Show Columbia River Bridges Bill WASHINGTON March 13he House bill for the bridges across the Columbia river between Washington and Oregon into in-to the Senate hill passed and sent to the House was reported back from tho committee com-mittee on commerce amended by a few verbal changes and passed A conference has been asked The committee on commerce reported a bill for the repeal of the law of Congress requiring steamships to carry guys and rockets for casting lines in cases of dis tress The object of this was to do away with the extortionate practices of paten tees of these appliances under the law as it now stands The bill was placed on the calendar te The Senato proceeded with the calendar and passed bills for public buildings as follows Stockton Calif 33000 Mammoth moth hot springs in the Yellowstone National Na-tional park S10000 Virginia City Nov SaOo The Da OO Ore 8100000 The President sent the Senato the fol 1 lowing nominations Henry C Gooding Indiana chief justice of the supreme curt of Arizona Andrew Davidson of New York for deputy commissioner of pensions pen-sions vice Hiram Smith resigned Robert Waugh of Iowa agent for the Indians of the Uintah and Ouray agencies in Utah Pedro Sanchez supervisor of the census for tho district of New Mexico ic Her a tio Todd declined Joseph H Hughes receiver re-ceiver of public money at Spokane Fall Wash City Postmasters Mont Charles W Snide Miles |