The Prince George's enquirer and southern Maryland advertiser. (Upper Marlborough, Md.) 1882-1925, 1894-06-22
NEWS ITEMS.


The cruiser Montgomery will be placed in
commission this week.
In the Senate the wooden and silk schedules
of the riff bill were disposed Of.
President Cleveland did not return TO
Washington until the middle of The week,
The deficiency appropriation bill was intro
duced by Mr. Breckenridge, of Kentucky.
The compromise amendment placing duty
of 40 cents a ton on bituminous coal was
passed.
In the Sena the pulp, paper and books and
sundries schedules of the tariff bill were dis
posed of.
The Lancaster, Marion and Alliance, wood
en- ships of the navy, will soon be retired from
active service.
In the House of Representatives, on Mon
day, Mr. Bailey acted as Sp ,aker in the alb
sence of Mr.. Crisp.
The democratic leaders in the Senate eX
pected to finish consideration Of tn free list of
the tariff bill Tuesday.
The commerce. travellers bill, to permit the
| issue by railroads Of )nt nter-chd ngeable
| 5,OOO-mile tickets was passed.
An outlaw chief named Orangkyah attacked
and burned the British military post at kaula-
Trembling, killing nine Sikhs.
Democratic leaders think the final vote up
| on the tariff bill should be taken not Later
than Wednesday of nsxt week.
In the House of Representatives the Indian
appropriation was passed substantially as it
was repolt ted fiom the committee.
The Secretary Of the Treasury, in comma
nication to the Senate, calls attent on to The
large number of emsran.s .aving the country.
The degree of LII. ID. was conferred on
Capt. Alfred L. Mahon, of The United States
cruiser Chicago, by Cambridge University
Monday.
Mr.. Nick zig introduced the American Ar
chitects Institute bill providing for colGpeti
| ton for designing and experimenting public
bull lings.
Mr. Allen introduced a bill granting pen.
sions TO all persons at SIP per month who
served in the war, paper money TO be used to
pay such pensions.
The speech of Senator Hill, of New York,
| in the Senate criticising his democratic col
leagues for not placing coal on the free list
was unusually Litter.
The report of the statistician of The Depart
| ment of Agriculture for June CONSTITUTES The
| low percentage of condition of peaches into !.
| practical failure of the crop.
There has been a great falling off in con-
| gresslonal legislation, attribute to the CEN
tering of interest Oh the tariff and to the de-
pleted cond ition of the treasury.
Chall s E. Sill, the Carnegie workman,
continued his testimony, on Monday, before
the House committee invest eating alleged If
reguIarities in armor plate furnished the navy.
The Spanish warship Condo de Nenadito
has gone TO .bat it'll dispatches demanding
the immediate payment Of the indemnify,
which the Morocco government has failed 10
pay.
Cadets Robert and Cox, who receailI grad
uated ore and two at the Naval Academy, will
be selected by the Navy Department to go TO
Eurore for course of studies in naval archi-
| lecture.
| Mr. Hill offered an am ,ndment to place BIZ
| luminous coal on the free list, which caused
| a rancorous debate, and which was defeated
| practically by the solid democratic and repub-
| Ii IAN vote.
Saturd ~ last Senator Sherman completed a
| service of over twenty line years in the Sem
| ate, equaling in length that of Senator Ben
t)n, whose service had heretofore held first
rank i'm duration.
Among the provisions in the general def
cheney bill reported to the House of Represen-
tatives are $4,000 for completing the public
building under way at Martinsburg, w. Va,
and s., 900 for the one at York, Pa.
| Al Richmond the Richmond and Danville
| r lilrrAd Was reorg lniZ ID under the name of
The Southern Railroad Company. The d rec
tors constituted by the corporation elected Mr..
Samuel Spencer president Of the new company,
A friend of Secretary of S ate Gresham
states that there is no foundation for t lie
port that the Secret Try has gone to Chicago
| for the purpose of looking over the political
! field with view to running in Hin lis as the
pupuist candidate for the Senate.
| House committees on appropriations authol
IL I'd Chairman SAyers t. report bill proviG
| irg that appropriations for the general govern
ment, the District of Columbia and pens ions
shall be continued for thirty days after the
| close of the fiscal year, which is June 80.
The bill will not be reported, however, until
later when its necessity becomes apparent.
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