The Pioche weekly record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1877-1900, 1891-09-03
WASHINGTON LETTER.
WASHINGTON, August 20, 1891.

town, and he is full OF interesting talk
about things of national Importance. He
says that Governor Hogg is afraid to call
an extra session of the legislature on ac-
count of the Senatorial situation, al.
though the people are mostly in favor of
one. lie says also that Representative
Mills cannot be elected to the Senate
because Of his having too many bitter
enemies in the State, and that, he
thinks, Judge Culbertson would be the
next Senator from Texas, if he wants
the place, whether the election be at an
extra or a regular session of the legsla-
ture. This, If true, puts spoke in the
wheel of the scheme which has been
much talked Of here to get Mills elected
to the Senate at an extra session of the
legislature in order t. get him out of the
Speakelship fight
ny the way, speaking of the Speaker
ship, Tammany Democrat who is
credited with knowing whereof he
speaks, says that the twenty three
Democrats Of New York have been
polled on the Speakership; that one of
them is for Mills, six for McMillin, and
sixteen for Crisp. As the unit rule will
be observed in the caucus, With the ex-
ception of Representative Tracy, who re.
fuses to be bound thereby and who will
vote for Mills, Crisp will get tw enty.two
of the votes.
Secretary Noble is again on hand, and
he is kept busy in denying that he has
resigned or that he intends to resign.
Whatever he may have been several
months ago when the report got out that
he intended to resign on account of bad
health, he certainly isn't sick man
now.
The American Association for the
Advancement of Science, which has been
in session here since last Wednesday,
has about concluded its business, and
the members are now engaged in sight
seeing and other methods just like ordi-
nary folks.
Can lager beer be taken legally into
the Indian Territory and sold there? The
question has been raised by somebody,
and the Treasury, War and Interior de.
partments are all interested in its answer.
"Ardent spirits" or "spirituous liquors"
are prohibited by statute, from being
taken into or sold in the Indian country,
but judges having jurisdiction of the
Territory have differed in the construc-
ton of this statute, some holding that
it included beer, and one, the other day,
that it did not. The Secetary of the
Interior thinks it is a violation Of the
spirit, if not the letter Of the law to sell
beer in the Territory, and he has re-
quested the Commissioner of Internal
Revenue to prevent the admission of any
more beer into the Territory, but that
official has not yet decided what, if any,
steps be will take in the matter. The
Secretary has directed that all packages
of beer in the Territory be seized.
Washington now wants everything
that is going. The delegates from the
District of Columbia department of the
Union Veterans Union carried heart,
: invitation to the national meeting of thu
Union which convenes at Cleveland
Ohio, tomorrow, to hold its 1892 meeting
here during the same week that the G
. A. R. encampment will be here, an,
notwithstanding that yesterday wa
Sunday many of our leading citizen
were doing missionary work in the rank
of the departments of Massachusetts
r Maine, New Hampshire and Vermont
= the members of which stopped her
en- route to Cleveland. Washington
also after all the political convention
next year.
It is stated that determined effort
are being made to get Mr.. Harrison
appoint as successor to w. L. Bragg
of Alabama, one of the Interstate Con
merce Commissioners who died la
re week, Farmers Alliance man, if not
member of the order, one who is know
to be in sympathy with its aims. 1t
claimed by the Alliance men that the
numbers and their direct interest in ma
n. tiers pertaining to Interstate CONNER
b. entitle them to be represented upon t
of Interstate Commerce Commission, al
on they will be supported Gy number
RI influential Republicans who believe
W. would be good politics for Mr.. Harris
ok to publicly recognize the Alliance, and
ay the Alliance man selected be also
ha Democrat, it is not thought that t
Ks, members of that party would do mu
he kicking, as they are particularly
Ill srous just at this time of standing W
to with the Alliance.
gs. The officials of the National Farme
.ck Alliance say there is no truth in
as charge that Senator PETER has misr
ri. resented the mortgage indebtedness
lue Kansas, and they have obtained
on. official figures from the census bureau
are substantate their statement. Tn
( is figures give the mortgage indebtedn
ere of Kansas for the past ten years S4S
res zoo, 900, of which there remained unr
full at the close of the census year $685., o.
nay 900. The total number of mortga
OBJ. was 63S, GOO; the per capita tax wasSl
II per cent were on farms; 2S per {
are subject to Is per cent interest; 7
cent to IL per cent interest, and som
j is them are reported to be subject to