The Pioche weekly record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1877-1900, 1897-06-03
CONGRESSIONAL NOTES.


The President has appointed Frank
A. Vanderlip assistant secretary of the
treasury.
The tobacco men Of Kentucky and
Ohio protest against the proposed in.
crease of tax on manufactured tobacco.
The Senate has confirmed the follow.
ing nominations: William II. II.
Clayton of Arkansas to be Judge OF
the United States Circuit Court, Cen.
trail district, Indian Territory; j. II.
Merriam of Minnesota to be an assist.
ant paymaster in the Navy. The
Senate Committee on Military Affairs
has decided upon favorable report on
the nomination of General z. X. Bliss
to be Major General.
The President has sent to the Senate
the following nominations: Joseph
Gaines to be Attorney for the United
States for the District of West Vir-
ginia. Charles H. Akers to be Score.
tary of Arizona. Arthur p. Greelty
of New Hampshire, now Examiner.in.
Chief of the Patent Office 70 be Assist.
ant Commissioner of Patents. Thomas
g. Steward of Illinois, now Principal
Examiner of the Patent Office, to be
Examiner-in-chief.
The Secretary of State has sent to
the Senate protest from the German,
ambassador against the provision for a
discriminating duty ON sugar. En-
basasador Thielman says he acts under
the instructions of his Government
and states that the duty cannot be re-
conoiled with the right of the most
favored nation clause which is granted
by existing treaty stipulations to Ger
man products with respect to the
duties to be imposed upon them on
entry into the United States. He says
the damage which threatens German
exports from the provisions of the
pending bill are much heavier than
those which resulted from the tariff
law of 1896.
The Secretary of War recently asked
the Attorney-G General to give an
opinion whether the War Department
had authority to permit the construc-
ton of canal or channel from Sabine
Pass to Port Arthur. Tex. A private
company having large interests at Port
Arthur wants to connect the pass with
the lake on which Port Arthur is stu.
ated, a distance of eight miles, to give
an outlet to the Gulf of Mexico. They
represented to the Secretary that their
property would be very greatly en-.
HANGED in value if they were allowed
to construct ship canal, but opposi-
tion came from rival corporation.
Secretary Alger was in doubt as to his
right to grant the authority and re-
ferred the matter 10 McKenna, who
rendered an opinion. He holds that
the Secretary of War has authority to
grant the permit
Representative Castle of California
has offered the following resolution:
Whereas, for the duration of more
than two years the people of Cuba
have waged war against Spain to
secure national independence, and
whereas. it has heretofore been the
established policy of the United States
Government to recognize the belliger.
ent rights of all oppressed people strug-
Cling for freedom, therefore be it re-
solved, by the Senate and the House of
Representatives of the United States of
America in Congress assembled, that
a condition of public war exists be-
tween the Government of Spain and
the Government proclaimed by tho
people of Cuba and successfully held
by organized armies. and that the
United States of America shall main
tain strict neutrality between the
the contending powers, according to
each all the rights and privileges of
belligerents in the ports and territory
Of the United States.
The Holland submarine torpedo boat
has been launched at the Crescent
shipyards in Elizabethtown, N. ].
The construction of the boat has been
eagerly watched all over the country.
The boat is cylindrical in shape, is
6fty-three feet three inches long, with