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Show TlfOM WASHINGTON. Bids for S'ctr XaTal Vessels Opened at the Xary Depart men!. APPROPRIATIONS AND CONFIRMATIONS CON-FIRMATIONS YCSTERDAY. Important Transactions Among the Various Railroad-: The I'acifle Fnniliu? IEeporU A DENVER EMBEZZLER ARRAIGNED AR-RAIGNED AND PLEADS. An Ex-Cuntict 31nrUroulj Attacks His lHro and Little l)an;U- tcr. By Talrxrirh to the Xaws.1 -J-AMIJ.MJTOt JOTTIUGS. Dlda J.r JViM VrIa.-The L'Blled Stalea nnd larla Kxp4Mlllon. W'asuikotok, JutielU. Bids for over $5,000,000 worth of new naval vw;I were opened at Uie JCavy DciarUneotat noou. Tile ves-sls lid fur were for three t y p. There naa cousiderablu excitement about the contest lictween the rival hi-builders. hi-builders. The larRcst of the threw vrnels in fact the largtst veol evertlfsic;netl for the United Stales navy, is known officially as armored cruimr Xo. 2, and SltKllon trwl. She liclongs to the clata of strin cruLfre and is very clme to n battle ship In that he is proviJed with a moderately hiivy armor llt, l-tiideo l-tiideo a protective deck. The armor is to be about four inches thick and the curved protective beltslx iuclioi thick. She will be armed with tlx S-inch and twelve 4-inch breech loadlnf ritle, develop I GO I indicated indi-cated horre power and a rjved uf 31 knots. The dimenIons art.-: Icn?Ui, 3S0 fret; extreue breadlli, tit feet 21 inciien; depth of hold, -II feet S Inches. The other largo vereel, derlgnated "crulfer No. 6," to have a displacement displace-ment of 5,500 tons has no armor, but is provided with a protcitive deik 4J inches thick. Her mala batteries w ill consiet of two S Inih and ten J-Incli breecli-loader rifles. She is to make twenty knots an hour, itlth 13,500 faoRm power. DimenIon: Lcngtli, 330 fet.1; extreme ex-treme breadth, 53 feet; Uejlli 33 feet. THE THIRD VESSEL is a practice cnii'er of S00 ton'; a miniature manK)f-war for training cadets at the naval ncadamy. It Is generally expected tliat the builder who is awarded the contract fur this vessel will lo-e money. There is ju-t as much material to go in her as In some of the larger cruisers. TIio apuropriaUon limits fur the tlirec vcl arc: Armored cruiwr, 53,501,0'JO: protected cruiser, $1,800,. 000; practice ehip, $200,000. The bids for armored cruioer No. 2 were first considered, as followi, for the vessel according to the plans nnd -pecllications preared by the Xavy department. Union Iron Works, San Frincis-co, Frincis-co, $3,003,000. William Crump &. Son-1, Phila-.deli.I.ia. Phila-.deli.I.ia. S-1.150.iKW. lii-don Iron and rKOnioOxe Works, San Krancisco, S-t,-IW,(KK). The Union Iron Wnrks and Cruni & Sons also submitted bids fur the vessel aceordliig hiUieirown plai.s and Sj.-cificat!ois. The former's for-mer's bid was $3,OM,I0, and the latter' S2.0S5.00D. The bidsfur protective prui-er Xo. G ere next received. Tiure were but two, each from the Union Iron Works of S in Frauci-co. They proposed pro-posed to construct the vessel accorJ-ing accorJ-ing to the Department's plan and specifications fur $1,793,001); according accord-ing to their own plans and notifications notifica-tions for $1,760,030. Two bids only were received fur the practice vessel, as follows: T. W. Wheeler, West lUy City, Midi., Sitt.OOO; Samuel I.. Moore & Co., KIizalietliport,?f. J., $250,000. Tlue were both in accordance with the Department's plans. '1 here w ill lie no au ards for several sever-al weeks. SECKETAKY BLAISC hxlay transmitted to Congre the official n port of General Kmuklin, United htalcs Comnil-sioner (Jeu-eral (Jeu-eral lo the I'arls Kxpoitiou. General Gen-eral Fraiikliiisnysthe United States Mction receiveil hijli praise from the President of the French lleinililic, nnd the lninNtirs who vhiiled the Ixicsltion ofiicially, nnd from tlie Juror. The general appn-ci.iticm of it Is shown by the large litof ptizes, a large proportion of whirh wen-high wen-high ones. The French authorities have lin very gemrous and the greater number of decorations presented pre-sented United States citizens than any outer nauon is an evidence, not only of the kindly felling toward to-ward the United r-talcs, but of the high appreciatioii of the French government of the exhibit of the United States. AI'l'KOI'BIATIONS. The Secrc-Ltry of the Tn-aury today to-day sent Congress a supplemental estimate, to lie in'erlcd In the legislative, legis-lative, cxecutiteaud judicial appropriations appro-priations bill, asking au npprupri.1-tiouof npprupri.1-tiouof $50,000 for sixty-nine additional addi-tional clerks, eopyists, messengers ill tile general laud 'irfiee, and Si0,-HOXi Si0,-HOXi for rent of additional room for the lnd cfliec co.si injiATloxs. Frank J. Partridge, Vermont, Kianiincr of Claims Mate Uoinrt-nient; Uoinrt-nient; Ilobert S. U miner, Wot Virginia, I udUu Insju-ttor; W. H Iljitrs Surveyor-General or Oregon; Charles P. Hapguod, Itegislirof tbu Land Ofllce, Marsille, Cal.; ThomasSmith, Postnmsttr, i"aluu.. HOUSE SILVER EIM- The Senate finance committee will take up the Jlouro silver bill tomorniw morning, and the expectation ex-pectation is that it will lie reported to the Senate in the afternoon. SCRVEYS IN JIOXTAN.V. The S,aker to-day laid before the IIous- a cunununic-ation from the Seirtair.v oftbe Interior, submitting an estimate for an Increa-e of $30-IK)0 $30-IK)0 in the appropriation for the survey nf public lauds fur the fiecal year IS91, to be applied to the expenses ex-penses of survejs of public hind In Montana. oriiiSED itv srnixaEit. This afternoon a private bill was pending before the House for the relief of Hy land C. Kirk and others, n hicli had been vigorously opposed by Sprlngcrof Illinois. The llepre-scntati llepre-scntati ve hail occasion to pass out of the hall and at the doorway was confronted by Kirk, who demanded to be informed why he opposed the bill. Springer replied that be opposed op-posed the bill because he believed it to bean improper measure. Kirk retorted In an insinuating manner that he knew the real reason cf the opijosltlon. lie refuted to say what it was. Springer became indignant and told Kirk that it he insinuated auy improper motives ho would have him brought before the bar of tlie House for contempt. Kirk subsided sub-sided and Springer returned to the House and bellied to defeat the bill. A TENSION MATTER. Tne protracted negotiations between be-tween tlie Senate and House respecting re-specting thediQerences arising from thecontllctlng amendment to the Morrill Tension bill were brought to a successful conclusion to-day. The Senate recedes from insistence ujwa the dependent pension feature and the House agrees to drop the service pension provision, leaving the bill a disability pension bill. it tn.no ti iirini.!t;s. The orthrrn Paeine. The Taellle t'nndlnrr Hrport, Iltr. IS'ew York, June 10. The Timet says: A conference of railroad men held in this city a few days ago resulted re-sulted in an agreement by which the Northern Pacific obtains control con-trol of tbo Seattle. Lake Shore & Kastern, an Incompleted road pro jected from Seattle toSiiokatie Falls, Wash., by assuming the obligation of its bonds. One hundred miles are already built. The contract was signed by H.O.Aimour, General Gen-eral Thomas AL. Logan and Uiiward D. Chester, representing the Seattle road. This deal practically chats out the Great .Northern from connection con-nection atTUzet Sound; It Is authoritatively au-thoritatively stated that Viilard has secured most of the land lurderlng on Lake Washington ami the lino will run around tbo lake. TH E B. & O. TRANSFEIS, Baltimore, June 10. The deal for a transfer of the $8,500,000 worth of llallimore & Ohio stuck owned by the city to a syndicate was completed com-pleted today, the mpers signed and half a million paid. Tne remaining $3,000,000 w ill lie paid before July 1st. Acme roxmxa iietout. Wasiiimotox, Juno 10. In thu majority report of the House committee com-mittee on Pacific llailroads mi t.'io funding bills, briefly covered in these (lLipatchcs last Iliursday, art-some art-some interesting points, notably that on the difference between the Union Pacific ami Central i'a-Itic property, regarding w hich tlie committee com-mittee says: 'The Pacific commission commis-sion has tainted out the fact Hint the earnings of the Central Pacific are not such as to make it probable that they could comply with tlie act prujioed by the couimUsIoners, if the road should accept IL A method by w hich a settlement might be obtained, ob-tained, said the conimiflon, would be a reduction of the interest to a rate lower than 3 x.r ceuU, and, further, that theblllsubmitted could be brought within the limit or tile earning capacity of the Central Pacific Pa-cific by reducing the rate of Interest which the Iionds should bear. From 1S79 to 1S90, Inclusive, the !iet"carn-ings !iet"carn-ings of the Centra! Pacific have been less than half tho-e of the Union Pacific" The report refers In some detail to the nature of the country through whirh ihe two roads ins. Of the Central Pacific the report says, as the Senate expressed it. the mad from Ogden to Reno is nuthing more thau a bridge. THF. MODE OF ADJUSTMENT proposed In the bill accompanying the rcort differs in two respects from that submitted w itii the report of the Senatu cuiumiltee. First, in that one-half of the interest in-terest on the Union Pacific debt for that .eriod of ten years lias been capitalized, thus limiting the amount piyablc on behall of that company during the i period preceding preced-ing maturity of the first mortgage Stands which irsfnl tilt- govrgi-ment govrgi-ment debt. Second, in that the distribution of p-iymeiitson atN-itiut ofprliiclp.il or interest of the Central Pacific deht ha3 tieen made similar to the distribution of such pa incuts provided pro-vided fur the Union Pacific Company, Com-pany, the only difference being ill the reduction of rtte on iuttresl from 3 per cent to 2 r cent and an extension of the period covered by Iheadjui tuienlfrou) fifty tosecnty-flv.? tosecnty-flv.? 3 cars. The report a Ms that the committee commit-tee believes imlli of these cliangesaru demanded be tliedillerenc-e in the-situation the-situation mid ear.iiug caiatcity of tlieco.iipiiiiex. and in order toM.-e-jre an ailjii-tmeiil which each cjinpuiy nicy rt'conably accept and lie easily e-xpeeti-el to carry out. Tlie lir-t change is the only diirer-e-iice, so far a- the Cnioii Pacific is concerned, lietLs n ttiebill reported herewith and chat rejorted at the Ix.t Congress. When the latter was draw u the earnings of the Union Pacific were smh that, after miking mik-ing the payments required, there uculd hare been leftatalauceeijual nearly to 4 ,r evnt on the cum any's slock, which was the rate of dividend ieriiiitlcd by tlie bill. Since then it earnings have tieen ItEIlUCKD TO LOWUt ItATSa tnd expenses c-ngeiidereil by com-IKrtitlun, com-IKrtitlun, so that had said bill U-en Hifurcethiri- uoiilil have tieen le ft, after meeting the requirements less than 1 p r rent iijaui thu com anj's lotil stin-k. This, the rum mittte thinks, i-itoo small fur safety, and they therefore made a modification modi-fication in the ecpial payments re-iUin-i during tne first ten years. In this i.-riud the first mortgage bonds and other delta liearing a high rate of interest will mature, and during this time the charges ujin the proivrty are much larger than they "111 If after these debts have been pud or refunded at a lower rate of interest. When these leu ears ha.c ned the ability of Ihe ci.iuii.iny w ill be greater and its buiden t-iii be increased with safety. Wuat is taken ofl during the-e firrt ten yejrs Is addcsl later, so the result to the United SUtes is the same- The same considerations apply in the e-aso ef the Central Pacific. While the amiiiiiit jntable during the first i-e;!ii liy the I'liion Ricific is Ic-s linn reiiured by the Thurman act by $I3iI.IhHI a year, the amount reijulre-1 during the same period 'nmi tlu Cential Pacific railroad exceeds ex-ceeds the anion nt required under the Thurman art by about $250,000 a ii-ar. It Is 111. vi -1 that an adjustment adjust-ment Uu the Iost-i piojo-ed In the bill will lead to a final iamentof the indebtedness of both conijauic-js to tlie government RICHMOND TERMINAL AFFAIRS. New York, June 10. It Is re-lorted re-lorted on the authority of parties high in Richmond terminal slTttlrs that the Northern. Pacific was joined with the Richmond terminal in the deal, and would use the Baltimore o. Ohio as the Eastern connection The deal is also said to include pro-vL-ions for an arrangement by which the Pacific Mail Steamship Line will make Tacoma a terminal point, and give the Northern Pacific Railroad Rail-road trans-Pacific service. CalvinS. Briceaud Samuel ThoiuaswllI he directors of tlie Baltimore & Ohio in a few days and representthenew interests in the board. An Ci-I'onilrl'a Dfrel. New Yonir, June 10. Mrs. Mary Lester and her six year old son were brutally assaulted by the woptan'a husband tonight The physicians think both will die. Lester, who was drunk, has been arrested. He is an ex-convict, A Denver Eiubexaler. Denver, June 10. Rcl-ert NIckle, Lite confidential clerk of J. M. Berkey Co., real estate brokers, arrested some time ago for em-lezzllng em-lezzllng $11,000, was arraigned In the district court today and pleaded guilty. Sentence was difcireil un til Saturday. |