Alma record. (Alma, Mich.) 1878-1928, 1894-05-25
WASHINGTON NEWS

Saturdays shipments Of gold reduced
the treasury reserve below s6,0oOso0.
In the house the agricultural bill was
amended in committee of the whole and
finally adopted.
Plans have been formulated whereby
the Pacific railroads may liquidate their
debt TO the government in fifty years.
Carroll l.. Rker's case against Secre-
tary Carlisle To compel him To sell Riker
the recent bond issue has been dismissed.
In speech in the senate in opposition
TO the tariff bill Mr.. Dubois demanded
speedy action in justice TO business in
terests
Congressman McMillin is confident
tariff bill acceptable To the democrats Of
both houses will become law within
sixty days.
An attempt To strike out of the agri-
cultural appropriation bill the item re-
lating 10 collection and dissemination of
crop statistics was defeated in the house.
Up TO date nine of the fourteen appro-
pratiOn bills have passed the house and
three Of the remaining five have been re-
ported from the house committee on APP
preparations.
Mai c. w Butts. mentioned in con-
nection with the alleged attempt 10 bride
senator's. asks the senate for full inves-
tigaton and declares emphatically that
he is innocent.
In the house i'm committee Of the whole
an amendment To the legislative appro-
priation bill declaring the statute author
izing the sergeant-at-arms 10 dock"
members for absence 10 have been re-
pealed was carried.
The senate committee on territories
has authorized the reporting of the bill
for the admission Of Utah with an amend
ment fixing the date for the election OF
delegates 10 the constitutional conven
ton at Nov 6, the convention TO meet
the first Monday in March. 1895.
Two important projects for the inland
ship canals were favoraby acted upon
by the house committee on railways and
canals. Appropriations were voted for
surveys for canal TO connect the Hud-
son river and the great lakes and for one
between the Ohio river and Lake Erie.
The recent exports Of gold have result
ed more in loss of confidence than in a
loss Of treasury gold. The latter has
been due quite as much TO treasury de-
ticits on current receipts and eXpend-
lures. But since the outflow of gold be-
gan the treasury holdings of slO5, 10000
have come down TO SS9,0O0,0O0.
Representative Meyer of Louisiana has
drafted u bill fof reorganiZing the lower
grades of this navy, which will be con-
sidered by the joint committee at a
meeting this week. One of the main
fea lures of the bill is in providing
means Of steady advancement from the
enlisted ranks up 10 a commission as Of
ticer.
Attorney General Olney has ruled that
Chinese merchants doing business in the
United States Nov. 3, 1893, whether un-
der their own names or not, do not come
within the provisions of the third para
graph Of Sec. of the act of the date
above given. All such merchants, il is
held, as were here when the statute took
effect may return TO the country should
they leave 1t.
Coxey, Browne and Jones, the three
commonweal leaders, were sentenced by
Judge Miller in the police court Monday
to twenty days in Jail for violating the
statute of the United States prohibiting
the display OF partisan banners in the
capitol grounds. Coxey and Browne
were also fined s. each for trespassng on
the grass, the alternative being another
ten days in Jail. Jones was acquitted on
the last charge.
A plan for the completion of the Mica
ragua canal by this government by
new system Of fnanciering was intro
duced in the house by Representative
Bryan OF Nebraska. While some Of the
features of Senator Morgan's project are
repeated, great innovation is brought
forward by provisions intended 10 in
crease the circulating medium of the
country by paying for the stock of the
canal company with an issue of legal
tender notes modelled after the green
backs of 1862.