OCR Text |
Show WILL BE PASSED. The Utah Statehood Bill On The Calendar. ALL OPPONENTS BALKED. it Is Likely That the Admission Will Take Place in 1895 Faulkner Says The Bill Will be Voted on as Soon as The Tnff till ia Out of tbe Way. Herald Special; Wasdi.noto, D. C May 17. Senator Sen-ator Fauikner today reported the Utah statehood bill and the 'ocfcasure has therefore gotten a favorable position on 'he eeuate calendar. He save tie bill will be pressed to a vote as eoon as the tariff bill is out of "'tbe way. From talk heard amoDg republicans, re-publicans, other than those of radical views, the tariff bill ought to pass early m June, and go to the conference committee. com-mittee. The senate committee adopted the house report on tbe Utah bill. Senator Faulkner says he has maintained main-tained right along, that at the proper time the etateh od bill would be reputed re-puted this eei-sion, and he now asserie posilively, that it w ill be passed befi re it closes. Could he have had his by, the tine for actual admission would have been sooner, but he had to conciliate con-ciliate some senators, who thiught the dates provided will be.betteranu insure q iu ktr action. It is quire probable an effort will made to chance the dates whti th j I ill is taken up. Frienda f Utah think it could eae y be arra ged to have the admission i ke place Utxt year, instead of the year aiter. There is geutral satisfaction, however, that the committee has re ported the bill at all. Itsorpooenta tried their best to pievent any action ibis Eeseion. Victoria' Shortbread. There is an old woman up at Perth, in Scotland, who communicates with Queen Victoria every day in the year. Her majesty is fond of most things Scotch, among others shortbread. Now, for some reason or other shortbread cannot can-not be made in Enlgand as it should be-But be-But a few rears ago her majesty discovered discov-ered at Perth an old woman w ho could make it as no one else, even in Scotland, could make it, since which time the same aged dame has every day baked ' -with her "wn hands a cake of shortbread, short-bread, pacfud it herself and dispatched it to the queen. Philadelphia Ledger, i |