The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1874-12-24

The House Railway Committee has agreed
to report in favor of Gen. Hurlbut's bill to
aid in the construction of row-guage rail-
road between the East ana West
Kalakaua was formally received by both
houses of Congress on the 18th inst, and at
tended reception at the Executive Mansion.
The House Committee on Railroads and
Canals has agreed to recommend the passage
of bill authorizing the construction of the
Hennepin ship-canal, to extend from Chicago
| to the Mississippi river. 1t is proposed that
the canal shall cost 100000, and the COM
mittee recommend that 100000 be appro-
priated by Congress for the work at this ses-
sion.
| Irwin, the man who dsbursed the Pacific
! Mail corruption fund in 1872, has acknowl-
edged that he spent 1915, 900 in securing the
subsidy, but refuses to give the names Of the
persons who received it.
Jefferson Rives, one of the proprietors of
the Congressional Globe, died suddenly Of
apoplexy, on the Goth of December
The President and Mrs. Grant gave state
dinner to Kalakaua on Tuesday last The
King and his suite and large number of dis
tinguished ladies and gentlemen were in at
! tendance.
| The Mint Director estimates the stock Of
specie in the country at $166, OOO 600, and the
annual production at $40, Zoo, 900.
Political.
| s. G. Cobb has been reelected Mayor of
Boston by $4,000 majority.
| Mr.. Jewell has been confirmed Post
master-G General by the Senate, with little OBJ
| position.
| The President has re-appointed James W.
Marshall First Assistant Postmaster General
He has also nominated s. B. Axtell to be
Governor of Utah.
The announcement comes from Washington
that the long contemplated reorganization of
/ the Federal Offices in the South is about to be
carried into effect.
1t is reported from Washington that some
Of Senator Schurz's friends are endeavoring to
effect his return to the Republican fold, and
that movement is on foot to induce the
President to offer him the Russian mission.
The caucus Of Southern Republican Con
gressmen, held in Washington last week,
found fault with the disposition of the party
at the North to hold the carpet-baggers re-
sponsible for the disordered condition of
things at the South.
1t is given out from Washington that there
is no probability of Pinchback being admitted
to seat in the Senate this session.
| 1t is reported from Washington that Repub-
lican members of Congress have in contem-
plation a new plan looking to a solution of the
Louisiana problem. It is to have the Legis-
lature which assemblies in January call q Con-
stitutional Convention, which shall immedi-
ately assemble.
General.
The Pacific Mail Steamship Company's
steamer Japan, en- route from Yokohama to
San Francisco, was recently burned at sea-,
and large number of coolies were lost. The
information relative TO the disaster is still in
definite but there is no doubt but the loss of
life was very heavy.
Foreign.
A British collier has been lost in the Bay of
Biscay, with eight of her crew.
The religious order of the Sisters of Charity
has been suppressed in Mexico by decree of
Congress.
The Berlin Reichstag has adopted a resoIu-
ton declaring that, in order to uphold it's
dignity, an amendment to the Constitution is
necessary to prevent the arrest of member
during the session.
1t is stated in Berlin official circles that
Bismarck regarded the recent action of the
Reichstag, in voting to uphold it's dignity, as
equivalent to vote of want of confidence,
and handed in his resignation to the Emperor.
1t was not accepted.
Reports from the famine in Asia Minor
represent the prospect as appalling"
Bismarck has gained another decisive vic
tory in the German Parliament, the vote of
confidence having been carried by 1913 ma
jority.
dispatch from Spain reports the total de-
feat and rout Of the Republican General,
Lopez Dominquez, in Catalonia by the Car
lists under Tristary, with heavy loss in killed
and wounded.
Count Won Arnim, who has been on trial at
Berlin, Germany, for exposing state secrets
and withholding state papers, has been con-
victed and sentenced to three months i'm
prisonment.