Pullman herald. [volume] (Pullman, W.T. [Wash.]) 1888-1989, 1894-05-25
WASHINGTON CITY NEWS.

Representative English of California
has been appointed to the Committees
on Railways and Canals and on Expend
itures of the Treasury Department.
1t is announced that the Japanese
government has issued regulations pro-
hibiting its subjects going to any country
where they are not wanted.
The Comptroller OF the Currency has
declared a second dividend of 10 per
cent in favor OF the First National Bank
of Del Norte, Col, and dividend of 20
per cent for the Livingston National
Bank of Livingston, Mont.
The President has approved the bill to
protect game in Yellowstone Park; also
the bill authorizing the reconstruction
of the bridge across the Niobrara river
near Niobrara, Neb.
The Secretary OF the Interior has
abated the tax, amounting to $26, 102, on
spirits owned by the Portland (Or.) Dis
tilling and Cattle Feeding Company,
which are shown to have been destroyed
by fire April :, 1892.
Senator Mcpherson has introduced in
the Senate a bill for the relief of Rear
Admiral Stanton and the officers and
enlisted men of the wrecked Kearsarge.
1t provides remuneration for their per-
sonal losses in the wreck.
Coombs has introduced bill in the
House for a Currency Committee to be
composed of fifteen persons, not more
than seven to be bankers and not less
than two from each of the five geograph-
ical divisions of the country. The COM
mittee is to investigate the currency
question and report to Congress next
December.
Mccain of Illinois, Chairman of the
House Committee on Labor, has framed
a terse joint resolution proposing to APP
point a committee Of Senators and three
members of the House to inquire into
the cause of the present industrial de-
preston and idleness and to report
within thirty days. The resolution is to
make the inquiry on broad lines, so that
the effects of the tariff uncertainty, sill
yer legislation, etc, may all be consid
cred without reference to the politics in
volved.
There is lively contest going on in
the Senate over the selection OF a Sen
ator to fill the vacancy on the Finance
Committee caused by the death of Sen
ator Vance of North CarolinaS The in
teresting feature of this contest to Cali
fornians is the fact that Senator White
is being considered for this position, and
that his prospects for succeeding Vance
are very bright. There is a possibility
that the Californian may not be named,
because he is serving his first year in the
Senate and an honor of this kind is not
usually given new Senator.
Representative Terry OF Arkansas has
prepared bill to reform the practice of
the Federal Courts in appointing receiv-
ers for railroads. The bill will attempt
to put limit to railroad receiverships.
Judge Caldwell in appointing receiver
for railroad attached the condition that
the receiver should pay debts due from
the railroad for work, materials, supplies
of every kind, including damages to per-
sons or property prior to execution of
the mortgage under which the receiver
was appointed. Terry's bill will seek to
incorporate this ruling into permanent
statute.
Representative Hermann has finally
succeeded in procuring in the Indian APP
preparation bill, just reported to Con-
gress, recognition OF the Siletz Indian
agreement, which provides for opening
175,0 900 acres of excess land to settle
ment. The original agreement has been
modified as follows: AT the time OF
homestead entry so cents per acre shall
be paid, and 81 at the end of three or
five years, if final proof shall be made.
Interest on deferred payments and on
the 500, 900 on deposit to bear per cent
instead Of per cent; S10,0 900 OF the S42,-
900 to be paid the Indians who shall
now be of age, SIS each, and thereafter
a like sum as each of the others shall
become of age or shall have married.
The parents who are supporting infants
shall be paid annually all interest money
on the pro-rata share of each infant,
and in case OF aged or infrm persons all
interest money due shall likewise be paid
them. OF the proceeds OF the lands
$32 900 shall be paid the Indians on like
terms as the $4,000 mentioned. These
changes shall be Immediately ratified,
and after sixty days notice following
the ratification all the excess lands shall
be opened to settlement"
Marion c. Butler, President OF the
Farmers Alliance and Industrial Union,
made an argument before the House
Committee on Postofices the other dav
in support OF the postal telegraph sta
tions. The Alliance favored the postal
telegraph scheme because it would cor
rect an evil of monopoly. Mcclure of
California also spoke in continuation Of
his argument on the subject, which he
began last week. He declared the tele-
graph business is a monopoly; that an
at tempt to meet it by private competi-
ton would result in no benefit to the
people; consequently the government
ought to assume charge of the business.
He believed for s25 100000 the present
Western Union plant could he duplicated
and the people would not have to pay
the interest on 500, 600, 900 Capitalization