The Hood River glacier. (Hood River, Or.) 1889-1933, 1893-02-11
FROM WASHINGTON CITY.
Mount Tacoma and Several Thousand
Acres Of Land In It's Vicinity to
be Reserved for Park.

appropriating 100000 for one ten.incl
and one twelve.inch rifle high-powe
steel GatIinR gun for coast defense.
The Legislative, executive and judicia
appropriation bills Tor the hscal yea
| 1894 reported % the House make an ag
gregate appropriations Of t2l ,B77, ,095
or $222, l34 less than that OF the current
fiscal year.
The House Committee on pOslotlire.
has completed the pDstoilice appropria
ti0n bill for the year ending June 30
1894. As agreed upon II carries an ap.
preparation Of s3,S60, 1857, an increase
Of 1885, ,08l over the appropriation for
the current year.
Hopkins OF Pennsylvania has intro.
duced In the House resolution direct.
ing the Acknowledgement TO inform that
body why the persons originating and
controlling the American Sugar Refining
Company, or the sugar trust, had not
been proceeded against as other persons
charged with similar crime.
The Secretary Of the Interior in re.
aponse 10 the request OF Senator Mitch.
ell has transmitted TO the Senate all the
papers relating TO the claim OF Oregon
Indians for money In payment OF ceded
lands In 1865. The papers 20 10 the In
dian Committee Of the Senate, who will
try and find out whether there is any,
thing in the claim made by the Indians.
Mount Tacoma and several thousand
acres OF land in ita vicinity are TO be
withdrawn from settlement and made a
timber reservation, with the ultimate
hope that II will be- created as a national
park. Senator Squire has been working
on this for some time, and Representa-.
tive Wilson saw Secretary Noble about
IL recently. An agreement was reached
TO have the withdrawal made.
The War Department has received a
dispatch from General Wheaton, com
mandng the Department OF Texas, stat
ing that the Mexican government has
Instituted proceedings for the extradi.
ton OF the three bandit leaders arrested
by United States troops on the charge OF
violating the neutrality laws. The dis.
patch was sent TO the Secretary of State,
who will cooperate with the Mexican
government in securing speedy action in
the cases.
The fees paid the messengers who
bring the electoral votes TO the national
capital amount to a considerable sum in
the aggregate. Already there is some
talk of repeating in one OF Mr.. Holman's g
appropriation bills the provisions for
paying these messengers and providing
that the electoral returns shall be sent
in by mail or by express. The follow.
are the fees paid the messengers from
the Pacific Northwest: Oregon, $797 ;
Washington, 1920; Idaho, $666.
Secretary Noble has addressed COM
municaiion TO the Commissioner OF In
dian Affairs, setting forth his conclusions
OF the strained relations between J. Le-
roy Brown, acting United States Indian
agent ut Pine Ridge and DIR. Charles A.
Eastman OF the Sioux Indian agency.
The Secretary's conclusion Is that good
service requires that DR.. Eastman shall
be suspended from acting as physician
at Pine Ridge agency, and unless DIR.
Eastman can be assigned or appointed
to another place he is willing to accept
within the next fifteen days he must re-
sign, or he will be removed. The Secre-
tary finds there is no reasonable ground
to find fault with the conduct Of acting
Agent Brown in this connection.
Commander Henry l.. Johnson has
been dismissed from the navy. He was
tried before general court-martial at
Mare Island navy yard in December last
on three charges, the principal one of
which is in official language through
negligence, suffering vessel OF the navy
to be run upon rock and hazarded. "
The vessel was the Mohican, which John
son commanded, and the grounding took
place off the Alaska coast. Such is the
vessel to which he was assigned after a
suspension for several years for the same
oifense for which he was dismissed. The
court found him guilty of the three
charges preferred, and sentenced him to
dismissal. Secretary Tracy has approved
the findings, and this action has been
confirmed by President Harrison.
Secretary Noble has transmitted in re-
sponse to resolution OF the House his
report concerning the executive order of
November 10, by which that part of
Utah lying west of the 10th meridian
was restored to the public domain, with
all the correspondence on the subject,
The documents show this land was
thrown open to settlement for the pur-
pose of allowing the people of the United
States an opportunity of exploring the
placer fields in search OF gold and other
valuable minerals. All the facts con-
nected with the restoration were pub
lished generally throughout the West at
the time the Presidents message was is-
sued. telegram has been received
from Colonel Hunt of the army, report
ing that no prospectors had nor were in
truding on the Navajo reservation.
The Appropriation Committee has
agreed on pension appropriation bill,
1t carries an appropriation of $l66, AGO.
900, an increase of 500, $50 over the
appropriation for the current year. The
recommendation of the subcommittee
that no pension shall be paid any per-
sons under the dependent pension law
unless they can show that they are
wholly disabled for manual labor and
have an income less than 5000 year was
stricken out, as was the recommendation
that no widow pensioner should receive
a pension unless che was married to q
soldier previous to 1870. The PROPOSE.
ton to authorize the Commissioner oi
Pensions to detail medical examiners
from the pension Office to act as exam.
lining surgeons and abolish the Board oil
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