The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1897-02-12
GOES KEATON'S WAY
SENATE JUDICIARY COMMITTEE TO
REPORT FAVoRABLY.

| Since December ID Thus Far Assured
House Committee on Elections Routs
Tom Watson Completely - Ways and
Means Committee Restores the McKin-
ley Lead Tarif-Sundry Civil Bill Com.
pleted- Committee Work.
| Washington, Feb. 1.-THE senate jul.
dietary committee today agreed unani-
mously to report favorably the nomina-
ton of J. X. Keaton, to be associate JUS
tice OF Oklahoma. Keaton's nomination
the charge that he was not adapted 10
perform the duties of the office. The Am.
idon, y. D.. case went over.
WATSON-BLACk REPORT.
Washington, Feb. 1.-THE committee
on elections today unanimously author
lied a report in the Watson-Black con-
| tested election case, in favor of the sit
ting member In the report, drawn by
! Representative Bartlett of Georgia. the
committee finds that the charge Of con-
spiracy in any county is unfounded and
that the registration lists were not tam
pered with that all officers connected
1 Will tAe tlSci'Ou
| their duties and put only honest voters
on the list. No bribery OF voters could
be found and the only proof was the CIV
| ing of ten cents 10 each of tWenty-four
negroes to pay for car fare after they
mad voted. No proof of intimidation of
violence in Richmond county or other
places could be established. The COM
mittee finds that there Were not more
than twenty-five or thirty cases OF re-
peating but do not state for whom these
| votes We're cast.
TARIFF BILLS PROGRESS.
Washington, Feb. 1.-THE most i'm
| portant decision agreed upon today by
| the Republican members of the ways
! and means committee who are working
on the tariff bill. was to. restore the Nc
| Kinley duty on lead ores. The Mckinley
rate is L 1-3 cents a pound, while the
| present duty is q cent. II was decided
also TO change the law upon assaying Of
imported lead ores and instead of having
them assayed at the port of entry to ed
NIT them under bond and TO have them
assayed at the assaying Office nearer
their destination. Copper, brass, gold
and silver were also restored 70 the rate
of the Mckinley law, which are So per
cent ad valorem on copper, az cents
pound on brass and so cents ad valorem
on gold and silver. The committee also
disposed of a number of items among the
manufactures OF iron and steel by giving
them specific rates equivalent 20 the
present ad valorem duties on them.
This list included nails, spikes, tacbs.
needles, horseshoes, nuts and washers,
braids, rivets. engraved steel plates.
saws, screws and umbrella ribs.
SUNDRY CIVIL BILL
Washington, Feb. 11.-The house CON-
m'ttee on approprl 1:ions 'o'as finished
the sundry civil appropriation bill 70:
the next fiscal year. The bill carries
total of S50,566,743. This is sS.14i .0S6 leg
than the estimates and SlS644,l90 more
than the appropriations for the current
year; ST, ,053 of the appropriation is
for carrying out river and harbor con-
tracts and Si,072,195 for public buildings.
The principal items for carrying Oh
work on public buildings are: Allegheny,
Pa, $4,000; Boise. Idaho, s100. 00G; Buff
falo. n. Y, $500 900; Cheyenne, Wyo..
s100. 000:Denver. Colo, (minD $500, 900; He
lena, Mont, 100000; Kansas City, Mo-,
$266, 900; Milwaukee, Wis, 100000; New
York City, appraisers warehouse, $780,
600, Newport, KY. $4,000; South Ona-
ha, Neb., $4,000; Portland, Ore. $2OO, 900;
Pueblo, Colo, s155,O0O; St. Paul, Mimi.
S125,000; San Francisco, 100000, and Sa-
vannah, Ga, $4,000.
The limit OF cost of the Omaha, Neb.,
building iS increased 100000. and $685.
900 is appropriated for finishing it.
The largest sums for habor work con-
tracted for by the secretary of war in
ciude: Philadelphia harbor, for the re-
nS ay-I
island shoals 1900; Galveston $500, 900;
the Hudson River $4,000 improvement
of channel connecting the great lakes
between Chicago. Duluth and Buffalo,
81 100000 Humboldt Bay, Cal, $500, 900: |
Savannah, Ga, 100000; Cumberland
Sound, Georgia and Florida, 500, 600; !
Roston, 100000: Buffalo, s550.OO0; Dun
kirk. n. Y, sS9S. 900; Delaware Bay. Del, |
$4,000; Winyaw Bay, s. c.. $500, 900: Sa- |
bine Pass, Texas. s400, 600; Cleveland !
$780, Milwaukee, s16S, 900; Duluth and |
Superior $500, 900; Grays Harbor, Wash. /
Si00,0)0
The appropriations including Allegheny /
river, Pa, locks and dams at Herr Is |
land, above Six Miles island. and Spring !
dale. 100000; Upper Monongahela, six |
locks and dams $500 900; Yazoo and !
Vicksburg harbor $500, 600; Bayou Plaque |
mine. La, 100000; Cumberland, above |
Nashville, three locks. S4C0, 600; Falls of |
the Ohio al Louisville. $500 900; Ohio riv-
er for dam No al mouth OF Beaver
river 100000; waterways from Kenee-
nav Bay 10 Lake Superior. $500 900; Mis-
sisssi.,pi from the mouth of the Ohio to
St Paul. S6IS, 1888, not more than 500. 600 |
OF me sCm to be used 10 prevent the Mis-
sl5sippi breaking into the Cache river,
near Beach Ridge. near Cairo. H.: from
mouth Of the Missouri river 10 ST. Paul.
sSet 666. including $4,000 for sand bar
a, Dubuque and $4,000 for sand bar at
Mississippi from the head OF
the passes to mouth of the Ohio s., $50
S35; Missouri river from mouth 10 Sioux
City $500 900. including $4,000 for re-
pairing works al Nebraska City. VIII
lamette and Yamhin rivers, Oregon, $3.50,
D00. For the Chickanauga and Chatta-
nooga National parks $4,000 is appro-
prgated; for Shiloh. $4,000; for Gettys-
burg $4,000. and Yellowstone s35, 900.
Forty thousand dollars for light ship
for San Francisco harbor. s2Go, coo for the
OF two revenue cutters now
building On the great lakes, and S200, 600
FOR 4 government exhibit al the Omaha
are included in the bill.
SUGAR BOUNTY LEFT OUT.
Washington. Feb. 1.-THE members OF
he house appropriations committee had
4 warm debate today over the PROPOSE
ion 10 put in the sundry civil bill the
;laims of the sugar growers for more
han million more Of bounty money.
rne sur committee which framed the
ill was IN favor OF the appropriation.
1u, the full committee, by vote OF
. 4, refused 10 put il in the bill Chair
nan Cannon of the committee made a