Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-02-27
LIVE WASHINGTON WAITS.

Opposition to the Bill Prohibiting the Deal
ing in Options and Futures-The Preju-
dice Against Trusts Discussed-Senator
Dolph Opposed to the Prohibition OF
Chinese Immigration.
THE Senate subcommittee on Judiciary
to-day resumed its hearing on the bill pro-
hfbiting dealing in options and futures
John r. Dos Passos. of New York, opposed
the bill, terming it a useless and entirely un-
necessary interference by Congress with the
| mercantile interests of the country. Speak
ing of the prejudice against trusts felt by
some people, Mr.. Dos Passos said that the
institution of the Standard Oil and Sugar
Trust should not be in the least detrimental
to the interests of the country, and no harm
had come from them. Sugar, as the result,
was cheaper now than it ever had been
Regarding the so-called evil effects
of Boards of Trade and Exchanges.
he asserted that although thousands
OF persons were probably ruined every
year by speculation, that was no substan-
tial reason why those channels OF business
should be interfered with by Congress The
farmers to-day would be in q miserable con-
dition but for the existence of boards OF
trade and exchanges. C. W. Davis, of Wich-
ita Kan, argued in favor of the bill and
gave tabulated results of investigations
made by him into the production and con-
sumption of farm products of the country,
which, he said, showed that the demand was
greater than the supply He expressed him
self as opposed to both long and short SELL
ing, as detrimental to trade.
SENATOR DoLPH, from the Committee on
Foreign Affairs, to-day reported to the Sen.
ate adversely the bill introduced by Mr..
sherman to prohibit the coming OF Ch1nese
to the United States.
THE hearings in the Utah local govern
4 1>:Il A1,o
mittee on Territories closed to-day. Rev. j.
II. Smith, of Salt Lake City, q Republican in
politics. and one of the u apostles of the
Mormon Church, made the only argument.
He was opposed to the local governments
bill because it implied q distrust on the
part of the American people of the residents
of the Territory, and put them on q form OF
probation which was distasteful. If any
change at all was to be made in the existing
order of government it should be in the
direction of absolute Statehood.
In the Senate to-day Mr. Teller pre-
sented q memorial signed by B. Z. Burney
and Overton Love, from tho Chickasaw Ma
ton delegates, relative to the Presidents
message of the 7th instant, in regard to the
payment to the Choctaw and Chickasaw In
1ians for certain of their lands now occupied
by the Cheyennes and Arapahoes, and the
allowance of improper attorney fees. The
Chickasaws are to be robbed of % per cent of
their moneys by their attorneys, or of 100 by
the United States. they would rather take
their risks at the spigot than at the bung."
In conclusion, they say that If the United
States should attempt to transfer their land
to citizens of the United States the Chicka-
saws will regard the action as forfeiture of
the trust estate now held by the United
States. and Twill assert the right of the
Choctaws and Chickasaws to presume full
ownership and actual possession OF said
antly to resort to such measures as shall be
proper to test the validity OF any transfers
of said lands to white men made or at
tempted by the executive department Of the
Government"
THE Finance Committee of the Senate to-
day presented resolution in that body pro-
viding for a joint committee to confer with
the authorities of West Virginia with regard
to that States proportion of the Virginia
debt, and in the event that no settlement is
accomplished to bring suit in the United
against West Virginia. The resolution
laid aside until tomorrow. The House or
dered to its engrossment bill appropriar-
ing $35, 600 for Worlds Fair exhibit.
THE wool bill will be the first of the tariff
bills to be taken up in the House. the men,
bers of the Ways and Means Committee
reaching this conclusion to-day after q
short conference. The second bill to be
consideredwill probably be the Bryan bill,
making binding twine free, and the third,
the cotton bagging bill. 1t is likely that
there Will be more or less general discus
sion of the whole tariff question in the con-
sideration of the wool bill, which is expect
ed will occupy about three weeks.
THE Turner subcommittee of the House
nd I'D va
O secret hearing to Anderson Gratz. of st.
Louis, who appeared in behalf of some ofthe
manufacturers of bagging for covering cot
ton bales, to protest against the proposition
to put bagging on the free list. He pro-
tested against the injustice of singing out
this particular industry fol- destruction.
JUDGE BOARMAN was asked to appear
to-day before the subcommittee of the
House Committee on Judiciary to make
answer to the charges lodged against him of
misconduct on the bench as United States
Judge of the Louisiana district. He was not
present to-day and Chairman Oates of the
subcommittee has not heard from him.
Unless Judge Boarman should put in de-
tense it is probable that the subcommittee
will recommend that the preliminary steps
to his impeachment be taken.
A BILL appropriating Ss,0O0,00O with
proviso that a similar amount be expended
each year was introduced IN the House to-
day by Representative Byrns, of Missouri,
to improve the Mississippi river from the
Falls of st. Anthony to the jetties,, the i'm
provement to be under the direction of the
War Department..
THE President has approved the act ex-
tending the privileges of the immediate
act of Sandusky, o.
THE INTERCONTINENTALR RAILWAY.
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