The Roanoke times. [volume] (Roanoke, Va.) 1890-1895, 1894-02-11

WASHINGTON, Feb. lO.-After the dis
charge of some routine business Mr.
Loud (Rep., CALI asked unanimous con.
sent that the special order setting aside
this afternoon for eulogies on the late
Senator Sanford, Of California, be
vacated and that Monday next at 8
o'clock be given to that purpose. The
order was made.
Mr.. Cultivate (Dem., Ohio) briefly
announced the death of Representative
Houk and submitted resolutions ex-
pressing the grief of the House at the
loss which Congress had sustained.
Tho resolutions were agreed to- and the
Speaker appointed tho following COM
mittee: Hare, of Ohio; Springer, of IL.
linois; McKaic, OF Maryland; Hulick, OF
Ohio; Bryan, of Nebraska; Kitchie, of
Ohio, and Ellis, OF Oregon
The lIouk funeral party left Wash
inRton this afternoon at 3:15 by the way
of the Pennsylvania railroad. The Vice
President, at Sherman's instance, ap
pointed the following committee on the
part of the Senate Bricc, Sherman,
Dubois, Hunton and Martin.
Work Upon the Public Buildings VIII he
Pressed.
At the close OF business to day the
stated Treasury balance stood at
S.34, 253, O07, of which Sl02, 1885, $3.50 was
in gold coin. All except about IS, OOO,-
600 Lad been paid on the bond issue,
including the premium. The total re
celpts for the month aggregate 50, O0O,-
600 and expenditures l1.0O0,UOo, OF
which S5,350,000 were on account OF
pensions. This makes for the fiscal
year to day an expenditure OF S4S, 0OO,.
600 in excess OF recaipts.
In addition to paying tho sugar
bounty, which up to the present time
has been deferred, the Treasury Depart
ment will now proceed very rapidly
with the erection of public buildings
which also have been delayed because
of the scarcity OF money.
Within tho next few weeks adver-
| tisements will be inserted for proposals
for some six or eight public buildings,
the plans and specifications for which
| have been ready for some time. BY
the time spring fairly sets in work on
| public buildings throughout the cou ntry
| will be progressing at o more rapid
rate than for the past year or two.
According to the last report of the
supervising architect seventy buildings
were uncompleted, which, added to
those about to be beg in the spring,
will make q total of seventy-six Govern
ment buildings on which work will be
pressed.
Tho Trouble Over Cuban Cigar-nIakers.
Attorney General Olney. at the re-
quest of Secretary Carlisle, has directed
the United States district attorney for
Florida to represent the United States
IN H.
tuted at Key West, Fla to prevent the
deportation OF the Cuban cigar. NAL ers
Information has reached here that tho
people OF Key West will appeal to the
courts to prevent the warrants for de-
portation issued by Secretary Carlisle
on Tuesday last and which reached Key
West to-day in the mail. Superint tend
ent Stump, of the emigration bureau of
the Treasury Department, expresses
the opinion that the courts have no
jurisdiction in such cases. This has
boon the finding in several courts where
the same point was raised.
Delay In Testing the Big Guns.
The big 13-inch guns made at the
Washington navy yard, tho largest gun
| ever manufactured for an American war
vessel will not be tested on Monday
next, as was expected, at the Indian
heau proving ground. one OF the guns
was mounted ON truck and placed on
a track but the rails were not strong
enough to bear tho weight and special
steel track will be constructed at the
yard and at the proving ground to move
| it on and off the vessel that will carry
it to the latter place. The time neces-
! sary to construct the tracks will cause
the delay and it is likely that the test
will not take place until about March l..
Whereabouts of the Cruisers.
Cable dispatches received at the Navy
Department report the arrival Of the
Lancaster at Hong Kong, en- route to
New York, and that the Chicago sailed
from Genoa for Naples yesterday.
| Navy Department Hears from the Kear-
sarge.
At the Navy Department it is stated
that the mail steamer City OF Para
reached Roncador Reef at q o'clock
this morning from Colon, and that the
rescue OF Admiral Stanton and the
officers and crew of the Kearsarge was
| accomplished early last evening
IT ia haliaved that thu Para u,ll no