Show TELEGRAPHIC NEWS THE CAPITAL The SarpIUM Mon y New Bills Washington 20The join reEolution offered in the house by Skicner to provide pro-vide for an equitable distribution of the surplus money in the United States treasury sets forth in the preamble that the amount of revenue now being col leoted greatly exceeds the needs of the country and declares it expedient to repeal re-peal all internal taxes except those on liquors and directs that all surplus in the treasury after the redemption of bonds be divided among the states to be applied by them to the payment of state debts or for school purposes and that 100000000 from the surplus in the treasury be so divided among the states according to population on the lit of July next General Bingham introduced a bill in the House to raadjueter the salaries of postmasters under the 2c postage law It proposes that salaries of postmasters of the first class be graduated from 3000 to 6000 as the receipts of their offices vary from 40000 to 100000 second class range 2000 to 2900 as the receipts re-ceipts vary from 10000 to 40000 third class salaries 1000 to 1900 as the receipts re-ceipts vary from 2009 to 10000 fourth class to be fixed upon a basis of box rents and cancelled stamp and stamps soldDeuster Deuster introduced a bill to amend the Revised tatu tes regarding naturalisation It provides that children of persons who enlist or may enlist in the service of the United States either in the regular or volunteer forces and have been or may be hereafter honorably discharged there from or who died while in said armies of the United States though they may have been born abroad shall if dwelling in the United States be considered citizens citi-zens thereof Washington Republicans of the House will it is understood hold a caucus cau-cus tonight for the purpose of considering consider-ing the situation and determining the course to be pursued for the remainder of the session Republican members of the Senate took advantage of the late hour at which that body decided to convene today and held a caueua lasting from 1030 till 12 oclock A pretty general discussion of the situation was had and universally frank expressions of opinion indulged ia Some of the speakers advised the abandonment aban-donment of the tarIff bill on the ground that its further diecussion was utter folly and waste A favorable report was submitted to tho House from the committee on election elec-tion upon the bill to pay the expense in the contested cases of the Forty seventh Congress and 7000 was added to the bill as originally reported The bill to pay Frost Missouri 10000 and see singhaus 16000 will not be reported bui it is i understood additional reimbursement reimburse-ment will be asked in the deficiency bill in their cases It is not decided who shall succeed Phelps in command of Mare Island but it is more than likely that Shufelt will |