Condon globe. (Condon, Gilliam Co., Or.) 189?-1919, 1894-07-06
WASHINGTON CITY NEWS.

under way are: FL Paso, Tex, 81 900;
Port Townsend. WASH. s11000; Sacra-
mento, CAL, so, 900; Sioux Falls, S. D.,
| $15, 900.
At the request Of Senator Teller his
amendment TO increase the duty on dia-
monds from Is to 80 percent nd yalorem,
which would restore the rate fixed by
the House in the Wilson bill. was passed
over. 1t will be considered again before
the bill is reported.
The House Committee on Pensions has
ratified theTeport OF the subcommittee
in favor OF Representative Bryan's bill
to pension widows whose names were
taken from the roll because they had re-
married and where the second husbands
have died or have been divorced.
While Kyle was making speech in
favor OF an income tax in the Senate the
other day, Call of Florida shocked the
spectators in the galleries by removing
his shoes and elevating his sky-blne"
stockings to neighboring desk, while
he famed himself with palm leaf fan.
The report OF the Board OF Visitors at
the United States Naval Academy at
Annapolis, Md, will suggest that the
course OF instruction be six years in
stead of four, with two years cruise,
as at present Occasional practice cruises
of four months each are recommended.
The bill to amend the act for the relief
LOT the Chippewa Indians of Minnesota
has passed the House. The bill provides
the White Earth and Red Lake reserva-
tions, when the Indians are allotted the
lands in severalty, shall be offered for
sale.
| The Secretary of the Interior has
lgranted permission to the management
of the New York Museum OF Natural
/ History to allow its representative en-
trance to the Uncompahgre and UiDtah
Indian reservation, Utah, TO obtain fos-
sils for exhibition. The request was de-
MED last winter, owing to the excited
condition of the tribe.
The Attorney General of the United
States has instructed Acting United
States District AttOrney PlaIt OF the
southern district OF New York to at once
institute suit in that district before Dis
trict Judge Wallace against the Northern
Commercial Company to recover $132, 900
| lOT tiIC IdSb ItltCC ttdIb ICffb btu pVCtui-
um on seal skins due to the government
from the company. This action is taken
by mutual consent of the contending
parties.
There are indications that Ezeta's
case will cause our government TO as
sume definite position in the matter
of the right OF asylum. Although the
SaIvadorian refugees, with one excep-
ton, are cafe on board the Bennington,
the Salvadorian provisional government
] determined to press Its demands for the
surrender of General Antonio Ezeta,
Vice President OF the late government.
It is likely that the other refugees will
not be included in the demand.
The prediction that the reforms insti-
! tuted by the Democratic administration
of the pension bureau would result in
towering into the treasury at the end OF
the fiscal year several millions OF dollars
is about to be realized. Commissioners
Lochren has had prepared a careful esti-
mate showing that the surplus will be
$25 ,0OO. 900. Commissioner Lochren's es-
/. innate for pension disbursements in the
,, fiscal wear 1895 has been reduced from
sl65. 900, O., o to $40. 900 900, so that the
. coming years disbursement will effect a
! saving equal to another $25, 900, 900.
d The details of the Nicaragua canal bill,
: which will be reported to the House. were
t practically closed up at meeting OF the
n subcommittee the other day. There will
be recommended directorate OF eleven
members, eight being government direct
Iors. one representative of the company,
one from Nicaragua and one from Costa
q Rica. Three government engineers will
have charge of the work. It will be pro-
vided that dividends shall not exceed
9 per cent, so that a sinking fund may he
: established. The government share o
s dividends will be credited to q sinking
: fund. Some members OF the committee
: think the debt can be raised in twenty
;, five wears on the lines laid down. Bonhi
u were practically decided upon for thu
= whole amount, as the proposition tocoiI
u silver involved troublesome complica
y tions and opposition. However. tina
:. section of the hill is subject to change
,i so that, if any plan involving the use o
: silver seems practicable, it can b
II adopted.
= Charles s. Craig of Edgewood Park
= Pa, has been before the Congressiona
= Committee investigating the armo
!, plate frauds. He was associated witt
e @. E. Sill in giving the main informa
!, :, ton of irregularities at the Carnegi
I. works. Craig's evidence was much lik
= that recently given by Sill and corroh
y orative of it. He testified that he mad
" reports OF the work on armor plate
from the workmen's states giving tn
actual work done. The reports wer
submitted to Superintendent Kline
n who changed them to bring the wor
"a within the government contract. TIL
: altered ports were then furnished I
= the government officers. Craig CAV
vs. from his note book list of plates whic
he had been doctored after they had bee
III turned over to the government as tes
p- plates. He gave details Of the retreat
is ment OF each plate, Many OF ther
IN were retreated alter the government ha
es rejected them. He testified that h
n had been instructed by Superintendent
$, Kline to burn the original record
ce showing the real work done. Craig sal
th that while assistant heater he observe
d, much surreptitious work on the plates
in He gave the technical details Of these il
ar Irregularities. This was done without tll
a | kha fxavnrn ~. inf fsffiTor,