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Show inon WAMHMiTo.. Thcl'arlflellallroisd. HcCallitt.ela lltasientrnc. Washington, Stay 15. The House committee on Pacific railroads rail-roads has finally decided to report favorably to the House the Pacific railroad funding hill which it had under consideration reral month. Tho bill reported will be a substitute for the Vandever bill, but this substitute sub-stitute Is really the bill reported by tlie Senate committee, amended in some respects. The votes on reporting report-ing the bill arc seven to four. One member refrained from casting his vote on tlie ground that he was not fully informed upon the subject. A minority rerort will also be presented. pre-sented. S1UST RETURN TO CHINA. As a result of corresjondence be-tween be-tween the Department of Justice and tlie Treasury It has licen decided de-cided to send back to Chln.t tho tnenty-ono Chinamen smuggled into this country from Mexico and now in custody at San Diego, California. Cali-fornia. They will bo tran'ferred to San Francisco and placed on the first steamer sailing for China. This action Is taken on the theory (hat It is cheaper and bettcr.for tlie government govern-ment to bear the expense of their return to China than to send them lack into Mexico and run thcclmnre of having to rearrest them and send them hack indefinitely. " l'CAl.LA hNTECKD. The action of the Secretary of the Xavy In the case of Commander McCaila, late commandt r of the Hi-Urprite, Hi-Urprite, was made public today. The court found him guilty on all the charge"!, and sentenced him to bo supended from rank and duty for three years, and to retain his present number on the list of commanders com-manders while so suspended. The action of tlie Department Is embodied in a general order issued by the Secretary Sec-retary this afternoon approving th? sentence. THE FA1U1EKS' ALLIANCE. The hearing ot the Farmers' Alliance Alli-ance representatives was continued by the ways and means committee this afternoon, Mr. Livingston, the national lecturer of theorganization, taking up the argument. He quoted President Lincoln's prophecy, that corporations would be enthroned; that the projwrty of the country would be concentrated, and the republic re-public Itself overthrown, as others had been. Oiie-twnllcUi of the pcopte otrnsd three-fifths of the property. If Congress refused to approve the sub-treasury plan, then let it remove the restriction, re-striction, hedging In the national banking system. The farmers would care nothing about trusts and combinations and concentration of money If theycoufd hold their crops in sub-treasuries and were not compelled, com-pelled, as at present, to sell them at stated times. It would bo a godsend to the country to pass tho sub-treasury bill for the reason (If for no other) that there would not be a bucket-shop left in tlie United States. Tlie day or speculation In crops would be done away with and the producer and consumer bo brought together. Sixteen millions woukl build all the warehouses the Alliance wanted. What good were river and harbor Improvements to the debt-ridden, oppressed farmer? In conclusion, ho said If the committee com-mittee thought a landed basis best; if they could not accept a crop basis, let them put In the bill. Do something some-thing to relieve the farmers. Don't make It a question of tarlfTor of poll-tics, poll-tics, but lit the bill stand on Its merits. THE SECRETARY OF -WAIt has amended paragraph 329 of the army regulations as follows: "The sale or use of ardent spirits or wines in canteens Is strictly prohibited, pro-hibited, but the commanding ofneer is authorized to permit light beer to be sold therein by the drink on week days, and in a room used for no other purpose, and, when practicable, in a building apart from that In which the canteen Is located, whenever he is satisfied the giving to men an opportunity of obtaining such bev. erages within the post limits has the effect of preventing them from resorting re-sorting for strong Intoxicants to placcwithout audi limits and tends to promote temperance and discipline disci-pline among tbem. The practice of what Is known as treating mat not bo permitted." That Hebrew- Bible. J nME, May 15. A syndlcato ha ln formed of wealthy French KtBSBXsxsssXSBBaxaxaxaxaxaza-exa a- Jews for tho purpose of purchasing for the Jews tho copy of the Hebrew Bible which is in tho Vatican. The offer which has been made for It la $200,000, hut it Is stated that the Pope cannot legally sell It. This is the most valuable Bible In the world. It is the most famous Bible there is In existence, and this is by no means the first time tha t the Hebrews of Europe have tried to purchase It. Something llko a century or more ago the Hebrews of Spain, Franco and Italy, then, as now, extremely prosperous, ottered for the book Its weight In gold and more, the offer being a parallel In magnitude to the present one. The offer was refused, just the same as the present offer In allprobablllty will be. The Bible is the property of the Congregation of tho Propoganda, and Is probably the most valuable featuro of tlie Polyglot library and printing office of the congregation, which have no equals, the collections collec-tions in the Vatican library being considered more valuable than even those of the British Museum, although al-though less numerous. The Bible Is In tho original Hebrew manuscript, manu-script, and tlie exact time when it was written has never been satisfactorily satis-factorily determined, any more than that it came Into the uonscsaion of the congrecation founded by Pore Gregory XV, some three hundred years ago. The persons who have seen tho valuable manuscript are very few. That tho chief treasure of tho Propaganda will be sold Is altogether al-together improbable. The Iloman authorities have steadfastly refused to recognize any amount of money as beingan equivalent for this book and the present composition of the Congregation of tha Proiiaganda la such as to preclude the idea of any chance |