Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1892-02-18
CAPITOL TGpICS.

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Representative Barkhoad Of Alabama yes-
terday introduced in the House |. resolution
Authorizing, the Judiciary committee u luyes-
tSate the charges ua.e arnt-s, A,lr.wp Nc
Cormick. I. :. District ial.c Tor the Northern
district % Texas. These charges are IN sub-
stance briefly rs follows: That he knoyyingly
and wii!;u!iy obtained and kept oney 20 which
he was nos ennt4ed; that he used Lie Official po-
sitiou ss L. :. Judge to obtain money for his
relations snG appointing OF having Them ar
pointed to III IMPORTANT places; that the sad
Judge MeCormicN white tbs trial OF the case OF
tac United States against Logan Ct al was in
progress IN tie I. :. court at Graham before
him sitting As judge OF the said court, stated
and announced openly and publicly that the
defendants were guilty and that no POWER on
earth could prevent his conyictinc the said de-
PENDANTS. thereby wilifuly and kncwingiv
irejudSing ard predesermining the case on
trial before him.
AnELIEvER IL TWO FLAGS.
Representative = atson OF Georgia evidently
believes in two flags He was addressing the
House yesterday on the Indian appropriation
biz and in his Introductory remarks said:
Give Us fair laws; give us laws which recog-
niEe no special classes; Sive us laws that confer
no special privileges and We will deal Justly
Will our former slaves on every question: we
VIII deal fairly with the red men on every ques-
aoa; and We will deal fairly with the veterans
o. The l nIon army, who upheld the honor Of
tEeir iias. at the same time that We ask better
lava 10. the one-armcd and one-lesged veterans
who upheld the honor of ours"
rLEcrIos OF SENATORS ~ POPULAR VOTE.
The movement to secure the election of SEN
ators by direct vote of the people is making
substantial progress. The bill introduced in
the Senate BY Senator Mitchell proposing a
constitutional anne ndment TO secure this oh ect
was referred by tho Senate committee on priv
iie%es and elections to q subcommittee com
posed OF the author OF the bill and Senators
chandler and Turpie. After considering the
measure for some time the subcommittee this
morning authorized the bill TO be fav orably re-
ported 10 the full committee. Ii is expected
.aat the blA and the elaborate report accom-
panSlnG II VIII come up for consideration be-
lore the full Committee next week. It's fate
cannot be predicted, although 1t is known that
the chairman. Senator Teller has always been
an advocate oil the proposition.
THE PENSION OFFICE INVESTIGATION.
The committee authorized to investigate The
pension Office held meeting today. None of
the republican members of the committee
were present, but the committee was organized
and the plan Of the investigation mapped out
L he will meet againin a week.
THE RUSSIAN HEBREWS.
Mr.. McCreary (ky.) today reported to the
foreign affairs committee the resolution agreed
upon by the Subcommittee with reference to
the harsh treatment of Hebrews by the govern
mens of Russia. The committee adopted
the subcommittees report, but Mr.
Rayner tMd.D asked that the resolution
be not reported to the House until lie had pre-
pared and submitted to the full committee a
minority report he intended TO frame on the
subject which lac hoped might induce the com
mIttee 20 take stronger action than pro-
posed in the resolution.
M hayners request was accedeG to, SO that
the matter went over until the next meeting.
CHOCOLATE CONFECTIONERY.
The ways and means committee of the House
will report measure TO correct an error made
in the Nc Kinley tariff law by misplacing pa
renthesis marks so that sweetened chocolate
was apparently made dutiable as choc olate con-
fectioBery.
BY reason Of this mistake sweetened choco-
late was held TO be dutisble at Is cents per
pound instead of ) cents per pound as the
trainers of the ball intended.
concurrent resolution to correct the mis-
take was passed by the House at its last session
on motion of Mr.. Mckinley. but Mr. Edmunds
Directing IN the Senate 20 the passage Of the
resolution because II was in the form OF a con-
current resolution 1t went over and died with
the Congress
Today Mr.. ]. NJ Morrison of New York ap-
peared before the democratic members OF the
ways and means committee aud explained the
matter to them. He said that since the
passage OF the Mckinley act there had
been only one small importation Of
sweetened chocolate. which was the chocolate
OF commerce. The importer paid the duties
nnder protest and had won ms csre in the
United States circuit court and IL was
now before the United States Supreme
Court on an appeal taken BIZ the
government The members present were
In favor OF the correction OF the law requested.
and Mr.. Cochran of New York will introduce
bill upon which the committee will act.
THE PLUMB ruLoGIrs
Twelve Senators are down on the Vice Presi-
dents program to say eulogistic things this
afternoon On the late Senator Plumb The
speakers are Senators PETER. Cockrell, Morrill,.
Daniel. Dolph. Chandler, Tarpio. Hale. Nc
Pherson, Allison, Wal:hall and Perkins.
NOTES.
Senator and Mrs. Squire leave for Clyde,
Ohio, this evening on account of the death of
Senator Squire's mother, which occurred in
that place.