The Hood River glacier. (Hood River, Or.) 1889-1933, 1893-11-25
FROM WASHINGTON CITY.

btLNftI Llc DUIltn SLhltH ana SNcucn
and Norway have been exchanged. II
will 90 into effect in thirty days.
The Senate Committees will have lit
tie 10 do during the rccegs The Com
nitlce on Agriculture will complete its
investigation 0f the causes relating to
the depression IN agricultural products
and submit itg report ~ early az pOssi-
bic after the beginning oi the regular
session. The Committee on Pacific Rail.
ways IL investigating the Union Pacific
railroad recelycrship.
There are rumDrs that Voorhees, will
introduce frcc-coinagc silver bill at the
opening Of the regular session. NODr-
hcCs declined 10 talk about the matter,
but It is pointed ont he has always been
u silver man, and that he declared dur
ing the debate on the repeal bill that he
was no less a friend Of silver than al
ways. At any rate il is thoroughly un.
derstOOd the silver question was not
shclvCd by the passage Of the repeal bill
On the contrary, the silver men say the
fight has only begun. When Congress
assemblies they propose 10 keep it well
10 the front in connection with every
great issue between the parties from the
tarllt 10 the repeal Of the Federal cleo
| ton laws. Every stage Of the tariff dis
CussiOn will be punCtuated by pertinent
queries by the silver men tending to
prove that it was decentralization Of sill
yer and not the Mex nley tariff which
caused the financial depression. Indeed.
il IL intended that the silver men shall
M yI Ial,. ,,f ,,I.u 1 "a
the ParncIitcs in Parliament, till silver
shall receive hearing.
Although Congress amended the Geary
act 70 as to allow Chinese six months
more in which TO register, it adjDurned
without making an appropriation to
carry out the provisions Of the act. The
! Chairman Of the Committee on ApprO-
! priations had cogniZance Of the necessity
of the Treasury Departments need OF
money TO carry out the law, and it is
probable that, if the urgency deficiency
! bill had passed, a clause apprOpriating
enough money at least to begin opera
tions would have been inserted in the
! bill. As it Is, registrations under the act
will not begin until the appropriation is
male. Meanwhile the Treasury Depart
ment will make all its preparations, and
so soon as the money is available it will
be prepared TO assign its officers so that
/ they can begin the work at once. The
! bureau has assurances that an effort will
be made TO get the bill through in the
early days Of the session, so that the
work Of registration will not be long de-
| ferrcd. 1t is said that all Chinese now
I n ,tYsV4 Inn. -
can be registered in sixty days, if they
promptly take advantage of the oppor-
tunity.
The annual report OF L. Lowrie Bell,
the Second Assistant Postmaster Gen
eral, shows that the total expenditure
for mail transportation WAS SAB ,597 ,997,
and OF this amount $5,75S, SIS was on
account OF star routes and $25, 726, ,605
on account OF railway routes. The re-
port shows that there are now in opera
ton; Star routes 1856 mileage 259,-
$50 railroad routes 2,520 mileage 1866
9h2; messenger routes 7,205, mileage
2J,U3O. The increase in the number OF
routes during the year was $50 and in
the length OF routes gal miles. The
increase in the annual rate of expendi-
ture was $2,262, 265, During the last
fiscal year the railway postoffice cars
were subjected To 4O3 train accidents,
most all OF which resulted in loss OF life
or serious injury. Ten clerks were killed,
66 seriously injured and ll5 slightly in
jnred. Commenting upon the facts, Mr.
Bell says: The department is permit
ted to care for the injured, but no au.
tlnriyal r,ltaf md, tI,n tin,y tot
utes can he extended to the people lett
behind by the gallant fellows who go
down to death whilst performing their
duties. The day death enters the car
the pay OF the clerk ceases, and at the
very time hell is most needed the heart
broken family becomes too often an OBJ
jeCt OF charity. Various methods have
been suggested whereby relief could be
extended without material obligation
from the government, and | trust the
present Congress can he prevailed upon
to adopt some one of the proposed plans.
If such q measure of relief were put into
effect, it would promote the service, and
the direct benefit that would be induced
by it would he great"
Secretary Gresham has received dis
IdlIll HUN y IlllCN CldlCc NJ lIllSJtI bthSE,
who was on board the steamer Costa
Rica at Amapala when fired on by the
Honduras authorities because the cap
tain OF the vessel refused to surrender a
refugee from Honduras on board as a
passenger. The dispatch fully confirms
the press reports of the firing on the
United States flag. While the ship was
in the port OF Amapala the authorities
demanded the surrender of PoleCaro Bo-
nilla, VINO was recently concerned in the
revolutionary movement against the
Honduras government. The captain de-
clined. After the ship had received her
clearance papers and while she was leav
ing port six or seven shots were fired to
bring her to. Minister Baker was on
board at the time. Whether the shots
were fired directly ut her or in front is
not stated. The matter was discussed
at Cabinet meeting. Captain Dow,
who was in command OF the Costa Rica,
is the same captain who harbored Bar
rundia, who was killed on his ship sew
eral years ago by the Guatemaan au-
thorities. 1t has been established that
political refugee who is passenger, as
Bonilla was, cannot be taken from the
ship on which he is. The chance pres
ence OF the United States Minister on
the vessel in this case is not considered
to make any difference in the diplomatic
aspects Of the case. Nothing could be
learned OF what reply was sent Minister
Baker or what steps are proposed to be
taken in the matter. The United States
steamship Alliance sailed the other day
from San Jose to Acajutla in Salvador.
Whether this movement was occasioned
hu the incidant .yns not stated at the de-