The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1892-01-04
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Ceseress.sn Mills Starts TOR Texas, TO 10
9one Three Weeks.

Cessress.sn Mills Starts TOR Texas, 10 10
9oss Three Weeks.
WASHINGTON. Jan. 3-Rorer O. Mills loft
Washington to-day for Texas. to DO absent for
three weekc or more. He was accompanied
by his son. and they have gone on hunting
trip" whether for votes or game is not stated.
Representative sayers Of Texas will ask in
definite leave for his colleague when the
House meets on Tuesday. Mr.. sayers says he
docs not think that Mr.. Millss hasty departure
hos any bearing on his relations to Speaker
Crisp There are other members. however.
who, say that the defeated candidate
for Speaker has entirely washed his hands
OF any responsibility for or connection
with the programme or business in the House.
and that his hunting trip is intended to en-
phasize his disgust at the treatment accorded
him BY the Speaker In the makeup Of the
committees. II is said. moreover. that Mr..
Wise OF Virginia will act Is Chairman Of the
Committee on Interstate and Foreign Com
MERGE until the return Of Mr. Mills. who will
then resign the Craftsmanship to be formally
succeeded BY tho VirGinian. There is no def
nitSverihcation OF this statement obtainable
toiAisbt, but It Is made with much positiveness
BY those who know the facts.
Speaker Crisp's roatoration to health 10 still
annoyingly slow. and he will not preside In the
House on Tuesday. He had q long chat to-day
with Mr.. Catchlngs. to whom no said positive
ly that he will not DO able to preside over the
House on Tuesday. and with whom he con-
suited about the selection OF q Speaker pro
tenn. It Is understood that had Mr.. Mills re-
manned In tho city he would have been the
Speakers choice. but that seleotio n Is now out
Of tho question. Experts In parliament law
say that as tho House is now acting under
ssss thss must ea sss Hass
%s ss m pans ss ss
x enS " though
A report recently made BY superintend-
ont Porter to Secretary Noble on the prob
able cost Of taking the eleventh census and
the additional appropriations needed to COM
this report sapsrintepdsnt Potter ssys:
the printer BY the close Of 1852. and that the
cost and Will s4eesd
g,nst trs to eyer oa II oepts shpps
This will finish UP the work within the nsxt
eSrdspeS With the o4Re psn Without
51isi ths cost # The eleventh, census; when
per Capita more than the tenth an Increase H ease
snd ss
eSsn out 81 thu
Mr.. Merzies Of Indiana. son-in-law OF the
late Gov. Hovey and personal and political
friend Of President Harrison. is said to have
brought about the order remitting the uuex-
PRED portion Of tho sentence Of Commander
ton in Mccsliss behalf, He was cIsssmate
Of McCalln at the Naval Academy. and after
@ ao7sy nj IN SofSs
finaipss, ei tbs court martial that son.
Of eleven Of the twelve members OF the court
for clSmency. but refused to interfere. Nc
q finely furnished house in an aristocratic part
& ctg the Of
President Ali Efforts failed as long as Score.
tary Tracy held out against him; and the new
Assistant Secretary s9lsy or Capt. Gowles Of
ne ss %STe tine f5y
parshtly content to await the expiration Of his
ss sss Sssa
ssssoeistsd with Mr. Choate in MNeCalas DE- de-,
fence DeIOfe the court martial. NOW Cn0C Ln0
must be found for him. and the authorities are
considering tho question q ASSIGNING him to
which Commsnder Chadwick was recently re.
lieved Naval officers generally were much
e ha srase tho ssd asy rs@
ting the sentence was fragrant misuse Of the
pardontng power.
Mr.. W. H. Stayton. the lawyer. now Of New
York city. who represented the Government In
the McCalla trial. IL In the city In the interest
OF Commander @. NJ Book Of the navy. whose
case is still before the Board Of Examination.
motion. The Board made the point that Book
WAS not entitled to promotion for the reason
that he bad been sentenced to two years. sus,
removed. was looked upon az interfering with
bis rightto 60 up to the grade above. Com.
Is considered as having a good case. In the fact
that Secretary, Tracy ahated the sentence.
's s the OF s
while on duty in Alaska.
The Senate Committee on Elections will take
up the Idaho Senate contest, either on the 7th
or 18th OF this month. the dates to which Mr..
was elected as third Senator from Idaho to
claims that this election was Illegal. He has
6s his Of
pared pamphlet in which his side Of the CON
troyersy is elaborately argued. State Senator
two supporters q NJ. clagett have come here
the, case, while the Hon. Lyttleton Price Of
Idaho is hero to act as counsel for Senator
Duboia Senator Teller Gays the hearing will
be conducted with open doors.
Senator Henderson will mako IN effort
during the coming week In the Senate Com
mittee on Military Affairs to call up Senator
Pumb's resolution for. the removal Of Gen.
Grants remains from New York to Arlington
Cemetery. Mr. Henderson believes that Ar
llngton Is the proper place for the great SOL
der to rest. and that there will be little oppo-
sition to the projected removal.
While no official information can be secured
In regard to the report that the United States
Supreme Court had by vote OF ak to three
decided the contest between Boyd and Thayer
for the Governorship OF Nebraska in favor Of
the former. 1t can be- positively asserted TINT
the court will render such q decision. 1t cum
also be said. in consequence, that there Is seri-
ots trouble ahead for the person or persons
SktOn was formally rendered. nv the court