The Pioche weekly record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1877-1900, 1897-07-15
CONGRESSIONAL NOTES.

Benjamin +. Mckinley, uncle of the
President, will be appointed deputy
postmaster at San Francisco by the
newly appointed postmaster, Mon
tague.
In the Senate the resolution author
izing the President to invite foreign
governments to participate in the
transmississippi exposition at Omaha
was agreed to.
The Senate Committee on Finance
has decided to restore paintings to the
dutiable list. The House imposed
duty of % per cent ad valorem on
paintings. This the Senate Finance
Committee struck out, transferring
the item to the free list.
Senator Morgan has introduced a
bill providing that the laws of this
country shall go into effect in Hawaii
on March 4th, 1898, in event Of an
nexation being contaminated. 1t is
specially provided~t they may be
put in force at an earlier day if Con-
gress SO directs.
The Senate Committee ON Finance
has fixed the duty on coal at 81 cents
per long ton. This rate applies only
to coal shipped from countries which
do not impose higher rate on Amer
loan coal. 1t therefore affects only
Canada, the Canadian rate on Amer
lean coal being the same.
Secretary of State Sherman says
that the Tariff bill will probably be
finally passed in about two weeks.
He says further that the anti trust
question is the most important before
the people, and that further legislation
is needed to prevent illegal combina-
tons to restrict competition.
The President has sent to the Senate
the following nominations: War
Colonel Henry q. Merriam, Seventh
Cavalry, to be Brigadier-G General.
.Iustice-John r. Thomas, Illinois, tc
be Judge of the United States Courts
in the Indian Territory. Treasury
Thomas J. Yandell, Kentucky, to b.
Collector of Internal Revenue for the
Second district of Kentucky; John w
Yerkes of Kentucky, to be Collector o.
Internal Revenue for the Eighth dis
trict of Kentucky.
The President has sent to the Sen
ate the following nominations: Stat,
john Russell Young, Pennsylvania
- ha r ;br-o r;op. parnord ID G,oo,,
District of Columbia, to be Superin
tendent of the Library and Grounds
Francis B. Loomis, Ohio to be Envo,
Extraordinary and Minister Plenipo
Tertiary to Venezuela. To be consul
Henry Bordewich, Minnesota, a
Christiana. Norway; J. c. Caldwell
Kansas, at San Jose, Costa RIGA
Philip G. Hanna, Iowa. at Trinidad
West Indies; Louis LANCE, Jr.. Hi
nois, at Bremen, Germany; Joseph J
Stevens, Indiana, at Plymouth, Eng
land.
Representative Crulnpacker of In
diana has introduced in the House
! resolution for a constitutional amend
mert providing that hereafter no con
tiguous territory shall be annexed t
the United States except in pursu
ance of a treaty negotiated by tn
President, concurred in by two.third
of each House, the vote of concur
renee not to be taken in the House o
Representative until two years hav
elapsed from the time of taking tn
vote in the Senate
The President has sent the following
to the Senate: Department of Jus
tice-John ]. Richards, Ohio, to b
Solicitor G eneral. Department of Wa
|, -Lieutenant- Colonel w. Fl. Powell
: Eleventh Infantry, to be Colonel
Major G. E. Bennett, Nineteenth In
! fantry, to be Lieutenant Colonel; Cap
tain J. p. Jocelyn, to be Major; Sec
ond Lieutenant +. L. Butts, Twenty
first Infantry, to be First Lieutenant
Second Lieutenant J. p. Haines, Thir,
Artillery, to be First Lieutenant.