The Washington times., 1894-08-06

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Chinese exclusion act, with S315,000 for
Treasury printing, 1905 900 for the Depart
ment of Justice, and 900 for improve
ments to the gunboats Castine and Machias.
The fourth, approved April 81, carried about
S215 900 for the Treasury, most OF 1t Tor the
Bureau OF Printing and Engraving. and for
United States courts S1.436. 900. The fiith
bill, approved June 10, carried S165,000 for
the Public Printing Office and slS5,000 for
the customs service.
ENFORCING CHINESE EXCLUSION.
Two resolutions appropriating $4,000 and
$4,000 for enforcing the Chinese exclusion
act were approved December 2, 1898, and
April 4. 1894 As most of the appropriation
bills had not passed at the beginning OF the
fiscal year, July /, it was necessary TO extend
by resolution all appropriations for the neces-
sary operations of the government for pen
sions and for the District OF Columbia. They
were twice extended for 80 days from June 30.
and 10 days from July 30, and a resolution
continuing for 80 days the employment OF
mechanics and laborers under the Navy De-
partment, was passed under the same circum-
stances.
By resolution the Secretary of the Treas
ury was authorized to make partial payments
on vessels built by contract, the amount not
to exceed rs per cent of the work done, and
ceeding four-flfths of his bond to pay for
work and materials. Two special appropria-
ton bills for salaries OF employees OF Congress
were necessary, and one for the expenses of
Investigations ordered by the Senate. By
resolution the Secretary Of the Treasury was
ordered to receive from r. 7. Wilson Co.
and place to the credit of the Cherokee Ma
ton Sc. FAC, 900 for the Cherokee Outlet BY
resolution the Secretary of the Interior was
authorized TO settle the accounts of the agents
who effected the treaty of 1874 with the Dela-
ware Indians.
Special acts were passed for rewriting the
consular regulations for printing the agri-
cultural report for 1s93 for printing a history
OF the international arbtrations to which the
United States was party, and the report OF
the committee on the centennial celebration
of the laying OF the cornerstone OF the Capt.
tol
NEW SHIPPING LEGISLATION.
Among the laws OF benefit to merchant
marine interests enacted was one to prevent
collisions at sea and prescribing a system of
signals; one to facilitate the entry of steam
ships by authorizing the customs officers to
permit the unloading OF vessel OF a regular
established line on receiving from the master
a sworn manifest of the cargo; an act to ex-
tend the limits of the port Of New York to in
clude the city of Yonkers; an act to establish
a light and fog signal station near Butler
flats. New Bedford, Mass; an act to transfer
the Morris Island life saving station, near
Charleston, S. c., to Sullivan's Island; an act
to establish port Of delivery at Banners
Ferry, Idaho; an act to provide an American
register for the steamer FL Callao; resolution
directing the Secretary OF War to appoint
commission Of engineers to report upon the
cost of the harbors OF Superior and Duluth
and their entrances to a uniform depth of
twenty feet; a resolution directing the Secre-
tary of War 10 determine if there is danger of
the Mississippi River cutting through the
space dividing it from the St. Francis River,
near Walnut Bend, Ark
CONCERNING THE JUDICIARY.
The acts pertaining to the Judiciary of the
United States were to provide for two addi-
tional associate justices of the supreme court
of Oklahoma Territory, for the division of the
Eastern district of Michigan into the Northern
and Southern divisions, and for holding the
circuit and district courts therein; TO provide
that term of the circuit and district court of
the district of Vermont may be held in Mont
pelier; that criminal causes in the district of
shall be brought and prosecuted in
the division OF the district in which the
offenses were committed; TO fix term of the
district and circuit courts of the Southern
district of Mississippi TO be held at Meridian;
providing an additional circuit Judge in the
Eighth judicial district; 10 change the
of the judicial districts OF Florida;
allowing the State courts Of Maryland 10
occupy the old United States courthouse in
Baltimore for five years, and to authorize the
transfer of carpets and furniture to the rooms
by the United States courts in
Chicago.
PoRT-oFFIcE REGULATIONS.
To require original receipts for deposits Of
postmasters to be sent to the auditor of the
Treasury for the Post-ofice Department, to
authorize the Fourth Assistant Postmaster
General to approve postmasters' bonds, to
regulate the Inspection of iron or steel boiler
plates and their stamping by United States
inspectors. and 1xirg penalties for unauthor-
lied use of the stamp.
Among the Territorial acts was one fixing
the limit Of Indebtedness which may be in
creased by Salt LSke City at per cent of the
value of the taxable property, and one author
zing the county Of Coconine. Arizona. to I'M
sue sl5. 900 in bonds TO build county build
ing. The act establishing the Smithsonian
Institution, in Washington. was amended III
some minor respects, and a resolution passed
10 reappoint Andrew D. White a member Of
The board of directors.
To redress an injustice to certain graduates
Of the Annapolis Naval Academy an act to fill |
in the grade OF assistant paymaster |
20 those discharged at the end of their two |
years cruise under the act OF August 3, 1882, !
was passed.
For the purpose of reclaiming the wreck of |
he Kearsage on Roncador Reef, in Difference |
20 the sentiment OF the country and at the |
suggestion of Secretary Herbert, an appro-
Driation of 900 was made. but the attempt |
proved unsuccessful. By Joint resolution |
officers and enlisted men of both branches |
If the service were authorized 10 wear the |
badge of the Regular Army and Navy Union |
IN all occasions of ceremony. BY resolution |
hree members Of the board of managers of |
he National Home for Disabled Volunteer |
soldiers were appointed: Messrs Charles
VI. Anderson. of Ohio; Sidney G. Cooke. of |
Kansas, and A. L. Pearson, of Pennsylvania. /
FLAGS RESTORED TO THE STATES.
The Secretary of War was authorized to re-
tore TO the State of Michigan two flags of the
Regiment, Michigan Vclun-
eers. among the recaptured flags in the War
Department, and to the State of Iowa the flag
# the Twenty-second Regiment, Iowa Yolun-
eer Infantry, and to donate four obsolete |
.un carriages to the City of Marshalltown,
owa.
Much legislation relating to public lands
vas accomplished. One act extends to Janu-
.ry. 1897 the time within which persons may
purchase railroad grant lands forfeited to the
government by the act OF September 20, 1890,
lnder the conditions of purchase in that act
The reservation of section IS in each township
# the Cherokee Outlet, Ton-Kawa reserva-
ion. and Pawnee reservation lands in Okla
iona for educational purposes, and of sec
ion 33 in each township for public buildings