The Red Cloud chief., 1898-01-21
CONGRESSIONAL CHAT
WEEKS DOINCSO FNATION-
AL LAWMAKERS.


Senator Allen has introduced bills
to remove the charge of desertion from
the military records of Joseph =. Troy
err, Palmer, Neb., and Robert Wood
side Of Dawson county.
Representative Stark Of Nebraska,
rose to Il question of privilege and de-
MED q publication in a local paper that
he had acted as attorney in the pen
sion case of Jackson w. Cheney.
Civil Engineer Menocal, now with
the Nicaragua canal commission, has
been ordered home to explain, IL he
can, the shortcomings of the work on
the New York dry docks, under pain
of court martial.
Stephen Z. Barton of the Cuban
league is receiving communications
from the governors throughout the
country, all indicating a satisfactory
response to the appeals of the depart
ments OF state and the league.
In the supreme court last Monlay
Justice Harlan handed down an opin-
ion involving the question Of whether
the heirs OF a man who committed sui
eide when in sound mind can recover
on an insurance policy. The court
held they could not.
The philatelists of Washington have
protested against the proposed new is
sue OF stamps commemorative of the
Omaha exposition on the ground that
the stamps will serve no useful pur-
pose and will be gathered up by spec
plntnrS vghn urtI1 bold xhar H. ~Ln a.,
ture at speculative prices.
The feature Of Mondays proceed.
iugs in the senate was the speech of
Senator Wolcott, chairman of the BIZ
metallic commission, upon the nego-
tiations of the commission with Euro
pean countries relative to information
al b~imetallism. He thinks interna-
tional bimetallism still feasible; says
Great Britain is the only great object
or and may change it's mind. He re-
signed from the commission but made
Il plea for further efforts OH behalf of
of silver.
The secretary of agriculture has sent
to congress "A report or the operations
OF the bureau OF animal industry, for
the last fiscal year, with special refer
INV y hSdO IhSpcCtloH. IL sIOWS
that the work of meat inspection was
in operation at 11S abbattoirs and
packing houses located in thirty-three
cities. 1t urges an increased appro-
priation to entirely accomplish the in
tent of the law. OF 1,sil. 3O9 speci-
mems of pork microScopically exam
ined 1895 were found infected.
Replying to n resolution of inquiry,
Secretary Wilson has sent to the SEN
ate a statement concerning the pro-
duction of sugar in this country and
his opinion of the effect Of the impor-
tation of Hawaiian sugar has on the
production of beet sugar in the United
States. lie gave the average importa-
ton of sugar to this country for the
past seven years as SOL ,575, 203 worth,
of which the Hawaiian importation
was $9,973,92 lie concludes that Ha-
wall will not seriously compete with
sugar products in the United States.
Assistant Postmaster-Genera Heath
has suggested some modification in
the Loud postal bill, which restricts
the amount of second class matter to
be admitted to the mails. Mr.. Heath
says that his own experience as a pub
Usher leads him to believe that the
bill will work less hardship upon le-
ultimate publishing firms If Mr.. Loud
will modify it by simply reducing the
number of sample copies of papers to
be admitted instead of cutting them
off altogether. The present law al
lows so per cent of a paper circulation
to be mailed as sample copies, and to
cut off this privilege altogether, Mr..
Heath says, would work a hardship
upon the large country publications.
Judge Stark of the Fourth Nebraska
district filed with the house commit
tee on public buildings and grounds an
extended brief in advocacy of his bill
to erect public buildings in the prin-
cipal county seats of his district, ten
in all. lie argues that as his district
gets no benefits from river and harbor
bills, government court houses, arsen-
ais or soldiers homes. it Is entitled to
such consideration because govern
m~cnt-Owned postofices would be a
profitable investment. He says that
In eleven cases single cities where the
population is not greater than that of
the Fourth congressional district, have
received ample consideration in the
way of public buildings. The argu-
ment was filed away in the committee
rooms.
Platinum.