Lincoln County leader. [volume] (Toledo, Lincoln County, Or.) 1893-1987, 1893-10-19
FROM WASHINGTON CITY.


will take place about November l over a
forty-mile coursein Santa Barbara Chan
mel between Point Conception and Santa
Barbara.
According TO Treasury statement is
sued by Secretary Carlisle the amount Of
money in circulation in the United
States October l was 81 ,7Ol ,939, ,9lS. The
average circulation per capita, estiHhfs-
ing the population at 81, 300, 900, is there
fore $25. %, a net increase in circulation
during September Of $2l, ,377 ,247. The
greatest item OF increase was gold coin,
viz, $l4, 4,S29,741.
President Cleveland has signed the
proclamation setting apart large tract
OF land as a forest reserve under the act
OF March 3, 1891. The reservation will
be known as the Cascade forest reser-
vation." 1t extends from the Columbia
river 200 miles southwark, about twenty
miles wide, taking in the Cascade Range.
Hereafter no settlement will be allowed
within its boundaries.
Secretary Hoke Smith has sent to the
Secretary of the Treasury estimates for
appropriations for the Interior Depart
ment for the fiscal year ending June 80,
AO'Ds lht dDpIODlldllOllS dEhtu dBRIt-
gate $l76, ,779, ,134, as against $3.50, ,087 ,030
for the current fiscal year. The principal
item is the army and navy pensions,
which foot up $50, 100000. This is
decrease Of s5,000,0OO from the present
fiscal year.
Representative Henderson has had
prepared for introduction into the House
resolution for the appointment OF a
special committee of five to investigate
and report on the transactions OF the
sugar trust, with power to sit during the
session of Congress, to send for persons
and papers, to secure the aid OF the De-
partmeGt OF Justice and, if the facts
warrant, to report bill to annul its cor
porate existence.
Judge Charles D. Long of Detroit, and
a member of the Supreme Court of
! Michigan, has filed petition for Z man
damus in the District Court to compel
the Commissioner OF Pensions to pay his
! (plaintiif's) pension, which, he holds, is
illegally suspended. This will bring out
the whole question of the action of PEN
sion Commissioner Lochren in suspend
ing pensions. The Commissioner is cited
to show cause October 10 why the writ
should not issue.
Representative Hermann has favor
ably reported to Congress his bill from
the Committee on War Claims, reuuir-
ing the adjudication OF claims for COM
pensation for property lost in the mill
tary service Of the United States. This
especially refers to horses and other
property lost, and which the department
has heretofore declined to consider be-
cause of the statute of limitations. 1t
is Of interest to claimants in the Indian
wars OF the Pacific Coast.
The Democratic members of the Ways
and Means Committee are making prog
ress with the tariff bill. The ground
work is understood to be free raw mate
rials. with compensatory reductions on
other materials. There is a growing I'm
preston that the consequent deficit in
the receipts will be met by increased in
ternal revenue taxes on whisky and to-
bacco. Carlisle is understood to favor
an increased tax on whisky to $l.20, cal
culating this will increase the revenue
$50 100000
The charges made by the citizens of
Oklahoma City of alleged misconduct on
the part of Captain d. F. Steele of the
United States army (retired) in connec-
tion with the opening of Oklahoma to
settlement had their effect in the issuing
OF an order by the Secretary of War for
the court martial OF Captain Steele. He
is charged with fraud in his official ca
pacitv, while in command of the troops
IN 1872, to secure control OF some of the
best land sites in the Territory and with
making bargain with an auctioneer bv
which he purchased at the very lowest
price government buildings and other
property sold when the military camp
was broken up. The court-martial will
meet at Fort Reno, Oklahoma.
Strenuous efforts have been made by
those favoring and opposing the Nc
Creary substitute for the Geary bill to
agree upon time when the bill shall be
considered. 1t is feared that there will
be no quorum in the House as soon as
the vote is taken on the Federal election
law repeal bill. Efforts will be made to
take the bill up as soon after this vote as
possible. Some OF its opponents want it
put off till November 1 to wait for a
quorum. There is little doubt expressed
that the bill will go through as soon as a
vote can be reached. Several Western
wv IiN EHtttlltS NlllCI
will severely arraign the administration
for the non-eniorcement OF the Geary
law.
In his report to the Commissioner of
Indian Affairs Prof. Putnam in charge
of the chronological exhibit of the
Worlds Fair denounces as falsehoods
the charges by Mrs. Sickles, Chairman
of the Universal Peace Union, that brn.
tai and cruel exhibitions of the Indian
sun dance were given at the fair. The
accusations are characterized as misrep-
resentations; he SAYS there has been no
representation of the Indian sun dance
and there has not been a single Indian
belonging 10 the United States who has
taken part in any exhibition except the
Navajos, who have been quietly sitting
in hut weaving and making silver work.
Indians from Vancouver Island. who are
entirely outside the jurisdiction of the
United States, have given exhibitions,
performing ceremonial songs and dances
Secretary Carlisle has sent to the
House his reply to the resolution OF that
body asking him why 4,500, 900 ounces
ot silver bullion were not purchased dur.
ing July and August rs required bv law.
The reply says, as the United States is
the largest purchaser OF silver in the
world, the Secretary of the Treasury
after an examination OF the offers and
quotations each day should determine
what in his judgment is fair price. He
either has TO purchase $4,000 ounces
at the dealers prices. no matter how un.
reasonable or exorbitant, or he must EN-.
ploy such means as are at his command
TO ascertain the actual market price.
The effort Of the department since June