Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-01-09

| bcSteu eicCtlOH cases Dc1Or6 tne hOuso VI
Representatives will be taken up in the fol-
lowing order by the House Committee on
Elections: Craig versus Stewart, from Penn
sylvania; Noyes versus Rockwell, from New
York; Reynolds versus Shonk, from Penn
sylvania; McDuf versus Turpin, from Ala
baIna: Greevy versus Scull, from Pennsyl-
vania, and Miller versus Elliott from South
Carolina. This order was agreed upon by
the Elections Committee at a meeting this
morning. The contestant and contestee and
other interested parties in the Craig versus
Stewart case, which is first in the list, Will
be notified to be present at the meeting OF
the committee next Tuesday. as the date
for hearing the contest will then be fixed.
REPRESENTATIvE DURBURRow, Chair
man of the Worlds Columbian Commission
Committee in the House, has returned to
Washington from Chicago, where he has
been spending the holidays. and where he
has been in conference with the Fair ofh-
cials. In speaking of the position which the
Fair would assume before Congress he said:
"The people and the city of Chicago each
contributed S. 000 900, or total of $40 900, 0Oo
which was sufficient for the plans of the En-
position as originally drafted. These plans,
however, have been broadened, anu the
scope of the Exposition has been widened at
the instance of the National Commission
appointed by the President under the au-
thority of an act of Congress. The result IS
that the local committee finds that the sum
of $4,000 900 is totally inadequate for the
purpose of the Exposition as now planned
by the National Commission. AS the latter
is responsible for this increased expense,
the local board takes the ground that as a
matter of Justice the National Government
ought to make provision for carving out
the work of Government agents. The Doard
therefore proposes to come to Congress and
ask an appropriation of $5 100000 this appro-
priation to be made upon The same basis as
the stock subscriptions OF the citizens ana
the municipality of Chicago-that is, the
Government is to share proportionately IN
the profits of the Exposition. The bill 1or
this purpose is being drawn in Chicago"
THE first formal meeting of the Senate
Committee on Privileges and Elections was
held this morning. The only business trans
acted was the appointment for Tuesday
next for the hearing of arguments in the
contested election case of Dubois and Clag-
gett. 1t is not expected that any testimony
will be given or witnesses examined, and
the hearing will probably be devoted enuire-
ly to legal arguments by. attorneys on the
questions of law involved in the case. 1t is
thought that the arguments can be con-
cluded in two or three days, and the case
soon disposed of. On Thursday the Call
Davidson contested case will consist mainly
port of the legality of the Governors action
in giving the certificate of election to
Davidson, the contestant. Another subject
before the committee is the right OF Mr..
Chiffon, of Texas, who succeeded Senator
Reagan, to hold his seat, the only question
involved being the legality of the appoint
ment of Mr.. Chiffon by Governor Hogg one
day before Senator Reagan's resignation was
accepted. When Mr.. Chiffon was sworn in
Senator Hoar requested that his credentials
be referred to the committee to inquire into
the legality of the Governors action, and it
is expected that the matter will be disposed
of in a week or two. 1t is thought by some
Senators that the appoin tment of Senator
to fill a vacancy before the resignation of
the sitting member had been accepted was a
bad precedent to establish, as in some In
stances the resigning Senator might recon-
slider his determination to leave the Senate
and request that his resignation be with
drawn. It is not probable, however, that
Senator Chiffon will be ousted, and even if
he should be it is regarded as certain that
he would be Immediately reappointed by
the Governor OF his State
THE Senate Committe on Public Build
fnrs and Grounds held its first meeting of
this session this morning. 1t was detern-
fned to report favorably all bills for the
erection of public buildings which passed
the Senate last session but failed of action |
by the House, and this will probably be done
when the Senate meets Monday. The total |
amount represented in these bills is over |
So. 900, 900, made ND of appropriations ranging
TOR the erection OF public buildings at Allen |
town and Bradford. |
SENATOR TELLER intends to push during |
this Congress a bill he has introduced pro-
viding for the introduction of reindeer into |
the possessions of the United States in |
Alaska and the islands adjacent thereto. An |
excellent object lesson on the subject adorns |
his committee room on Privileges and Elec- |
tions. 1t is fine, large robe made of the |
skin and fur of four reindeer. The fur is a |
beautiful dark brown color. 1t is, |
the Senator says, perhaps the warm
est fur known, and the skin makes |
excellent gloves. The fur is used |
by whale vessel men, who find they cannot |
put on other clothes enough to keep warm |
while two suits of reindeer fur afford pro-
lection from the most inclement weather.
Mr.. Teller thinks it would be an excellent
article of clothing for drivers and others in
the cold regions OF the West. The animals
cost SO each, and their flesh and the milk
the live animals yield are the principal food
of the natives on the Aleutian Islands, be-
longing totne United States, have heretofore
subsisted on the sea otter. but this source of
supply will soon cease and Senator Teller
thinks that not only commercial reasons
(and he believes commercially it 1twould be
paying investment) but human considera-
tiUns should induce the United States to ap-
proprlate $4,000 for the purchase of n suffi-
cient number of reindeer TO stock our Alas
kan possessions.
THE House Committee on Foreign Affairs
has notified Congressman Morse to appear
before it next Thursday, when the resolu-
ton offered by him upon the subject of the
prosecuted Hebrews in Russia will be con-
sidered.
THE unexpired sentence of suspension in
the case of Lieutenant Commander George
A. Bicknell, formerly attached to the
Galena, has been remitted from January 7,
1892.
j. B. SMELL, of Missouri, has been ap-
pointed clerk to the House Committee on
Weights and Measures. The House
Committee on Invalid Pensions held it's
first meeting to-day and completed an or
ganiZation. William H. Wilson, of Wabash, |
Ind, has been appointed clerk to the COM
mittee.
THE President has commuted to imprison-
ment for life at hard labor the sentence of |
death imposed in the case of Samuel Moore,
the colored man convicted OF killing Jahn-
dorf. q fellow prisoner in the jail of the Dis
trict of ColumD Dia. He was sentenced to be
hanged January Is.
DR.. IRVING A. WATSON, Secretary of
the American Public Health As Association, is
now travelling through Central and South
America. arranging for the next meeting of
the association at the City of Mexico in No
1892 DR.. Watscl has induced the
OF the Mexican Republic to enter
into plan of interna tional and Interstate
notification of the outbreak of contarious
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