Condon globe. (Condon, Gilliam Co., Or.) 189?-1919, 1892-04-29
CONGRESSIONAL MATTERS.
Ex-senator Blair Wants to Find o,t
Why He Was Not Received
as Minister.

The President has approved the a
relating TO life.saving appliances {
steamers plying exclusively on the lake
Days and sounds OF the United States.
; Senator Dolph has introduced bi
providing for the survey and constrn
ton OF a wagon road from Gold Hill :
the Oregon and California railroad |
jackson county, Or, to Crater Lake an
appropriating $4,000 for the purpose.
Senator FELTON, has introduced ament
ments to the river and harbor bill. II
creaslng the appropriations for improy
ing the harbor and bay at Humboldi
Cai., from $500, 900 to $40O, 900. and "a
wilmington (Cal.) harbor from $2O. .OO
to $51 900. vDO'oO
The Attorney General has sent to tb
senate In reply to resolution list q
unappealed awards against the Unite,
states for fiowage damages caused by til,
improvements in the Fog and W;sccns;,
rivers. The awards aggregate $1O8. .922
ana the Attorney-Gen says he know,
OF no reason why they should not b
paid. o' :
senator Sherman the other day pre.
sented the resolution recently adopted
by the New York Cham Der of Com.
merce reciting the importance OF the
bureau OF American Republics as an
agency In promoting the commercial re-
latlons between the United States and
the other American nations and ureino
nperai appropriations to extend its use
fulness.
Vessels comprising the Behring Sea
meet during the coming sealing season
Will be the Mohican, Adams. Ranger
yorktown, the two revenue enters Car
win and Rush, and the fish commission
steamer Albatross. England. it il nm
derstood, will send three gunboats to
assist in police duty. The Thetis viii
not be taken from the submarine cable
service work. All the vessels are tn he
Under way early in May.
The Senate has passed a bill that was
passed by the House some eight weeks
ago Tor the better control of and TO pro.
mote the safety of national banks. with
recommended by the ri.
nance Committee and with an amend
ment establishing stricter rules as to the
bonds OF the cashiers and the other
ofncers. A conference on the amend
nents with the House was asked and
sherman, Aldrich and Harris were an
pointed conferees on the part of the
Senate.
Representative Lane of Illinois from
he Committee on Military Affairs has
eported to the House bill authorizing |
ne Secretary of War upon application |
Il Governor OF State or Territory to |
ssue Tor the sole use of the National /
fuards OF such State or Territory any /
1a-inch muzzle-loading rifle field pnns
;5.inch breech-ioading rifle field guns.
fotchklss or Gatling or rapid fire guns.
nth implements or harness for the
anne, which may be on hand and not
eeded Immediately for the service as
he regular forces.
J. X. Dodge, statistician of the Agri- J
1ltural Department, furnishes a long
atlstical reply to the resolutions adopt- Il
! by the st. Louis Cotton EXCHANGE.
1arglng the last Agricultural Depart,
tent report was erroneous in its conclu-
ons as to wheat and cotton. Dodge
'ys the resolutions are unworthy of
le intelligence of an American CONNER
al association, and why band of spec
lators, suffering from their own RASH
.ss and mad judgments, should so stul.
~ themselves as to defy open facts of
'oduction and distribution. which are {
lblished daily by the commercial press !
two continents, is past comprehen-
On.
The Thetis will sail from San Fran i
SEQ soon on the work of surveying a :
he Tor the cable between the Pacific {
'ast and the Sandwich Islands. The 9
ietis goes out to complete the survey
gun by the Albatross, which was
ken of for duty in Behring Sea. She :
IL lay down the two lines, and ia ex-
cted to return to this country in the =
urse OF the next two months. The
.nster from the Albatross to the The
has caused some delay, and those in |
arge OF the work expect that the com. G
etion of the snrvev will be further de- b
red by the substitution of the Thetis il
lich is a much slower ship than the
batross. cj
The conferees in the Indian appropri- n
on bill have agreed to insert Repre- 1
native Wilson's amendment. proyid- II
Tor the removal of the upper and
ddle bands of the Spokane Indians to a
,ur d'Alene, and an appropriation OF p,
1000 for carrying the agreement into q
sct. The Senate struck this out. buf b,
conterees have agreed to the de-
nds of the House. Representative re
lson is one of the conferees, and has m
IN able to hold in several important n
endments, among them being one by h,
lator Dolph appropriating $l2, 200 to
ry into effect the agreement with the
latilla Indians. az
enator Chandler presented memo be
to he Senate recently from ex-Sen. ha
r Blair, asking an investigation as to
reason of the refusal OF China to re- .
1e him as Minister. Blair saws the ~
nese Minister several times expressed .N' .is
ret at the rejection and a strong de- ~ -,
OF the government to request him ~
ecure from his government an inter
nge OF friendly explanations, which th
lid set the matter right. Blair things fol
investigation would disclose a de. th
able conspiracy; that the rejection ca
! secured through false representa-
Is from the Chinese legation during dn
absence of the Miuistar and bx, othos IL.