Condon globe. (Condon, Gilliam Co., Or.) 189?-1919, 1893-02-24
FROM WASHINGTON CITY.
Negotiations for the Settlement Of tn,
News Case Progressing Very
Satisfactorily-Etc.

making B0nner's Ferry a port of entry
The DILL is indorsed by the Treasury De
partment. and may pass this session.
The negotiations for the settlement O
the News case is proceeding 80 salts
factorily that the war ship Atlanta hal
been recalled from her special mission
to Portau-P Prince, where she was cent {,
enforce the demands Of this government
Fithian of the Committee on Censu,
has made minority report to the House
protesting against the passage of the bill
providing for permanent census bu
reau. Baker OF Kansas and Lawson o
Georgia signed the report with Fithian
The House Naval Committee decided
TO make no provision in the naval ap.
preparation bill this year for new cruis
ers or battleships. One new s400, ,OOC
gunboat is the only vessel provided for
The total appropriation is 81, 600, 600 Less
than last year.
The best informed people believe there
Will be an extra session not later thar
the middle of April. 1t is believed the
Democratic leaders think this, and fol
that reason they are not attempting t1
crowd some matters of legislation they
feel are necessary.
The Civil Service Commission, 1t ID al.
legged, summoned Collector of Customs
I. 6. Phelps of San Francisco to Wash.
ington for the purpose of answering the
charges that he removed certain customs
employees because they had refused tc
contribute to the Republican campaign
fund. 1t is also stated that the San
Francisco Examiner has been called on
TO furnish testimony in the case, having
published serious charges of offensive
partisanship against Phelps. No date
has been set for hearing 90 far as known.
Oates report on the Homestead trouble
is accompanied in it's presentation to
The House by minority reports, express
sing the same general conclusions in a
different way. Hope is expressed that
the thought OF the age will devise some
means to secure an equitable division of
the profits between employees and en-
ployer. In conclusion the opinion il
expressed that the evils disclosed by the
investigation are entirely beyond the
reach of Federal power, and the RENE
dies, If any can be devised, must origi-
nate with the State governments.
The naval appropriation bill az agreed
upon by the Committee OF Naval Affairs
carries an aggregate amount in round
numbers OF $40, GOT 900. The appropri
alton for the current fiscal year is $23,-
643, ,266, and the estimates for next year
s24, ,773, 1893. There is no appropriation
in the bill for the proposed naval review
next May. The Senate, therefore. will
have to be looked to for the appropria-
ton to carry out the promise implied in
our invitation to foreign nations. One
new gunboat is authorized, and for the
payment Of vessels heretofore author
lied to be built $6,150,000 is appropri-
ated, including s250,OO0 under the
head of equipment" Among the ap-
preparations for new public works Is
s255, 900 for the continuation of the Pu-
get Sound dry-dock work.
Secretary Foster of the Treasury De-
partment has been notified that the
American flag will be formally raised
upon the Inman steamers City of New
York and City of Paris at New York on
Washington's birthday. The event will
be celebrated with great pomp. Many
distinguished people have been invited.
The President, who regards the act OF
the City of New York and the CITY OF
Paris in taking American register and
sailing under the Stars and Stripes as the
crowning act of his administration, will
himself pull up the flags. He will be
accompanied to New York by all the
membesi of his Cabinst, and on that oc-
casion will also be present the members
OF the Senate and House Naval Affairs
Committees, distinguished members of
Congress and the principal officers of the
Navy Department as their invited guests.
When the Senate Committee on For
tradition treaty, 1t was with an amend
ment that attempts to murder the Czar
or any member of the royal family shall
be considered non-political offenses, re-
gardless of what the motive of the GRIM
inal might be. and that being non-polit-
ical they should be extraditable. This
clause wac productive OF great deal OF
debate. Turpie was the champion for
the right OF asylum, but the committee
was finally sustained. Turpie was not
satisfied with this action, and intro
duced resolution recently intended as
an Offset to the terms Of the treaty. The
resolution declares 1t is the sense of the
Senate that jurisdiction In what is
known as political offensea ought not to
be extra territorial, and no treaty should
be approved which proposes to take from
the courts of the United States the right
to determine whether or not an offense
is political under the law of nations.
Business men In public life fear that
financial disturbance is near at hand. II
is said that Secretary Foster has pre-
pared to avoid any difficulty In the Treas
ury by purchasing gold by issuing an
enormous amount of bonds. AS high as
$500, 900, 600 rumor places the amount.
This statement is made fatty, and goes
80 far as to say that the bonds have al
ready been placed and an agreement
reached for their immediate exchange
for gold, the arrangement being made In
anticipation of the result OF the silver
vote In the House, which 1t is feared will
precipitate q crisis. Whatever may be
done by the present Secretary of the
Treasury, 1t is now conceded that Cleve-
land will early call an extra session OF
Congress to repeal the Sherman Law and
bv his own uersonaI newer and act11al