The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1890-06-26
kAUK CENTRE HERALD.
THURSDAY JUNE 26, 1890.
OUR WAsHINGTONlLETTER.

(From our Regular Correspondent
Washington, D. c. June, ID 1890.
ED. HERALD
The president is much pleased that the
conference committee has agreed and the
house and senate passed a pension bill.
The new bill is the result of compro-
mise. The senate conferees withdrawing
the dependent feature, and the house
conferees withdrawing the service feat
TIRE, of the bill which had previously
passed the house. This makes a disabil-
ity measure of the new bill, which will
become law in few days. Represen-
tative Morrill, estimates that the new
aw will add about $50, OOO, 900 per year
to the pension expenditures of the gov
ernment. The new bill limits the charges
Of pension agents to ten dollars for each
claim prepared under it.
The silver question is becoming quite
interesting in the senate, the finance
committee having after adding several
amendments to the caucus bill which
passed the house last week, reported
that measure favorably and Morrill, has
given notice that he will, at the proper
time, offer the house bill as a substitute
for the Jones bill which the senate has
been discussing for several weeks. Alter
to-day the speeches on the subject, in the
senate, will be limited to five minutes.
1t is stated to-day that the senate fl
nance committee has practically COM
pleted its considerations Of the Mckinley
tariff bill, and that the bill will be report
ed to the senate next week. Perhaps it
will be but it is doubtful.
The house republican caucus has agreed
to consolidate the Rowell and the Lodge
Federal election bills. After that is done
another caucus will be held to determine
whether the bill shall be pushed through
at this session or left over until next Win
ter. II the house should passit, it is ex-
tremely doubtful whether it could be got
ten through the senate.
An excursion party ofMinnesota news
paper men and their families have been
enjoying the hospitality of Washington
this week, and if they have carried away
as good an impression as they have left
here, Washington has d right to feel very
proud. it was as fine looking and brainy
a crowd as ever visited the National cap
itol, and they will be welcome whenever
they may choose 70 repeat the visit.
Secretary Tracy this week opened bids
for more than five million dollars worth
of new vessels for the navy. the principal
of which is to be the largest vessel ever
built for the United Statss. Mr.. Tracy
thinks the bids were higher than they
should have been and he is now carefully
going over them in detail to decide
whether to throw them out on that ac-
count.
Commissioner of pensions Raum indig-
nantly denies the allegations in the reso-
luton offered by Representative Cooper
providing for an investigation of the
pension office, and says that he is ready
ut ANY llHS W NAVY SNNiS tt>I IN i'''N'
performed since taking charge of the Of
flee thoroughly investigated, and he
hopes the house will adopt Mr.. Cooper's
resolution.
REPRESENTATIVE Springer was charged
in the lobby of the house, Tuesday, with
opposing the passage of private bill by
the house through improper motions.
MIR. Springer threatened to have the
man who publicly accused him, brought
before the bar of the house, but he didn't
do it. Was he afraid that the man could
prove the charge?
Mr.. Blaine is not worrying himself ov.
er the attacks made by the English news
papers upon him because of the stand
taken by this country in relation to the
Behring sea fisheries, and there is nc
probability of anv change in our policy