The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1873-05-08
General News Summary.
WASHINGTON News.


An engineer officer has arrived in Washing.
ton with plans of Southern coast canal, to
connect the Rio Graudc with the Atlantic, near
Savannah, Ga. They have been submitted to
the Government, and will be laid before the
convention Of Southern Governors, who meet
at Atlanta in May to discuss the subject Of in.
tcr-continental transportation.
1t is stated in recent Washington dispatch
that. owing to the Modoc massacre and the ex.
citement consequent thereon, the release of
Satanic and Big Tree Is not now advised.
The President and the Secretary of the Interior
have control of the matter.
Ex-senator Caldwell has been awarded nv
the Court Of Claims at Washington judy
ment for $500, 500 on contract for army trans
portation in Nebraska in 1856. Chief Justice
Drake disscnted.
A few days ago, the first colored graduate of
the Law School in the District of Columbia was
admitted to practice in the Supreme Court of
the District
A Washington dispatch of the s5th states
that the Commissioners to the Vienna Expo
sition have been suspended, and Legrand B.
Cannon, Theodore Roosevelt and Charles F.
Spang, now in Vienna, and jackson s. Schultz,
VIM. IL. Aspinwall, Samuel G. Ward, William
T. Blodgett and James Renwick will act until
shc suspensions are removed or permanent
Commissioners are appointed. The scientific
and honorary Commissioners do not come un-
or the operation Of the suspension order.
The Commissioner of the General Land or
flee at Washington has recently issued rcgula-
tons under the act providing for the sale of
United States lands containing coal, approved
March last, as follows:
Any individual Of q wears of age and citizen of
the United States, or who has declared his in
tsntion TO become SUCH may enter by legal SUBJ
divisions any area not exceeding 100 acres. Any
association may enter not to exceed 80 acres.
Any association. if not less than fouf persons.
5000 in working and improving any coal mine
or mines. may enter not exceeding $40 acres.
The price per Is $40 where the land is situated
road and so per acre where the land is within
fifteen miles of such road. In conflicts, when i'm
provements. etc; have been commenced subse-
quent TO March Sd last. shall be hereafter COM
snenced, priority Of possession and Improvement
shall govern the award. when the law has been full
ly complied with by each party. A mere posses
sion. however. without satisfactory improvements,
will not secure the contract to the first occupant
when the subsequent csimant shows his full COM
Hiance with the law.
1t is stated from Washington that up to the
Stth about twenty Members and three Sena-
tors, out of 50, Senators, Members and Dele
yates, had turned into the Treasury or donated
III various ways their extra salary. Represent
ativc> Peters, of Maine, and s. s. Cox, of New
York are the latest ones who have refused the
amount, accompanied by request that no
public mention should be made of it.
The Secretary of the Treasury has directed
the Assistant Treasurer at New York to sell
$l,ooo,O1 in gold on the first, third, and fifth
Thursdays, and Sl,OO0,OO0 on the second and
fourth Thursdays, in all $4,000, 600, and to buy
Sooo,OOO on the first and s5OO,OOO on the third
"Wednesday Of May, in all Sl.OOO,OOO. The Sec
retary has also directed the payment without
rebate on and after April p, of interest due on
bonds May l.
An Associated Press dispatch from Washing
ton, 26th, says: 1t is understood that further
action on the part Of the Government concern
ing the Louisiana difficulty will await the ar
rival at New Orleans of Secretary Belknap,
who has been instructed to make a quiet but
thorough investigation into Louisiana affairs,
consulting with General Emory, Governor Kel-
logg, the members of the Custom House party,
ana The Republicans of the opposition govern
ment who may be willing to give their views.
The dispatch adds: 1T will be the wish of the
executive officials of the Government that
action III Louisiana matters be delayed until
Belknap's return. Then, with the Judgment
OF Belknap to guide them, future disturbance
or revolt may be met with prompt and decided
action, from which no appeal will be consid-
cred"
1t is now announced that the suspension of
the Commissioners to the Vienna Exposition
was due to alleged Irregularities and exactions
on the part of some of them in the disposal of
privileges, etc. A Vienna journal intimates
that large sums were paid to the suspended
Commissioners before leaving America by a
number of large firms for various concessions
The money was accepted on pretext of SUBJ
scription for the erection of model school
house. 1t mentions that two restaurant keep
crs, Germans, paid each $1,000 for the school
house. General Van Buren, had addressed to
President Grant strong remonstrance against
his suspension.