Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1890-01-14
CAPITOL TOPICS.
MORE MEDICAL EXAMINERS NEEDED

The Secretary of the Interior has forwarded
to the President of the Senate letter from
Commissioner Of Pensions Green B. Raum in
which the commissioner appeals to Congress
for legislation which will allow him to i'm
mediately appoint thirty additional medical
examiners at salary of $500 each. A joint
resolution accompanied the letter, which was
referred to the committee on appropriations.
The resolution provides for the appointment of
the required officials and says that the ap-
pointments shall be made after such examina-
ton shall be prescribed and directed by the
Secretary of the Interior.
EXCLUSION OF CHINESE.
Senator Mitchell has introduced bill which,
if passed, would absolutely prohibit the en-
trance of Chinese persons into this country,
whether they are subjects of the Chinese en-
pire or not.
JAcKsoN's DAY.
Mr.. Washington has introduced bill in the
House fixing the 9Th day Of January as a ma
tiOnal holiday in commemoration of the life,
character and services of Andrew Jackson.
INVITATIONS TO Ex-CoNFEDERATEs.
Two well-known Baltimoreans, James R.
Wheeler and Joseph r. Stonebraker, were at
the Capitol yesterday inviting prominent ex-
confederates to attend the annual banquet of
the Confederate Society of Maryland, which is
to take place on Monday evening next. Repre-
sentatlves Hooker of Mississippi and Wheeler of
Alabama promised to be there, but no definite
assurances were received from any of the ex-
confederate Senators.
AvACANCY QUIETLY FILLED.
One of the pleasant places on the Senate side
of the Capitol has been filled very quietly-so
quietly. in fact, that the newspaper men have
only just become aware of the fact that the va
cancy has been filled. When Assistant Libra
rio MoE taI r.
the House document room the position he left
in the north wing was filled by the appointment
of Mr.. L. L. Cressy of South Dakota. Mr..
Cressy was Uuion soldier during the war and
for the past fifteen years has been in the news
paper business. At one time he was clerk to a
the South Dakota editor of the st. Paul Pioneer
Press.
THE ALASKA SEAL ISLANDS.
In the Senate yesterday, after The STARS
report closed. Mr.. Plumb's resolution respect
ing the lease of the islands of St. Paul and ST.
George to the Alaska commercial company and
requesting the Secretary of the Treasury not
to make further lease of islands until further
action by Congress until the latest period
made necessary by existing law, and mean
while to make full report as to the manner
In which the Alaska commercial company has
discharged its obligations under the present
lease, was referred to The committee on finance.
THE IDAHO CONSTITUTION.
The Senate committee on territories spent
two hours yesterday hearing arguments for
and against the anti-Mormon clauses of the
constitution under which it is proposed to ad-
init Idaho. Mr. j. NJ. Wilson of this city argued
against the acceptance of the constitution with
the clause DISTINGUISHING Mormons. and said
that without the Mormons there are not enough
people in the territory to enttle it to admis-
sion. He thought it soon enough to disfran-
chise them when they were convicted of crime
Delegate Dubois replied at length in favor of
the constitution, and presented judicial decis-
ions to show that the Mormon church itself is
a criminal conspiracy. The only Way to reach
the church. he said. is to deprive it of political
power, which the Idaho constitution does.
THE TRANSFER OF SEVERAL DEPARTMENT BUREAUS
was the ground work of the bill introduced in
the House yesterday by Mr.. Breckenridge of
Kentucky. The bill provides for the transfer
of the pension Office to the War department, to
be under the direction and charge of the Sec
rotary of War. Several additions to the Agri-
cultural department are also provided for. To
that department are to be transferred the geo.
logical survey, the bureau of education, the
bureau of statistics, the bureau of engraving
and printing and the geodetic survey Mr.
Breckenridge also offered resolution calling
on the Secretaries of Interior and of War for
Information to what saving of expenditure
could be made by transferring the pension
bureau from the Interior to the War depart
meQt.