The Pioche weekly record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1877-1900, 1897-03-04
CONGRESSIONAL NOTES.


ment 20 the sundry civil bill providing
for cutting a channel through Mare
Island straits to permit the heaviest
warships to pass.
The bill has been passed ON recon
mendatiOn of the Committee on Pa
tents making uniform the jurisdiction
of the circuit courts Of the United
States in case Of the infringement Of
letters patent
The Senate at Washington has con-
firmed the following reappointments:
Carol ID. Wright, 20 be Commissioner
Of Labor; Martin A. Knapp Of New
York, TO be an Interstate Commerce
Commissioner.
Senator George OF Mississippi who
has been quite ill, has recovered suffi-
GENTLY TO be taken from Washington to
his Mississippi home, where it is hoped
the climatic and other influences will
hasten his convalescence.
The Senate Committee ON Finance
has agreed TO report a substitute for
the House bill authorizing the sale of
domestic prepared smoking opium
seized by the Internal Revenue author
tiles The substitute provides for the
destruction instead Of the sale Of this
article.
In the Senate House bill TO prevent
forest fires ON the public domain has
been passed and resolution requesting
the President to transmit copies of cor
respondence with the German Empire
in reference to American insurance
companies has been introduced.
The postal receipts for the San
Francisco Office for January last
amounted to $7l, ZIG, while those for
the same period last year aggregated
$71,245. This shows falling off in
receipts for the last month of $129, or
lilo per cent.
The House has refused to pass a bill
granting pension at the rate of $50 a
month to Nancy Allabach, widow of
Peter H. Allabach, who was in the
later years of his life Captain of the
Capitol police, which President Cleve-
land had vetoed. The vote stood 115
to 7s-the necessary two-thirds not
voting in the affirmative TO pass the
bill over the Veto
Scranton has introduced in the House
bill providing for delegate from
Alaska in Congress. The measure is
the same as that presented in the Fifty.
third Congress. with changes of dates
to ut the new times. The election
would take place under this bill on
September 20, 1897. Provision is
made that the mileage shall be the
same as that of the member from the
State Of Washington.
Among other Pacific Coast items are
$4,000 for the renovation of the steamer
Steinberg, $50, 900 for the Santa Mon
lea Soldiers Home, $4,000 for the
prosecution of suits to protect the Gov
eminent interests in the Pacific railroad
litigation. and numerous small amounts
for refunding fines. For completing
the revenue steamer Hugh Mccullough
for the Pacific Coast $l2 900 is appro.
priated and for her armament 1922, 700.
The following bills have passed the
House; Appropriating $4,000 to
close the crevasse at Pass Aloutre, Mis-
sissippi river; to supply the National
Guards Of the various States with
modern Springfield rifles; lending
tents to the city of Buffalo, N. Y,
for the use of the Grand Army En-
campment next summer; extending the
time for the completion of certain
railroads in Minnesota and furnishing
a naval vessel to carry supplies to the
famine stricken people of India.
The Senate Committee on Commerce
has agreed to report fayorably num-
Der of amendments to the sundry civil
appropriation bill providing for i'm.
provements of rivers and harbors, in
Guiding the following; Quay S amend
ment providing for $1.O46,3lO as the
limit of the cost of Oakland harbor inn
proyements, of which $3.50, 577 may be
contracted for expenditure during the
current year. The same committee
also reported favorably Perkins sun.
dry civil bill amendment for $3lS, 92O
for dredging channel over Mare
Island bar. The other items are $4,000
for tidal register at Fort Point, $4,000
for Alaska coast pilot charts and $685.
900 for new coast survey steamer.
While the Public Lands Committee
will not recommend the passage of
the bill providing for the purchase by
the Government of the four tollroads
now leading into Yosemite valley, a
bill will be favorably reported to the
House making provision for the ex.
animation and appraisement of the
roads by board of three Army officeys.
This is the measure last presented by
those who advocate the purchase of
the roads, robbed of all features which
might be construed into contract of
purchase as well. AS worded the
measure will have the support of the
California members, many of whom
were not favorable to the plan first
suggested. Efforts are still being
made by the California members tC
have brought up the bill to reimburse
holders Of lands within the limits OF
Yosemite Park. The only obstacle i:
the Speaker, who, when he desires,
may be an insurmountable obstacle.
The Dominion Parliament building:
in Ottawa, Canada, narrowly escaped
destruction by the fire which started il
the afternoon and burned until after
midnight few days ago. The loss i.
i'll the neighborhood of a quarter of 8