Santa Fe daily New Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1885-1897, 1894-03-10
NATIONAL NEWS.
Senate Tariff Bill-Civil Service lr-
regularities-ReasO for BlOunt's
InstructiOns-A Land Of
flee Order.

Washington, March 10.-Sec. Herbert
has made response to the Boutelle reso.
luton, adopted by the house, calling on
him to state his authority for issuing in
structions placing the armed naval forces
of the United States and the use of its
ensign, under the orders and control OF
Special Commissioner Blount, at Homo
lulu, March IL, 1893. The substance of
his answer is that the action was neces-
sary to prevent conflict of authority
and that the secretary's authority for is
suing the order was his faith in the COM
mander-in- chief of the United States army
and navy. A number of precedents for
this action are cited.
ALL ACTION SUSPENDED.
The commissioner of the general land
| office has directed that all action on ap-
| plications for permits to cut timber on
! public lands in Alaska be temporarily
! suspended. This action is taken on the
Lamoreax, of the general land Office.
TOUR OF INSPECTION.
Chief Examiner Webber, of the civil
service commission, is en- route to Kan
sas where he will commence the work of
instructing the local service boards in the
western states, and later will investigate
the charges of civil service Irregularities
in San Francisco and other cities. The
principal cities included in his tour of
official inspection are Kansas City, Salina
and Colby, Kas., Denver, Trinidad, Las
Vegas, Albuquerque, Ell Paso, Tucson,
San Francisco, Reno, Nevada, Portland
and Roseburg, Oregon, Seattle, Spokane
and Wallawalla, WASH, Helena and Miles
City, Mont, Bismarck and Fargo, N. D.,
st. Paul and Duluth, Mlnn., and Stevens
Point, Wis. The tour commences at Kan
sas City, beginning next week, and ends
at Stevens Point on May %.
SENATE TARIFF BILL.
When the senate committee on finance
met to-day for the purpose of considering
the tariff bill, as presented by the Demo-
cratic majority, only seven of the eleven
| members of the committee were present.
The committee examined the details of
| the bill and discussed Its salient features.
They are hamped in this work, however,
by the absence of figures showing the eff
feet the bill will have in the production
of revenue and as compared with the
present law and the Wilson bill. They de-
cided therefore to order a printed state
ment and adjourned until Monday morn
ing when the statement will be ready for
inspection by the committee.
This statement has been prepared un-
der the auspices of the committee and
| it shows that the senate bills will pro-
! duce, from tariff and internal revenue re-
sources, $3S3,OOO,OO0, if the importations
proveto be of the same quantity and value
as those of the last fiscal year. This
amount added to the receipts from the
postofice department and from miscella-
neous sources, amounting to $1O5,O00,O 900,
will bring the government revenue up to
$493, 100000. Under the senate bill the
customs receipts are estimated to amount
to $165,O00,O0O as compared with $124,
100000 shown by the Wilson bill and
$fs3 100000 under the Mckinley law.
The receipts from the internal
revenue portion of the bill will amount to
1929 100000 as compared to $160,OOO,OOO
receipts of last year from this source.
This increase is found largely in three
items of income, the income tax being
estimated at S3OO0O,0O0, spirits at $780,
100000 and cigars at $9,000,000. The
proceedings of the committee we're en-
tirely amicable and no portion on which
the committee was expected to divide
was discovered. It now looks as if it
will be a comparatively easy matter to
arrive at an understanding as to the time
which the bill should remain in com.
mittee.
SUPERIOR WAR IMPLEMENTS.
The ordnance department is meeting
with gratifying success in procuring
large armor piercing shells Of American
producers that rival the best of the
foreign mills. The dock piercing shells
for the new 12-inch mortars, weighing
about 1000 pounds each, have been sent
to the proving ground by the Sterling
Steel Co. of Plttsburg, and about 100
Carpenters armor piercers for the 12-inch
rifles will probably be ready for test
March Is.
NOW IN THE PATENT oFE1CE.
The largest numbers of applications
for patents received in any week so far
this week is recorded at the Office for the
week ending Tuesday. The number was
500, which makes total of 6,529 ap-
plications awaiting the action of the
examining corps.
NATIONAL NOTES.
Advices from Mexico say Congressman
Wilson is still very weak and much ema-
ciated.
The president has nominated John @.
O'Donnell to be postmaster at Pittsburg,
Pa.
It is now understood that Associate
Justice White will be sworn in on Non
day at the opening of the U. s. supreme
court.
The president has appointed Walter L..
Wilson, son of Chairman Wilson, of the
ways and means committee; Lewis Green
Stevenson, son of Vice-President Steven
son, assistant paymasters in Che navy.
Benefits OF Artesian Wells.
Huron, s. D., March 10.-The South
Dakota Artesian association yesterday
discussed the use of artesian we'll power
for steering power in electric accumula-
tors to be used for driving plows, reapers,
mowers, hay rakes and other farm imple-
ments.