Gold Hill daily news. [volume] (Gold Hill, N.T. [Nev.]) 1863-1882, 1867-01-24
DISPATCHES
DATES UP TO YESTERDAY.
Indian, and Hishwaymen on the Plain,

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Indians and Hishwaymen on the Plains.
Sr. LOUIS, Jan. 23.-The Arrapahoe
Indians encamped between Fort Lyon
and Fort Dodge, on the Smoky Hill
route, are assuming a hostile attitude.
They have driven off several station
keepers.
The mail coach from Denver was
robbed on the 18th, near Living Spring,
by a party of highwaymen, deserters
from Fort Morgan, on the Junction Sta
ton, who are completely equipped for
life on the road.
ssnaror Doolittle Obnoxious to bis Con.
s~tituents.
The Wisconsin Legislature passed a
resolution yesterday ~instructing Senator
Doolittle to resign.
Tho Impeachment.
WASHINGTON, Jan. 23.-A prominent
Republican member of the House, re-
Gently writing to a friend, says; Touch
ing the impeachment question, my
opinion is that the impeachment will
amount to nothing. All reports that
the Judiciary Committee have been TAX
ing testimony bearing on the point are
false. Not a single witness has been
examined. The committee are proceed
ing with great caution"
Kansas Senatorial Election
TOPEKA, KANSAS, Jan. 23.-Pomeroy
was re. elected Senator to-day. E. G.
Ross was elected for the short term.
Congressional ~Procoedinss.
WASHINGTON, Jan. 23.-The President
has approved the bill for the meeting OF
Congress on the 4th Of March.
John Bigler was rejected by the SEN
ate to-day as United States Assessor Of
Internal Revenue for California.
The Ways and Means Committee have
decided to exempt from taxation incomes
of less than one thousand dollars.
The House Judiciary Committee be-
gan the investigation of the charges
against the President this forenoon.
A very important bill is pending be-
fore the Judiciary Committee. 1t de-
clsres valid all Presidential proclama-
tons and orders converting Courts-mar-
tial and Military Commissions for the
trial of civilians prior to the LIST Of March,
1865.
Mr.. Boutwell,, from the Judiciary Com
mittee, reported back the House bill to
amend the Act of 1892, declaring the
officer who shall act as President of the
United States in case Of a vacancy in
the Office of either President or Vice
President. 1t provides that in case ofre-
moval by death, resignation or impeach'
ment of the President or Vice President,
the President pro TEN. of the Senate shall
act; in case there be no President pro TEN.
then the Speaker of the House; in case
there be no Speaker, then the Chief
Justice of the Supreme Court; in
case there be no Chief Justice, then the
oldest commissioned Justice of the Su-
preme Court shall be President until a
President be elected. The Secretary of
State, if the Senate and House by con-
current resolution so request and direct,
shall forthwith cause notification of va
c~ancies 10 be made to the Executives OF
each State, requiring electors to be
chosen within thirty-four days preceding
the first Tuesday in December. The
person discharging the duties Of Presi-
dent, if Congress is not in session, to
convene it Immediately.
In the Senate, Mr.. Harris from the
Judiciary Committee, INTRODUCED a bill
giving persons confined in State Peni-
t~entiaries, under sentence Of criminal
Courts, who conduct themselves 30 that
no charge of misconduct a be sustain
ed against them during n month, a
month from the term of their sentence.
Mr.. Norton introduced a bill amends
tory of the Homestead law, providing
that in the case any person in the mill
tary or naval service at the date of the
passage of said Act be o resident of any
public lands under presumption, or on
which bona fde settlement has been
made, the period Of five years required
BY the Act shall be estimated from May
20, 1862.