Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1897-01-07
SOME QU EER BILLS.
NOVEL PROPOSITIONS OF OUR LAW
 MAKERS AT WASHINGTON

To Improve Theaters- Resolution Concern
 ing saImon-To Change Street Names In
 Washington Mr. Pener's Resolution.
 Treloar and Boatner Have Wants.
 The present session of congress has produced it's share of bills and resolu- tions sufficiently novel in character to be worth noting.
 0ne introduced in the house by MT. Berry, is entitled "a bill to further higher theatrical interests " 1t declares that "in view of the beneficial effect of the correct theatrical art upon tho pub lie mind and in view of the further necessity of preserving the better meth ods of the stage" q sum not exceeding | $5, GOO is appropriated flor the purpose of assisting the further usefulness of the 1 theater as all educator and i'll respect of an examination into present theatrical conditions and the best means of OK 1 tending aid to the stage But it still remains q mystery IS to what is to be done with tho 8, GOO, except that the l bill to expend it.
 A concurrent resolution introduced by Senator Mitchell of Oregon is rather elo- quent on the subject of salmon. Tho preamble contains no fewer than six clauses, each beginning with it's sep. arate whereas. The first declares that "whereas the Columbia river is the only stream ill the world where the Chi nook salmon is found ill all it's perfee. tion, no other known river producing salmon of such firm, rose red. oily flesh, while the last clause declares that the fish commission has reeog- nized the importance of tho royal Chi nook salmon of the Columbia as an afti- cle of food fer the people of the whole country. The resolution following the long and resonant preamble is brief namely, that the Glaekamas tribu- tary of the Columbia, aud the eontigu- ous government lauds shall be set apart as spawning ground iag said fish.
 MT. Petfer has ieint resolution founded on the rrnptlaition that there were four distinct finaneiil policies at issue in the lato election, and tIiat 'the result does not show that a ma5oflty of tlieyotsrs favor my of the said policies. 1 Flo therefore aaha te haven national mon- etary commission appointed to examine the matter, with q view to getting at "a safe and sound currency, $50, GOO be- ing appropriated for this purpose. Mir. Allen has resolution for | committee of nine senators to investigate the ex- tent to which money was used i'll the recent presidential election, inquirine whether any expenditures were "excess i've, illegitimate, corrupt or unlawful, and especially how much the owners o silver mines and gold mines, bankers manufacturers, railroads or other cor porations and "millionaires of al classes contributed and what oontri buttons were made by persons and cor l porations abroad
 A bill to regulate the sale of milk il the District of Columbia has among it provisions that no person shall sell, OK change or deliver any cream that con tains less than IS per cent of butter fat Another bill changes tie names of tn alphabetical streets in Washington, g that hereafter they are to be known a ? Adams, Bancroft, Clay, Decatur, Elmer son, Franklin, Grant, Hamilton, Kane Lincoln, Marshall, Neweomb, Ogle thorpe, Perry, Quineey, Randolph Stanton, Taylor, Union, Van Burel and Webster A third bill .punishes b a fine not exceeding $500. any persol who sells, dispenses aor otherwise. dis poses of" intoxicating liquors of ssan l kind in the capitol buildings. or on' tn a capitol grounds.
 , A proposition of Mir Treloar is t
 give the president of the United State and also the senators terms of eigh years each and representatiy9s term of four years. MT Boatner's bill give ) tho speaker of the house $10, ,000za year and each senator and representative $7, l 300 year.
 Senator Gall has bill appropriatin $100, 900, "to be expended this year, for the extirpationof the water hyacint in the St. Johns and Oklawaha riyei and their tributaries in Florida, "so a to permit the navigation of the river 3 from being closed. :" This suggests fsey l possibilities in river and harbor billsa-- A New York Sun. '