The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1874-07-09
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REDWOOD FALLS MINNESOTA
General News Summary.
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Warrington News.
The bin for the distribution Of the Geneva
award provides for the appointment Of q
court Of five commissioners, to be appointed
by the President, with the advice Of the
Senate, and the sessions of the court
to be held in Washington. The President
may designate counselor. at-law to repre-.
sent the interests of the Government in all
suits and claims for indemnity for losses.
The court shall exist for one year from the
time of converting, but If the business is not
completed within that time the President
may by proclamation extend the term not
more than six months.
Among the bills signed by the President ON
the I'D was the act fixing the amount of
United States notes, providing for the redis-
tribution of National Bank currency, and for
other purposes.
BY the provisions Of the Postofice Appro-
priation bill passed by Congress it is pro-
rided that the prepayment of postage on
newspapers shall commence Jan. l, 1875,
and the rate Of postage on newspapers shall
be two cents per pound ON weekly and daily
newspapers and three cents per pound on all
publications less frequent than weekly. The
postage on public documents is fixed at ten
cents per volume.
President Grant on the sd sent to the SEN
ate the names Of Alexander r. Shepherd, late
Governor of the District of Columbia; WILL
lam \. Denison, of Ohio, ex-POstmaster. Cen
eral, and Henry T. Blow, of Missouri, formerly
member of Congress from that State, and
afterward Minister to Brazil, as Commission
10 govern the District until the new form of
government shall have been prepared and
adopted. The Senate was in session
about two hours and half on these
nominations, the debate being Alto
gether confined to that of Shepherd, Senators
freely and strongly expressing themselves
against it, while there were but few defend
crs Finally the nomination was laid upon
the table by vote of thirty-six against six.
The other two nominations were confirmed
without division. The President subse-
quently sent in the name of A. G. Cattell, cx-
United States Senator from New Jersey, who
was confirmed.
Among the bills before Congress which go
over till the next session are the following:
For the relief of owners and purchasers of
land sold for direct taxes in insurrectionary
States.
Amending the section of the act approved July
Is. concerning deposits in savings banks.
right of way through public lands in the United
States
To enable the Central Branch Of the Union
against the United States under the existing
laws to decision of the Supreme Court.
To establish and maintain national savings de-
postory as branch of the Postoffice.
To incorporate the Southern Trans COntinental
Railway Company
To provide for the more efctent administration
Of laws relating to public land
Amendatory Of the Civil Rights law.
To authorize the organization Of national banks
To establish the Territory of Pembina, and pro-
ridea government therefor
Providing for postal telegraph.
Providing for the resumption Of specie payment
Ameudatory Of the Tariff and Internal Revenue
laws.
For admission of New Mexico and Colorado as
States.
Repeating the Presumption and amendatory Of
To protect the navigable waters of the United
States from injury and obstruction.
House bill for the reorganization Of the army.
House bill to equaze bounties.
The bill granting pensions to all soldiers of the
war of 1872 and their widows and children.
For the construction and repairs of the Missis-
sippi River levees.
The McCrary bill regulating charges for railway
transportation.
House bill amendatory of the Steamboat law
Senate bills for the abolition of compulsory pi-
lotagc and to authorize the organization of ma
tional banks without circulation.
All landgrant bills and many hundred bills for
the relief of individuals.
Postmaster-Gen. Creswell on the oath ten.
dcrcd his resignation to the President, and
says he was constrained to this course by q
proper regard for his private interest. The
President in accepting the resignation ex-
presses his regret that such course should
be deemed necessary by Mr.. Creswell, and
adds: "Your record has been satisfactory to
me, and know will so prove to the country
at large" The President Immediately ten
dcrcd the position made vacant by the resig-
nation of Mr.. Creswell to Hon. Eugene Hale,
of Maine, who would probably accept.
President Grant on the sd nominated to
the Senate the following named gentlemen to
be Judges of the Court of Commissioners of
Alabama Claims Hczekiah Wells, Michigan;
Martin Rycrson, New Jersey; Kenneth Ray.
nor, Mississippi; George w. Woodward,
Pennsylvania; Caleb Baldwin, Iowa, and John
Davis, Massachusetts,, to be clerk of the CON-
missioners.
Lyman X Bass, member of Congress from
the Thirtv-frst New York District, who was
appointed and confirmed as Assistant Secre-
tary Of the Treasury, has declined to accept
that position.
A recent Washington dispatch says Sccre-
tary Bristow had refused to accept pair of
horses and carriage which were rendered to
him by personal friend for the use of his
wife,
In letter to the Cashier of Chicago bank
the Comptroller of the Currency gives the
following construction Of the new Currency
act in reference to the reserve required to be
held by National Banks:
My construction of the act Of June 20. 1874, in
reference to the reserve of the National Banks lie
that the reserve upon circulation ir abolished,
hui that the National Banks are required to keep
reserve upon deposits. az provided in Sections 81
and ~ of the National Bank act, certain proper
lion of which must be kept on hand, and certain
other proportion with the reserve agents in the
cities enumerated in the sections referred to.
The banks are also required to keep an amount
equal to per cent of their circulation on deposit
with the Treasurer of the United States. which
amount may be deducted from the aggregate
amount of the reserve required to be kept upon
deposits.
Foreign Intelligence.
The Brazilian cable was successfully laid on
the I'D, and London is in telegraphic COM
municaton with Pcrnambuco.
The committee of the Agricultural Union
of bennington, England, have voted an appro-
rriation Of 5000 to take party of the locked
out farm hands of that district to Canada and
the United States.
A London dispatch of the I'D says the Porte
had prohibited the circulation of the Bible in
Turkey.
The American pilgrims presented an album
and collection Of valuable diamonds to the
Pope on the I'D.
Marshal Concha has decided to build .
series OF Notifications extending across Spain,
so located as to confine the Carlists within a
small area destitute of the means of SUSIE
nance.
Paris dispatch Of the oath says the French
Government had issued an order prohibiting
the distribution of photographs of the Prince
Imperial Three of the Partisan newspapers
LID boon 6aad 60.