Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1879-02-28

having had control The Secretary of the
Treasury is authorized to purchase the bank
building for s250,0OO.
Secretary Sherman has ordered the revenue
cutter Oliver Wolcot to Sitka, to preserve
peace, an Indian outbreak being feared.
Murat Halstead, of the Cincinnati CONNER
! cidt, on the 10Th, made a brief statement to
the Senate Committee on Railroads. He said
the newspaper business was private one and
the Government had no right to NEEDLE with
1t at all. The men connected with the press
had the same rights as any other citizen, no
more, but they claimed that when they had
| built up such system of obtaining news as
the Western Associated Press employing
agents everywhere, they had a right to the
news as property. There we're too many news
papers now. They were daily dying out, and
| therefore II was not good policy to encourage
other swarms. In reply to question as to
what he thought of railroad companies main
tanning telegram lines for commercial busi-
ness, he said: They would do well to mind
their own business. The privilege would add
TO their influence in the politics of the coun-
try. ! do not think the rule of railroads
would benefit the country. The newspaper
aud telegraph business should, so far as pos
sible, be let alone.
The report of the Senate special COM
mittee to investigate the causes of the
omission of the Hot Springs section from the
enrolled sundry civil appropriation bill last
session says that all evidence goes to show that
it was a clerical error.
The Senate Committee on Railroads favors
the appointment of commission to inquire
into the relations of the Western Union Tele-
graph Company to the press and people, and
to report to the next Congress.
The delay in the bestowal of medals for acts
of heroism in saving life upon the lake coast
is owing to the necessity of accumulating the
requisite formal evidence required by law to
be on file in the Treasury Department before
the awards can be made
Four per cent. bonds are in so great demand
that an extra force has been employed in the
Bureau Of Engraving and Printing.
The House Committee on Elections has
agreed to report bill limiting the allowance
for expenses incurred in contesting seats in
the House to $1,000 in each case after the
present Congress.
The minority of the House Committee on
Naval Affairs have presented their report in
regard to the management of the Navy De-
partment under Secretary Robeson. The re-
port is signed by all of the Republican mem
bers of the Committee, and declares that in
the light Of facts the administration of Sec
retary Robeson, so far as the evidence dis
closes, is not soiled with a single act of fraud
or personal corruption. In relation to
the exchange of old material for new,
and its application in the discharge
of contracts for work done on double
turreted monitors, the minority say
there is not the slightest evidence that the
old material was disposed of corruptly or for
less than its market value. The committee
give table, printed with testimony, of thirty
one of forty-siX vessels said to have been
sold, with their cost and appraised value,
with proceeds of sale. They also give table
of twenty vessels destroyed by the Secretary
of War, and the minority add table of four
teen remaining vessels disposed of during
MIR. Robeson's administration, which shows
the cost Of the sixty-fve vessels to have been
500 O33 2l3 instead of 800, ,000, 900 as asserted
by the majority report.
The bill providing for an increase in the pay
| of the letter-carriers has been signed by the
President.
| Col. Isaac Z. Eaton of Kansas, has been ap-
pointed to the vacancy on the National Dem
| ocratic Committee caused by the resignation
of Abram s. Hewitt. An auxiliary body will
be appointed by the Executive Committee to
act with the latter in all political matters.
The headquarters will be in Boston, and the
next meeting will be held there Feb %, 1880
A meeting of Greenbackers-elect to the
next Congress, and other gentlemen connected
with the party, was held at Washington City
on the 22d. De La Matyr, of Indiana, Murch
and Todd of Maine, Ford Of Missouri, Russell,
of North Carolina, Weaver and Gillette, OF
Iowa, Forsythe, of Illinois, and Barlow, OF
! Vermont, we're the members present They
claim that there will be twenty-one Green
hackers in the next House. prominent
member present stated that his party would
hold together and act in the next House just
the same as any other party does, hold eau
cuses and vote together. They intend to
nominate candidates for the different offices
| in the reorganization of the House and stand
| by them.
r. P. Devices, Chairman of the National
| Greenback Committee, has accepted the chal
lenge Of Thomas NJ. Nichols, Secretary of the
| Hard Money League, for a public discussion
on the Greenback question.
The Reno Court of Inquiry, Ri understood
report that evidence was not deduced suff
cient to warrant trial by court martial.