Condon globe. (Condon, Gilliam Co., Or.) 189?-1919, 1894-04-20
ADvEErIsIss RATES.
NATIONAL CAPITAL NEWS.

cally completed. The amount distrib-
uted is 80 per cent greater than last year.
Each Congressman received 5000 more
bags OF seeds than in any previous year.
The appropriation for the present fiscal
year was $135. 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. 1t will not become law
I until the Utes agree to its provisions. 1t
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 mas transmitted to
Congress an adverse report on the House
bill providing for the restoration OF 1851
square miles of land in Yellowstone Ma
tional Park to the public domain. The
Secretary says the segregation Of the
land is the result OF obstructing 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 is
known.
Senator Carey is encouraged over the
prospects of the bill for cession OF 1,000,-
900 acres to each of the arid-land States
and Territories to be improved by irri-
CATION. The general expression of opin-
ion by members favors the bill. There
is little doubt that it will be favorably
reported soon by the Committee on Pub
lie Lands. Mr.. Carey believes the bill
will receive the unanimous Endorsement
of the committee. Senators Dolph and
Villas favor the bill, and say it provides
for an experiment in the right direction
and may lead to solution Of the ques-
ton of what is to be done to reclaim the
arid lands.
Mr.. Grosvenor of Ohio has introduced
in the House resolution calling for a
special investigation of Governor Till
mans action in seizing railroad property
and telegraph lines engaged in interstate
commerce and with armed force and vio-
lence establishing censorship OF the
daily and weekly press OF the country
and prohibiting the transmission Of news
dispatches to the newspapers. The res
olution directs the Committee on Inter
state and Foreign Commerce to 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 censorship OF press
dispatches had been established. The
resolution was referred to the House
. Car,1 Tnfa 70 and
Commerce, of which Wise of Virginia is
Chairman.
A bill introduced in the House by
Wolverton of Pennsylvania abolishes
the Office of United States Circuit Court
Commissioners, and repeals the laws
authorizing appointments thereto. The
Attorney General is authorized to divide
the States and Territories into as many
Commissioner districts as he may 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, to hold Office for four years. The
Commissioners are to have the same ju-
risdiction now conferred on United States
Circuit Court Commissioners, and will
be authorized to try with jury 0! six
all offenses punishable with fine or inn
prisonment and sentence the defendant
with the same effect as if the defendant
had been convicted in the United States
District Court.
Three bills are now being considered
looking to the collection of 500. 900, 600
Indebtedness OF the Central and Union
Pacific Railroad Companies to the gov
ernment. 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 for the
foreclosure of the governments mort
gage on the two roads and the appoint
ment of committee on the part of the
government to manage the roads. Geary
says his desire is to make the men who
have grown rich out of the railroads pay
the government what they honestly owe.
From what can be learned the Brown
bill is not likely to be agreed upon. hut
after it and Geary's bill have been thor
oughly discussed new measure will be
reported embodying the features of one
VI IilC ObuCEs lC 11OdbuCI Dlll dlcO pIO-
vides for judicial procedure to compel
the companies to make restitution to the
government.
Caminetti has introduced joint res
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 Hemi-
} 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
terests OF the United States are threat
ened with loss. Then follows the resolu-
i tion. BY it the President is requested
to invite representatives of American
Republics to meet in Washington, whose
object it shall be to "obtain relief from
the conditions which have caused the
demonetization OF silver" The second
part is: "The convention shall be for
the purpose OF drafting treaty or treat
- -