Idaho semi-weekly world. [volume] (Idaho City, Idaho Territory) 1875-1908, 1892-04-08
NATIONAL CAPITAL.
The Senate Passes the Bill Making an
Appropriation for Completion o'
Cascades Improvement.

The House Committee on Agriculture
has authorized favorable report on the
Pa ldock pure-food bill, with come
amendments.
The Puvallup postofiice has been set
tled bv the resignation of Mrs. Glare
Dearcey and the recommendation by al
factions OF Mr.. johnson.
Representative Geary OF California
has introduced in the House pii' 10
prevent the use OF substitutes Tor hops
or pure extract Of hops in the manu-
facture OF ale or beer.
At the request OF Senator Mitchell the
Postofiice Department has issued an or
der calling for proposals for mail service,
to commence July next, from frine-
Vile to Warm Springs, Or, and back
again, twice week.
The committee designated some weeks
ago to examine the condition OF the work
OF the census bureau finds that to COM
plete the work outlined and entered upon
under instructions from Congress 1t VIII
necessitate an expenditure OF $4,000, 0O0,
including the $3.50, 600 recently approprl-
ated.
An appropriation OF $81 1888 is carried
in a bill introduced by Senator Villas,
providing for the purchase of the Stur-
icon Bay ship canal. The canal Is to be
delivered to the government for use as
ree-water bay upon payment OF the
amount appropriated to the company
owning it.
The Senate Committee on the Judi
ciary has made favorable report on the
Senate bill to extend the jurisdiction OF
courts in Oklahoma Territory in cases OF
murder, assault, arson, larceny and like
crimes. The bill provides that 1t shall
not be any defense that the offense was
committed by an Indian on another In
dian.
Captain Henry Ebern, commandant
OF the New York navy yard, has been
promoted to the grade OF Commodore, to
take effect April %, and Captain Richard
w. Meade to the same grade May B, fol-
lowing the retirement respectively OF
Admiral Kimberly and Commodore Nc
Cam. Commodore James A. Greer will
be pre- NOTED to the grade of Rear Ad-
miral April ~.
The House Committee on Territories
has decided to report favorably the Caine
| bill to give local government to Utah,
with an amendment striking out the sec
tion relating to the sale of public lands
for school purposes, the committee deem
ing it best to have a separate measure
governing this point. The vote was q
party one, the Democrats favoring and
the Republicans opposing the bill.
The Committee on Public Lands has
made favorable reports to the Senate on
the Senate bills releasing the title of the
United States to the land known as the
Quartet lot in Monterey, CAL, granting
the State OF Kansas a part OF the Fort
Hays military reservation for the estab-
lshment of home for old soldiers and
widows and children of soldiers and sail
ors, granting to the State of Albania for
school purposes lands now subject to sale
under the mineral lands act and creating
two additional land districts in Montana
Adverse reports were made on the bills
to confirm title to lands in the State o.
Washington, the sales OF which were
based on soldiers illegal additional Ell.
tries.
The instructions to naval officers as.
signed to vessels intended for the pro-
lection of seals are not yet wholly com.
plete, but it is evident the operations o.
vessels will this year be extended moi
only to Behring Sea, but also the waters
within the three-mile limit along the
entire Alaskan Coast of latitude 55 de
grees to Enimak Pass, south OF Behring
Sea. This is the way of the seal herd &c
its rookeries on the Prebyloff Islands
and they will be perfected along the en-.
tire course usually followed by poachers
Nearly $4,000 seals were caught in these
waters last year. The revenue vessels
Corwin and Albatross have already gone
to Alaskan waters, and soon will be fol
lowed by the Rush and Bear and severa
naval vessels.
The census Office has issued bulletin
on the fisheries of the Pacific States
The industry gave employment to IL, S5(
persons in various capacities, the invest
ed capital was $6, 400, 239 and the valne
of the products $6,367 1903 The tables
show that the fisheries of California are
more important than those of either Or
egon or Washington. Of the capital in,
vested S2,64S,2l0 represented Californis
interests, the value of products OF thai
State being "a ,463, $3.50. Oregon ranks
next in importance, having a capital in.
vested OF 1926, 632 and product of 81 ),
033,574. The amount of capital invested
in Washington is given as $517, 1897 anc
products 1891 $3.50, and compared with
1890, the fisheries of this region have
as whole greatly advanced, although 6
few special branches show decline.
The sundry civil bill reported to the
House recently makes cuts here anc
there, and sashes appropriations gener
ally. 1t is apparent that the appropria
tlons are pared down to the lowest limit
when the government can be conducted
in a very crippled condition. All the
deficiencies will have to be made uI
early in the next Congress. The surveys
for public lands are cut from $500, 900 tc
500, 900. The money appropriated fol
special agents to protect public lands
and the timber upon them is cnt in two
and is only $4,000. This, OF course, is
a stab at the Western country, as when
the appropriation for surveys is divided
up there will be practically nothing left
Tor any one state to go ahead and survey
public lands which have been settled
upon. In this bill, however, the high
rates established by the last Congress
tor surveys in Oregon and Washington
are maintained, which guarantees the
surveys of the mountain and timber
lands in these States. An appropriation
OF SIS, 800 is made for the Alaska Indians
on the Islands OF St. Paul and st. George.
The Senate passed without any debate
except an argument from Senator FRYE
upon the Columbia river Senator Dolph's
OIL making lump appropriation for the
| com inlet ion of the Cascades ip,nro,,a-