Show IN OT q I 1 ON capital notes of general interest THE Us D I 1 I 1 I 1 I 1 Woul aLike to be lot easily while paying indebtedness house action on the blair educational bill 6 ENFORCE TIIE EIGHT Is the to be 0 ayen the public printer other interesting matters western assid press to talc STANDARD washington notes 1 reb 17 warfield ld counsel for the union pacific V compan y today to day bitted to the 0 use pacific railroad commit tee modifications in the funding bill desired by president adhe ams T only change of moment sug in the original billi Is a proposition to fix payments to be made by the company upon inq debt atone tenth of one per cent for the first five years and one half of one per cent for the second term of div years instead of a uniform payment for the first ten years briod of one third of one per cent cloughly calculated the deflect oi the proposed change would be to reduce the payments to during each of the first five years and and increase them by a cor responding sum cind the net five cindric years storey stated ril t bat the total amount of payments to the govern ment during the first ten years bould be the same as proposed re y the original bill the company was desirous of having charges lightened during the next five years because as adams had stated it had very be a payments to make during that peria and would be able to make up the deficiency fici ency within the next f ive years the committee has invited the pacific railroads commissioners to appear before it next Fri dayto furnish any information they may possess for the guidance of the committee it was stated informally by one of the members of the today to day that anderson of iowa had declined to appear before the committee in i up port of his bill directing a c criminal prose cuton of the Id I 1 railroad tail road 0 0 has an orae r consolidating the Quin afelt ind i n agency in washington territory with the Ni squally and agency in the same territory to be known as tile puyallup Puya lluy agency cons 0 li dated the salary of the agent is fixed at 1 per annum ye bill to exempt american coast wlm sailing vessels piloted by their licensed masters or by united sta tes pilots from the obligation to pay state for services which are not ay iy rendered was defeated by the aliouse on merchant marine an to day the committee has given considerable attention to the matter and heard mana ferons who were interested the divi mon was so close that an aye and no vote were necessary to determine the comm ittzes feeling the subcommittee sub committee of the sena to committee an post offices and post roads to N aich the postal telegraph bills have been referred has been in to five and now consists of senators sawyer reagan the chair saulae u ry and mitchell it has en upon its work and is expected to present a bill to the dehate without much d Is iiii itt f mr A E m mons was filed today to day with a petition asking for probate the willlia will lit is expected will be contested and the quest fion of the sanity of mrs emmor is again disputed the ox R of mrs emmons b ra in the star tonight to night says waa ad by direction of prof emmons while his cifes body was lying at the house where she died in case the will be set aside all mrs emmons r 0 p e r ty v a 1 b h e r r bcd sat I 1 4 5 0 0 0 ia 1 g 0 P ref E n im t is abot known that she has andrela tives who could claim the property chairman mills now promises tho tariff bill within flat days it is understood that as it now stands it will put on the free list and reduce considerably sider ably the duties on woolen goods especially the cheaper kinds ad va lorem duties are to be substituted ill many cases for specific duties on the grousd that sper duties heavily upon the cheaper classes of goods lumber palt coal and a number of othea artices g on the free iron ore and steel rai Is will not go untouched it Is belie ed the bill will provide for a reduction of about 20 per cent on suz a r duties the internal revenue tax on tobacco is to be reduced possibly repealed and the tax removed from fruit and candies authors of the bill aim at a deduc tion in revenue of botteen and A settlement erastus wiman in res to a request has v tifton the edit or of abe toronto mail saying that he thinks the fisheries treaty the beet settle m et of the ugly parrel canada in the long run il I 1 not be the loser the provision s 0 fth a now treaty will tend to s between the t wo countries continuing he says the next most vexed question to be adjusted is the conflict now impinging between the great railway oy dyons ons of the two countries the success of boo has intensified fied the fact that canadian roads are free arg ra the exactions of in ter state commerce an d this free dom oheans an enormous loss of profit to ev ry 0 their railroad in the united S a tea which Is carrying godice from wt to bait and more andice from this condition oft hinga seriously threatens the repeal of tile bonding system by ni aich american produce Is convened through ca ua inn territory without payment of duty on its entrance into the un tied tates mesa simply ruin to canadian roads he without through business they could not pa y their fixed charam it has been suggested that butterworth might with j briety omit the clause referring to tta fisheries likay be wiled by tits treaty and sub I 1 I 1 another clause which would legislation on the I 1 1 of canada creating provisions enlar in that country to the opera tion of tho interstate inter state act in this so far as it affects through traffic in which alone the united states Is in tere this movement would se cure the support of the vast ralla interests threatened in the unit Z st ates and it would also secure the advocacy of that movement by english owners ot canadian railway securities whose interests are at this mom ent seriously imperiled I 1 houst I 1 IVAS KINGTON reb le ed u rational cat ional bill was laid before the house and referred to the committee on education 3 billiken moved that the committee on manufacture rg be instructed to port on friday next his resola directing the secretary of the 1 e a e u y to investigate the sugar t t S york agreed to the house then resumed considers on of the urgency deficiency bill the xin binding ding question being upon instruct the public printer to enforce rig U y I 1 the 8 of the eight hour aw ohp ma n was adopted and the bill was passed I 1 the bill for the relief of nathaniel mckay and the executors of donald mckay passed I 1 adjourned until monday the ne alding investigation n L A dalphia feb 18 tho in butr y 0 t tb e congressional committee arrived caroln the st riko on th ea ing and in the schuylkill and in the caal to 0 na was resumed this morning with em eral manager whiting of the reading coal and iron com any as first witness after giving some statistical I 1 anfor mation regarding the output of the coal mines under his control he said he has nothing to do avith delfing coal and did not know whether there had been an increase in the price of it pince september last ile said in regard to the miners strikes that the first uneasiness of the miners was parent A hen the trouble arose apparent aE with I 1 a railroad were mesa bers of the same order of labor orvaul lations zat ions principally the knights of tabor I 1 e then detailed at length the story of the miners strike and its causes after Sw bigert finished austin cor bin was recalled and during the examination grew angry and refused to answer many questions he denied the right of the committee to go into the roads private business he do to say how the compana nv could get along without ito coal business after a long series of interrogatories tillman drew from the witness a statement that the interest charged and other fixed charges of the com pany am anted to ten million dollars a year and corbin stated in reply to further questioning that without the coal trade the company c earn its fixed charges which were over seven million dollars chinese items SA francisco feb 17 the steamer city of pekin which arrived tats morning brinas advises advices ad vices from AK A K hama to yar n 1 china papers state that a syndicate I 1 s said to be se five again it Is reported that an abed national bank will be organized and a railroad will be constructed from tung clong to smallpox Is prevalent to a consider atle extent in hong kong but is not regarded yet as an epidemic it is reported from canton that th e viceroy of two kwongg has set out with nine gunboats gun boats and four thousand troops for hainan to restore order on the island and punish the parties who are to be held reopens ble for the ur der of commissioner couns kang pla fent out by mhd viceroy I 1 great drought prevails in the north of china which Is having the good ef feet of facilitating the repairs of the destruction caused by the yellow river inundation 11 arrangement Arraz gement 00 feb 17 every interested line in the no rth west was represented today to day at the managers meeting of northwestern north western lines the matter of the existing troubles was put into the bands of a committee which after consideration reported that the only way to secure peace and harmony was to merge the western south and nt h associations into one to be governed gov orned by the same rules and and with one hamd the was appointed wit h instructions to confer with the managers of the south lines and arrange a joint conference at the earliest big moment A resola lion that all rates be restored on march 1 to the tariffs in effect prior to january 31 was defeated the burg lington lines to restore rates until a permanent agreement w as adopted the smuggling WATERTOWN X Y feb 17 M r hallinan Hal linau special agent of the treasury department dep artmont sent bere to investigate opium smuggling has seared dence that the smugglers have co f td orates in new york more officials on the pacific government ast fire said to be involved A carpenters tool chest ekich has been traced back and forth across the st lawrence several times was mazed by officers at the honse of samuel gardener erwins bondsman this chest came from the coast where it was at once seized and found to con maln eplum gardnea claims to have bought it from the government at und now the rom li lm in connection with his aces I 1 11 attempted murder doblix feb 17 A packet contain gunpowder was attached a el iden ball was throda into the house of police inspector kelly at skibbereen ereen an explosion followed breo ing tile fum iture and filling tho house with choking fumes fr om which the escaped with their lives the irk the house of mackaye crown solicitor for counter donegal were smashed by unknown I 1 n r agh at the time of the I 1 outrage the case against father convicted of inciting tenants not to pay rent 11 ac ulsted ZY ta 7 nars lu r retla manday charged with the mure d e r of her burband bui band conry munday near sundays Mun days banding woodford cooney in 1882 in order to over thirty thousand dollars money was acquitted acquited ed toda 7 1060 fob la dufferin has the rl tau ambassador to italy birj Juff iley the present ambassador will the diplomatic |