The Coeur d'Alene press. (Coeur d'Alene, Idaho) 1892-1907, 1894-04-14
NATIONAL CAPITAL NEWS.

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The annual distribution OF seeds b,
the Agricultural Department 10 practf
cally completed. The amount distrib.
nted 10 10 per cent greater than last year
Each Congressman received 5000 mors
bags OF seeds than In any previous year
The appropriation for the present 6sca
year YVES tl36. 400.
The Committee on Indian Affairs has
decided not to move the Utes from the
Colorado reservation. A substitute bill
which is compromise, will be reported
TO the House. II will not become . Law
until the Utes agree TO its provisions. II
will provide for keeping them on the
western end Of the reservation, giving
them one township in New Mexico.
They will be given quarter Of the pres.
ent reservation.
Secretary Smith has transmitted 10
Congress an adverse report on the House
bill providing for the restoration OF l ,s6l
square miles Of land in Yellowstone Ma.
tionai Park to the public domain. The
Secretary Says the segregation Of the
land IL the result OF obetructing the en-.
forcement Of regulations of the govern.
ment in the park. owing to squatting by
poachers, trappers and other undesirable
characters. The boundaries now fixed
are satisfactory TO the department. No
good reason for the proposed change ID
known.
The Senate COMMITTEES on Public
Lands has agreed TO report favorably
Senator kyle's amendment TO the sun.
dry civil appropriation bill, providing
that any honorably discharged soldier oil
the late civil war and not now the owner
OF 100 acres OF land, and who has no,
avaiied himself OF the privileges under
the land laws of the United States, NAV
acquire title TO l60 acres OF land by NAL.
ing application therefor in person at any
government land Office and paving the
minimum price Of 81 Is per acre. The
law now requires = residence OF six
months on the part Of the ex-soldier.
The Notifications bill, n il came back
TO the Senate Committee, had added to
1t increased appropriations TO the amount
OF 1879 $50. but not \ cent for Puget
Sound. While the British government,
10000 miles away. sees the necessity OF
strongly fortifying the entrance TO the
Straits Of Fuca. the Congress OF the
United States seems scarcely to know
that there Is such place ~ Esquimalt.
or that every dollar expended there is q
menace 10 the cities on Washington
inland sea. The total amount Of the
bill rs now prepared is a, o54. lO4, which
IL over $500. 900 more than was appro-
priAted in the same bill last wear. The
principal amounts added TO the House
bill are SID. 900 for equipment and work
at the Wafervliet factory and S275. Geo
for the purchase or manufacture OF eight.
ten and twelve-inch guns.
Mr.. Grosvenor OF Ohio has introduced
in the House a resolution calling for a
special investigation Of Governor Till
mans action In Selling railroad property
and telegraph lines engaged in interstate
commerce and with armed force and vio-
ience establishing a censorship of The
daily and weekly press OF the country
and prohibiting the transmission Of news
dispatches TO the newspapers. The res
oiufion directs the Committee on Inter
state and Foreign Commerce 10 inquire
by what Law such acts had been commit
ted and whether the laws OF the United
States had been violated. In his remarks
on the resolution Grosvenor said this
was the first time in the history OF the
government such a censorship of press
dispatches had been established. The
resolution was referred 10 the House
Committee on Interstate and Foreign
Commerce, OF which Wise Of Virginia is
Chairman.
A bill introduced in the House by
Wolerton OF Pennsylvania at,olishcs
the Office OF United States Circuit Court
Commissioners, and repeats the laws
authorizing appointments thereto. The
Attorney-General is authorized to divide
the States and Territories into as many
Commissioner districts as he NAV deem
necessary and change the boundaries OF
such districts or create new districts
when required. The President is au-
thorized To appoint on the nomination
OF the Acknowledgement a sufficient
number OF Commissioners in the dis
tricts. 10 hold office for four years. The
Commissioners are TO have the same ju-
risdiciion now conferred on United States
Circuit Court Commissioners. and will
he authorized TO try with a Jury OF six
all ofenscs punishable with fine or i'm
prisonment and sentence the defendant
with the same effect as il the defendant
had been convicted in the United States
District Court.
Three bills are now being considered
looking to the collection of 500. 0Oo. 600
Indebtedness Of the Central and Union
Pacific Railroad Companies to the gov
eminent. Two Of them are now before
the House Committee on Pacific Rail-
WAYS. One was introduced by Geary,
another by Brown and third by Boat
ner. The Geary bill provides Tor the
foreclosure OF the governments mort
gage on the two roads and the appoint
ment OF committee on the part Of the
government 10 manage the roads. Geary
says his desire is TO make the men who
have grown rich out OF the railroads paw
From what can be learned the Brown
bill is rot likely to be agreed upon, but
after it and Geary's bill have been thor
oughly discussed new measure will be
reported embodying the features Of one
or the other. The Boatner bill also pro-
vides for judicial procedure to compel
the companies TO make restitution to the
government.
Caminetti' has introduced q Joint rec
olution authorizing the President to in.
vite all the nations Of the Western Hem
isphere to conference on the financial
question. The preamble OF the resolu-
ton recites the fact Of the community
interests existing in the Western Henri
sphere; the continued depreciation Of
silver; the default by Guatemala: that
Mexico and the governments in Central
and South America may take similar
action, and asserts that the various in
tereets OF the United States are threat
ened with loss. Then follows the resolu-
ton. BY it the President is requested
TO invite representatives OF American
Republics to meet in Washington, whose
object il shall be to "obtain relief from
tho conditions which huva c.oss,l sh,