Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-12-18

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Senate to the Committee on Military AT
| fairs.
THE Senate, in executive session to-day,
| confirmed a large number of recess nomina-
| tions, but owing to the failure to adopt the
usual notice of confirmation to be subject to
| the Presidents confirmation, the list was
not made public.
| IT is impossible at this time to obtain an
| official interview of any kind in regard to
| reports that the President has decided to
| issue proclamation in a few days restor1n@
| the duties on sugar, molasses, coffee, hides,
| ETC., imported from the countries that have
| not negotiated reciprocity treaties with the
| United States under the provision of the
| Mckinley tariff act. Government officials
| dismiss all inquiries with the simple state
! ment that the report is altogether unauthor-
| lZed. 1t is expected that an official an
| nouncement on the subject will be made in
| a few days. The action said to be contem
plated is authorized by Section 8 Of the Nc
| Kinley act.
In decision rendered to-day by the
| Commissioner of the General Land Office,
| 1t is held that deposits of clay valuable for
| It's aluminium or for the manufacture of pot
tiers ware, does not render the land contain
ing snch deposit subject to entry under the
| mining laws. In the case of the town site
settlers of New Guthrie, Oklahoma, against
Mark S. Cohn and others, Secretary Noble
has modified the action of the Commissioner
OF the General Land Office of August 4, 1889,
by allowing without condition the town site
under the act of May H. 1890
THE recent heavy disbursements for pen
sfons have reduced the treasury cash bal
ance to s33, 3l5, of which amount sl35S5,-
49l is on deposit with National banks and
SlS9S4, 292 is in subsidiary coin.
THE Interstate Commerce Commission
to-day announced its decision of the case of
Lehman, Higginson & Co.. of Humboldt,
kan., against the Texas and Pacific and Mis-
souri,, Kansas and Texas Railway companies,
in favor of complainants. The points de-
cided are briefly as follows: Several rail-
way companies forming a continuous
through line carried sugar to Kansas City,
the terminal point, at 80 cent rate and for
the same rate to Parsons, Kan, an interme-
diate point and to Humboldt, a point on n
branch line, more distant than the inter-
mediate, but less distant than the terminal
point, they maintain rate of ~ cents on
sugar: held, that the roads might lawfully
maintain the same rate at the intermediate !
and terminal points, and some higher rate
might be maintained to the branch line
point off the direct through line without
unjust discrimination: also held, that as to
the branch line point. the complainant was
entitled to refund Of the amount
paid in excess OF a reasonable rate. The
commission orders that the rate to Humboldt
should not exceed 36 cents per hundred
pounds, and that the carriers should refund
to complainants $65 So as excessive charges
paid on three car loads of sugar. A joint
tariff must show on its face what carriers
unite in establishing such, joint tariffs.
The publication and filing of a schedule of
rates by the New Orleans Traffic Association
and of supplemental rate sheet by the
Texas and Pacific Railway Company, men,
1,o,- ->r %l,o{o n hi c1,o
provided by section of the act to regu-
late commerce a joint tariff OF rates on q
continuous line from New Orleans to Kansas
City, over roads of said association, or of
any one of them in connection with any
other road OF roads. Where freight passes
over a continuous line or route operated by
more than one company on which no joint !
tariff of rates has been established, the tariff
of rates and charges is the sum of the estab- |
Iished local rates on charges of the several |
companies operating such continuous line.
THE Attorney General has appointed |
James B. Mcmahon Assistant United States |
Attorney for the Western district OF Mich |
igan.
THE newly appointed House Committee |
on Rules has not yet had a meeting but it |
expects to get together before the House re- |
convenes on Saturday to agree upon reso- |
luton fixing the membership of committees. |
There are several select committees (princi- |
pa1ly to conduct investigations) which were |
during the last Congress that will |
be Topped off this year. 1t is said to be prob
able that the membership of a numb Der of the |
more important committees will be in
creased. Members of the Rules Committee
are in favor of making uniform rule, fix
constitute the important committees
Among the committees generally conceded
to rank as important, whose membership in
the Fifty-first Congress was less than
10, are the following: Ways and
Means, la members; Banking and
Currency, p; Cotnage, Weights and
Foreign Affairs and Military Affairs 13 each;
Naval officers. 10: t'ublic Lands, IL; Indian At
tairs, l3; Manufactures II; Public Buildings,
Capitol to-day. He has heavy cold and
spent the day in his rooms at the Metropoli-
tan hotel working part of the time on the
the announcement OF few of the most i'm
portant committees in advance of the ap-
pointment of she others, but q number of
who were consulted on the sub
iect found a great many objections to
this plan and said that they were reasona-
bly, sure it would not be adopted. The only
was established by Speaker Reed, who, De-
cember 9. 1889, announced the Committee on
Elections, Ways and Means, Appropriations,
and Mileage.
REPEEsENTAT1vEAp1 MILLS rested well
last night, and conti es to make satisfac-
tory progress toward recovery. Congress-
man Mansur's sprain is somewhat better to-
lay. There is no particular change to-day
in the condition of Secretary Foster, all
symptoms being favorable.
THE President to-day appointed Elbert
B. Monroe, of Connecticut, to be q member
,f the Board of Indian Commissioners, vice
John Charlton, resigned.
The Comptroller of the Currency has de-
,ided to make dividend of 40 per cent to |
of the insolvent Maverick National
Bank of Boston.
The Clerk of the House has made the fol-
owing appointments: William Mohler,
Clerk, vice William G. Daniels:
George B. Parsons, of Illinois, Enrolling
Clerk, vice Charles r. McKenney; and j. |
frank Snyder, Of Pennsylvania, Disbursing
Clerk vice E. C. O'Brien.
GRADUALLY WAKING UP.
Tho MichSpan Girl Who Has Silent 1SA