Santa Fe daily New Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1885-1897, 1894-08-02
NATIONAL AFFAIRS.
Tariff Reform Progressing and Con-
ferees Likely to Report ina
Few Days.
The Sugar Trust Scandals Finally Ex-
ploded-The Committees Report
Funston Unseated.

Washington, Aug. 2.-There are i'm
portant changes in the various denomina
tions of portage stamps contemplated
The present SOC and 9Oc ordinary stamp
and 81, 80 and IS stamps be added to tn
series. 1t is intended to reduce the num
Der of kinds of newspaper and perodica
stamps from 24c to - or 13c.
| NO JUN FOB FUNSTON.
The house has voted, 146 to 81, to un
seat Congressman Fur *n" Kansas
! and sea- Moore, Demov.-, ind TO b,
| lawfully elected.
THE PROPER THING.
The secretary of war has remitted tn.
unexpired part of the sentence of Private
Cedarquest, at Omaha barracks, for re-
fusing to engage in target practice or
Sunday. Major Worth, who gave the
order for practice in violation of the
presidents proclamation, will be court
martialed.
TARIFF REFORM PROGRESSING.
The Democratic tariff conference held
| a session to-day from 10 a. m. to / 80 D.
m. and after few minutes for lunch con.
tinred the session throughout the after
noon. No agreement had been reached
at recess. 4ghe conferees said, however,
fair progress was making toward that
end. One house member said it would be
two or three days before it could be said
with certainty that the bill would be
agreed on. As heretofore sugar, iron ore
and coal are the items at issue. As to
iron and coal there seems to be gronnd
for the report that sliding scale will be
adopted.
To-DAY's SENATE.
The anti-option bill was reported to the
senate to-day.
Senator Hill reported from the immi-
grafton committee the house bill for con-
sular inspection of immigrants with a
substitute containing stringent regula-
tions against anarchists.
Senator Gray, chairman of the sugar in
vestigation committee, presented the re-
port of the committee to-day and asked
that the committee be discharged. The
main report is signed by all the members.
Senator's Lodge and Davis presented
supplemental report and Senator Allen
presented his own views on some features.
Secretary Carlisle is exonerated and parts
of the article in the Philadelphia Press
rejecting on him are declared without
foundation, "except it is fact according
toSecretary Carlisle testimony that he did
at the request of Senator Jones draft an
amendment to the sugar schedule" The
conduct of Edwards, says the report, in
publishing specific charges against pub
lie men without having personal knowl-
edge of the facts, calls for the serious rep
rotation of the senate. The committee
says: "There has been no testimony pre-
sented before your committee, and your
committee has been unable to discover
any, tending to show that the sugar sched-
ule was made up in consideration of any
sums of money that had been paid for
campaign purposes of the Democratic
party" The committee also unite in
saying that no evidence has been adduced
tending to show improper conduct on
the part of those engaged in framing the
sugar schedule. The committee depre-
cate the importantly and the pressure to
which congress is sub jected to by the
of great industrial COM
binations.