| Show L wts ff GrON W 8 J I II I I Wednesdays ftews Grist from I t the Capital r 1 I IN BOFH IIO1JSEOF I CONGRESS i r 11111 Bill ludlaa Approprlatloiis i Tho 1exnlon Bill llallroads Other Mews Motes I L Capital Chat WASHINGTON May 23 Represcnta tive Walker Missouri from the committee com-mittee on invalid pensiono has prepared for presentation to the House a minority minor-ity report adverse to the bill extending the time during which the claims maybe may-be allowed for arrears of pensions The report states that it will requite 500 000 000 to carry out the provisions of the bill Walker says the bill if passed will not only dispose of the surplus but will aleo add several hundred millions 4 to the burdens of the nation already weighed down by taxation He says iu conclusion that the American people have been not only fair and just lo ex soldiers but have enacted pension laws with a liberality and generosity unparalleled un-paralleled in ths pension legislation of any country on the earth in b half of the taxpaying public a large majority of whom are struggling to make u living liv-ing many even struggling to keep the wolf from the door he protests against the passage of the bill MILLS fcILL DECLINED As far as the party can be regarded as bound by a feeling of the conference as distinct from the caucus the Kopub lioan representatives in the House have formally decided to decline to accept Mills proposition to dispense with the consideration of the tariff bill under the fiveminute rule The Democratic members of the ways and means committee com-mittee arc hard at work on the amendments amend-ments proponed by Democrats endeavoring endeav-oring to dispose of them before the end of tho week so that the House can enter upon the consideration of the bill tot amendment next week INDIAN ArTBOPBIATIOHS The Senate committee on appropriations appropria-tions bs completed the consideration of the Indian appropriation bill and will probably report it tomorrow It has made u net reducti Jq of 226000 making mak-ing a total reduction of 4712 003 Jn round figures Sixtylive thousand dollars is appropriated for the payment of tae Kaw or Kansas Indian scrip 425 OO lor tho Indian industrial school in Nevada to bo erected on donated land 25000 for tho support of the Indian day and industrial school and lOOlJO for the Indian aohool at brand Junction Colorado Tne Senate committee on mines and mining today decided to report favorably favor-ably with some modifications the bill subnrtting to the Court of Claims fur adjudication of the title of William Mc Qanaban to mineral interests of the Rancho Panoche Grande in California Cali-fornia A minority report willalso be made TEE rfiKSIOS BILL A dilamma confronts tho House committee com-mittee on rules in the shape of arrears in the pension bill which threatens to prove as embarrassing ns was tho direct tax bill Johnson of Indiana has introduced a resolution which is now bsfore the committee making the pension bill a special order for Friday with the pro visiori that consideration shall continue con-tinue in the House from day to day until un-til the bill is finally voted upon It reported re-ported favorably it is believed the bill would pass tae House upon a final vote TheJarge apprJpriltion required in that event would be a negative idea of the tariff reduction On the other hand should the opponents of the measure as id the casa of the direct tax bill succeed suc-ceed in defeatiug action on the bill it may be at the expense of the tariff bill as defeat will have to be acomplished by the adoption of filibustering lacticsi EULUOADS Mr Littler of the Pacific Railroad ommsjion addressed the Senate committee com-mittee today to which the commissions commis-sions report was referred In reference to his plan for adjusting the debts of tha Central Pacific the Judge said two 1 per cent on a debtof 53 000000 would amount to within 175000 of the entire present income of the road lie would first cause to be ascertained the present income and its prospect of future increase in-crease He would ascertain how much of this it required to pay two per cent and would devote the balance to the payment of the prin cipal extending it over a period of years sufficient to wipe it out Judge Littler said that he believed some of the strong men who had either legitimately or illegitimately made a vast number of millions of dollars out of the road would in order to avoid further discussion of their conduct before be-fore the American people through the press go down into their pockets and contribute something towards the payment pay-ment of the debt or at least they would contribute from the rnings of the other lines of the roads which they owned J THE DAn ASSOCIATION A convention of the deIegate from the State and local bar associations of the country having for its object the formation of a national bar association met again this morning and adopted a constitution It provides that the name shall be The National Bar Association Asso-ciation of the United States the objects ob-jects of which shall be to promote unification uni-fication so far as practicable of the laws of various States in which relate to matters which the people in the United r States hare a common interest to study find promote the improvemrnt of the judicial system of btates IIni the United Statas and to consider the necessity and practicability of tha eg tabUsbment of international code 1 > e 4 Iween tbe civilized and commercial nations na-tions The first annual meeting is to beheld be-held Cleveland Ohio on August 8tb next Col James Broadhead olSt Louis was elected president for the coming year and A S Worthing ot the District of Columbia Judge John H Doyle of Toledo 0 viceuresidents I THE PBESIDKKTlAL PBOGRAMME The President will leave Washington next Tuesday evening for New Yorl to take part n the MemorialDay exercise in New York and Brooklyn the following follow-ing day He will re view the parade in New York in the morning and in Brooklyn in the afterncon At the r close ot the exercises in the latter city he will go to Jersey City and take the first train for Washington Mrs Cleveland Cleve-land will not accompany him to New loriion this occasion tjhe will make visit however to that city later in the season The Department of State isadvised that the French government has taken possession of the islands Pnabnain Dait Boutea and Borabora in the Pa olfic The lives of several natives and French ensigns were lost at Borabora |
