| Show nshiogloU Advices Washington 14The committee of ways and means today authorized Kasson to report the Hewitt bill to amend the act repealing the set for discriminating dis-criminating duties or goads produced east of the Cape of Good Hopo The amendment provides that all such goods that shall be in public store or warehouse on the lat ot January 1883 or on ship board in portafaal be subject to no other duty than if imported from or after that day Tho ccmmitte + also continued consideration consider-ation of the tor commission report and completed the schedule of chemicals The House committee on public lands todajysgread to report favorably Wash burnes bill favoring laws allowing the preemption of public landsand amending amend-ing the homestead law also agreed to report re-port back favorably Holmnna resolution resolu-tion calling on ths secretary of the interior inte-rior forinformation concerning the patenting pat-enting of lands to railroad companies in oxcejs of the amount earned under the law granting lands Secretary Teller beard the Ohippewa remonstrance against the injustice of his opening their lands to settlers The House judiciary committee adop ted Davis bill for nine intermediate courts to relieve the Supreme Court REpublicans favored and democrats opposed op-posed it Manning will urge his bill providing for a division of the present court into three sections with the present pres-ent number of judges The naval advisory board expects to eubmit a plan for the construction of A steel vessel of war early in January Now York 141t is reported that Secretary Chandler is preparing a letter for publication on the Graham family trouble The action he has already taken in this matter has caused intense excitement excite-ment in naval circles Republicans very much fear that Democratic Dem-ocratic opposition in the House will result re-sult in defeat of Davis Supreme Court bill |
