The Toledo chronicle. [volume] (Toledo, Tama County, Iowa) 1873-1924, 1877-02-08
Present ssnss: V(lEUMEXI.

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1houss Prizh : enbnrb q London.
ConsrAnF1xoP1H, kilograms ofrthe .
say an understanding had bcen reache
with Servia On the ante bellum basis. IN
with M6nt1negro 6latks bssis Of sligh
territorial concessions. tF
BUcHARxsr dispatches Of tho I'd ~
nounce the resignation Of the Roumania'
Ministry because Of the reduction Of tn
War Office budget by the sum Of -,
SOC, 900.
Irwas reported, on the 4th, that the ne
gotiatiens between the Porte and 6ervi
had been broken of because Of the PEI
sistent demands OF Turkey for guarantees
PRINCE GoRrscHAKoFF, the Russia
Prime Minister, issued circular, on th
Sd, to Russian representatives abroad, in
structing them to secure from the Govern
ments to which they are accredited an ex
preston of their views ON the Easter
question.
THE German Public Prosecutor has is
stituted proceedings against the-son II
Count Won Arnim on account of ofensivl
Newspaper articles.
|s CoNsrANT1NoPLR telegrams Of the 81
say that the Grand Vizier. Midhat Pashs,
had been dismissed and ordered to leave
Turkey. Edhcm Pasha, who, during tHl
late Confersnce, was especially violent h
opposing the propositions Of the Greaj
Powers. had been appointed his successor
This was believed to foreshadow q change
in Turkish policy. nas a'ss1
THE attempt to amalgamate the Direct
and Anglo-American Cable Companies
has failed. /.
TIE steamer George Washington, d
Cromwell. Canada, went ashore recently
on Cape Race, and all hands were
drowned. Up to the morning of the 5th,
fourteen bodies had been washed ashore.
On the 31st ult.. communication
was received in the Senate from Associate
Juetices Clifford, Strong, Miller and Field,
Of the supreme Court, announcing that they
had selected Associate Justice Bradley "A
the fifth Associate Justice upon the Electoral
Count Commission. Frank Hereford took
the oath Of office as Senator from. West Vir-
ginia.. The House agreed TO the Senate's
resolution for the appointment OF fifty
men to serve as special police at
the Capitol during the counting Of
the Elec oral vote. A bill was introduced
and referred providing for more thorough
investigations Of accidents on railroads.
the resolution OF the majority Of the Ju-
dietary Committee declaring Colorado to be
a State In the Union, and that Mr.. Belford
was entitled to . seat as Representative
from such State, was adopted, and Mr.. Bel.
ford was sworn in. A resolution was adopt
ed discharging E. W. Barnes from custody,
he having delivered to the Morrison Select
Committee all the kilograms in his posses
sion.
ON the 1st, in the Senate, resolutions
were presented and referred which were
adopted at meeting Of white and colored
citizens at Barnwell ourt-House, 8. C.,
Jan. Is, declaring that the colored voters
who supported the Hampton ticket did so
to secure to the State an honest govern
ment, and denying that there was intimida-
ton On the part Of the whites toward the
blacks. A lengthy petition, signed by bank
ers, merchants, clergymen and 9TH
ers Of New Orleans, charging the Kel-.
and appealing to the country not to
believe the statements OF frauds and
violence charged against Lonisiana, was
and referred. Meeers. ingalls, and
Allison were appointed Tellers on the part
Of the Senate to couht the votes for Presi-
dent and Vice-President of the United States.
-. In the House, Messrs. Cook and Stone
we're appointed as Tellers to count the votes
Of the Electoral Colleges. A Communication.
was received from Justice Clifford, President
Of the Electoral Commission, announcing
That the Commission had organized and was
ready to perform its duties. 93
On the I'd, among the bills passed in
Ehe Senate was one providing that all claims
against the United States which accounting
officers Of the Treasury, or heads Of any de-
partment or bureau, are authorized to ex-
anime and decide, shall be barred unless
presented within six wears from the time the
same accrued. A bill was introduced and
ssns of the United States. :. In the House,
! bill was introduced repealing all the taxes
On bank capital. The Legislative, Executive
md Judicial Appropriation bill ($l4,066,-
$500 was considered and amended in Com
nittee OF the Whole.
On the Sd, the credentials of Sena-
ltors Davis and Saunders, Of West Virginia
md Nebrasks, were presented and fled in
he Senate. The joint resolutions Of the
Minnesota Legislature in favor Of law