Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1895-01-31

EMHsI bc acted upon by
"ffn9.lszsssssssS the Committee on
YS5Sn1iGiIfH9 Appropriations. a
VllIIlEnMngtlftH canvass of the SEN
ate, which has been
3ll|6 ~ tlp pXykt&sy<ma during the past
XUH{WW tbhE6F ten days or two
ss@---G3 weeks, has conyinc-
sy5- fmHTTmu1H" ed the leaders on
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mon renders il next 10 impossible to Sc
cure the passage of any independent iinaa-
cial or currency measure. They have.
therefore. quietly taken mp this scheme OF
securing legislation by adding the neces-
sary provision to one of the bills provld-
ing for the regular annual appropril-
tions.
1t is understood that the Republican
Senators would not oppose an amen1-
ment which simply granted authority Tor
an issue of bonds. They say that II IT
becomes absolutely necessary for The
Government expenditures and for the
maintenance of the gold reserve, tbe
Democrats can provide it by agreeing to
bond amendment without weighing II
down with other questions, and that a
majority of the Republicans will accept
it in this shape but will not permit 1t to
go through if coupled with either silver
legislation or the repeal of the State bank
tax.
Representative Mcmillan, Chairman of
the Ways and Means Subcommittee,
to whom the beer tax question has been
submitted, intends seeing Secretary Car
Isle to learn whether the Secretary con-
siders an increase of the Government 5
revenues necessary. Mr.. Mcmillan says
the action of the subcommittee will de-
pend largely on the Secretary's views. In
the meantime it appears TO be accepted
among the tariff leaders of the House
that there is 10 present necessity for ~.
increased beer tax or an increase on any
other internal revenue tax or customs
duty.
Favors an Arbitration Commission.
The amended bill for the settlement of
labor disputes by an arbitration commit
tee has been reported favorably from the
Committee on Labor with a few minor
changes in verbiage.
THE national and State legislative
bodies" says the report, "are not so con-
stituted as to be able to give proper time
To the examination of the industrial mat
ters presented in this bill, nor are they
made up equally of representative men,
such as is proposed by this commission,
nor are they non-partisan. This commits
sion can hear consider and recommend
in shorter time and with less expense
Tor the best good of all than can be ac-
complshed by a Legislative body or in any
other way. Congress is the proper body
TO authorize the appointment of such a
commission, as it is composed of members
coming from all parts Of every State"
Appended to the report were letters of
approval received by the committee from
Samuel Gompers. John w. Hayes, III. &.
Denning and J. ii. Sovereign.
The Secretary of the Interior has direct
ed the issuance Of patent on thirty acr rs
of land embraced in the town site of Enid,
Okla, and known as "McGuire's Addi-
tion to the Town of Enid" to l.. w. Me-
Guire. When the town site becomes or
ganized rs municipality and proper
proof is furnished to the department, a
patent will be issued TO the town for the
remaining ten acres, to be maintained
for public purposes.
The Interior Department has called for
bids to be opened February Is for fur
nishing sheet metal ceiling and new
copper roof for the Pension Bureau
Building. The present appropriation is
S2S,OO0. but Congress has been asked for
an additional appropriation.
Increase i'm Internal Revenue.
A statement prepared at the Internal
Revenue Bureau shows the aggregate re-
ceipts from all sources during the six
months ending December 81, 1894, were
$S1, ,S47 $50 which is an increase over the
receipts for the same period of last year
of $S,910.971. The receipts for the last
six months of 1894 and the increase or
decrease in the several sources of revelne
are given us follows:
Spirits, $4S, ,S36,336; increase, S7.T35,-
$40.
Tobacco, $15, 157 GAO; increase, 81, ,193,-
06G.
Fermented liquors, $1G,GOO,377; de-
crease, SIT, 1856.
Oleomargarine. S91O,969; decrease,
$751; ,54S.
Miscellaneous, S342, ,2I2; increase, $780,
$50.
Of these last receipts $261, T9S were
from tax on playing cards.
The Secret Service officials have discov-
cred new Photographic counterfeit $40
silver. certificate of the series Of 1891,
check letter Il. j. Fount Tillman, Regis
ter; ID. n. Morgan. Treasurer; portrait
of Hendricks, small scalloped carminc
seal.
The patent issued TO the Montana Mill
ing and Reduction Company on n miner
nj entry for lands in the Helena. Mont.
land district, involving the Ida, Emma.
Cleveland, Dandy, Bismarck, Star, Sara
toga, and Handy Lode claims, has been
cancelled by the Interior Department. 1t
Is charged that the lands embraced were
non-mineral and that the entry was fraud
ulent.
ExBanker II. T.. Burlingame, who was
brought to Springfield. No., from Okla
bona TO answer to three new indictments
Tor grand larceny. was put in Jail, being
unable to give bonds. There are seven in