Waterbury evening Democrat., 1895-02-22

while that on banking and currency is not far behind. The committee on foreign affairs is happy, having succeeded in every thing of consequence 1t undertook, and Chairman NCCreary says in conclusion, When those jingoes in the senate stuck on that apFCndment for constructing q ca ble to Hawaii, they merely invited us to conference, and we shall of course be pleased To meet them in that procvcling."
 Tho cumriytcc on Pacific railways has worked har! enough tO deserve batter for tune. It Is at lcHst entitled to a compli- mCntary para graph in this brief history. At the start Representative Geary of Cali fnrnia, falnoui as thc author Of the Chi ncsc exclusion law, intrUduScd " hat might bv called legislative expression of san Francisco hostility to tho big railway com bine. His bill met with scant considora- tion; he was defeated for reelection de- spite his victory over the Chinese, and when Minister Yang Yu gave great ball in honor of tho Mongolian new year he rubbed it in by inviting every member of tho committee except MT. Gcary. Every members wife received dress pattern of a peculiar Chinese brocade silk and box of the finest tea produced in the Celestial Empire save Mrs Gcary, Mir. Gcary Is out a seat in congr'SS and all those nice things, but ho goes away happy because the railway funding bill Is knocked out.
 Fight Over Railroad Bills.
 Hon. James E. Reilly introduced in rapid succession three bills. at all of which the antirailI 0ad members kicked most vio- lently. Then Representatives Powers and Boatner tried their hands, and out of all these bills by years hard work the com mittee evolved the so called Reilly bill, :" which was most furioTsly debated in the house and put to sleep by recOmmitment without instruvtiunS. Nothing dauntod, Mir. Henderson If Illinois put in new bill and Mr. Buatner another, and then Populist Harris of Kansas closed the record with his plan, which, us almost every body knows, Is for the government to tAEc tho Pacific railways and run them as a sort of experiment. in that line, but he has added great many specifications in this bill in addition to his original plan. l find in the house growing sentiment that the roads should be put in charge of the war department, which plan Is defended on the ground that that department has had fewer scandals in tho public works line than any oSher and because the roads were | built by government aid as war measure The department Is well supplied with Cx- perienccd engineers who have managed public works economically.
 l ne COlninlItee on patents naS ConslueE- cd 52 bills and has been eager to pass six I of them. but cannot get day. Tho much disputed playwr:ghts' bill is withdrawn | by its sponsors and will be amended and pushed vigorously in the next house. The | Covert bill, to reduce the penalty for copy | ing photographs in newspapers, ought to have passed, for the existing law furnishes | Q fine opportunity for tormonting pub fishers. The bills for the relief of Messrs
 Ward and tho Bcrdans for firearms fur nished in the civil war, though of long standing and perfectly just have shared | the fate of all such measures. Tho temper | of tho house on such subjects may be judged from the fact that mass of old war claims which have been unanimously approved by all the boards having jurisdio- tion was rejected at sight and with ex- pressions of indignation that this house should be called on to pay some $750, 900 at a time like this. Tho commissioner of patents has laborcd hard for a bill provid- | ing for tho classification of cases so that 1t could be told at n glance whether n new patent was an infringement, and for many | years tho patent office has moro than paid | expenses, having now near S4, 900, 900 to Its credit, but this bill sharcs the fate of | the rest