The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1895-02-01

5.sss(i@;-.p'ffF Aenamaber that the
I'll HID u silver and the bond
men renders ii next to impossible to ne
cure the passage OF any independent finaa-
ciel or currency measure. They have,
therefore. quietly taken up this scheme of
securing legislation by adding the neces-
sary provision to one of the bills provid-
ing for the regular annual approprii-
tons.
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 1t
becomes absolutely necessary for the
Government expenditures anu Tor the
maintenance of the gold reserve, the
Democrats can provide it by agreeing to
bond amendment without weighing 1T
down with other questions, and That
majority of the Republicans Will accept
It in this shape, but will not permit 1t to
40 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
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 no present necessity Tor an
increas ed 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 few minor
changes in verbiage
"'rhe 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 a shorter time and with less expense
for the best good of all than can be ac-
complshed by 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, II. q.
Denning and j. III. Sovereign.
The Secretary of the Interior has direct
ed the issuance of patent on thirty acres
of land embraced in the town site of Enid,
Okla, and known as "McGuire's Addi-
ton to the Town of Enid" to l.. w. Nc
CURE When the town site becomes Or
ganized as municipality and proper
proof is furnished to the department,
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 a sheet metal ceiling and new
copper roof for the Pension Bureau
Building. The present appropriation is
$4,000, 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 SAT ,566, which is an increase over the
receipts for the same period of last year
of $8,01O,9I1. The receipts for the last
six months of 1894 and the increase or
decrease in the several sources of revenue
are given as follows:
Spirits, $4S, S36,33G; increase, S7,735,-
879.
Tobacco, S15, ISL, G49; increase, 81, 1884,
egg.
Fermented liquors, $1G,6OO,377; de-
crease, Sill ,1GG.
Oleomargarine, $91O,960; decrease,
$161,54S.
Miscellaneous, $342, 242; increase, $780,
$50.
OF these last receipts $261, 19S were
from tax on playing cards.
The Secret Service officials have discov-
cred new Photographic counterfeit SO
silver certificate of the series Of 1891,
check letter B, j. Fount Tillman, Regis
ter: ID. N. Morgan, Treasurer; portrait
OF Hendricks, small scalloped carmine
seal.
The patent issued TO the Montana Mil-
Ing and Reduction Company on n miner
al 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
uIent.
Ex-Banker T. T.. Burlingame, who was
brought to Springfield. Mo-, from Okla
boma to answer TO three new indictments
for grand larceny. was put in Jail, being
unable to give bonds. There are seven in
dictments against him for receiving de-
posits in the Bank of Commerce while
knowing IL to be insolvent.