| Show WASHINGTON NEWS St tutor Enrt rrexnti Ills Amenil mrnts to the Chinese Enumeration Enum-eration HIll CAMERONS SERVICE PENSION i BILL INTRODUCED I On the Montana Election Cave Morgan Mor-gan and Other Address the Senate SENATOR VANCE DEALS OUT Ii SOME ° POETRY California 1ionrehs In Sew Mexico Discouraging Reports From JIUsIssIppl Valley By Teltmrn to the Ncsa5 WASllXGOX AFFAII MedsIla CoUtSfarltltlUCar ferrlee IVnulon Illlt Etc WABiiurcrnur April 15It was understood yesterday thst lie tarifl bill was to to reported to the Home at coon today but It appears that maier of importance remain to L sell and the rrport was thereby delayed The sugar men are hen In for nnd were beard this morn log by the republIcan members lu secret Htion Thealrlsfllled with rumors of changes In the sugar schedules One of these stories Is that the republicans have at last decided de-cided to place sugar on the free list I and provide a bounty to sustain the industry in this country The subject ol carpet wool again 3pcn to further adjustment Chairman Chair-man McKluley rays the bill will not L reported today MCALLA OOCllTJIAKTlAL The Judge AdvocateGeneral of the Navy today submitted a preliminary liminary report to Secretary Tiny rpr in the McCalla C recominenIiin that Commander McCnlLi of Hie corvette Enterprise be trieI by a courtmartial on charges bared lathe la-the facts developed during the recent investigation by a court of Inquiry The swretary approved the recommendation recom-mendation and ordered I court to be presided over by Admiral Harmony Har-mony the court to meet at New York Tuesday next 2Cb decWon I was promulgated lu regard to the other officers of thin shIp but It Is thought probable that Lieutenant Ingcrsoll may b tried LAND DECISION The Secretary of the Interior has rendered a decision In tho case of the Wllhamette Valleyand Cascade Mountain Wagon Itoad Compnny Oregon vs Juteih A Morton On JulyS IbSU Cotignsa made a grant to this coraany twelve miles in width and extending across the State Soon thereafter the Commis stoner of the General Land Office sent cads local Uud oGles a notice tint the lands witliin thehlt were withdrawn from settlement and entry The iictlcoaddtes ed to the Lu otc lu L iidcdUuIctwas never received neither was tbe fact of its nonnveir known at the General Land lIlIes until June 10 1SSS Iii the meantime a large number num-ber of settlers among tem Morton orn settled upon the laRd On March 21SS9 Congress patMnl a law directing that suit be brought to folfeit this and certain other The wagon road grants wlgn tOul company held that the jurisdiction of the Interior In-terior Department was ousted by thi act anil sire that the land was actually ally withdrawn from tetttemrnt and entry by the act of Commlvion cr of tbe General Laud Ours In signing and mailing the notices of withdrawal Thu Secretary holds to the contrary however on both points and directs that no intent b issued to the company pending the suit under the net of March i 1SSO This decMon t In favor of Morton and practically del a large number district num-ber of similar cases in the fca Grande AU3LT liE CJIIXKSi Senator Kvarts today presented the amendments he Icndment proposed to oUr to the Chinese enumeration bill Ifeproposee to make the t proposes rertlfi cates fuflicieut evidence fo a law ful right to remain in the United Static Instead of the solo evidence and to except all chlUren of Chinese Chin-ese parents born in tho United States from tlio provisions of the bill Another cmendmect strikes out the third Mttlonwhlrh provides for the nrret and deportation or Imprisonment Im-prisonment for five years of China men found after September 1st 1690 without proper certificates hI I the section U 1 lot stricken out Evans will move to make the term of imprisonment six month Section Sec-tion seven requires that Chinamen leaving the United States shall cur render their certificates cancellation cancella-tion To this Evarts proposes Ibo addition that any Chinese person Prn other than a laborer who linn entered en-tered or may hereafter lawfully en ter the United States and who departed de-parted or hereafter depart will be entitled to reinter upon evidence satisfactory to the collector customs cus-toms that he or she h heretofore been In i the United States and Is I not Chtncte laborer and the eel lettor of customs hal louse a certificate cer-tificate to such person on reentry which shall have the same force as the census ccrllflcate M31VICE PENSION JLL Senator Cameron today introduced intro-duced a service petition bill approved ap-proved by the Pennsylvania lp Pension Association I provides that all persons who served in the late war shall receive a service pen 101 offS a month mid In addition a per diem petition of ole cent for every days service The widow of these perrons will be entitled to < I2 month per P A PROTEST signed by sixteen republican representative repre-sentative has been presented to the committee on ways and means amt lie cugarand wool schedule a published Thee representatives urge upon the committee that I reduction re-duction S3 per cent on sugar and an increaseln the duty on low grade or carpet wools from 23 to 3 cot a pound 1 a great 1 change a should be made Tbe manufacturers manufactur-ers of ingrain carpets say the change the duty a fixed in the schedule will increase the price of products from fifty to ninetynine cents and practically wipe out the business of J boot enforcing idleness upon 30000 workmen The signers r8 protect it is understood under-stood are from all sections of the country and while nothing the kind Is contained In the document an understanding exlsti among them that in Its present rnspe they will not vote for the bill in committee of the whole Another republican member Coleman La rays that unless further advised by his Ube U-be will not TOt for any reduction o the sugar tarifl The republican members of the ways and means committee were in scstlon this afternoon considering the sugar and wool schedule A bounty proposition A applied to sugar was presented definitely by the sugar manufacturer They will accepts ir la place of the present duty I they can b assured that it will be continued fifteen years YCr I Tbe Republican members of the Ways and Means Committee have been In cjaultation all the evening on the larif bill whIch will be reported ported tomorrow There will be no change In carpet wools but the sugar schedule It is believed h been revised DEMOCRATIC TENSION KETOltT Representative Martin on behalf of tliu minority of the committee on Invalid Pension submitted a report port on the Morrill Service Pension bill criticizing the age qualification I of the bill as being neither I responsive respon-sive to the public demand nor In complUnce with the nquett of the veterans The minority urges that theage qualification be eliminated da 1 itor = add the limit of service made not to exceed sixty day JCIUSOICriON OF COCItTS The bill passed by the HOI today to-day to define and regulate the jurisdiction diction of the courts of the United Stale withdraw all original Jur dictIon now vested In the Circuit Courts of the United States and vests the same exclusively In the District Courts of the United Slates and also uT trnl t provides that the Circuit Courts shall exercise such jurisdiction by writ of error and appeal as they have exercised under the exIsting laws The Circuit Court Is made an Appellant Ap-pellant Court exclusively except that it ha power to issue all remedial reme-dial processes The Circuit Cum hail consist of tbu present Circuit Judges and two others to b appointed ap-pointed in each circuit by the rn I lent by and wit the advice and consent of the Senate The Circuit Courts shall b courts of record |
