Connecticut western news., 1890-03-19
WASHINGTON TOPICS.

The amendment of Congressman Morse to the Oklahoma bill, prohibiting the introduc- tion of liouors into the new Territo.y y until it had become organized and qualified to decide the matter itself, was rejected by the House but a similar amendment offered by Mir. Stew art of Georgia was adopted.
 Senator Plumb has invented a plan by which all the business transacted by the Senate in executive session may be made public without making public the speeches or comments on candidates.
 The Serate will soon dispose of the Blair Educational bill. Senator Hoar made very eloquent speech in support of the measure.
 Representative Cannon of the House Com mittee on Appropriations denies that the eX- penditures will probably exceed the revenues for the coming fiscal year.
 Gen. Banks made his first speech in this Congress supporting the bill to place Gen. Fremont on the retired list.
 The old cruiser Ossipee is pronounced un- worthy of repairs and she will be con- demned.
 Benjamin Harrison Mckee, the baby of the White House, pulled the fire alarm of the ex- ecutive mansion resulting in the assembling in about eight minutes of enough fire engines to protect the house. It was all experiment planned by the chief engineer to test practi- cally the protection from fire. One thing de- monstrated was 8 lack of sufficient water to feed the engines.
 Mir. Lodge of Massachusetts introduced in the house bill appropriating $50, ,000 for the erection of public building at Medford, Mass.
 The House passed bills for the erection of public buildings Ut Houlton, Me-, and Lynn, Mass.
 The Mckay claim passed the Senate Com mittee on Claims unanimously. It gives Nathaniel Mckay and the executors of Don- aid Mckay the right to prove their case in the Court of Claims.
 In spite of all sensational telegrams which have been sent from Washington in regard to disagreement among the Republican mem- which are intended to convey the idea that there will be no tariff legislation this ses ion, the committee IS nearer to satisfactory agreement on the several points on which there naturally arose differences of opirion than at any other time within the past two or three weeks. A speedy agreement in regard to rates, both as to the sugar schedule, the woolen schedule and the metal schedule is ex- pected.
 The River and Harbor Committee Is now engaged In an effort to trim the aggregate amount of its bill down to something below 200O0, ,000. During the preliminary con- sideration of the various items it is under stood that the totals footed up nearly $30,- O00, 900. It was at once determined that the country would not tolerate such figure, so the pruning knives were drawn out and the pairing process commenced. It is proposed to reduce the aggregate to about SIS, ,000 ,000. It is understood that the committee expects to have its bill completed and ready to report to the House the latter part of the present month or early in April next.
 The House Committee on Judiciary has re- ported bill to increase the salaries of United States Circuit Judges, and another to increase the salaries of the District Judges. It will soon report a third measure to relieve the Supreme Court of Appeals. It has already reported bill to create Court of Patent Appeals, which will do great deal towards affording relief to the Supreme Court. If all it's measures are passed the Federal Judges Congress. The bill fixing the salaries of District Judges was reported as substitute for the Senate bill. Evidently the House Committee does not agree with the Senate Committee 19 in the difficulty of getting through CumstanCeS.