rely upon the
effrts of all the Senators not satisfied
with the bill to so amend it that some
sections which showed that they have
been ill-treated, will get some consdera-
| ton. In the Senate one State has as
many votes as another, and it is more
than likely that the bill will he amended
Instead of the paltry amount given to
Washington, it is quite probable that
sufficient sums will be appropriated to
give the State improved navigation.
Representative Carter has before the
Committee on Appropriations a propO-i-
ton to grant the State of Montana So, 900
for expenses incurred in holding the con-
stitulional convention over the amount
appropriated in the enabling act The
committee has report from the Treasury
d partmeDt showing that the State owes
the treasury $125, and when Carter was
confronted with this statement he had
nothing to do hut to say that he knew
there was a deficit in the account the
Governor transmitted to the Legislature
in the statement of the officers of the
constitutional convention, but nothing
more was heard of it. The Auditor and
Secretary OF State have never transmitted
the report to the Treasury Department.
Unless this is done at once there is a
probability that the State will not be
reimbursed, as other new states have
been.