Show Washington Aaoieell Washington nGI1n Schonck is seriously ill He is somewhat better today to-day however Washington 22 Tho Indian appropriation appro-priation bills as agreed upon by tho subcommittee appropriated 4092000 500000 lea than the estimates of the I department and 20000 less than last year Tho ways and means committee will give a hearing on February 4th on the I question of the reduction of the tariff on steel rails A story is printed here that the Senate yesterday in executive session informally inform-ally agreed to ask tho President to withdraw with-draw the nominaton of John Morton to be collector of internal revenue at San Francisco and save him from the mortification morti-fication of n rejection The story proves to be a canard as the nomination is still pending before the finance committee and Mortons friends claim that a favorable favor-able report will be made next Tuesday and he be confirmed by seventeen majority ma-jority The President has bsea asked by the California delegation to withdraw Mortons name but he declined to do EO remarking at the timo that etiquette i would not prevent him from standing by Morton |