Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-01-16
NEW LAWS WANTED.
Important Legislation Proposed by
Members of Congress.
LITTLE FOR RIVERS OR HARR0RS,
A Bill to Stop Gambling in ALI Kinds of
Agricultural Products.
CENSUS FIGURES NOT SATISFACTORY

WASHINGTON, D. c., Jan. 15.-Repre-
sentative Alexander, of North Carolina, to-
day introduced in the House bill relating
to gambling in agricultural products
| This gambling, according to the bill, is de-
fined to be contract to sell, for future de-
livery, corn, wheat, oats, rye, barley, ETC.,
the contractor or seller not being the owner
or agent of the owner at the time Of the
making of the contract. The bill excludes
from the mails any letters, postal cards or
circulars concerning gambling in agricul-
tural products, and checks, drafts, bills,
money, postal notes or money orders for
use for such purpose. 1t also excludes from
the mails newspapers, circulars, pamphlets,
or publications Of any kind containing ad-
vertisements, telegraphic reports or other
articles giving quotations of any market re-
lating to gambling in agricultural products.
A tax of So word is levied on each inter
State telegraph or telephone message used
for or in aid OF the gambling referred to in
the act
Little Hope for Rivers and Harbors.
Members of the House Committee on
Rivers and Harbors say it is safe to assume
that the river and harbor bill will be con-
siderably less than that of the last Congress.
and that no Improvements will be recon-
mended unless they are of exceptional
merit. The friends of the plan to afford re-
lief to the great wheat-growing region of
the far Northwest by the construction of a
canal or ship railway around The Dalles
on the Columbia river, and thus afford
water transportation to the Pacific Ocean
have abandoned these more costly
projects and will endeavor to
have less expensive work of Improvement
authorized by Congress. Representative
Hermann, of Oregon, to-day introduced
a bill having this end in view. 1t appro-
PIRATES S414, 900 for the construction of
portage railway around The Dalles. The
ship railway project involves an appro-
priation of g, SOC, 900, and that for canal
and locks, So, 100000. Mr.. Hermann said
to-day that the plan proposed would give
temporary relief, and that the works con-
structed could be utilized whenever a ship
railway or canal was approved by Congress.
Census Figures Not Satisfactory.
Representative Anderson, of West Vir-
ginia, to-day introduced a resolution in the
House to appoint committee of seven
members to investigate certain charges
brought against the management of the Cen
sus Office. A preamble to the resolution re-
cites that it has been charged through the
columns of the public journals throughout
the country that the Census Bureau has
been wrongly conducted under Superin-
tendent Porter in the State of New York
and elsewhere, in the interest of partisan
politics, and not with the view of obtaining
correct enumerations and other data, and
that the funds appropriated therefore were
wantonly wasted, and that said bureau has
been grossly mismanaged.
A bill introduced in the House to-day BY
Representative Newbury, of Illinois, has
for its object the relief of the heirs and legal
representatives of certain soldiers. It pro-
vides that whenever the records of the War
Department show that any soldier properly
in the service in the late war was captured
by the enemy, missing in action or sent to
Confederate prison or hospital, such record,
sustained by satisfactory proof that the
soldier has not since the record was made
been heard from, shall be taken as prima
facie evidence that the soldier was killed or
died during the war in the performance of
his duty.
Arizona Wants to Be State.
Delegate Smith, of Arizona, to-day intro
duced bill providing for the admission of
the Territory of Arizona into the Union, in
accordance with the Constitution hereto
fore ratified and adopted by the people of |
the Territory. The people of the Territory
are authorized at the general election in |
November to elect State officers and men,
bers of the Legislature, and one Represent |
ative in Congress, whose term, except as
to the representative, shall begin at the |
time the act takes effect. At the meeting |
of the Legislature two United States Sena-
tors are to be chosen.
Representative Parrot, of Indiana, to-
day introduced a bill appropriating $780,
900 to improve the Ohio river, between the
mouth of the Green river and Evansville,
Ind.
Bills were introduced to-day for public
bull dings at Morristown and Bristol, Tenn.