The Atlanta constitution. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1885-19??, 1894-06-25
CAPITAL OF The NATION
NEWS OF CONGRESS- FOR THE PAS1
WEEK BRIEFLY TOLD.
THE WATSON BLACK CONTEST CASE.
China Retaliatea and American Trade is In-
jnred-An Enormous Saving in Pom
sions-Tate and the Revenue Laws.

OF their expenditures il obtaining evidence
and IN lawyers fees to the committee on
elections and that committee recommended
that the appropriations committee allow
them 81 100 each. The deficiency bill also
contains appropriation for fees and eX-
penses OF the federal courts. There is also
sn appropriation in it OF $4,000 for an eie-
Nator and to improve the approaches 10 the
Birmingham public building.
ENCOURAGING for the Exposition.
Mr.. Jack Spalding, OF Atlanta, is mere
working up the Atlanta exposition Dill ndi.
Spalding had a conference with senators
Gordon and Walsh today and ne liiio.' 'hT
bill in good shape. He feels very coiliiuen1
of its passage. It has been referred u tlie
appropriations committee of the senate with
the recommenda ton of the committee on
education that it be attached to the suiioiy
civil bill.
Senators Gordon and Walsh have recelFeo
assurances from Senator Cockrei' cidi' iii't'
of the committee that this vii! pc doHe.
MIR. HIoacs Feels Coniiaeh''
Mr.. Moses returned from Georgia tohlgh'.
47a is greatly encouraged at the ACTON OF
Chattahoochee county and feelS very coAAh-
dent OF being renolninate0. o,,
The president is still absent on the Cnesa-
ne.te hav somewhere, recuperating from
his recent Illness He will, however, re-
CHINA fsetaiintes.
American manufacturers are pegliniiuS "
materially injured because of the antl-Chl-
nose laws nassed by congress-. because OIL
the law prohibiting Chinese immigration
China is retaliating by cutting OIL tfade
with us.
Our consul at Tien-tsin calls attention 10
the fact that the last of the dozen Great
representatives OF American commerce ana
Business disappeared in China, with the
closing of The house of Russell q 90. LIE
extensive and profitable trade which Amer
leans formerly carried on with emma aoo Ill
CHINA has fallen as a welcome letEacy 10
Great Britain, France and Germany.
1t is a high price we have paid FOR the
blessings Of the Chinese exclusion law.
Our southern cotton factories in recent
years have built up a large trade III course
cotton goods with China. There are no
figures ohtainabe here to show whether
this has been interfered with, but it doubt
less has, as China is retaliatlns IN every
possible way against US for our uhirlsiloiS
Might Be Improved Upon.
WASHINGTON, d. c., june 19.-l Special.j-
Congressman Tom Johnson, the Tree Irad-
er from Cleveland O, tells of an interview
he recently had with Mir. Cleveland about
the tariff bill The PRESIDENT SAID he
talked very freely and vigorously, but
not radically enough to suit me- he has
always been III favor of some tarit on SUI
gar on a revenue basis. Jie SAID that the
tariff question is worrying him very much.
THE president, no doubt, is anxious to
have a bill passed. suggested.
well" said Mr.. Johnson, with a sgnl1-
cant smile, he said there are some bills
Zoo mean to pass"
An En0rmons Saving.
The surprising statement IS made by the
pension department that The LIST of July
it viii return to the treasury of the United
States So GCG,000. This represents an enor-
NOUS saving in the conduct of the pension
bureau during Commissioner Lochren's in
cumbency of his once.
Mr.. Lochren has been pur2ing the pen
sion list and stopping the wholesale and
indiscriminate issue of pensions. Ho" Well
he has done this work is shown by his
saving the sum OF So coo, go Of the ap
preparation of S165.090.9G0 He has reduced
his estimate for next year 20 $140,000,00&.
Commissioner Lochyen expects a gradual
Decrease each year in the number Of ap-
pnCants for pensions, the number granted
and the expenditures. He thinks by the
close OF Mr.. Cievelands administration, in
1897, he will have reduced the annual
amount paid IN pensions to about si20000,
0e0. and that the decrease will continue at
an even more rapid rate from year to year.
lie states that the death rate of veterans is
Sncreasin very RAPIDLY
Carter Tate i. Worrying Them.
The Kentucky whisky trust papers are
roasting Garter Tate on account of his OPP
extension of the bonded period and the
increase of the tax on whisky. MIR. Tate
made quite q fight this during the con-
sideratlon of the tariff bill in the house,
and ne expects to continue to fight when
the bill comes back.
The Louisville Post has this to say about
him:
THE moonshine element in the house is
organizing 10 fight the extension OF the
bonded period and the increase tax.
Garter Tate, eff Georgia, who has large
moonshine constituency. is trying to corral
sufficient strength to defeat the amend
ment. He is the head and front Of the
fight, and Swanson, of Virginia, is his
lieutenant.
Tate is man OF some strength, but
he will be unable to vitiate legislation
to the protection Of the illicit distillers
of his state
THE stand he has taken is admirable
enough in its way, but the house is not
to be hoodwinked by his claims of tenn
perance, as he showed his hand too plain
ly before when the fight was in the house.
and clearly demonstrated that it was for
lawlessness he really trying to legis-
late"
SILVER Shows Fight.
Washington, June 21.--(Special.) 1.-The de-
bate over the anti-option bill in the house
has been decidedly interesting today.
Young Mr.. Pence, of Colorado. the populist,
gave notice that he would offer the Bland
free coinage bill amendment to the
Anti-option bill tomorrow and that he
hoped and believed it would not be ruled
out by the chairman. Colonel Livingston is
presiding in committee of the whole and it
is he who viii have to rule on the question
tomorrow Colonel Livingston is an enthus-
3astic free coinage man, and he may rule
the amendment in order, though under the
rules of the house it is not in order But
then you know Colonel Livingston does not
pose as q stcller for rules. He believes
in accomplishing ends. Such ruling might
outrage the house. being contrary TO all
the rules, but then the house could over
rule his decision en- an appeal.
Mr.. Bailey, of Texas, is still acting as
speaker, Judge Crisp being yet confined to
his room, though sitting up and much i'm
proved today. Mr.. Bailey called Colonel
Livingston to the chair in committee of the
whole at the request of Mr.. Hatch, who has
charge Of the bill
Senator Walsh Candidate.
Senator Walsh is q candidate to succeed
himself He has SO notified his friends,
though for the present he will make no for
nal announcement. lie is very much en-
Couraged the many favorable letters
he has received from all sections of the
state, and he said tonight that he did not
want any OF his friends to form the i'm
preston that he would not be a candidate