Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-03-13
LIVE WASHINGTON WAITS

LIVE WASHINGTON WAITS.
Changes 70 Hs Made in the Diplomatic and
Consular servioe-Economy Practicsd
In This Brapch-Ssorsrary Blaine Much
Improvsd-ssalsrs Not Doing 30 Badly.
| WASHINGTON, March 1.-THE Diplo-
lnatfc and Consular appropriation bill will
probably be reported to the House next
week. The sub-committee Of the House
| Committee on Foreign Affairs has COM
| pleted consideration OF the bill and will re-
| port IL to the full committee early in the
week. A number Of changes are proposed
| In the Diplomatic ana Consular service, and
| in the former there have been a number OF
consultations, by which savings in expend-
| ftures were made, while IN the Con-
sular service retrenchment has been
effected by reducing the salaries
| at a number of consulates where the
subcommittee believes more compensation
Is being paid than the business ims
portance OF the places warrant, this being
particularly true Of some places where
| practically no business is DONE The bill for
the current year amounts to little more
| than 81, 600,0 600. Members of the majority
side Of the subcommittee believe that the
savings effected by the bill will not affect
the service unfavorably. The Diplomatic
and Consular bill has grown in the last half
| dozen years almost 20 per cent more than
the f; growsh Of the business Interests OF n the
| 1t Is thought it can be safely reduced.
The subcommittee bill makes saving
Of some sixty odd thousand dollars IN the
Consular service. and $2o. 900 or more in the
diplomatic service, while the appropriations
asked for by the Pan-American organiza-
| tions were not acted upon, the committee
referring them to the regular Appropria-
tions Committee Of the House. The mission
to Denmark ia consolidated with that to
Sweden and Norway. the compensation Of
grade of each mission. One Minister, it is
proposed, shall represent the United states
to both Bolivia and Colombia hereafter: In
missions mission . to Peru Peru and Ecuador, it is also
proposed to consolidate. The place of
q Minister to Ecuador was only re re;
sestay sssnsy rsSreated nnd and the tms hsa
beer unrepresented by a Minister to that
country. the gentleman appointed about
month ago under the terms of the diplo-
ing sailed yet. There has also been some re-
arrangements OF the Central American
mission and some reclassif1cations made in
the service. One of the interesting features
OF the framing of the measure was prop
osftion to reduce the grade OF the Chilean
mission from $4,000 to $5, 600 or 81, 500. This
is the place at present held by Patrick Egan.
After due consultation it was decided, in
view of the recent troubles between the
United States and Chile, and of the fact that
the Chilean mission is just now of more than
change In grade.
The House Committee on Territories to-
day finished the consideration OF the Ari-
zona Statehood bill, and has decided to re.
port 1t favorably to the House in an amended
form. The Territory. like New Mexico has
received very liberal treatment by the COM
mittee, and is given one-ninth of the public
lands for school purposes. The amounts al
lowed for public buildings, etc, are about
the same as granted to New Mexico, making
q total of 765, 900 acres in ALL
The Columbian Exposition Committee of
the Senate to-day authorized favorable re-
ports to be made upon several resolutions
extending Invitations to the King and Queen
of Spain and the Presidents of the Central
and South American Republics to attend the
Worlds Fair, and soliciting the loan of rel
los and documents relating to Columbus and
the discovery of America, and authorizing
the Librarian OF congress to make an e1-
hibit Of similar articles.
FATHER HEBRON, of st. Paul, has tel
egraphed to Cardinal Gibbons that he is not
the author of the statement telegraphed
from St. Paul yesterday that Archbishop
Ireland is to be made a Cardinal. Father
Heffron adds that he has no information
whatever on the subject.
UNITED STATES CONSUL MYERS has
furnished the Department. Of State with a
list Of sealing vessels which have cleared
from Victoria up to March 2, and says that a
feet of sealers has been operating during
the mouth OF the Columbia river and Cape
Flattery, meeting the herd of seals as they
come north. Passing vessels report that as
q rule the weather has been fine, and the
number of seals taken very satisfactory to
the fleet, one report saying 'the hunters are
busy shooting seals" For instance, Febru-
ary 90 the catch of six vessels was reported
to be 578; February 22. OF six other vessels,
324, and February 90, of six vessels, 847.
Among these vessels the most successful are
the W. T. Sayward and the E. B. Marvin,
both. Of which have in past years been
seized and are notorious poachers. The
Consul reports that the sealers have gone
out this season earlier than usual, pending q
renewal of the mOdus vivendis and FASTENED
to sea to avoid official notice Of it.
GENERAL CoNGER, the United States
Minister to Brazil. VINO is in this country on
leave Of absence, was among the Presidents
visitors to-day. He said he expected to re-
turn to his post in about three weeks. 1t is
said at the White House and State Depart
ment to-day that there is no foundation for |
the report that Minister Egan is to be trans !
ferred from Chile to Brazil.
SECRETARY ELKINs said to-day that the |
court martial cases of Major Charles B. |
Second Artillery, and Major !
L. C. Overman, Corps of Engineers. would be |
submitted to the Presidentl Monday next,
and would probably be disposed Of within |
week or two. He added that nothing could |
be said in regard to these casas in advance |
of the Presidents action. Tho report that |
Major Overman was acquitted by the court |
is denied at the War Departrnent, but it is |
admitted that sentence imposed is q most |
lenient one. A question of great interest to |
the army, to be settled next week, is the ap- |
pointment of a Brigadier General, vice Gen. |
eral Eaultz, retired, and the promotions that
will follow.
THERE is no change in the Bering Sea
and no communication has been
from Lord Salisbury IN response to
the Presidents note of the Sth instant, in
sisting on renewal Of the modus vivendi.
SECRETARY BLAINE's symptoms con-
tinue favorable, and that he is gaining |
strength is shown by the fact that he was
able to sit up to-day and read the newspa-
pers. It is expected that he will be able to
resume the direction of affairs at the State
next week.
Booms Rapidly Becoming Invisible.
Washington star.J
Some Of the Presidential booms will pres
entity rival Tascott for invisibility.
DEATHS HERE AND ELSEWHERE.
Bishop Bedell, of Ohio.
Rt. Rev. Gregory Thurston Bedell, third
Episcopal bishop of Ohio, died at the Dakota
T~SI N H. !