Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-04-15
SOME AFFAIRS OF STATE.

SOME AFFAIRS OF STATE.
The Senate Keeping Good Friday-Waseo Of
limo in the House Contradictory Testi-
mony Of . Witness in tho Raum 1nvesti-
gation-Capital Notes
WASHINGTON, April Il AT the close Of
the routine morning business in the Senate
to-day, in the course of which resolutions OF
Boston merchants favoring the repeal of the
silver law of 1880 were presented, the calen-
dar was taken up and 8 number Of bills OF
no general importance were disposed OF.
At 2 O'Clock business on the calendar was
laid aside and the ''unfnished business
taken up, being the bill to amend the act
ITO establish Circuit Courts of Appeals and
regulate in certain cases the jurisdiction OF
the Courts of the United States" 1t was
passed. The bill to facilitate the disposition
of causes in the Court of Claims was then
taken up and discussed at length. but with
out action. The Senate went into executive
session and soon adjourned till Monday.
In the House the time was taken up IN
qeoate % over printins political matter in the the
appropriation bill, Mr.. Boutelle, OF Maine,
making strong speech in advocacy Of an
amendments providing for two additional
battle ships and ten torpedo boats. NO
action was taken.
JAMES P. MORGAN, the Bloomington,
Ind. attorney, testified to-day before the
Raum Committee that the whole CORE
spondence with Cooper was decoy to en-
trap him. There were a great many dis
crepancies in witness statements. Yester-
day afternoon he asked to be excused. tes-
tifying that he had received telegram from
his wife saying her sickness had become
m hDf l,o cd fO Init
that he had come to the committee room
direct from the train, and that he had not
received any telegram. j. T. Greeuwalt, a
specia. examiner in the Pension Office,
him to connect Mr.. Cooper with the slips
matter; said he had left out of the deposit
tions he took nothing that he Thought mate
rial, and denied that lie had excluded from
son statements because they tended to ex-
oneTate Mr.. Cooper. Tho committee adopted
q resolution calling the attention Of the
secretary OF the Interior to the extraordf-
nary character Of the testimony Of Mr.. Nor
gan, but making no recommendation.
GENERAL ST. CLAIR continued to-day
his argument before the House Worlds Fair
Committee on the bill making an appropria-
tion Of 100000 for the Fair. He argued
that the Government should be responsible
for the cost of dedicating the awards OF
ment would be fully protected in making
the appropriation. The net income to the
Exposition would certainly be 81, 500 900, and
the Government would be the first preferred
creditor and get back its loan before any
other disposition of the receipts was made.
The people of Chicago did not want the ap-
preparation for the administration of the
Fair, but to complete its buildings and
grounds by the time the Exposition was
opened; He referred to the loan of 81, 500, 900
cision of the supreme-Court on the consti-
tutionality of the loan when the Centennial
directors refused at its close to reimburse
the Government The Government, after
amount, could hardly decline to grant the
amount now needed in view Of the great
scope and magnitude Of the undertaking.
Francis W. Breed. Worlds Fair Commits
committee the necessity of the appropria-
tion to make the Fair success, and said If
it WAS not the most successful ever held
Judge Harris. Of the National Legislative
Committee, also advocated briefly that the
appropriation be made. ~
The Convention of State Railroad Com
missioners to-day referred the subject of
railway accounting to a committee, with in
structions to report at the next convention
The report of the Committee on Reasonable
Rates was adopted. The Committee on
Safety Appliances was directed to urge upon
Congress the immediate passage Of a bill to
effectively secure the: equipment of freight
cars throughout thee ountry with uniform
automatic couplers and with train brakes
and the equipment of locomotives with
driving wheel brakes.
THESE bills were reported to the House
to-day: Authorizing the Secretary of the
Treasury to obtain plans and specifications
and local supervision for public buildings
by the system of competition among private
architects; to indemnify settlers on the Des
Moines river lands.
IT was developed to-day, in the examina-
tion of witnesses before the Dockery
Worlds Fair Investigating subcommittee,
that it was not intended to send the Grant
and Washington relics, now deposited in tho
National Museum and Smithsonian Institu-
tion, TO the Columbian Exposition at Chi
cago, but an effort will be made to have
them there, nevertheless.
THE United States has requested the ex-
tradition of John o. Davis, recently ar
rested in London. Davis was convicted and
In Michigan for burglary, but es-
capped from the penitentiary ana fled to
England.
THE Senate to-day confirmed Frank
of sonth Dakota, Indian Agent
ut the Cheyenne Agency, South Dakota.
DEATHS HERE AND ELSEWHERE.
William Edgar, Railroad Man.