Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-01-08
LIVE WASHINGTON WAITS.

duty of the President after January l. 1892,
to suspend by proclamation the free admis-
sion of sugars, molasses, coffee, tea and
hides against such countries producing
these articles as, after that date, maintain
tariff duties upon American agricultural
and other products which he may deem un-
equal and unreasonable, the President sub
mitted to the Attorney General the ques-
tion whether the law authorized him to
issue proclamation fixing future day
when the duties imposed by virtue OF the
proclamation would take effect. The Attor-
ney General has given an opinion that the
duties must attach and be collected on and
after the date OF the proclamation, and
that a future day cannot be named by the
President
Owing to this decision, and to the fact that
justice to importers of the articles named in
section of the tariff law requires that
reasonable notice should be given of the
Presidents intended action. Secretary
Blaine to-day sent notes to the diplomatic
representatives, in this city, OF Austria
hungary, Columbia. Hayti, Nicaragua; Hon,
duras. Spain (for the Philippine Islands and
Nenezuela). informing them that on March
10 next the President would issue his procia-
nation, unless in the meantime some satls-
factory reciprocity arrangement snouid De
made with the countries named. declaring
that in view of the free admission OF the
articles named in section of the tariff, the
tariffs on the agricultural and other prod
ucts of the United States to be reciprocally
unequal ard unreasonable. and that as
against the countries named he would issue
his proclamation March 10 next, suspending
the provisions of the tariff law relating to
the introduction into the United States OF
sugars, molasses. coffee, tea and h1des, the
product of or exported from such countries,
and on and after that date the duties liked
in section 3 would be imposed on those arti-
cles: The notice to Spain, however, only
applies to the Philippine Islands. -
Negotiations with France and some other
countries have reached such stage as, in
the opinion of the President, to warrant the
Secretary of State in Withholding notice to
them of a proclamation affecting their prod
ucts. The notes referred to were considered
and signed by Mr.. Blaine at his residence
this afternoon. General j. W. Foster spent
some time in consultation with him on the
subject.
SENATOR HILL, of New York, remained
in his seat for an hour after the adjourn
ment of the Senate to-day. He was an object
ofinterest to the people, which then had
entrance to the hall, and was much dis
cussed and pointed at by little knots of
spectators who gathered in the rear of the
desks. He occupied the seat formerly filed
by Senator Hampton, of South Carolina, in
the last row on the Democratic side of the
chamber. The new Senator received a meas
comers in the conservative Senate. for not
only was he personally greeted by nearly all
of his Democratic colleagues. but by many
of the Republican Senators, and he must
have been surprised to find out how many
persons in Washington had known him for
years, to judge by their protuse declarations.
with much interest aud when Captain Bas-
setts four bells signaled adjournment he re-
marked jocularly that the session had been
too short to admit of his distinguishing HIM
self.
THERE are now ten Senators who have
notified the Caucus Committee of their abil-
ity and willingness to serve on the Appro-
priations Committee in the place formerly
held by Mr.. Plumb. Although Senator Per-
kins, in view of his Congressional expe-
rience is likely to fare much better than is
usually the case with new Senators in as
signment to committees, it is not probable
that he can succeed to this much coveted
place, so that the Caucus Committee, unable
to fall back upon the rule of succession, is in
dilemma. One ofits members to-day said
that the membership of the Appropriations
Committee would probably be increased.
notwithstanding the understanding reached
at the beginning of the present session that
it would be allowed to shrink to its former
membership of nine when vacancy ensued
in the natural course of events. Ii some
such measure of relief is not afforded it is
vision of the general appropriations bills
among the leading committees of the Senate
will in the end carry their point through the
aid of certain of the Senators from the older
States who are disappointed in their desire
to get places on the an-powerful Appropria
lions Committee.
THERE was to-day laid before the House
reports made under the direction OF the
Chief of Engineers of an examination and
survey of the st. Louis river from Grassy
point in st. Louis bay, to Fond Du Lac, on
the State line between Minnesota ana Wis
consin. The Improvements proposed con-
templates forming channel by dredging,
where necessary, 100 feet wide ut the bottom
and l6 feet deep, up to Fond Du Lac, at an
estimated cost of $ll3,0 600.
THE questions asked in the progress of
argument by Justices of the Court to-day
give good ground for the presumption that
the United States Supreme Court will decide
against the Church of the Holy Trinity of
New York. in the suit between it and the
United States growing out of the church's
bringing Rev. f. Walpole Watren, of England
to this country under contract, as its rector
REPRESENTATIVE WASHINGTON, of
Tennessee, the Chairman of the Committee
on Territories, says the committee will un-
doubtedly prepare bills containing enabling
acts by which Territories of Arizona and New
Mexico can hold conventions to form con-
stitutions that may be voted on by the peo-
pie at the coming election in November
The pills will, he says, in all probability be
so framed that the Territories may after the |
constitutions are adopted by the people be
admitted by the proclamation OF the Presi- |
dent. so that further action by Congress will |
not be necessary. 1t is not likely, he says,
that any new territory will be admitted in |
time to participate in the next Presidential
election.
THE Treasury Department has approved |
the action of the Collector of Customs at
Cleveland, o.. in requiring bond for the pro-
duction of consular invoices covering goods |
arriving at that port from New York under |
transportation bond; in cases |
where the consignees do not produce a con- |
sular invoice at the time of making entry of |
such goods. |
Two important committees of the House |
effected an organization to-day. The Ap- |
preparations Committee authorized the ap- |
pointment of subcommittee, and deferred |
action on the census deficiency requested |
by Superintendent Porter until they can |
begin work. 1t is practically settled that |
there will be no assemblage of all the gen
eral appropriation bills in the Appropria- |
tion Committee, and the distribution of the |
bills among several commit |
tees will remain as in the two previous Con- |
sresses The WAYS and Means Committee |
beginning work on tariff legislation Reuter- |
Springer, son of the Chairman, succeeds |
John NJ. Carson as principal clerk. Alex. |
Jones, Chicago newspaper man. was ap- |