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Show AT 1.1UOTO.V. An J.slabllstiiurnl or 1-iu.l I.nn llilrenn Tli nhritiSn Klslicrlr. WASIUXC.T05, May ). The ways and means committee this morning gave siiort healings to re-rcsentatives re-rcsentatives of tbe several Industries which seek to liave amendments made to the tar I IT bill. Thu raat-sters raat-sters ot Xew York State protest agatast the proposed increase from 10 to 30 per cent In the duty ou barley. SENATOR HOAlt to-day introduced a joint resolution projioslng an amendment to the Constitution, providing that neither the United States nor any State lialt pass any Law authorizing the establishment or maintenance of any lottery or distribution of prizes by chance. Ili:iIi:iN(. SEA FISHERIES. The question of the Behrlug Sea fisheries was considered at the Cabinet Cab-inet meeting and it was decided, it Id understood, to adhere to the 1-icy 1-icy of lastsiason, which is practically practi-cally the same as previous administrations. adminis-trations. stamxii:i-s I ILL intrcdui ed into the Senate today, for hausouland, provides for the establishment es-tablishment of a land bureau In the Treasury Department. The Secretary Secre-tary of ll.u Treasury is authorized tn preiaru United States clrculitlcg legal tender notes to be placed to the credit if the kind lean bureau as needed. Any citisen owcins unencumbered un-encumbered agricultural land may apply to tiie bureau for a loan to be used secured by a lien on the land, the loan not to exceed half the asses sed value- or the laud, no loans lo be madfUion land Itss than $300 in value, nor in sums less thau3J30, nor fur a longer term than tw i nty 3 cars, the loans to near interest al the rate of 2 jer cent .-r annum, livable annually, and the principal may 1-e paid at any time In sums of not less than Zo jut cent of the whole amount. The Secretary of the Treasury will cancel ami return notes equal to the po ments made on loan". Inraseof tfifaultof payment pay-ment of Interest or princ!ial the ehltft.f bureau may order a foreclosure fore-closure in tiie United States Circuit Ciurl. '.ciiulll.il of (-nlnrntto Ofllrlnls. Dlwint, May, 20 The tril ot .-'eintaryof State Itice ami Public Printers-Collier & Cleveland, on the charge of conspiracy to defraud the State-, was concluded today. The jury, after ling out an hour, re-mrked re-mrked a verdict "f not guilty. Illsninrrk'w Apprnf. Berun, May 20. The JrcuHnyc Ztitimg says that during the chancellorship chan-cellorship crisis Bismarck appealed to the ex-Knipress to intervene in his favor, and she replied: "ou know better than any one that I must not use political Influence with my son." |