Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1895-03-01
CAPITOL TOPICS.
Two KANSAS Regiments.

Two Kansas Regiments.
Representative Baker Of Kansas has re-
| ported to the House from the invalid pen
| sions committee bill extending the
| provisions of the act Of June q. 1890. to
the eighteenth and nineteenth regiments Of
Kansas cavalry volunteers. These organi-
| cations back in the sixties were called out
to aid In the suppression Of Indian hos
| tilities. aud they were composed largely
Of men whose homes have been devastated
| and families murdered by the Indians
during their raids on the frontier settle
| ments. The services rendered by them. the
| committee holds. were Of very eXcep-
tional character, and tho results of the
same have been widespread and beneflcent.
No dangerous precedent, 1t believes, will
| be established by the enactment of the bill
| into law. as these were the only volunteer
organizations which have been mustered
into the United States service since the
civil war.
Right of Way for Electric Power.
Representative Caminetti of California has
reported to the House a proposed amend
| ment to existing law permitting the grant
ing of rights of way on the public domain
to the extent of twenty-five feet, together
with the use of necessary ground, not ex-
ceeding forty acres, to any citizen as
ISOLATION for the purposes of generating
manufacturing or distributing Gle, trio
power.
The Veto Sustained.
I The House yesterday afternoon refused,
by vote of 1874 to 81, to pass over the
Presidents veto a pension bill which he
had returned to the House.
The SettIe-Wiilinms Contest.
The House yesterday refused. by vote
Of AS to 103. TO take up the contested cleo
ton case Of Settle against Williams
The Forti6catIons Dill.
The conferees of the two houses have
reached an agreement section nine of
the Notifications appropriation BILL relat-
ing to breech-loadihg mortars, which has
been in dispute for the past month. The
amendment is agreed to by the House con-
ferees with a Slight modification, prescrib-
| ing the requisite qualifications which 12-
inch breech-loading mortarS presented for
test shall possess, which is to the effect
that they shall be at least equal to the
best service mortar. In use," instead of
making the comparison with the steel
hoped service mortar, as proposed by the
Senate. The agreement also includes a pro-
vision for the repeal of the paragraph Of
section six of the fertilization appropria-
ton act of 1888. relative to the purchase Of
Pinch breech-loading mortars.
Seeking Confederation.
Many applications have been made to
speaker CrlSp Ior time TO call up. d11ferent
measures which have been on the calendar
and have not been given consideration.
There is an understanding that no more
time will be assigned by the committee on
rules, but the Speaker may recognize mem
bers to call up bills under suspension of the
| rules. One of the principal measures which
Is being pushed is the Phillips bill for a
commission to investigate the problems of
labor, capital and agriculture, and a petit
ton signed by a majority Of members Of
the House asking the Speaker to allow
the bill to be called up was presented to-
day.
Joint Resolution.
The President has approved the joint res
olution to fill vacancies in the board of re-
gents of the Smithsonian Institution, and
the joint resolution authorizing the Secre-
tary of the Navy to deliver unserviceable
or condemned cannon to the mayor Of Bur-
lington, VT, for use in decorating Battery
Park.
A Postal Service Deficiency.
The Secretary of the Treasury has sent
to Congress an estimate of deficiency in
appropriations for the postal service, pay
able from the postal revenues, as submitted
by the Post Office Department, amounting
to $2O.12 The principal item of the de-
ficiency Is Sl5,S39 on railroad transporta-