The daily morning journal and courier., 1894-07-21
AT THE NATIONAL CAPITAL.
TARIFF TANgLE IN CONGRESS AND PROsPEGfs OF FADJ0URSMEST.

Utah and the Galaxy of states-The Work of ths Doeksry Comnission-Many pe- yartment Clerks Lose Their Jobs-rhe Patriotic Wave Throughout the Country.
 From Our Special Correspondent
 Washington. July Is.-The end Of the strike and the Imprisonment of the chiefs of the new railway union for violation of the injunction issued by Judges Woods and Grosscup restrain ing them from combining and conspir- ing to hinder interstate commerce traf- fic or the movement of the United States malls. Is the topic of conversation here. From the dozens of represent ative men have talked with In the past week from all parts of the country. with but one or two exceptions they have denounced Debism and uphold the administration, and some even go SO far as to say that such men as Debs should be hung or at least tried for treason. These men, coming as they do from all parts of the country. 1t is fair to presume that the country and people at large are ready, as they always have been, to uphold law and order as against lawlessness and bloodshed.
 On all sides I also hear the question oft repeated in the last few months, when will congress adjourn? Careful investigation fails to answer this ques- tion with any definite conclusion. Some say August 1st, others say the middle of the month, while others Insist that the first of September will see congress still in session. All of these opinions come from members themselves, which clear ly shows that they do not yet know what may develop in the tariff matter. So far, the democratic members of the conference committee have failed to agree upon iron ore, coal, lead ore, wool en goods, cotton goods and sugar. six important items; the house conferees insisting on the house provisions and the senate conferees on the senate pro- visions. This looks as if the committee would report a disagreement to both houses, but every effort will be made, even If 1t takes several days, to reach some agreement, which will result prob- ably in no more opposition by the re- publicans and the speedy passage of the bill. But any radical changes in the present bill may bring on an extended fight From what I can learn 1t is probable that the house will insist on the bill being like the house measure and the senate on the bill in nearly it's present form, which is sure to cause a delay of at least two weeks, in which case September may still see the mem- bers at work under the big dome.
 In the meantime both branches will get minor matters out of the way so as to be able to adjourn as soon as the bill is disposed of.
 Considerable talk is being made over an open letter from Henry E.. Highton to the attorney general on the subject of the policy and power of congress to enact a law funding the debt of the Gen. tral Pacific railroad, and in, which he severely scores Collts F. Huntington and his funding bill now pending in congress. '
 The Washington Post of to-day in speaking of the signing of the Utah bill for statehood by President Cleveland says: "This closes one of the most re- markable contests in the history of American politics. The territory has been an applicant for statehood and really eligible in population and wealth for many years. It has formed the only break in the string of states that stretches from the Atlantic to the Pa cific ocean. The struggle over polyga- my and the Mormon church has de- ferred it's admission until the present time.
 President Harrison in 1892 issued a proclamation giving amnesty to all Mormons convicted of polygamy, and President Cleveland yesterday complet- ed the final step, in the preliminary progress toward statehood. According to the operations of the enabling act it will devolve upon the president in Mo- vember or December of 1895 to issue a proclamation formally admitting Utah into the Union. One remarkable feat ure in the latter stages of the contest has been the unanimity with which the two great political. parties have acted in favor Of admission E - >"Neither party now knows which will gain it when state."
 While perhaps a couple of hundred Coxeyites still hang about the outskirts of the city, they are never heard from unless through an occasional arrest of some member of the gang for breach of the peace or vagrancy, and Coxeyism, like Debism, is dead.
 The passage by the senate yesterday which carried into effect the recom- mendations of the Cookery commission to reerganize the accounting, system of the treasury department embodied one of the most important changes since the war in the routine work of the gov ernment The abolishment of this sys- tenn of accounting, which was estab- lished in 17S2 by Alexander Hamilton, will save, to- the, government, it, is claimed, some s20e,00O year and will dispense with 1855 clerks in that depart ment.
 Another work of the commission is tlfe new form of money orders, which came into use the first of this month, superseding the oli money orders and the postal notes, which, are entirely abolished. In form the new orders are more like the postal notes than the old orders, having coupons which show the amount they carry, go arranged for clip ping that the orders cannot be altered without decreasing their value. What is most important, however, they in- volve a saving both to the user and to