Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-04-09


discussion is steadily on the decline. and the
attendance in the House this morning wa!
small.
On motion of Mr.. McMillin, OF Tennessee
resolution was adopted directing the Com
mittee on Public Lands to examine into the
| circumstances under which certain lease:
for parcels of ground in the Yellowstone
National Park were made in March, 1ss9 by
the Secretary ofthe Interior to the Yellow
| stone Park Association, and why they were
afterward rescinded and the same granted
to one s. s. Huntley. The House then went
| into Committee Of the Whole on the cotton
bagsing bill, which, after debate, was re-
! ported to the House, and a recess was taken
until O'Clock. the evening session to be fol
the consideration OF private pension bills.
THE Senate to-day passed the bill appro.
priating out of the United States Treasury
100000 toward entertaining the G. A. R
| veterans at their reunion in Washington by
| a vote of Al to 10. Those voting in the mega
| tive were Messrs. Bate, Berry, Blackburn
Coke, Colquitt. Irby, Jones (Ark.), Mills
| Pugh and Vest.
| Mr.. MCCREARY, in the House to-day,
introduced for MI. Springer bill to author.
| ize the holding of an international none.
| tary congress. The bill, which is long, GOV.
| ers all the details of the congress, 1t pro
| vfdes that the congress shall meet in Chi.
| cago August 3, 1898, and continue its session
Lat the will of the majority. Twenty-one
delegates are to represent the United States,
seven to be chosen by the President, seven
| by the President OF the Senate and seven by
| the Speaker OF the House. The Presidents
| apDointees are to be citizens not holding
office: the others are to be Senators and
representatives. The appointments are to
be divided as equally as possible between
| the political parties, the Secretary of State
| and the Director OF the Mint to be addi-
tional delegates. The President is author
| lied to invite foreign Governments to send
| representatives, each Government to deter
| mine the number of its representatives, but
| to be entitled to only one vote. The Secre-
| tary Of State Is to call the congress to order,
and is to preside until permanent Off
| Ger is elected.
YESTERDAY the advocates of Sunday
closing of the Worlds Fair made their ars u
ments before the House Worlds Fair Com
mittee, and to-day the opposition was heard.
Allan Moon, Of the National Liberty Asso-
citation, resident of Chicago, advocated
adherence to the doctrine of non-interter-
ence by the Government in religious mat
ters.and the separation of Church and State.
He doubted that the gentlemen who favored
Sunday closing yesterday represented the
sentiment of the majority Of the religious
people of the country on the question, and
he denied that labor organizations had
From an investigation made by him in this
connection he had not discovered an
organization favoring this movement, and,
indeed, some OF them were diametricaily
opposed to it. W. H. Mckee. editor OF the
Sentinel of New York, said the regulation of
Sunday closing was q matter to be dealt with
by the place whore the business is trans
acted. and it was not the duty of Congress to
say whether the Fair should be closed on
Sunday or any other day. AS the United
States did not own the Worlds Fair site, it
nrOnerly
any municipal control of it in general. He
was of the opinion that the authorities OF
Congress could be invoked only In matters
relating to the industrial exhibit of the
Government. The matter of special restric-
tions and regulations to be placed upon the
exhibitors at the Exposition rested solely
nicipal and State laws of Chicago and lii
nois. Congress had no municipal control
over the city of Chicago during the Fair, and
it couldn't enforce a law for Sunday closing
If it we're passed, nor undertake the enforce
ment of any local law in Illinois.
THE Secretary of the Treasury to-day
settled the controversy over the selection
OF site for a public building at Pueblo.
Col, to-day by accepting the property at the
southwest corner of Fifth and Main streets,
donated by o. H. P. Baxter. The Secretary
said he had given this subject more than
ordinary attention. and that while he is not
altogether satisfied with the sites offered,
he is unable to find sufficient reason for
reversing the judgment of the Treasury
Commission which investigated the subject
and recommended the selection of the
Baxter site.
REPRESENTATIVE HOPKINS, Of Illinois,
to-day introduced in the House a bill au-
thoriZtng O national bank in the city of
Chicago, which may be designated by the
Worlds Columbian Exposition to conduct a
banking office upon the Exposition grounds,
to open and to conduct an Office as q branch
OF the bank subject to the same restrictions
and having the same rights as the bank to
which it belongs.
THE Senate to-day confirmed a number of
postmasters' appointments, among them
those of G. W.Stebon. at Cambridgeboro, Pa;
J. B. s. ZelIer, Mt Joy, Pa: r. L. Templin,
Gala, o., and W. F. Albright, Eaton, o.
SECRETARY NOBLE this afternoon sent
telegram to the special agents OF the depart
ment in Oklahoma, postponing the opening
of the Cheyenne and Arapahoe reservation
until Tuesday, April 10. Commissioner Car
ter, of the General Land Office, has sent to
the registrars and receivers of the Land
offices at King Fisher and Oklahoma City,
in Oklahoma, letters of instruction which
will govern their action under the forth
coming proclamation by the President, OPEN
ing to settlement the surplus lands of the
Cheyenne and Arapahoe Indian reserva tion
The Commissioner directs that, in view of
the expected crowds of people ut these
offices, when the lands shall have been de- |
clared open to settlement, no person be al
lowed any advantage over any other person. |
To this end he directs that no person be |
permitted to make more than one entry ON |
his own account and one agent, if such he |
shall be. After making these entries the ap- |
plicanrs will be required to step out of the |
line and give place to the next person in !
order and if desiroCs of making other El- |
ings he shall take his place at the foot of the |
line and await his proper turn. The Com
that the use of the mails will not be per- |
mitted for filing homestead declaratory |
SEVERAL important naval orders were
issued to-day. The United States steamships
Yorktown and Adams, at San Francisco,
were ordered to proceed az once to Port
and report arrival. The United |
States steamships Charleston and Balti-
proceed to Astoria OREGON, to participate in
the Columbia River Centennial celebration,
May IL. While no orders have been given to
that effect, it is understood that the four
vessels named viii BEEN be femployed in patrol
son opens. The United States steamship
now ut Port Orchard, will probu-
bly, be used for similar duty. The United
States steamship. Concord, now at Matan j
zas, has been ordered to proceed to Mem
phis to take part in the bridge celebration,
Nay T.
REPRESENTATIVE DICKERSoN, of Ken
lucky, to-day reported to the House, from
he Banking and Currency Committee, a bill
% require the redemption of banknotes1
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