Birmingham age-herald., 1895-02-23
WASHINGTON GOSSIP. A Majority Report of the Senate
 Appropriations Committee ADVOCATES THE BOUNTY
On Sugar to a Certain Date. The New Bonds Being
 Printed.

WASHINGTON, Feb. 22 Senator Black burn today, by direction of the majority of the committee on appropriations, offered an amendment to the sundry civil appro- priation bill, which provides for the pay ment of the sugar bounty claimed to be due by the domestic sugar growers.
 Itprovides that there shall be paid by the secretary Of the treasury to those pro- ducers and manufacturers of sugar in the United States from maple sap, beets, sor- ghum or sugar cane grown in the United States who compiled with the provisions of the bounty law as contained in schedule E of the tariff act of 1S91 bounty of 2 cents pound on all sugars testing not less than 90 degrees by the polariscope and A cent per pound on all sugars testing less than 90 and not less than 80 degrees manufactured and produced by them pre- vious to August 2S, 1891, and upon paid, and tor this purpose the sum of s23s. .2S0 is appropriated; that there shall be paid to those producers who com piled with the Mckinley bounty law by filing application for license and the 5ood required prior to July l, 1894, and who would have been entitled to receive a license bounty of 8-10 of cent g pound on the sugars actually manufactured and produced in the United states testing not less than 80 degrses during the period of the fiscai yesr6nding June 30, 1895. comprised in the period commencing Angust 28, 1894 and ending June 30, 1895, and for tnis purpose s5 ,000, ,0oo is appro- priatecf. .fss. Ssa, ,. .-
 The usual precautions are taken to pro- tect the government, and the bounty is to be paid only upon proof satisfactory to the commissioner. After providing for the de- tails in connection with the payment of the bounty, the amendment concludes with a provision that any person not entitled to the bounty who shall, with intent to de- fraud apply for or receive the same shall yiction be fnedsnot exceeding S5000 or inn prisonment not exceeding five years, or both.
 PRINTING THE BONDS.
 The bureau of engraving and printing finished yesterday the plates for the new bonds and at oncs began the printing of hem. force worked all last night, and today, although public holiday, anew force is at work printing the new bonds. Duly about fifteen people can be employed cn this work at one time. The force will work night and day until the task is com Lle,ed. g
 Bo0DANoFF LAID TO REST.
 As result of cable communication with his relatives in Moscow the remains of MT. Russian legation, were today quietly in- tered in Rock Creek cemetery in this city. MT. Bogdanoff, suffering intensely from neuralgia, shot himself in his bed cham Der on Wednesday morning last, leaving g note saying that "to a long time dead souF' he found the body "too heavy a task ." and therefore destroyed himself. What mystery, if any, lay behind this tragic taking off is probably buried with him. The note which he left for relatives has been forwarded to them unopened. A priest of the Greek church came on from New York and conducted at the home of the deceased the simple ceremonies, which were all tbat could possibly be done in the way of religious ceremony. Prince Cau- tacuzene, the Russian minister, all mem- bers of the Russian legation and many other diplomats attended the service, but only few personal friends followed the remains to the grave.