Pioche daily record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1872-1876, 1874-06-24
Eastern Dispatches.

in London, to be the Assistant Secretary
of State, from the first of July.
The Comptroller of Currency is pre-
pared to receive applications for the Or
ganization of national banks In the West
ern and Southern States, the observation
of tho usual forms being required.
Under the new apportionment all the
Western and Southern States and Terri
tories, except Montana and Wyoming,
will receive their portion of the redistri-
button uf currency.
The bill for the distribution OF the
Geneva award, as agreed upon by the
Committee of Conference, provides for
the appointment of Court of five Com
missioners by the President, with the
advice OF the Senate. The sessions of the
Court are to be held at Washington, and
the salary of the Commissioners is So
600 each, with clerk at $4,000 and a
shorthand reporter at $4,000 per annum.
The President may designate a Coun-
sellor-at-Law to represent the interests
of the Government in all suits and
claims for indemnity for losses. The
Court shall exist one year from the time
of converting, but if its business is not
completed within that time, the Presi-
dent may. by proclamation, extend the
time for not more than six months.
The Senate was in executive session
for four hours this afternoon, on the
Canadian treaty. There was no vote or
any indication to show whether the re-
quisite two-thirds to ratify could be OBJ
tanned. The treaty will 90 over to the
next session of Congress for final action.
The Internal Revenue receipts to-day
are $500, 1856; total receipts for the fiscal
year to date, is over 800, l65, 900.
The Senate has confirmed the nomina-
ton or Mr.. Bass as Second Assistant
Secretary of the Treasury.
The President has signed the bill re.
pealing the Sanborn contracts and the
anti-moiety bill.
WASHINGTON, June 23.- The Senate
amendments to the House bill in rela-
ton to the courts in Utah, were con.
Cured in liz to SO. The House then
took recess till 2:l5.
On reassembling a concurrent resolu'
ton was adopted extending the session
till 6 p. m, to allow the bill to be en-
rolled and signed. The House took {
recess till 5.
In the Senate Sargent opposed thu
passage of the Utah judicial bill. Ii,
said it would result in religious wa
which would have but one result, tn
Mormons would be driven to the wal
and their thrifty farms would be devas
= tated. In his opinion it would be best t.
= leave this matter to time. In shor
time he believed the influx Of Gentle
= into the Territory, and the contact o
" the Mormons with the outside world
would result in the disruption of MOI
monism.
! Logan favored the bill, and inveighe
70 against the Mormon system.
y Frelinghuysen moved to take up th
y bill, which was agreed to. He the
~ moved an amendment providing that
IL writ of error to the Supreme Court
nc the United States from the Supren
'a Court of the Territory shall lie in Grim
~ nal cases where the accused shall be Ii
0e Bile to capital punishment, or convict,
&c of polygamy or bigamy. Agreed to.
+ The recommendation of the Commits
'e to strike out the seventh section, W
~ agreed to.
81 Sargent moved to strike out the pr
90 vision in the third section, permittil
ii. the court to grant alimony to women q
u" plying for dissolution of the maria
Wy tie, on account of the previous existil
eu marriage of the husband, and
III lowing as sufficient proof of su
81 previous marriage the eviden
eo Of cohabitation as husband and wi
'ce Agreed to. Sargent also moved to anne
by striking out the provision making
practice of polygamy sufficient cat
~ of challenge of a juror in prosecutio
., for bigamy, adultery, etc. Agreed to;
-, was also the amendment allowing to t
GU prosecution in capital cases five Oh
y. lenges Of the jury, and to defendants
.u teen. The bill then passed, and
m Senate went into Executive Session.
y, BALTIMORE, June 90. - During
.'' drunken brawl in the Sherwood Hou
early this morning, Berg Amos, a "
u ~, known gambler, was fatally stabbed,
VI. he alleged, by Sam Mcdonald, who '
'nu arrested. He formerly resided near B
timore, and is the son of William
be- Donald, the millionaire, and form
Tor owner of Flora Temple.
-. Va MILWAUKEE, Wis, June ga
;ct on Prairie street, this morning, burr
= several stores. Two young men asl'
in the basement OF bakery were su
ot? Gated and persisted in the flames. .
be loss of property is $4,000; insuran
ms $4,000.
'es WASHINGTON, June 22.-The Presid
signed the following bills to-day: To
nd certain the possessory rights of the h
ID. sons Bay Company and other Brit
IT. subjects to the territory within the lin
he of the award Of the Emperor Of Germi
under the Treaty Of washington. N