Show THE CHIEF JUSTICE LETTERS URGING FULLERS CON the fee for postal notes to be reduced to bouc cent correspondence of the the president and mrs cleveland went to philadelphia on wednesday to attend the anniversary of the presbyterian church held at germantown mr cleveland returned to washington thursday but mrs cleveland will remain in philadelphia a few days nest tuesday night mr cleveland will go to new york to take part in the memorial day exercises in that city and brooklyn on wednesday he will review the nev york parade in the morning and the one in brooklyn in the afternoon returning to this city at night the senate has passed the house bill to establish a department of iyabor there were several unimportant amendments made which will returning the bill to the house for its concurrence the senate committee on agriculture have made a favorable report on the house bill to enlarge the duties of the department of agriculture and make it an executive department the bill as it passed the house provided for the transfer of the weather bureau i from the war department to the department part ment of agriculture this has been struck out of the bill by the senate committee the republicans of the house have backed down in a most inglorious manner by declining to accept the proposition made them by representative mills to take a vote an the substitute which the republicans proposed offering and then on the mills tariff bill without further discussion or amendment this action on the part of the republicans shows plainly were afraid the bill would pass if they allowed it to a voto without further delay the bill will when taken up again be considered under the five minute rule by sections at this stage amendments will be in order it is not likely that a final vote will be reached before july members of the senate judiciary committee have received many letters urging the confirmation of mr fuller as chief justice the majority of those letters have come from the northwest and quite a number of them were written by prominent republicans public ans afe would probably have ben confirmed this week had not senator ingalls asked for further delay it is not that he will be confirmed next week the baltimore one of the new cruisers for the will bo launched lauc ched in philadelphia july ath it is ex pecked that mrs cleveland will christen the new boat A resolution providing for an investigation vesti gation of the fur seal fisheries of alaska by the house committee on merchant marine fisheries has been passed by the house for many years there have been charges made against the alaska fur company a corporation which has a contract with the government that gives it a monopoly of catching seals on the coast of alaska up to the present time this wealthy corporation has always been able to any legislation looking toward a congressional invitation vi but now it is to bo hoped that the committee will make an exhaustive hau stive inquiry into the whole business and methods of the company mr springer of illinois has introduced trod a bill in the house placing on the free list all articles of merchandise the production of which may be control cd by trusts and corporations thursday the comer itono stono of the new catholic university in this city was laid gen rosecrans register of the treasury was the chief marshall of the procession which was an extremely large one the ceremonies were very participated in by cardinal gibbons about thirty bishops and nearly four hundred priests some excitement was created hero wednesday by a report that gen sheridan was dangerously ill he was and is still sick but not danger bously so there will not probably bo any paper fraction rj currency issued now tho senate committee has reported against the house bill providing therefore in place of it they have reported a bill reducing the fee on postal notes in sums below one dollar to one cent tho opposition of secretary fairchild killed the fractional currency bill wednesday was great rejoicing among the democrats here when tho news of the unqualified en by the pennsylvania state democratic convention of the president and the mills tariff bill was received it only shows what rapid headway revenue laform is making among the people of the country washington may |