Show 11 washington topics before the national I 1 congress 0 I 1 PUBLIC BUILDINGS 0 I 1 tho peculiar Re culiar method of money I 1 on HOUSES 6 the character of jay bould Is mentioned in connection TIIE and railroads notes prom the nations capital costern asid riess to tnt washington news senate feb 9 from the committee on printing reported a joint resolution for the disposition of the copies of the records ot the of the tenth canam s and of the public lands comm issi on the reso luciou gave rise to a discussion to tile of which vast to his ideas as to the value of tile of the government Go print ng office ile had a room in wash ington in chic it there were se veril hundred volumes of publio docu bents bound in calf at the expense 0 the government which booke be could not flo could not trade them off lie could not of unless lie put them in the fit a alie upper of thelO CApit I 1 crammed to the roof with bookstand book sand yet there was a continual ikirt of these publications pouring out of tile printing office the money tight as ell be taken out and thrown into the potomac iziver teller admitted the great waste in that direction but its ex peri ence was not like that of the senater from missouri II anderson suggested abat vests t was the best he had heard for the passage of tile blair educational bill an allu ion by saulsbury Sauli bury to tile presidents accompany ing documents as something aich the people took no interest in created much amusement on the ido of the chamber fin illy the joint resolution wits passed resolution for amend ing the rules so as to allow the brit i sh extradition be considered in open session as reached in the regular order W bained that the british lions tail habing been ta isted by a vote of 23 to 21 the PROS age of the resolution m as no laager lieg ea bar Y I 1 lauley and the virginian to order I 1 a I 1 d lie sat dewri rema rUng as lie dia so that he suppose d lie had a to bay 60 enuch and that lie did to he called every time lie borse Riddle bergers allsion wits to the vote in the secret session last night by aich the bathe treaty was postponed to next De rember the resolution offered by plumb calling on the secretary af war for information as to ads quate care had not been taken of the military cemetery at mound city kansas was d as was also a resolution ou by ili n secretary of the interior I 1 or informs ion go to the charges made bv revis tem and rde elvers of land for reducing testimony to riling the blair bill ai taken as ua finished business and laid a ut I 1 s the bill to authorize the tole lor allenia of certain minerua lands was then taken tip and after islon f hinging upon the lica that the on democratic members of the committee were present at the consider tion ed munds moved to it to tile committee on mines und in ining edmunds suggested lie could see no good reason chy distinction distin tion not be made berneen mineral lands and agricultural lands an I 1 pointedly that ciflie mant ed to obtain political influence he would prefer to be a mine aner rather than an owner of adjacent and reagan arguing that there was a strong popular sentiment to aich the act of the last deflon prohibiting alien ownership of lands in the territories was a response he would regret any abridgment of the provis ons of tha act the bill was also opposed by plumb stewart replied A silver mine in the mountains lie said ii as as forth less as a desert without Nit hout capital that capital no far from interfering with the laborer and baring b aring him doati brought employment to him and raised the price of his labor it was tile laboring of the territories vi ere demanding the limage lim age of this bill they iverc at king atiat capital should not be kept out of the mines land themselves deprived of employ ment tito law of laba Cou grese was an unjust restriction on the deveine ment of the territories if tion against them which no stale in the union had put upon ito own min 4 industries he bill was re committed to the committee on mine mand mining and stewart gave notice that met 0 v be a geeting weeting of that committee t ext tuesday on motion of merrill the senate joint for the creating boff aa statue to the late spencer F baird secretary secret arv of the institution in aront of tho National and appropriating for that purpose was pawed the senate bill appropriate ng tao additional for a public bull diug at pensacola florida was taken up and become the theme for a general dis cassion as to the of public buildings vest from the committee on buildings stated in reply to a 0 n from F effs to the aggregate amount of bailit for that purpose now before that committee that be was unable to furnish information but the tariff bill and would sink into m ith the for public buildings dawes related his in re gara to public and mentioned the cases of taa st louis eliere the limitation of cost was 1 I a and eliere the actual cost his bee ts 31 00 1 0 now postoffice post office where I 1 1 i ta ilona of cost were charad t nd increased three times ho deeton where the cost had run up to three or four millions in the same way everi man connected aith enuch Inc f 0 reyes should ba be oaf indices indicts plumb gave some amusing illustrations of bow money appropriated for bublic buildings is wasted there ad been last year spent on a near I 1 f arary building in washington over dawes the place where the hole is plumb yes the hole Is a large one and wali 11 before ili on s Is begun mom than the sum of aloney originally p for the building ho proceeded to read it list of emlo 10 of the library building in clu yd ez janitor this hole in the a sculptor and four women it as very remarkable be laid I 1 I 1 1 omen seemed in the report s reading from to be in charge of horses and carts ile de e earod his belief there was no lions a V purpose to complete that g athin the the ac t of congress T h e discussion wits continued by Selia tors stewart vest I 1 hale mori tell and borbee s th s latter antl mated that ball of what the senator said had no foundation ex 11 in his own imagination executive ter session the senate adjourned feb 9 bums of missouri from the committee on ap reported the supplement sup tary urgent appropriation hill and it was referred to the committee of the A it e glassi of tennessee Tenn eRsee on behalf of on called up tile house hill to promote agrical agri cul ture it provides I 1 fiat portions of tho consul as refer to agricultural matters hall be transmitted to the u X loner of agriculture for am d rit in his reports mccreary of kentusky Kentur ky from the cot on foreign affairs deported joint resolution authorizing the P r evident to arrange a for the purpose f promoting arbitration and reciprocal c fal relations tween the united states and the republics of mexico cental and sauth america and th of brazil embira T e calendar hill was passed amending baum fees or ez amplification of land patents tito next bill on the calendar was that r quiring the subsidized railroads to marti tain and operate a separate telegraph line dot kery of said that the sample proposition in the bill in plain un varnished english was to compel tile union and central pacific com to construct the lines required y I 1 ita I 1 r charters instead of contracting ith the wester ll 11 union and giving that cor horation po ration a monopoly of the telegraph franchises of tile river lie submitted that one of the most pressing questions before congress as tile about and re alie ach anent 9 of the vest ernUt ilon tela graph co anderson of kansas the author of the bill supported it the rai had bartered away by entering contract ahe Wei tern union by i aich atie railroad companies refused to perform their telegraphic tole graphic services and bv 6 aich they gave the western unior the absolute monopoly over boll the continent through the genius of the most pirate of the coulier jay gould that had dpn created tito pending bill was simply a prop to inject a little bit of gods burning juaice bet aaen the people and jay bould th 0 feville of tile coun tr y u ere praying or relief from the bo arel less merciless grind of the most ex rava gant bulous piratical set of incorporated scoundrels on the continent tills bill was a square blow between the eyes of gould and the western un ion aiono poly and each of the pacific railroad companies 11 gen pali clemen there is pow er and combination ot donop iv but there is more power in the arm of the american people and you obey the white I 1 nev york arau ed that v dewing the matter in the light 01 public policy it was unwise far tha which was the largest creditor of the pacific railroads and wits interested in the of that property to entail I 1 e gi aich would have the effect of deduc ing the of those roads he then proceeded to make a legal arcu went t th effect that congress had no the contracts killy entered into tile matter then ent over and the di 18 assion ill probably be resu nied on saturday adjourned in the senate today to day stanford introduced trod a bill to increase the appropriation pria tion for the cot co t of ig a tato for a public building at san vir A u cisco to the secretary of the navy has ill aimed t lo graphic ordera for the U 8 steamship alert now at panama t proceed to callao pern to took after the american interest in that reported to be in danger by reason af bovat disturbances the special committee appointed appin ted to make an examination and coant of tile internal revenue at the alobe of business Jant iary report to the atiat every stamp was found to be properly accounted for passed the areek mr albert browa who has just come from california wala pass en ger on tile forit train which pas led tha 0 P train lie although lie jim ma binash ups he has never seen u complete loin ora bizat ion as was to be found at the scene of the 0 P re I 1 lent the baggage and mail cariot el the express train were mashed to aspli n their occupy to elsec al led the engines were a mass of ti st ed and iron thornly ato nd er lathat trains were not ailed Tal eutine A grand valentine ball will be given in the fifth ward schoolhouse on be eve n in az of feb 13 the proceeds of the affair mill be devoted to assisting elders van dam and he are called on it inis sion to rol land all who receive indita aiono fili corta irly attena A grand ball ii ill be given in th e me building antho evening of rob 21 froin correspondent in kanab kano countr K biting under date of r abru ebru arr at i tays cho beautiful has all disappeared from our aft acho anho storm was the heaviest coldest for years snow falling to the depth of thirteen on the level battlo and blatta are dalag well and tha leathor here to like spring |