Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1890-02-11
CAPITOL GLEANINGS.
Various Matters of Interest Considered
In the Committee Rooms.

SECRETARY WINDOWS SILVER BILL
Ex-Representative Symes Of Colorado yester-
day addressed the House committee ON coin
age, weights and measures. he reviewed the
suggestions in connection with the silver ques-
ton made by Secretary Window in his annual
report He objected TO the Window bill, par
ticularly that section giving the treasurer the
authority to suspend the receipt of bullion
whenever he thinks there is an artificial price
by reason OF a corner on the market He
favored adopting free coinage gradually and
not at a Jump. The committee yesterday
passed a resolution inviting Secretary Window
to appear before them to submit his views on
his bill and the silver question in general.
LAND OFFICE SALARIES.
The Senate committee on public lands at its
meeting yesterday ordered an adverse report
on the bill to create the Office OF auditor of the
general land Office in the Interior Department
and a favorable report on the bill to readjust
salaries of officials of the general land Office,
follows: Commissioner of the general land
Office, from $1,000 to $1,000; assistant commits
sioner, $4,000 to 50, 500, and chiefs of divisions
q 800 to $4,000.
ONE RESULT OF THE MONTANA DEADLOCK.
Representative Carter of Montana appeared
before the appropriations committee of the
House yesterday and made representations that
caused the committee to defer action in the
matter of granting authority to the Attorney
General 10 apply certain funds for the relief of
convicts in the Montana penitentiary. When
Montana became a state the United States
turned over to the new government several of
the public buildings within its boundaries.
Among these was the penitentiary. Owing to
the deadlock in the Montana legislature it
failed to make provision for food for the con-
victs and the Attorney General was requested
to apply certain funds to their relief.
TO PREVENT GERRYMANDERING IN THE STATES.
Mr.. Wickham of Ohio introduced in the
House yesterday for reference a bill to prevent
gerrymandering in the states. 1t provides
that the Representatives elected to the Fifty
second Congress shall be returned from the
same districts as similar Representatives elected
to the Flfty-frst Congress.
POSTAL TELEGRAPHY.
Postmaster General Wanamaker appeared
before the House committee on post offices and
post roads today and read an elaborate state
ment in favor of a system of postal telegraphy
Mr.. Wanamaker said he had prepared a bill
based on the four bills which had been intro
duced in the House this session on the same
subject and he believed that it would be salts
factory. He proposed to begin the expert
ment by establishing postal telegraph commu-
nication between the 400 free delivery offices in
the country and to gradually extend the service
to smaller offices. A uniform rate on mes
sages could not be established. OIr. Wanna
maker believed that the scheme should be tried
for ten years on leased wires
THE SIOUX TREATY.
The President sent to the Senate yesterday
the report of the Sioux commission on the ne
gotiation of the treaty with the Sioux Indians
for opening Sioux reservation in South Dakota,
together with a message reviewing the work of
the commission Accompanying the message
is letter of the Secretary of the Interior trans
hitting the draft of bill embodying the legis-
latiye recommendations of the commission.
NOTES.
An argument in favor of the bill for the pro-
lection of the American bison and other ami
mails was made fore the House committee OH
City, Kan.
The Senate has confirmed the nomination of
Jacob NJ COpes, postmaster at Phoenix, Ariz.
Senator Hoar has introduced a bill which
provides that all persons who have lost the use
OF both hands by gunshot wounds in both arms
SO as TO permanently disable them, shall re-
ceive 500 month in lieu of the pension they
now receive.