Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-05-07
INVESTIGATION CERTAIN.
The Dismissal of Senate Clerk Young Not
to Go by Without an Inquiry-Proposed
Changes in Classification of Mail Mat
teri Bill Against Convict-Made Goods
Interesting Capital Notes.


ter, Bill Against Convict-Made Goods
Interesting Capital Notes.
WASHINGTON, Nav 6.-The standing
Committee of Press Correspondents will be-
gin on Monday an inquiry to ascertain the
reasons for dismissal under charges of in
| fidelity, of Senate Executive Clerk James
r. Young. The examination into this mat
te + is not made for the purpose of challeng.
| Ing the right of the Senate to dismiss an en-
| ploye but to enable the associates of Mr.
! Young, who include the whole body of cor
respondents, to reach and express conclu-
| sion with regard to the probability of his
| guilt of the Offense imputed to him, and as
| to whether, If the Senate was justified in
dismissing him under charges OF gross inf
delity, he should not also, for the same rea-
| son, be excluded from the privileges of the
gallery. Mr.. Young, who was refused by the
| Senate an opportunity to be heard, will be
| called upon by the committee to make a
| statement
In spite of the fact that Mr.. Young was
| recently secretly dismissed by the Senate
under very painful circumstances, it ap-
| pears that there are at least three applicants
| in the field for the place of Executive Clerk
| of the Senate thus made vacant They are
| General Harrison Allen, of Fargo N. d, but
formerly resident of Pennsylvania who is
| backed by the North western Senators;
| SHurlcS MdfCln, laCe clerk OF Gne House Oh
| representatives, who is brought forward by
| Senator Perkins, and w. H. H. Hart, colOred
man and a graduate of Howard University,
| who was protege of ex-senator Evarts, and
has strong backing. 1t was stated at one
time that thfs office was to be abolished, but
it is evident that the matter has been re-
considered.
| REPRESENTATIVE CROSBY, of Massachu-
setts, to-day reported to the House from the
Postofice Committee bill providing that
| all mail matter heretofore included in the
| third and fourth classes shall in future be
transported as third class matter, postage on
| which shall be charged at the rate of cent for
every two ounces OF fraction thereof. The
passage OF the bill, the committee thinks,
| will benefit every person who has occasion
| to use the mails for transporting small pack
ages. 1t will be particularly advantageous
TO people in the rural districts who have no
| means of sending or receiving packages by
express or by other private conveyance.
THERE was to-day laid before the House
letter from Attorney General Miller, con-
tanning an application for urgent deficiency
appropriations to defray the daily expenses
of the United States Courts for the fiscal
year 1892. The amount required is $3.50, ,OOO
The necessities of the service, says the At
tornev General, require that the urgent de-
fciency bill shall be acted upon promptly or
that the courts and their officers be notified
thai the Government has no money for
its own expenses for the remainder of the
fiscal year.
AN important bill designed to prevent
the employment on public works of prison
or convict labor or the products of such
labor was reported to the House to-day
from the Labor Committee by Representa-
tive Davis. The bill is made effective by the
inclusion in it of the following provisions:
In all contracts made for the construction
or repair of public works there is to be in
serted a condition that no convict or prison
labor or the product thereof shall be en-
ployed or used upon such buildings. The
willful violation of the law is to constitute a
forfeiture of contract.
SECRETARY TRACY has informed the
Senate, in answer to a resolution asking
whether the construction of any naval
vessels on the Great Lakes had been re-
jected for any other reason than those fol-
lowed by the Department. that in only one
case has this been done, and that
the bid for the construction of
the naval practice ship, the contract
bid was $1,000 higher than that made by a
Bay City, Mich, shipbuilder, on the ground
that existing stipuations would not allow
the Department to award a contract for the
construction of a warship on the Great
Lakes. Two other proposals have been re-
ceived from shipbuiders of the lakes to
construct small vessels for the navy, but in
both instances they were rejected because
Eastern firms bid lower.
REPRESENTATIVE SCOTT, of Illinois, to-
day offered for rererence in the House q
resolution recitfng the provisions of the
antitrust law, alleging that the National 1
Cordage Company is a corporation organ
lied and operated as a trust to destroy COM
petition and monopolize the trade and COM
in biDdino t1vi ord u
products between the several States and |
foreign countries, and requesting the Attor- |
new General to inform the House whether |
any in formation had been furnished the De- |
partment OF Justice on this subject of such |
II character as will authorize him to insti- |
ute proceedings under the law against the |
persons who, it is alleged, have combined |
in its violation.
SENATOR DoLPH to-day proposed an |
amendment to the sundry civil bill appro- |
priating $3.50 900 for n public building at |
Portland, Ore, in addition to the appropria- |
tion already made, and to increase the limit |
of cost to $, 100000.
VICE PRESIDENT STAHLMAN, of the |
Louisville and Nashville Railroad Com
pany, and Linden Kent, an attorney of this /
city, representing the Richmond Terminal |
Company, appeared before the House Com |
merce Committee to-day and argued against |
II.
The committee had ordered the bill re- |
ported to the House with a favorable rec |
ommendation, but agreeing not to make the |
report until after the gentlemen named had |
an opportunity to present their views.
THE Treasury Department has completed |
ARRANGEMENTS for the transfer of the Assist
ant Treasurership at Chicago to John R.
Tanner. Four experts have been sent to
Chicago to assist Assistant Cashier Meline
who is now there in an examination of books |
and assets of the office. The bond of Mr.
TanneN amounting to $500 has been ap-
proved by the Solicitor OF the Treasury, and |
he will take possession of the sub Treasury
Monday morning.
THE House Postoffice Committee to-day
arreed to report favorably bills appropriate
ing $780, 900 for the extension of free delivery
in rural districts and providing for the issue
of fra ctional postal notes. The sum of sl0-
900 is appropriated to carry out the pro-
visions of the latter bill.
THE Secretary of State has issued war
rant for the surrender to the Canadian au-
thorities of C. C. Hade, alias Charles Phal-
ling, now in custody at St. Paul, Mimi, on |
charge of uttering forged papers in Canada.
IN the Senate to-day eulogies were pro-
on the late Senator Wilson, of
Maryland by Messrs. German, Wilson Ua.),
Berry, Platt, Gray, Mitchell, Pasco, Dixon
and Gibson, and the Senate then adjourned
till Monday.
Tho Pope Sets His Foot Down.