The Pioche weekly record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1877-1900, 1897-02-25
CONGRESSIONAL NOTES.

ChauHcey VI. Depew has been chosel
Chairman Of the Board of Control o
the Joint Traffic Association
Congressman Mcmillan has intro
duced. by request. bill declaring rh,
Star Spangled Banner 10 be tn,
national song of the United States.
The Senate bill appropriating $3.50.
600 for the improvement Of the South
Pass Of the Mississippi river has beer
taken from tie calendar and passed.
The Senate Committee ON Military
Affairs cleaned MP It's exec Gtiye calen.
dar by ordering a favorable report t.
he made on every nomination before
it.
senator Frye's proposition 10 expend
800. OG0 for the improvement of Pearl
harboi ia the Hawaiian islands has
been favorably reported by the Com
mittee on Foreign Relations.
Secretary Herbert has awarded con.
tracts 10 the Pennsylvania Bridge Com.
pany, for improvements TO the naval
station at Port Orchard. Puget Sound,
consisting Of a construction and repair
shop, for $54 900, and store house
for Sl3,s75.
The petition of the sugar planters Of
the South and West for an appropria-
tion of sl,0IS, 600 to pay the sugar
bounty IN full on the crop which was
planted under the Mckinley law and
harvested under the Wilson law will
be granted by the House Committee Oh
appropriations,
Senator Perkins has presented the
resolutions adopted by the California
Legislature indorsing the petition of
the California Fruit Growers Asso.
citation for an increase in the tariff on
fruits. A Senate bill has been passed
authorizing the several courts of appeals
to make tables of dues and charges.
which the Supreme Court shall make
uniform as nearly as possible.
The following measures have been
passed: Senate bill to provide for the
examination and promotion of past as.
sistant surgeons in the navy-one to be
made within six months of the passage
OF the bill; House bill to amend the
copyright laws so as to punish the un.
authorized or misleading use of the
word copyright. +" House Joint reso.
luton directing the public printer to
send a copy of the Congressional Re-
cord to each newspaper correspondent
named IN the Congressional Directory.
Some of the members of the Ways
and Means Committee have considered
that art of the iron and steel schedule
relating to nails. 1t was decided that
the product is manufactured so cheap.
" Ill America that it needs little, If
any, protection. A tentative rate
about one-fourth of the rate
fixed i'll the Mckinley law was agreed
upon. Cutlery also received some at.
tention from the committee, without a
more definite conclusion being reached
than that it should be reclassified and
the duty made specific and very ma.
terlally increased above the existing
rate.
The House COMMITTEES on Coinage
and Weights and Measures has ordered
favorable reports on bills authorizing
the Secretary of the Treasury to make
experiments as to the best metal or
combination of metals for minor coin. /
age and for new designs for those coins;
and on the bill providing that no coins
shall be refused in exchange ON account
81 being clipped, mutilated, punched
of burnt, but authorizes the Secretary
u the Treasury to deduct an amount
equal to the coinage value of the metal
which has been taken out by mutila.
lion. Mutilated coins are 10 he no.
deemed in sums Of SEQ or multiplies
hereof.
But one time of appropriation de.
'lred by Californians has ESCAPED re-
'ogmtlon in the sundry civil bill.
Which was reported to Congress. De. +,
plte favorable action by the sub-com.
nlttee, the Committee on Appropria.
ions would not put into the measure
N item providing sum for the REIN.
'ursement of manufacturers of sugar
lnder the bounty provision of the
law and the leaders of the
touse expect to defeat the amendment
which will surely be offered to incor.
,orate 81 800, 600 in the bill for this
purpose While this is the principal
tenn San Francisco harbor does NOT pet
my money for the blowing up of rocks !
vhlch are so dangerous as to have
lready called for charting and survey. ,
ng preparatory to having them re.
moved. However, the Postoffice Mt :
'an Francisco Is given $1OO, 900 for
Oakland harbor improve ,
nent contracts are authorized and
loo,OoO is set aside for this work.
)ther Pacific Coast improvements
ecognized are as follows: Humboldt
iarbor, 100000; Gray's Harbor.
400, 900; Portland, Oregon. pnhlic
ullding, $500, 900: survey of the coast {
rom Humboldt bay to the Straits of
'uca aud for the Alaskan coast, s45.. !
W; Willamette and Yamhill rivers. /
loo,ooo; California Debris Commits. G
ION, $4,000; road to the soldiers, i
raveyard in the Presidio, at San Fran. +
Isco, $40, 900. Forty thousand dol.
us for lightship for San Francisco i
arbor and $500. 900 for Government 4
Shiblt at the Omaha Exposition are /
lcluded in the bill.
FOREIGN NEWS, =
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