The Lebanon express. (Lebanon, Linn County, Or.) 1887-1898, 1893-01-13
FROM WASHINGTON CITY.

A telegram with about seventy sigma
lures attached, including tine principal
commercial aud manufacturing houses
and banking institutions OF San Fran.
cisco, has been forwarded % President
Harrison and Secretary Tracy, urging
tor their favorable consideration the
claims OF the Union Iron Works for
awarding to It the contract TOR the con-
struction oil one Of the new men-of-war
Iowa and Brooklyn.
The Committee on Banking and Cur
rency will be called together soon to act
on the bill introduced by Representative
Andrew Of Massachusetts, proposing
more liberal legislation in behalf Of na.
tionsl banks and the repeal OF the silver
bullion purchase clause OF the Sherman
act. The majority OF the committee Is
disposed to recommend the first section
OF the Andrew bill, which authorizes
national banks to issue circulating bonds
deposited. Section 2 reduces the amount
of bonds required to be deposited in the
United States Treasury by national banks
to q nominal amount. The section will
have to be modified, as the committee is
hostile to il and believes in requiring
banks to deposit q considerable amount
Of bonds. Section relates to the tax
on circulation. The committee is in fs-
vor OF reduction OF the rate Of tax on
national bank circulation, but is opposed
to wiping the tax out entirely on the
ground that banks should bear their
share OF the expense Of the system.
Section 4 repesls the Sherman silver
purchase provision. Whether or mot
this will get the favorable indor cement
of the committee cannot be predicted.
The subcommittee having charge Of
the subject Of establishing national
quarantine has agreed upon bill, which
will be reported TO the full committee
after recess. The bill agreed upon puts
the national quarantine system into the
hands oil the hospital service OF the rev.
enue marine. Wherever State quaran-
tine regulations exist the hospital sery-
ice of the revenue marine shall have
power t9 enforce the laws and regula-
tions OF the different States. Where
there are no State regulations, or where
IN the opinion OF the marine hospital
service the quarantine regulation Of the
State ia not sufficient to prevent the in
PRODUCTION Of contagious diseases into
the United States, the marine hospital
service shall report the facts to the Sec
retary Of the Treasury, who, II in his
Judgment 1t ie necessary and proper,
shall order the marine hospital service
to make such additional rules and regu-
lations Re are necessary to prevent the
introduction OF such diseases into the
United States from foreign countries, or
into one State from another State. The
President lie also authorized TO suspend
immigration from foreign countries
where infectious diseases exist.
Two years ago Senator FRYE prophesied
that time would show that the Panama
canal scheme was corrupt, and that
within year or two light would be,
thrown upon it and the Republic would
tremble under the shock. That condi-
tion exists to-day. There has been some
talk to the effect that the Panama and
AfSoi ukuh Iduhi hCuculth are phrhllet.
and that the disaster that bias overtaken
the French people will cause public men
in this country to hesitate in giving their
votes TO sanction q guarantee Of Nic4r-
aqua bonds, fearing that scandal might
result. Mr.. Frye sees nothing Of the
kind. and is emphatic in his declaration
10 that effect. Said he "There Is a
very good reason TO advance, which Is
that the government should exercise
supervision over the Nicaragua can |
and control all that IL done there. There
is no reason why any legislator should
be afraid to cast his ballot for bil
which has this end in view believe
this measure will pass the Senate, tut Of
course such prediction cannot be made
as to the House. II can hardly be sup
posed thst the bill will meet with iavor
there, inasmuch as II contamplates the
expenditure Of public money, and such
expenditure are opposed ON that side Of |
the capitol