Dodgeville chronicle. [volume] (Dodgeville, Wis.) 1862-current, 1874-01-16
THE NEW WORLD.

A Havana dispatch of the 9th says the Home
Government had granted, without restriction,
the extraordinary powers demanded by Cap
tain General Jovelar.
A Washington telegram of the 9th says the
opinion in official and diplomatic circles was
that the Spanish Republic was practically
ended
The New York Legislature met at Albany
on the 9th. Lieutenant Governor Robinson
presided over the Senate, and James G. Hustled,
Republican, was elected Speaker of the As
sembly.
The Illinois Legislature met in adjourned
session at Springfield ON the 9th.
The Legislature of Minnesota organized on
the 9th. Charles w. johnson was elected
Clerk, and T. G. Anderson Secretary of the
Senate. In the House the vote for Speaker
was: A. r. Hall, Republican, So; John David
son, Opposition, 40.
The Ohio Legislature organized on the 5th,
George L. Converse being chosen Speaker of
the House. On the 9th resolutions to censure
Congress for passing the Salary grab act, were
reported back in the House so as to include
President Grant for not vetoing the BILL The
Republicans sought to get division of the
question, so as to vote first on censuring Con-
gress, and in their failure to do this voted
solidly against all the resolutions. They were
adopted by o unanimous Democratic vote.
The Supreme Court of Texas has decided
that the law under which the late election in
that State was held is unconstitutional. This
law directed the polls to be kept open but one
day, in contradiction of the provisions of the
Constitution, which requires them to be open
for four days. Under this decision, the sitting
State officers hold over till the Legislature
orders new election.
A storm of great severity ragged all day on
the 7th throughout the East, and extended
far into the South, almost totally cutting off
all telegraphic communication with New York
and Washington. A Cincinnati dispatch of
the 7tk says the force of the great storm
seemed to have centered about in that paral-
lei and one hundred miles east of there. At
Columbus, Ohio, the storm prostrated all the
telegraph lines leading from the city except
one. The sidewalks in all parts of the city
were covered with branches of trees broken
down by the weight of ice collected on them
An increase of freight rates from Chicago to
the East has been decided upon by "a confer
ence of railroad men at New York.
Two men named McEwan and Smith, of
Bay City, Mich, who had been afoat on a
cake of ice since the 31st ult., drifted ashore
at Pineoning on the 7th. They were both
alive, but were very much exhausted and
could not talk much to give particulars. They
had been afoat for six days and nights, with
out anything to eat except small piece of
raw fish. A party of six persons left Alabas-
ter on the 4th, in a fishing boat, to rescue
Smith and McEwan, and it was feared they
| had all been lost, as the boat was found on the
9TH, capsized, in the water, six rods from
shore, near Whitestone Point.
The Illinois Legislature has passed a resolu-
tion ''that we emphatically condemn the law
passed by the Forty-second Congress increas-
ing the pay of members of Congress and other
officers of the Government, and instruct our
Senators and respectfully request our Repre-
sentatives in Congress to use their best endeav-
ors to secure the unconditional repeal of said
law; and we hereby declare our conviction that
the Constitution of the United States should
be so amended as to prevent any fu ture Cor
gress from increasing the pay of its own mem
bers; and we hereby express our earnest re-
quest that immediate measures be instituted
lby Congress to secure this end"