Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1897-01-12
SOME QUEER BILLS.
NOVEL PROPOSITIONS OF OUR LAW
 MAKERS AT WASHINGTON.

To Improve Thontess- Resolution ooncern-
 ing saImon-To Change Street Names In
 Washington = mr. Peffer'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
 One, introduced in the house by Mir. Berry, is entitled "a bill to further higher theatrical interests. ]" It declares that "in view of the beneficial effect of the correct theatrical art upon the pub lio mind md in view of the further necessity of preserving the better meth ods of the stage" a sum not exceeding So, 900 is appropriated flor tho purpose of assisting the further usefulness of the theater RE an educator and in respect of an examination into present theatrical conditions and tho best means of ex- tending aid to tho stage But 1t still remains mystery az to what Is to be done with the e5. 900, except that the , library committee is authorized by the bill to expend it.
 4 conourrenk resolution introduced by Senator Mitchell of Oregon Is rather elo- Quens on the subject of salmon. The preamble contains no fewer than six clauses. each beginning with it's sep. arate wherens. The first declares that '4whereas the Columbia river is the only stream in the world where the Ohi @o nd Ss1 all {So tion, no othor known river producing salmon of such firm, rose rcd, oily flesh, while the last clause declares that tine fish commission s'has recog- nized tho importance of the royal Chi- nook salmon of tho Columbia as an arti- ole of food for the people of the whole country" The resolution following the long and resonant preamble is brief namely. shat the Clnoknmas. tribu- saEy of the Columbia, and the oontigu- ous government lands shall be set apart as spawning grounds for said fish.
 Mir. peffer has a joint resolution founded on the proposition that there wexe foux distinct financial policies at issue In the late election, and that ssths result does not show that majority of she voters favor any of tho said policies. <" He therefore asks to have national mon- etary commission appointed to examine she matter. with view to getting at ''a safe and sound currency g50, 900 be. Ing appropriated for this purpose. Mr. Allen has resolution for committee of nine senators to investigate tho ex- kens to which money WAS nsed in the seoens presidential election. tnquiring whether any expenditures wexc "excess- i've. illegitimate. corrupt or unlawful. !" and especially how much tho owners of silver mines and gold mines, bankers. manufacturers, railroads OF othe7 GOT. porations and "millionaires of all classes" contributed and what oontri- buttons were made by persons and COZ poTasions abroad.
 A bill to regulate the gale of milk in the District of Columbia has among ita provisions that no person shall sell, ex- change OF deliver any cream that con- sains less than IS per cent of butter fat Another bill changes the names of the alphabetical streets in Washington, so that hereafter they are to be known ns @AOAAh@R DSuC&OAby O4nys GSouRAgs GuloE- son. Franklin. Grant. Hamilton. Kane, Lincoln. Marshall. Newcomb. Ogle- thorpe. Perry, Quinoey. Randolph, Stanton. Taylor. Union, Van Buren and Webster. A third bill punishes by fine not exceeding $500 any person who soils. dispenees Tor otherwise dis. poses of" Intoxicating liquors of any kind in the capitol buildings OF on the capitol grounds.
 A proposition of Mr. TreloaH is to give the president of the United States and also the senators terms of eight years each and representatives terms oS four years. Mir. Boatner's bill gives the speaker of the house s10, ,00O a year, and each senator and representative S7.- 300 & yeas.
 Senator Cali has bill appropriasing el00, 900. ito be expended eh!s yeax'' for the exsirpation of the water hyaointh in the St. Johns and Oklawaha xivexs and their tributaries in Florida, ''so as to permit the navigation of tho rivers from being closed. " This suggests new possibilities in xiyex and hRxboS bilIs.- New York Sun.