The Yale expositor., 1899-12-22
CONGRESSIONAL NOTES.

speaker On blC lobh
nounced the chairmen of the various
committees. The Michigan congress-
man were mostly all given good places
on the committees as is shown by the
following list:
Corliss-Election of president, etc,
chairman; interstate and foreign com
merce, patents.
III. C. Smith-Railways and canals,
pensions, accounts, enrolled bills.
Gardner - Education, militia, alco-
holc liquor traffic.
Hamilton Elections No. /, territor-
les. entilation and acoustics, enrolled
bills.
w. A. Smith-Foreign affairs, Pacific
railroads, expenditures in state depart
ment, chairman.
S. w. Smith-Invalid pensions, Dis
trict of Columbia.
Weelxs-Elections No. 3, pensions.
Fordney-Merchant marine and fish
cries. expenditures in treasury depart
ment
Bishop-Rivers and harbors, private
land claims.
Crump-Railways and canals, mines
and NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS.
Mesclx-Elections No 3-chairman,
war claims.
Shelden-Indian affairs, mines and
mining, pensions.
The senate in executive session on
the 18th removed the injunction of Sc
crecy from the commercial treaties ne
gotiated between the United States and
other countries last summer, and which
with the exception of the treaty with
the Argentine republic have already
been published. This treaty provides
for the reduction of 20 per cent on ar
ticles of Argentine origin, which may
| be imported into the United States as
! follows:
On sugar, the reduction to be on the
rates fixed by article 200 of the tariff
act of 1897. Such sugars are also to be
exempt from the requirements of ar
ticle of that act, provided they are
! shown to have not paid any internal
tax nor received any bounty. On hides,
on the rates prescribed by article 437
of the tariff of 1897. but the concession
is not to he construed as impairing
the regulations TO prevent the intro
duction of infectious diseases. On
wool, on the rates prescribed by ar
tcles 357, 35S and $50 of the act of 1897.
In return Argentine agrees to the
following tariff reductions upon arti-
cles from the United States: Fifty per
cent on canned salmon, cannon lob
sters. canned shrimpS, canned corn,
succotash. tomatoes canned apples and
other fruits excepting peaches pears
ounces. apricots and cherrics), wind
mills. dried or evaporated fruits and
paraffinc wax: 20 per cent on bacon
oatmeal, cracked wheat, hominy, corn
grits, corn starch (maizena), and other
cereal foods. sail Irvine and cotton rope
Is per cent on white pine, spruce pine
Oregon pine, yellow pine, oak and ash
lumber, undressed, o. per cent on cot
tonseed oil.
1t is provided that no lower duties
shall be granted by either country OF
articles in question than those granted
by the United States to Argentine anC
by Argentine to the United States. Rati
fications are to be exchanged sever
months from date.
The following list of consuls wer'
confirmed by the senate on the 18th
Adelbert S. Hay, of New Hampshire
at Pretoria; j. c. Long, of Florida, a
Cairo: s. Berliner, of New York, Ten
eriife. C. l.; r. NJ. Bartleman, of Massa
chusetts, at Malaga; ii. W. Bush, o
New York. at Niagara Falls, Canada
J Harmony, of New York at Corunna
I Spain; +. ID. Hill, of Minnesota, at Am
: sterdam; J II. Carroll, of Maryland, a
S Cadiz. H. c. Morris, of Michigan, a
! Windsor, Ont; Jay White, of Michigan
4 at Hanover, Germany; j. II. johnson
\ of Texas, at Coatlcook, Canada; l.. II
s Washington, of Texas, at Valencia
. Spain.
I In the senate on the 18th. Mr.. Hoa
Y Mass offered joint resolution pre-
i vlding for the submission TO the stat
!. legislatures of a constitutional amend
/ mend providing that the term of III
v President of the United States and tn
Il seth congress shall not expire until I'll
Y last Wednesday in April, 1901, and thu
o thereafter the terms of the Presider
and congress shall expire on the La
t Wednesday in April, instead of c
l. March I.
J. The following appointments WEI
&c confirmed by the senate on the lat
IT To be United States ministers-Wm
IS Lord. of Oregon, to the Argentine K
lr public: Herbert w Bowen, of Ne
v York, to Persia; Arthur s. Hardy,
re New Jersey. TO Greece, Roumania az
A. Servia; Lawrence Townsend. of Pen
re sylvania, to Belgium; Bellamy Store
of Ohio, to Spain; John NJ. Irwin,
n, Iowa, to Portugal.
at Secretary Gage has called the ate
lg ton of congress to the lack of faciliti
n in our new insular possessions and d
of Tendencies for the safelSeeping of lar
j. sums of money required for current
penses of the army and navy He re
yh ommends that authority be given hi
h TO designate one or more banks
of bankers in each of these islands as {
r. positors of public moneys.
OF Senator Chiffon on the 18th init
he duced "A bill prohibiting the sending
articles. the making of which is &C
on trolled by trust, from one state TO a
us other. Such offenses are made punis
sh able by imprisonment not to exec
tbrae wears Senator Gear reintrOduc