Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1878-02-28
THE WOODRUFF EXPEDITION,


Advices from Washington under date
Of Feb. 22nd, state that the senate COM
mlttee on commerce to-day agreed to
report the following substitute for the
house bill concerning Woodruff7s expe-
dition: The secretary of the treasury
is hereby authorized to grant register
to foreign-built steamship, for the sole
purpose of the use of the same by the
owner thereof, for the scientific expedi-
ton around the world, provided James
0. Woodruff shall within four months
from the passage of this act, purchase
the steamship and obtain from the sec
retary Oft the treasury his certificate that
the same is, in his opinion, suitable in
all respects for such an expedition.
SIOUX WAR STATISTICS.
The president of the senate to-day
presented the reports of the army
quartermaster and commissary general,
relative to the cost of the late war
| with the Sioux Indians, and the num-
Der Of soldiers killed in that war. The
report shows that the estimated cost of
the war is 1921 ,253, and the whole num-
Der of persons killed was 1G officers and
267 enlisted men. There were officers
and 123 enlisted men wounded.
EXECUTIVE SESSION
The senate, in executive session. re-
jected the nomination of Geo. William
son, collector of New Orleans, by vote
of 81 against 15 The nomination of
L. E. Northrup, United States attorney
for South Carolina, was confirmed
THE BOSS LAND GRAB.
An associated press telegram from
Washington, under date of the 21st, says
the house committee on public lands
to-day agreed to report to the house a
bill forfeiting all land grants to the fol-
lowing named railroads, with the re-
commentator that it be printed and
recommitted for the consideration of
the committee.
| The railroads named are the Northern
Pacific, Texas Pacific, Atlantic & Pacific,
Oregon Central, Hasting & Dakota, St.
Paul & Pacific, Saint Vincent Extension
and Brainard Branch, Wisconsin Cen
| tral, North Wisconsin, Houghton 4 On
/ tonagon, Detroit & Milwaukee, Little
Rock & Ft. Smith, st. Louis & Iron
Mountain, New Orleans, Baton Rouge
| & Vicksburg, North Louisiana & Texas,
Florida & Gulf Central, Pennsylvania &
Georgia, Alabama & Chattanooga, Coosa
& Chattanooga, Mobile & Girard, Coosa
/ & Tennessee, Alabama & Florida. and
Gulf & Ship Island.
/ 1t is estimated that this bill, if passed.
will restore to the public domain about
100, 100000 acres of land.
I The committee agreed to report fa-
vorably upon the following bills: For
| the restoration to the market of certain
/ lands in the territory Of Utah which
provides that the secretary of the inte-
rior may offer for sale the present Indian
reservation in Utah territory, and settle
the Indians of said territory in the Quin-
ia valley, and that such reservation be
restored to the public domain for dispo-
sition as other lands; to restore all va
cant, unappropriated lands heretofore
withdrawn for the Mississippi and Mis-
souri, railway in the state of Iowa, situ-
ated more than twenty miles from the
amended line of the route. and that all
| actual settlers now residing on these
lands be permitted to enter not exceed
| ing 160 acres for each head of family
or single man over q years of age;
granting additional land to Arkansas
F! for the use of schools; and equalizing
the bounties of soldiers who served in
the late war of the union.