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Show TELEGRAPHIC AJilllXGToX. Attempt to Iluru tho Navy Itulllint TUo Colored Men's lemaiiil Tho lYhiky lux The I nion I'acilic HutlroaU. Washingion, 27. An cxaminntion uf tho celiur of the n;vy department building shows that amingemouts had been made ywterdny to burn the building. TraiDS ol ropo and waste paper wore laid about tho floor connecting con-necting with piles of chips, shavings and broken up kindling wood. It is believed the liro of Monday was the work of an incendiary. Detectives Detect-ives are at work. The national committee of the civil rights league, colored, have presented an address to the senate committee on the judiciary, demandinithe senate bill in its entirety antl the admission of tutored persons to nil schools, hotels, public conveyances, etc. Beck, of the ways and means committee, com-mittee, says the poposnls to increase the whisky tax would produce government gov-ernment nothing tho first year, but would give the present whisky holders hold-ers $0,000,000. He ridiculed the idea that congress may agree to apply tho aauiuonni tax to the stoct on n&na. Strong etlbrts are making to induce the president to veto the little tariff bill because of its increased duties on mixed silk goods. A Washington special says the old lobby of the central branch of the Union Pacific railroad is again E resent and actively at work, the ill which its officers had introduced earlier in the session having been sent to the committee of the whole on a point of order. It was found necessary, in order to render action possible during the present session to introduce it anew, and to-day the bill waB presented in the judiciary committee, com-mittee, authorizing the company to cany it before tho court of claims. The amount involved is from$G,000,- 000 to $8,000,000. 1 It is said that a strong presauro is being brought to bear upon the president pres-ident to induce him to veto the iittla tariff bill. A number of New York merchants, among them ClaJliu & Co.. protest against tho bill, and urge as a reason that whilo it professes not to increase the tarifi it does bo under the guise of a new classification classifica-tion in silk goods. It id also stated that it has been remodolcd without the con-eideration con-eideration to which such an important import-ant act is entitled. At the same time the country hns been led to believe tho new act was virtually shelved in consequence of the secretary of the treasury preparing a compromise, one in accordance with the message of the president. Irwin presented a statement to the ways and means committee to-day, showing that he received 800,000 on account of the subsidy with the exception ex-ception of $50,000, which the Pacific Mail company Naid it gave, but which he denied in the absence ol vouchers. The balance unaccounted for is $85,-000. $85,-000. He was examined again in regard re-gard to $5,000 paid Don Piatt, and repeated what he heretofore stated about the matter. |