Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-02-17
LIVE WASHINGTON WAITS.

'oso tucs springer IreC wool Jill, thO oi o1A
Tree binding twine bill. and the Turner Dill
placing cotton ties cotton bagging and ma
chinery for manufacturing the same on the
| free list, were all ordered to be favorably re-
ported. These measures have already been
| publlshed at length. The committee ad-
Journed until tomorrow morning, when IL
is understood tfat Representative Cochran
will call up for favorable report the bill re-
ducing the duty on barley to the original
rate in effect before the passage of the Nc
kiniey bill. There have been frequent re-
ports within the past few days that rivalry
exists between the Committee on Ways and
Means and the Committee on Coinage as to
the matter of precedence in the House. The
Committee on Coinage has already re-
ported a free silver bill and demanded
date for its consideration, and the Commit
tee on Ways and Means has ordered favora-
BILE reports on three tariff bills. Chairman
springer, OF the Ways and Means Commit
tee, does not think it Is a matter of any i'm
portance which particular bills receive first
consideration. so far as am concerned
said he, 'the idea of antagoniZing the Coin
age Committee with the business of the
Ways and Means Committee has never en-
tered my mind. The Committee on Ways
and Means has proceeded as expeditiously
as possible to prepare the legislation which
1t would submit to the House. and whenever
the House is ready to take up this legisla-
t1on the motion for that purpose will be
fere with other business OF the House,
and there will be no rivalry on my
part between the business of the Ways and
means Committee and that OF other commit
tees of the House, and am sure there is no
necessity for apprehension or Jealousy.
Everything, l am sure, will work harmo-
niously, and hope the result will be salts
factory to all concerned. Certainly 1 shall
not antagonize the business of any other
committee in any petty rivalry for pre-.
eedence, as l think all committees should
" a q ia 1inn nit thard do ipE ms f
ter of particular concern whether one
measure or the other should first be consid-
cred, as ample time will be given to con-
slider all measures of Importance before ad-
journment, and, therefore, before the Presi-
dental election"
THE Appropriations Committee of the
House to-day provided for the conduct Of
the investigation authorized by the House
into the expenditures made from the money
appropriated by the Government in aid of
the Worlds Fair project at Chicago. Chair
man Holman was authorized TO designate a
subcommittee to make the investigation.
He SAID that in looking over the ground he
had come to the conclusion it would be bet |
ter to select the standing subcommittee, |
whose business would be least interfered |
with by giving it charge of the work of in |
vestigation than to interfere with the work |
of all the subcommittee by the selection of |
a special subcommittee. He named the |
subcommittee having in charge the Dis |
trict OF Columbia appropriation bill as the |
one to make the Investigation. The mem
bers are Messrs. Dockery of Missouri;
Compton, of Maryland; Breckenridge, of Ar
kansas; Henderson, of Iowa, and Cogswell,
of Massachusetts,. The subcommittee was
instructed to prosecute its inquiry in WASH
ington, and not to visit Chicago unless SUBJ
ssQuently authorized to do SO by the full
committee. 1t was also instructed to in
quire into and report to the full committee
aSCertalnS. OIntttlnQ
recommendations. In other words, the SUBJ
committee is to sift the facts for the full
committee
REPRESENTATIVE DURBoRRow, of Hi
nois, to-day introduced in the House four
joint resolutions bearing on matters con-
nected with the Worlds Fair. The first
the President to request of the
Government Of Spain, OF the municipal
Government of Genoa, of the Duke of
Veragua, the descendant of Columbus, and
of such other persons or corporations as
may be thought proper, the loan OF the
articles, papers, books, maps, documents
and other relics of Columbus and the per-
sons associated with him, with the dis
covery and early settlement of America, for
at the Worlds Fair. The Secre-
tary Of the Navy is authorized to detail one
or more vessels for the transportation OF the
articles, books, ETC., referred to- and the
Secretary of War is to detail whatever mill
tary guard that may be necessary for their
care and protection. The other resolutions
propose to authorize the President to extend
to AlfonZo XIII, to the Queen Regent of
Spain and to the living descendants of Col
umbus an invita- tion to attend the opening
of the Fair as the guests of the
Government and the people of the United
States; also, to authorize the President to
extend an invitation to the Presidents ofth
other American republics and to the Gov
ernors of American colonies to participate
n IA |
of the Worlds Fair buildings on the 11th,
18th and 18th of October next ana the cere-
monies attending the opening of the Exposi-
ton on the lst of May, 1885, finally, to au-
thoriZe the Librarian of Congress to exhibit
at the Worlds Fair such books, papers, doc
uments and other articles from the Library
Of Congress as may refSte to Christopher |
Columbus and the discovery and early his
tory of America
THE papers in the case of Major Lewis Q.
Jverman. the engineer officer recently tried
BY court martial in Cleveland, o., have been
received at the War Department, and are
being reviewed by Acting Judge Advocate |
General Iieber. They will also be reviewed
by General Schofield and the Secretary of
War, in the order named, before beng sub
nitted to the President for action. The i'm
preston prevails that decision has been
reached adverse to the Major.
A LARGE number of gentlemen, princi-
,aly representing the New York Produce
Exchange and the New Orleans Cotton Ex-
change, assembled In the room of the Senate
Judiciary Committee this morning to pre-
ent their views relative to the Washburne
bill. j. w. LaBouisse, repre-
enting the New Orleans Cotton Exchange, !
vas the first gentleman to address the COM
nittee in opposition to the bill. Charles w.
de- President of the New York Cotton Ex-
.hange, said he considered the situation
.riticai. Ii either of the bills introduced in |
he Senate and House were passed the ,
business of the exchange. he said, would be
Utterly destroyed. Mr.. 1de believed that ,
Ir Hatch, author of the bill in the House. | !
allied to realize the widespread use of the
PRESENT system in dealing in future deliv-
ries and that he did not realize the diff
ulty, if not the impossibility, of framing
law which will kill speculation and still ,
low legitimate business to exist.
ATTORNEY GENERAL MILLER has in /,
tructed Examiner Dougall to make a thor
ugh investigation of the charges against !
United States Marshal Paul Fricke and his :
equity marshals for lack OF vigilance in the
natter of the pursuit of GarZa and his band
t has been broadly inttmated that the Mar
hal failed in his duty in the prosecution of 9
his case. otherwise tine Mexican revolution
st would not have been able to have eluded
he United States troops when they were v
loseN on his heels. Nothing had been re- a
eived at the War Department for several
avs indicating any material change in the
ituation of affairs along the Rio Grande |
Irmy officers are of the opinion that the Il
eyolutionists are still concealed in the t
on the American side of the river
nd that many of the residents are RESPONSE
le dor Garza's concealment and knowledge | &
I the actions of the military authorities. h
A RESOLUTION to-day introduced in the
louise by MIR. Fithian,gave warning that the :,