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Show WASHI.Uro ETK. Tbe Turin Illll.-LntHl rarfellnre Hill, ete. Washington, May 29. The Senate Finance Committee this morning took up the TarifT bill nnd considered it by pnngnphs, suhject to subsequcntactiou. The chemical schedule was first taken up. It was decided first not to recommend free alcohol In the arts, as that question affected many other Items In the schedule. After going over thirty Items, thirteen of the most Important being passed without anion, the noonhourarrivedandtho question of furthir meetings was broached. Senator Sherman suggested dally sessions of ten hours each in order to hurry matters through. This nut with opposition from Ith tides. Carlisle and Voorhecs said that it w-sn waste of time. as. the mtttir must lie discussed In tho faenate anyhow. Voorliees thought the Iti publicans could agree ou tho bill, aud the DeruocnLs, if they thought best, could jriseut n mtnorilyre Hiscock, Jones aud Morrill, fjwke In a simitar stnin. HIcoikmMiI that a sub-commlttce bo npilnted on each side to pnre such schedules sched-ules as would be advocated by its iarty on the Ilr of the Senate.and tint each side submit its schedule to the othir as soon as prtpured. Adopted. 'o change was made as to lite question of giving on! hearlnss Ihachtiigcsmadein the chimical schedule today were all reductions. They were proposed by the reiubli cans and supported by n solid democratic demo-cratic vote and the vote of the members making the motion. Xone of tlicm w ereof any significance. INTEI-NATIONAL Sl1lEY. The bouse committee on foreign affairs decided to report favorably on the bill fora survey for a rallwtj conneitlng North and South America. Amer-ica. THE LAND CHANT TOBS MTCRE I ILL reported to the House today by Hay-sou Hay-sou ( Illinois) is made up of the Senate Sen-ate bill and of the bill original! reiorted by the Hou-a committee. Seitlon two of the original House bill, allow Ing settlers to makeititry of furfelted lands undir the provl sion of the homestead law, Is strt of the new bill. Tho ctet to settlirs of restored lands Is fixed at $1.25 an aire. CHINES.!: TOURISTS. United htatrs Consul Jamo Visoca at L-inz, Mixlco, in a letter dated April -Isl, uporls the arrival of the steamer jtty of Sytlncy at Mazitlati on the IbUi of April uith 123 Chiucsu de-tiucd fur various Gul! port of Mexico. Twint m ven were lauded at Manila 1 1 and eicht- five transshipped ou tlie Alcutiidro f-rGuaymas, From authentic information in-formation recrlied from ll.e officers of the Alexandre, Visoca says there ia no doubt but the Chiuesegoiug to Guyamas are going with thu Intention In-tention of U lug introduced into tlie United states. A tiumbir of them eiwku 1'nglisli, halng resided in Australia. SENATOi: I'LITIIB today pro(ioi-e.Isau amindment to theMiKinKy bill tlie bill introduced intro-duced hyhim fertile ap(wiutmuil of a permanent custom) commission commis-sion to iuvrstigito and ri;iort iikju all mattitsaireitiug thu tariff. Safely ApplInneesou Itnllranils. Wasiiimitov, M-ty 29. The Hallway Commissioiit re' Conviti-tion Conviti-tion todty adopteil resolutions fa-voring fa-voring uniform classification, greater great-er uuifornuty In annual retorts and railway accounting. On the inat-terof inat-terof safety ajipliances tho convention conven-tion .almost unanimously ftvorvd legi-lation mjulring that rjilnxtd. bo supplied witlt tlm latent Improved Im-proved couplt rs, brakes, i tc. Tliev Itoblieil the Western I nlon. Siou Falls S. I., May 2!). II. D. Mannix of Sioux Ialls am Harey Illooil of Alicnliiu were today to-day indicted for systematically ruli-biug ruli-biug tlie Western Union Telegraph Company. Their oxiatioi tx-tmded tx-tmded over nine jean, and the amounts stolen aruniorted toreaih $50,000. Maunix and Illuod are charged w itli liing the leaders of a gangof imploji-s, theothirs Ik Ing located at l'lerre, Milclitll, Iletl-field, Iletl-field, MUlbank and nu'i) small towns. The Western Union Com pany lias di-cliarged itsmanageriiti tenritics. The gang's mode of w cedure was to forw.anl iiicssagcs between their offices without "checks," nnd then destroy lliem, pocketing tlie tolls. More arrests are exjiected. |