The National tribune., 1894-04-05

THE NATIONAL TRlBl
Doctors galore thronged the halls of the Capt.
| tol the other day in attendance upon hearing
by the House Committee on Interstate and
Foreign Commerce upon the bill establishing
Bureau of Public Health within the Depart
ment of the Interior. Members of the New
York Academy of Medicines National Quaran-
tine Committee, which prepared the bill, and
others were present. The proposed bureau is to
consist of a Commissioner of Public Health and
| Advisory Council. The duties OF the bureau
| are to collect and diffuse information upon mat
! tiers affecting the public health, the collection
of information with regard to the prevalence of
contagious and epidemic diseases in this and
other countries, and the preparation of rules
| and regulations for securing the best sanitary
condition of vessels from foreign ports and for
the prevention of the introduction and spread
of infectious diseases in the United States. The
Advisory Council is to consist of one member
| from each State.
The old McGarrahan claim has passed the
| Senate, and viii soon come up in the House.
! Forty years now has this been urged before
! Congress. The last official action taken on it
was veto by President Harrison. The property
! which McGarrahan claims is an island on the
coast of California, near San Francisco. which
he AYERS was ceded to him by Mexico prior to
our annexation of California. By treaty regu-
lations he has always claimed the island re-
manned in his possession after the annexation
But other people occupied it, and quicksilver
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wants the Court of Claims TO adj udicate the
case.
The Democrats had redhot time opening
| their Headquarters of the Congressional Cam
paign Committee at Wormiey's Hotel Annex
last week. reception attended by all the lead
ing public men in the city, almost every Demo-
cratic member Of both Houses of Congress, tho
Secretaries of State, War, interior. and the
Postotiice d. Department., was held, and the guests
were treated royalty. The Headquarters will
Ice open now until the close of the campaign,
aud active work has commenced
Senator German used to be vigorous and
SIX iilfui baseball player in the days Of the old
National team. The other evening at the
Democratic reception Bah" Arson, the Chi
cage bail Captain. was present. and the Mary
land Senator aud he were noticed together,
chatting absorbedly over the National game,
past and present
After hour upon honr of flibustcring and
time and care spent in the framing of the
Bland seigniorage bill. it has been vetoed.
lv hn uiy in he
veto message are that the measure was loosely
drawn, and that it would retard tie revival of
business in this country. and that it would rob
the Treasury of gold. Comments by the silver
men in Congress make it evident that free
coinage bills Will be introduced aud attempts
made 10 pass them result Of the seigniorage
veto Representative Henderson IN. C.. D.
has already presented bill for the coinage of
the silver seigni"rage. The text of this is the
same as the vetoed bill, with the second section
left out and some of the explanatory language
of the first section.
And yet it is probable that com promise bill
will be passed. majority of the sill yer men
of both parties have agreed upon middle
course Ii has been given them TO understand
from the Nnile HOUSE tnab the only terms
upon which seigniorage bill will be allowed
to pass nnvetoed is with accompanying author-
ity from Congress for the issuance of gold
bonds TO provide enough of the yellow metal
to sustain the drain on the Treasury's gold
reserve anticipated as the effect of the proposed
silver legislation. There must therefore, be a
combination seicniorage and gold-bond bill in
PRODUCED into the House. and it is understood
that this will be done There ere some among
the ranks of the siiverites, however vino object
TO the issue of gold bonds at all, and will make
a bitter fght.
Modern Hebes and reincarnated Junos, dainty
BLONDES and stately brunets came down from
the hills of New England last week and bearded
the lions of the Senate Finance Committee in
their den. They wanted to make them prom
ise TO keep the Wilson tariff bill from passing
the Senate. These ladies represented the great
mills of the North. in which they are all
wage learners. They urged that the bill would
ruin them if it became law; that starvation
to the mill.hands of New England would
surely result. Their Establishments had little
effect upon the Senators. and it is to be feared
that their long journey will not bring the result
they so deyoutiy hoped for.
The long-look dior Government Printing
Office for Washington is not yet in sight. This
week the Senate is considering the tariff to
the exclusion OF all other measures aud the
printing-otfice bill is one of them Senator
Harris will be stumbing-block in the way
of its passage if the Senate does net coincide
with his views. The bill now stands in an
interesting position, with a motion pending to
reconsider the vote by which the Malone lot
amendment was agreed to. Senator Harris is
in favor of the present site. He thinks that
by tearing down that portion of the building
which is unquestionably unsafe. aud leaving
standing that which is yet in good condition,
the old she'll may be replaced by addi-
ton, and the result will be a splendid struc-
ture perfectly secure and of ample dimensions
for years TO come. just when the bill will
come up again is not known, but it is very
probable that Senator Harriss plan will re-
ceive careful consideration in the Senate.
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There has been great amount of grumbling
among the politicians because Public Printer
Palmer has not been removed from Office. The
fact that he has not is regarded as high COM