Semi=weekly graphic., 1897-09-04
SOME QUEER BTLIS
NOVEL PROPOSITIONS OF OUR A,.,
 MAKERS AT WASHINGTON

To Improve Theatess-Resolution ro
 ing saimon-1o Change Street Name.
 Washington = MT. Peffer's Re.o,n.,
 Treloar and Boatner Have Want.
 The present session of congress k. produced it's share of bills and ro.o,s lions sufficiently novel in eAara.tes M < De worth noting. Y
 One, introduced in the house bv N. Berry, is entitled "a bill to f,,r.ss higher theatrical interests. J It dec,aas. that sin view of the beneficial effect ~ the correct theatrical art upon tho mt V lie mind and in view of the furtba. necessity of preserving the better metS ods of the stage' sum not exeeod;ns So, 900 's appropriated for the purposs of assisting the further usefulness of tho n.o theater as an educator and in respect ,as as an examination into present theatr;ea, conditions and the best means of e~ tending aid to the stage y But if still remains mystery as to what is to ba done with the $5,0o0, except that ths "a bill to expend if.
 A concurrent resolution introduced bv Senator Mitchell of Oregon is rather elo. quent on the subject of salmon. Tho preamble contains no fewer than six clauses, each beginning with it's sen. arate whereas. The first declares tbs, whereas the Columbia river is tbs only stream in the world where the Chl. nook salmon is found in all it's per9ec. ton, no other known river produoino salmon of such firm, rose red oilv flesh, while the last clause declare. that the fish commission has recop. nized the importance of the royal Chi. nook salmon of the Columbia as an arti- ole of food for the people of the whole country. The resolutiea following the long and resonant preamble is brief. namely, that the Clackamas, rribu. tary of the C'cies .7 50 contjeu. ous government lands shall be set apart as spawning grounds for said fish.
 Mir. Petfer has joint resolution founded on the proposition that there were four distinct financial policies at issue ill the late election, and that a.ha result does not show that majority of the voters favor any of the said policies. , He therefore asks to have national mon. etary commission appointed to examine the matter, with view to getting at "a safe and sound currency, $50, GOO be. Ing appropriated for this purpose. Mr Allen has resolution for committee of nine senators to investigate the ex. tent to which money was used in the recent presidential election, inqnixing whether any expenditures were excess. i've. illegitimate, corrupt or unlawful, , and especially how much the owners of silver mines and gold mines. bankers, manufacturers, railroads or other cor. rofations and millionaires of all t!assesn contributed and what contri. buttons were made by persons and cor porations abroad.
 A hill to regulate the sale of milk in the District of Columbia has among it's provisions that no person shall sell, ex. change or deliver any cream that con tains less than Is per cent of butter fat. Another bill changes the names of the alphabetical streets ill Washington, sd that hereafter they are to be known as Adams, Bancroft, Clay, Decatur, Elmer 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 sells, dispenses Tor otherwise dis. poses of" intoxicating liquors of any kind in tho capitol buildings or on the capitol grounds.
 A proposition of MT. Tlsloar is to give the president of the United States and also the senators termA of eight years each and representatives terms of four years. Mir. Boatner's bill gives the speaker of the house $10, GOO year, and each senator and representative $7,- 900 year.
 Senator Gall has bill appropriating S100, 000, 'to be expended this year. for the extirpation of the water hyacinth in the St. Johns and Oklavaha rivers and their tributaries ill Florida, ''so as to permit the navigation of the rivers from being closed. y This suggests new possibilities ill river and harbor bills. = New York Sun.