The Portland daily press., 1876-07-28

From the Maine. State Press of July 27, 1875.
History Of Seven Days.
The News for the week ending Wednesday
Night. July 26th.
THE NATIONAL CAPITAL.

THE NATIONAL CAPITAL.
Congress still fingers. The Senate is trying
the pilfering Belknap and the Confederate
House is engaged in manufacturing Democrat
ic thunder aud trying to formulate belief on
the currency question.
The naval Committee has made haste to get
its report into the papers-the majority OF it,
1t is partisan in it's character but contains
nothing new. Robson may not have done
much better than his predecessors, but he has
certainly not done SO badly as the last Demo-
cratic Secretary of the Navy. Mr.. Burleigh
signs the majority report but on note says he
has no sympathy with its partisan character.
The report is denounced generally.
Hon. George F. Talbot has been appointed
by the President Solicitor of the Treasury and
confirmed by the Senate.
Seven hundred clerks are uneasy in Wash
ington because that number must be dis
charged It's a bad thing to bean office
holder.
All of the rumors relative to the pardon of
Avery and other whiskey ring men, is denied.
Charges have been brought against ex-Ser.
geant-at.arms Ordway and he has been in
Washington to explain them but the Confeder-
ate Committee cannot attend to him. In look
ing over Ordway's papers the unsettled ac-
counts of two Democratic members of the
House were found.
CONGRESS.
Thursday, July 20.-In the Senate, resolu-
ton asking the President for information as to
the South Carolina troubles was agreed to. A
bill to continue for ten additional days the pro-
visions of the act providing temporarily for
government expenses was passed. In the
House the bill for the protection of the Texas
frontier was passed. A bill appropriating $1,000
for the expenses of the select committee on
Chinese immigration was passed. Also the
bill extending the temporary provisions for gov
ernment expenses until July 31st Another
veto message to the bill to revise the Revised
Statutes in relation to post Office matters was
received, and the Senate bill to punish counter
feiters of trade marks, was reported back from
the Committee on Patents and passed.
Friday, July H.-In the Senate, the Com
mittee on Commerce reported favorably on the
Senate bill relating to vacancies in the Office of
appraisers Of customs at any port in the Unit
ed States, and it was placed on the calendar
The Navsl Committee reported adversely on
the Senate bill directing the transfer of GER
tain amounts from the naval pension fund, and
it was indefinitely postponed, In the House
number of private bills were acted upon, and
the House went into committee of the whole
on the private calendar, the first bill being in
relation to certain Missouri land claims. The
enacting clause was struck out and the bill So
reported to the house, which confirmed the
action of the committee and the bill was de-
feated.
Saturday. Julg 22.-In the Senate Saturday,
speech in the House, and said that the state
ment made by him as to the number of en-
ployes in the civil service was not correct The
Senate then resumed the consideration of the
river and harbor bill, and debate followed,
after which the Senate adjourned without ac-
tion.
Monday, July 24.-In the Senate a resolu-
tion was adopted that heads of departments
furnish the number of civil employees, except
laborers and mechanics, every other year from
1859, and the bill equalizing bounties was taken
up. In the House the Senate bill extending to
the LIST of February next the time within which
lands held by the United States, under the sew
eral acts levying direct taxes, may be redeemed
the bill authorizing loan to defray the ex.
penses of the District of Columbia till the 1st
of December next, in anticipation of the taxes
for the fiscal year ending June 40, 1877, and
the bill in regard to the manufacture and regu-
lation of taxes on fruit brandy were passed. A
resolution calling upon the Secretary of the
Treasury for report concerning the gold coin
and bullion owned by the government, and q
detailed statement of the outstanding gold GER
tifcates. etc., was adopted. A bill in relation
to postal affairs from which the Presidents
approval has hitherto been withheld on account
Of informally in its reference to the Revised
Statutes, was passed.
Tuesday, July 25.-In tae Senate a bill to
amend certain sections of the post Office bill Of
June %, 1864, and section 1854 of the Revised
Statutes in regard to straw bids was passed. A
bill was introduced and referred to the judi
ciary committee, to amend sections 731 and
5440 of the Revised Statutes, in regard to con-
spiracy. In the House it was unanimously or
dered that majority and minority report of the
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ordered printed, and that Friday be assigned
for their consideration to the exclusion Of all
other business. A resolu ton instructing the
committee on public lands to ascertain apd re-
port concerning what legislation is necessary
IL any, to secure actual settlers the right to pur-
chase lands granted to the Pacific railroads was
adopted, and the discussion of the Virginia
contested election case was resumed. Mr. La
mar made personal explanation. A resolu-
ZION directing thelSecretary of War not to issue
cartridges to the northwestern Indians, was
adopted.
Wednesday, July 26.-The Senate spent the
day in hearing the arguments of Messrs. Car.
penter and Lord in the Belknap case. The ar
guments are all in. The House discussed the
Virginia contested election case, but came to no
decision.
THE INDIANS.
The week has been occupied with prepara-
tions to attack the Sioux and deal them blow
that will settle the war. Gen. Crooks and
Gen. Terry's command still remain in their
entrenched camps waiting for more troops
Gen. Merrill is on his way, but has been de-
layed by a band of Cheyennes who left their
agency to join the hostile tribes, and whom
Gen. Merrill turned back. 1t was reported
that Gen. Sheridan would take the field in per-
son, but this is now denied. Little nforma-
ton is had concerning the condition of the
Sioux, though it is said they are out of ammu-
milton and unable to fight until they got new
supply. The report that Sitting Bull was killed
in the engagement with Custer is not con-
firmed, and is probably untrue.
CRIMES AND CASUALTIES.
Mrs. Clarinda Ferry of Hyde Park, Vt, was
brutaily outraged by two men who seized her
while picking berries Saturday.
Giovanni Maestro. an Italian, brutally MUIR
dered Nicholas Ceyigrone at the Phoenix Hotel,
in Boston, last Friday night. His object is
supposed to have been robbery. He was ar
rested.
Patrick Ford of Boston, killed his wife Sun
day, and when the officers attempted to arrest
him fled to the roof of the house, from which
he fell and was killed.
The business portion of Shelburne Falls.
Mass, was burned Sunday. Loss $4,000; in
surance $41 900.
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