The morning call., 1892-05-28
PROlOTIIG NEW INDUSTRIES
The Cultivation Of Cane Sugar in Cali
fOrnia Valleys.
III APPROPRIATION MADE FOR TIE TEST
Proposed Revision Of the Tariff on IrOn-in Early
Report Probable Raising the Salaries
Of Lctter.CarTiers.
Special to THE MORNING CALL.

WAsHINGTON, May 27.-The House Com
mittee on Agriculture has agreed to report
Dill approprating $4,000 for experiments
10 sugar culture. Tie provso offered by
Representative Caminettl has been adopted
as follows:
Provided that so much thereof as may be
necessary shall he exi ended in Investigations
anu preparations TO carry on experiments ne Xt
year IN sugar cane productions on reclaimed
swamp lands in some suitable place Ia the San
Joaquin or Sacramento valleys OF California.
The Agricultural Department has agreed
TO ship TO California the machinery now
being used in Louisiana, as the season in
Louisiana VIII soon be over. Professor
Wiley is Of the opinion that sugar culture in
The san joaquin and Sacramento valleys
can be carried on and will prove as success
ful as IN the most favored sugar section Of
Florida. TIE recent experiments in the
last-named State have been highly satisfac-
tory. Sugar land in Louisiana has been
very profitable, some acres netting as high
as $3.50, and 1t is expected to soon have this
great industry under way IN California.
The klamath Reservation conference re-
port as amended was to-day adopted by the
House.
Revision of the Tariff.
It is not improbable that the Ways and
Means Committee will report bill making
important revisiOns in the iron and metal
schedule. After consultation with his col
leagues Stevens Of Massachusetts, to-day
introduced bill to place iron ore and scrap
iron Oh the free list and reduce the duties
on the manufactures of iron and other
metals. 1t makes the duty on pig iron and
Ike metals So 36 per ton, just half the pres
ent rate; on bar and structural iron and
steel S11 80 per ton; steel rails, etc. Sc y,
and provides that no rate imposed in the
metal schedule of the Mckinley bill shall
exceed 3j per cent ad valorem.
Bills FavorabIy Reported.
The agricultural appropriation bill was
completed by the House Committee on Agri-
culture to-day, and it apprOprateS S507 800
more than last year; S1,00000O is appro-
prlated to carry out the provisions of the
meat-inspection law.
The House P6stoffice Committee has au-
thorized a favorable report on the bill fixing
the salary of letter-carrieTs al $500 per an
uum during and after the fourth year Of
service.
Army and Navy.
First Lieutenant Charles II. Bonesteel,
Twenty-tirst Infantry, will report in person
10 Colonel William L. Shafter, First In
fantry, president of the examining board
appointed to act at Angel Island. Cal, at
sGch time as he may de ,ignate, for examin-
alton by the board as to his fitness for pro-
motion.
Ensign j. L. Jayne has been detached
from the receiving-shlp Independence, now
at Mare Island, and ordered TO duty on the
coast survey.
Tensions Granted.
Passions have been granted as follows !:
California; Original - Abel G. Porter,
Nathaniel Limbaugh, James NJ Jenkins,
William Dunn, Albert NJ. Babcock, Andrew
j. Jenkins, John Southrey, John O. Cot
trell. Benjamin f. Stephens. John SAM
bruck. Additional - Michael Twomey,
/ Franklin Bell Increase-Richard Holmes.
Oregon; Original - William III. Cross,
John +. Simmons. Joseph Van Blaricocon,
Charles L. Groot.
Washington; 0riginal-Charles II. Wedge
wood Anton Behme. Authorization b.
Andrews. John NJ. Benedict.
The Senate in executive session to-day
confirmed the appointments of Major F. G.
Ainsworth as chief Of the Record aud Pen
sion Office of the War Department. and
Thomas +. Wilson, United States Attorney
for Arizona.
F. ID. Stevens was confirmed to-day as
Postmaster at Auburn, Cal.