Santa Fe daily New Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1885-1897, 1896-04-17
The WASHINGTON BUDGET
An American Bishop Arrested in
Havana. as Cuban Sym
pathizer.
NO RECIPROCITY BILL THIS SESSION
Nicaragua Canal Commissions Report
Considered - Engineer Endicott's
Expert Opinion-Chapman
Has Appealed.

washington, april lI.--Ihe state ue
partment has received a brief cable mes
sage from Consul General Williams a
Havana, announcing the arrest of a Pro
testant bishop, Alberto Jesus Diaz, {
naturaliztd American citizen Of Cubar
eympathies. His friends insist that hil
work in Cuba has been confined td
proselytiog for the church. The consu
general will insist on civil trial shoulo
the matter go to the length of a trial.
NO RECIPROCITY THIS SESSION.
No action toward the revival Of the
reciprocity scheme will be taken by this
house, according to the deciaion taken to-
day by the Republican members of the
ways and means committee, who held a
caucus ana agreed to report to the house
the testimony on reci orocitY matters
taken by the committee during the last
few weeks, but not recommending any
legislation.
CHAPMAN HAS APPEALED.
The district court of appeals to-day al
lowed the writ of error to the United
States supreme court asked for by the
counsel for Elverton R. Chapman, the
New York stock broker, convicted for
having refused to answer questions pro-
pounded by the senate sugar trust investi-
cation committee. The case will prob
ably be heard by the supreme court next
term.
GREER COUNTY ORGANIZED.
The Lacey bill for the reorganization
of Greer county, claimed by both OKLA
homa and Texas, which was the subject
of recent decision of the supreme
court, WAS favorably acted upon by the
house judiciary committee to-day. The
bill organizes the county as Greer county,
O. T., with Mapgum as the county seat.
UN oMpAHaRE RESERVATION.
To avoid a struggle for precedence the
senate, ON motion Of Mr.. Cannon, Repub-
lican, Of Utah, took mp the resolution di-
rectlng the secretary of the interior to
open the Unoom pahgre reservation with
out fur her delay. the understanding be.
ing that the bond Investigating resolu-
tion should come up at O'Clock as un'
finished business.
NICARAGUA CANAL REPORT.
The N,caragua canal commission,
which visited the isthmus last summer,
presented some features of the canal
question before the house committee on
iuteratate and foreign commerce to-day.
Engineer Endicott produced statements
by Warner Miller and Engineer Meneral
showing that the Investigations by the
commission had been of a cursory nature.
Except in few details the plan OF Engi-
neer Meneral seemed to Endicott feas-
ible. Eadicott was asked if he thought
the canal would be danger TO the United
States In case of war. He replied that,
in case OF war with nation like Great
Britain, the government would be Obliged
to abandon the canal but might solve the
problem by blowing up the looks. He
did not believe that the canal could be
built for $75,Ooo,0oO.
Percy siray Racing Law Sustained.
New York, April 1.-THE Judges OF
the appellate division to-day handed
down decisions in the three cases brought
to test the Percy Gray racing law. This
order of Justice InQraham, upholding the
constitutionality of the law, was affirmed.