The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1874-05-01

towering the President to appoint COM
mission consisting OF an army officer OF rank
not lower than Lieutenant Colonel a Com
msnder of the Navy, and citizen expert not
connected in any way with any telegraph
company, who shall examine into the postal
telegraph project, and report to Congress as
to tho advisability of it's adoption in the
United States.
A Washington telegram gives the following
az the general outline Of financial compro-
mise that will probably be agreed upon by the
expansionists and hard-money men Of Con-
gross: 1. Fixing the legal-tender limit at
1892 900, 000 the total now issued. 2. Free
banking, with provisions for redemption, and
the abolition of the reserves held for circula-
ton. g. The retirement OF the legal-tenders
at the rate of $50 per cent, AZ fast az new
bank notes are issued, until the volume of
legal-tenders is reduced to $500, 600.
4. The issue at some future date. probably in
1877, of al per cent. 9O-year gold bond, ex-
changeable for legal-tenders, the greenbacks
received to be used in the purchase of per
cent. bonds.
The House Committee on Appropriations
has completed the Pension bill, sppropriating
500, 600, OoO
Attorneys for Brooks and Baxter have ar
rived at Washington, where they propose to
argue the question Of the right of their re-
spectve clients to the Governorship of Arkan-
sas before Attorney General Williams.
Political.
A call has been issued by the Anti-Monopo-
lists of Iowa for State convention at Des
Moines on the oath Of June next.
General.
The completion of the great bridge at st.
Louis is promised by the Goth of May.
Inquiry at the Offices of the different steam
ship lines, says New York telegram, shows
that the aggregate number Of travellers to
Europe this season will probably be much less
than in 1878. This reduction is generally at
tributed to the effects of the late panic and
unsettled state of the currency.
The Federal Council Of Internationals have
resolved to dissolve the organization having
proved complete failure in the United
States.
The Odd Fellows throughout the country
very generally observed the 9th Of April as
holiday in commemoration Of the 18th ami
versary Of the introduction Of the order in the
United States.
The report that Senator Schurz will take
editorial charge of a German newspaper in
New York after the expiration of his term, is
denied.
Foreign.
Dr. Samuel G. Howe, the Resident Commits
sioner in San Domingo of the SANTANA Bay Com
pany asserts that British influence was at the
bottom Of the troubles that have resulted in
the ejectment of the company from the island
and the seizure of their property by the
Dominican Government.
The British House of Commons has voted
reduction Of the income tax one penny in
pound, and the abolition of the house license
duty. as recommended in the annual budget
The Indian Budget estimates the extraor-
binary expenses Of the Government for the
fiscal year 1915, on account of the famine,
at $50, 500, 900, and proposes loan OF SI2,-
500 900 to meet any demand.
The worst of the famine in India is now
over. A report has been presented in the
British House of Lords to the effect that the
crops for the coming season promise to be
abundant, and the present provisions against
famine are ample.
The British House Of Commons was the
other day the scene OF a personal colloquy
worthy Of our own Congress. Mr. Smollet
made fierce attack on Mr.. Gladstone and
moved that the suddenness Of the dissolution
of Parliament was deserving Of the censure Of
the House. In the course of his remarks he
denounced the ex-Premier as a trickster. The
latter challenged Smollet to repeat tho epthet
applied to him, and on that gentleman re-
fusal to do so, denounced him AZ lacking in
decency and manliness. The commons, with
out division, defeated the motion of Mr..
Smollet.
The London papers freely comment upon
President Grants veto Of the Currency bill.
The Times says ITO British eyes the app
parently interminable imitation OF the currency
IL hazardous proceeding fraught with peril
to the prosperity and even to the unity of the
American Commonwealth but it il not de-
MED that no other country in the world could
do what America has hitherto done with its
finances. 1t is law Of the American nature
to expand and develop in every possible direc-
ton
Senior CASTELAR, has written a letter in which
he declares himself in favor of Federal Re-
public for Spain.
The temperance crusade has reached En-
gland, making a first appearance at Man
chester
There have been serious disorders in Poland,
growing out of the attempts to force the in
habtants to attach themselves to the Russian
national church. The priests of twenty-six
parishes in the Government of Siedlee were
all thrown into prison for refusing to obey the
general orders OF the Russo-Greeli Church
In many places the peasantry stoned the
priests, which led to collisions with the mill
tary, in which large numbers of peasants were
shot down, and many soldiers killed and wound
ed. The prisons at Siedlee and other chief
towns are crowded with prisoners. Besides the
arrests which were made, the inhabitants of
the troubled districts were sentenced to be
beaten-the men with fifty blows and the
women with twenty-five, while children re-
ceived ten blows each, without distinction of
age or sex Some of the women, who were
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