The Bessemer indicator., 1894-01-20
WASHINGTON NOTES
What consrsss Ia Doing E-Departmsatai
aad Social Gossip.

nc House judiciary Is salu TO De
unit in opposition to the issue o
bonds.
The nomination of Judge Horn
blower was rejected by the Senate OIL
the 18th.
Mr.. Teller says that the lead ant
wool clauses of the Wilson tariff bill
will be hard on Colorado.
The nomination of J. Scott Harri
-on, brother of the president, fol
surveyor at Kansas City, has been re
jected by the Senate.
\ number of Republican senator,
are disposed to help secure the nomi
nation of Judge Hornblower as Justic,
of the Supreme Court.
The nomination of Mr.. Preston a.
director of the mint was confirmed by
the Senate last week. He got abou
three 6fths of the votes.
The House committee on publ,
lands has reported against the bill tc
suspend for 1894 the mining laws re
quiring assessment work ou quart,
miuing claims.
The Populists in the House did
nothing to aid the Democrats in get,
ting the tariff bill before the House.
Messrs. Pence and Bell say the bill is
Objectionable in that it lowers the
duty on Mexican lead ore
At meeting of the Committee on
Coinage Weights and Measures on the
10th, it was decided to temporarily
shelve Mr. Bland's free coinage bill
and take up for consideration the bill
to coin the seigniorage, No final ac
tion was reached,
The well-known free trader and sin
gle tax congressman, Tom johnson, oi
Ohio, delivered a rattling speech in
the House a few days ago in favor OF
absolute free trade. He scored his
fellow Democrats for supporting half
way measure,
The Democrats in the House were
able to do nothing last week as they
could not secure quorum This was
due to the antipathy of the Repub-
licans and the apathy Of several Dem
ocrats to whom some parts of the tariff
bill are obnoxious
Representative Holman has pre-
pared a resolution which he will sub
nit to the House, declaring it to be
the policy Of the United States to con
clude treaty with Hawaii by which
this country will exercise protecto-
rate over the islands.
While the House is engrossed in
discussing the tariff bill the Senate
spends most of its time talking about
Hawaiian affairs. Senator Turpie of
Indiana, a Democrat, spoke Thursday
in opposition to Mr.. Cleveland's policy
of restoring the queen to the throne.
Senator Sherman, in an interview,
says that neither the Senate nor the
House would pass bill authorizing an
issue of bonds, and Senator Carlisle
would find it necessary to sell bonds
under the act of 1873. Carlisle states
that unless Congress acts he shall sell
bonds under his present authority.
The consolidated report of the con
dition of national banks in New Mex
leo shows the following favorable con
ditions: Loans and discounts, s1,jlS, q
SCI "a; total resources, 50, 975, 27o. 90:
total deposits, 81 $50, POS. 30; average
reserve held, 27.9O per cent. This is
a decided improvement over the last
report given out by the comptroller in
October last
The ways and means committee OF
the House met its first rebuff Wednes.
day on the tariff bill. Chair man Will
son offered an amendment to allow the
wool schedule to go into effect next
fall, bul - ralical free trade Demo
Gratis and Republicans rejected the
amendment and the wool schedule will
become effective with the rest of the
bill in June next
Representative Holman says j will
not present my Hawaiian resolution
pending a talk with Mr.. McCreary,
for the members Of the Foreign Affairs
committee are acting very fairly in
trying to solve the problem. One
thing is certain, that the question of
restoring Lilliuokalani to the throne
is for all time abandoned, not only in
executive, but in congressional circles.
1t will never be heard of again"
The decision of the Dem ocratic mem
bcrs of the committee to report the
income tax and other internal revenue
features Of the committees revenue
plan as separate measure removes one
Of the main dangers of the bill, as the
to the income tax feature
was formidable, especially in the East,
and some of it was of such character
that had the proposition been placed
in the bill it would have arrayed many
Democratic members against the whole
measure. The fact that the PROPOSE
tion is not included in the bill will, it
is thought, strengthen the attempt to
remove the sugar bounty and substi-
tutc in its stead duty of one cent on
sugar. Should this be done it would
raise $50, 600, COO of revenue and save
SO, 900, 900 of sugar bounty and re-
move the necessity for and probably
sill the income tax proposition, which
= ia now tl,a n,rpnse of tho cnmrn IL n,.