Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-04-28
OF NATIONAL INTEREST.

Possible Cruiser Pittsburg Came to Be
Called Tho Pirate-Berins Sea and Seal
Poachers.
WASHINGTON, April N-The opening
hour of the House session to-day was an un-
usually dull one. Various measures were
presented for action, all oflocal Importance,
but after the time had been consumed In
the reading of the bills and reports, objec-
tions to their passage were interjected. By
unanimous consent (the Walker expunging
resolution still blocking the way of the reg
ular order) the House went into committee
of the whole, Mr.. Oates, of Alabama, in the
chair, on the diplomatic and consular ap-
preparation bill. Mr.. Hooker, of Mississippi,
paid high tribute to tho success of Amerf-
can diplomacy. 1t was diplomacy which
had settled our Chilean difficulties.
1t had been diplomacy which had
settled the Bering Sea controversy. Fortu-
nately for the country, it had in the position
OF Secretary of State a man of such large and
diplomatic ability that he had settled these
questions by diplomacy. Mr.. Blaine had
shown himself to be great statesman by
the manner in which he had treated those
questions. When man came to be Premier
OF this Government he was not partisan
representing party. He was a statesman
representing the country. Mr.. Hit, of
Illinois, moved an amendment, having for
Colombia and Ecuador, which the pending
bill consolidates in one mission. The
amendment was rejected. Mr.. Hit made
dation of missions and the reduction Of the
salaries OF ministers to the South American
Republics. but his efforts we're of no avail.
1900 the salary of the Minister to Venezuela
the committee having cut it to 5000. No
quorum voting on the amendment. the COM
mittee rose and the House adjourned.
A ron tina hr1ai i,t Cana fok 1oxv
the army appropriation bill was taken up,
the question being on striking out the House
proviso which prohibits payment for trans
over any of the unbonded fines owned, con-
trolled or opera ted by the Union Pacific
Railway Company by the Southern Pacific
company over the lines embraced in its
ator Morgan the House proviso was struck
out-yeas, 26; nays, 90 MI. Morgan was the
only Democrat who voted with the maj ority,
only Republicans who voted with the
minority. The bill was then passed and the
Senate adjourned.
IT is considered not unlikely that the new
cruiser, which is commonly referred to as
The Pirate, will be ohristened The Washing
ton. She will be launched from Cramps
about July l. and the Secretary OF
the Navy will have until then to decide on
for New Orleans, Brooklyn or PIttsburg. No
matter what the ship is named, she will al
ways be unof1clally referred to as The
Pirate. That title has stuck to her ever
since an engineer used it one day in con-
with a party of newspaper cor
An Engiishman came over to
this country to write paper Tor a British
cruiser The Pirate in good faith. Last year
the term crept into an official report of the
Navy Department. and u bottle of
pronounced by q pretty young
girl are not likely to change that name Such |
a ceremony may change it in official reports,
but in ward room and forecastle the ships |
name will always be Tho Pirate.
OFFICIALS at the State Department |
place no credence in the reports that Cana |
dian sealers propose to enter Bering Sea |
under the protection of Governments other |
than Great Britain and the United States. |
They say that both countries would resent |
such a palpable fraud, and that it is not |
that any other country would con-
sent to the use of its flag for the sole purpose |
Of violating the laws of the United States in |
regard to seal poaching. An agent of the |
North American Commercial Company In |
formed the Treasury Departments, this |
poachers intended to sell their vessels to |
Mexicans and enter the sea flying the flag Of |
that country, but that no one attached much |
The annual Notifications appropriation |
bill has been practically agreed upon by the |
sub Committee of the House |
Committee on Appropriations. A cut |
to more than S5 per cent has |
been made from the bill OF last year.
REPRESENTATIVE BLAND introduced
resolution in the House to-day instructing |
The Committee on Ways and Means to report |
1 bill imposing an income tax sufficient to
meet all the expenditures for pensions, and
also bill to repeal all taxes imposed upon
currency issued by authority of the States.
The following bills were reported to the
House to-day: Appropriattng $4,000 for the
erection of O monument to william Henry
Harrison (the grandfather OF President Har-
.ison) at North Bend, O.: appropriattng s25,-
100 for the erection of q monument at Putin
Bay, o.. commemorative of Commodore
Diver Hazard Perry and those who were
With him at the battle of Lake Erie.
THE Treasury Department has decided
hat customs officers are not authorized to
permit the original entry of Chinese persons
IN submission OF naturalization papers is