Muscatine weekly journal. [volume] (Muscatine, Iowa) 185?-1890, 1858-06-05
THE NEWS.

q CoNGREss.-M May 27th.--In the Senate
Mr.: Seward gave notice of resolution to
extend the present session of Congress to
the Goth of June, to give time for finishing
the important business now before both
houses. he Senate passed the House bill
extending the Land laws to the East Cascade
Mountains. The Homestead bill was post
poned, by vote of 30 to 81, to january
next. The subject of internal improve
ments was brought under discussion by Mr..
Stewards motion to call up the bill for the
Improvement of Sheboygan harbor; without
finishing the subject, the Senate adjourned.
In the House, the Naval Appropriation
bill was passed-ll0 against 25. A bill
appropriating $4,o00,000 to defray the ex-
penses of the collection of the revenue was
also passed. The Tariff Investigating Com
mittee made their report through Mr.. Stan
ton, on whose motion the report and evi-
dence We're ordered printed, and the Com
mittee discharged. Messrs. Purviance and
Moore, from the same Committee, made
minority reports. The army, post Office and
mail service Appropriation bills We're then
considered, but no action was had. The
Committee on the judiciary made report on
that branch of the Presidents message rec
ommendng the passage of bankrupt law
and to include banks in the same They
take the ground that Congress has no power
to pass such law, for the reason that its
exercise would be an Infringement on the
rights of the States, even if it were within
the unbounded competency of Congress.
Nay 2Sth.-The House passed the post
Office, army and ocean mail steamship appro-
priation bills, and then went into committee
on the private calendar. r..... .... .7.
"A dispatch from Washington of the
29th says the sale Of the military reservation
at Rock Island, illinois, has been postponed
by the Secretary of War, for the present.
The postponement of the land sales in
Kansas till the lst and 9th of November is
officially announced. . aa 5a- as." p
- The Lecompton Constitution is to be
submitted to- the people Of Kansas on the
first Monday in August. This was deter
mined at meeting of the Board of Com
missioners appointed by the act of Congress,
which meeting was held in Leavenworth on
the Oath Gov. Denver was elected Presi-=
dent, and Hugh S. Walsh Secretary of the
Board " ,7.7af s.f." -'-A4
From CAL1FoRN1A-The steamship Moses
Taylor arrived at New York on the 29th,
with California dates to the 7th of May, and
81, 1915, 200 in specie and 700 passengers.
The California news is unimportant. The
Legislature has adjourned Gold diggings
in the vicinity of Walker river caused much
talk. Col. Fremont was welcomed to Mari
posa by bonfres and cannon. A guaho
island containing over million tons is said
to have been discovered on the track between
the Sandwich and Ladrone Islands. Speci-
mems were received at San Francisco. Ad-
vices from Frazer's River confirm the recent
accounts Of the extraordinary richness of
the gold mines, and there is a tremendous
rush from all parts of the British possessions
towards the gold regions. The mines extend
over great space of country, and reach
across the line into American territory.
Nothing important from Oregon or Wash
ington territories ......