Show WASHINGTON J i Washington 16 Infer Oceans Washington SenatorConkling says ho will not attend tbe UtiCA convention t conven-tion unless elected as a delegate and bas no intimation tbat be will be He was eure the convention would endorse Graut although a desperate eflort will be made to prevent it and secure some representation for other candidate A western paper recently published pub-lished f a statement that Conkling peaking in the executive session re gaiding the confirmation of Morton nominated for collector of San Francisco Fran-cisco and opposing young Morton had made remarks unjust to tbe late Senator Morton Conkling today said that such statement was grossly false He never in his life uttered a word except in praise of his honored friend tbe late senator The debate on the question of putting riders on appropriation bills will be renewed tomorrow Tbe democrats hope to present a more even front and in a majority to support sup-port their position but are not Fable to do eo Randall and other congressmen who tok a conspicuous pait in honoring hon-oring Parnell are disgusted to find his American trip more a personal political nuvti than a mission ol charily If he returned he could by no means get the ball of the House to speak in Wood is not satisfied with the refunding re-funding bill agreed on by the ways and means committee and will tomorrow to-morrow moves change the interest on short tuna bonds to 3 per cent Frye will move to make tne time fort for-t e redemption of short bonds from two t j ten years at the option of tbe secretary of th treasury and Secretary Sherman approves this idea The friends ol FitzJohn Porter are very much discouraged at the prospect pros-pect of not passing the bill to restore him to the army and take no pains to conceal it The House committee on naval affairs have agreed to recommend the passage of the bill authorizing the secretary of the navy to use a United Slats manofwar to convey to Ireland Ire-land food that may be purchased for the aufiering there It is considered eminently proper that supplies of grain potatoes or other food that may be purchased with the contributions contribu-tions of citizens of the United States for the Irish should be procured in tdis country where they can be obtained ob-tained cheaper and better than anywhere any-where else in the world and when this bill is passed the transportation will cott nothing A very important subject for It gis lative action will be laid before Congress Con-gress in a few days in the form of a series of codified laws accompanied by reports and voluminous lestimooy from all parts of the western country coun-try from the commission appointed by congress at its last session composed of Prof Clarence King United States geologist Prof J W Powell Hon J A Williamson commissioner com-missioner of the general land office Hon Thos Donaldson and A T Britton to examine into the condition condi-tion of the resources of the public domain and make such recommendations recommen-dations codification of laws etc as might seem beat adapted to the needs of the country have about completed their labor Thin work involved the examination of the country from the Mississippi River to tbe Pacific coast from the British line to Mexico The amount of testimony tatcen will make an octavo volume of 600 or 700 pages The codified laws will make many sections |