The Saline County journal. [volume] (Salina, Kan.) 1871-1893, 1879-04-17
CASUAL.
KLEcrRIc TELEPHONE.

KLEcrRIc TELEPHONE.
The wire of telephone connecting two
business Offices in Chicago was struck BY
lightning and the electric fluid entering the
Offices played havoc with the furniture.
POLITICS.
LIST OF COMMITTEE CHAIRMAN.
The following are chairmen Of the House
committee in Congress:
Elections, Mr.. Springer; ways and means,
Fernando Wood; appropriations, Mr.. Atkins;
banking and currency, Mr.. Buckner; Pacific
railroads, Mr.. McLane; claims. Mr. Bright; COM
merce. Mr.. Reagan; public lands, Mr.. Convene;
Mr.. Martin; judiciary, Mr.. Knott; war claims,
Mr.. Briggs; public expenditures, Mr.. Finley;
private land claims, Mr.. Gunter; manufactures,
Mr.. Wise; agriculture, Mr. Covert; Indian af-
fairs, Mr.. Scales; military affairs, Mr.. Sparks
militia, Mr.. Ross naval Affairs, Mr.. Whitthorne;
foreign Affairs, Mr.. Cox; territories, Mr.. Mul-
drow; revolutionary pensions, Mr.. Whiteaker;
canals, Mr.. Cabell; mines and mining,
Mr.. Stephenson; education and labor, Mr..
Goode; revision of laws, Mr.. Harris; coinage
Mr.. Stephens; patents, Mr.. Vance; public
buildings. Mr.. Cook; accounts, Mr.. Henry;
mileage, Mr.. Cobb; expenditures in State do
partment, Mr.. Clymer; expenditures in treas
ury department, Mr.. Morrison; expenditures
in war department. Mr.. Townshend, of Hi
nois; expenditures in postofiice department,
Mr.. Ladd; expenditures in interior depart
ment, Mr.. Muller; expenditures in public
buildings, Mr.. Duester; expenditures in de-
partment of Justice, Mr.. Blount, of MISSISSIPPI
ri; Losses, Mr.. Robertson; rules, the Speaker;
reform in civil service, Mr.. Hostetjer; law a.
to Presidential elections, Mr.. Bicknell; ventila
ton of hall, Mr.. Kimmell; depression of labor
Mr.. Wright; epidemic diseases, Mr.. Young
printing, Mr.. Singleton; enrolled bills, Mr.
kenna; library, Mr.. Geddes; census, Mr.
Cox.
A brief Democratic caucus was held i'm
mediately after the adjournment of both houses
for the purpose of taking some action which
would permit the introduction and considera-
ton of certain financial measures during tie
present session. Another resolution was offered
and laid on the table for use at future caucus
1t was to the effect that all sectional strife
and revolutionary modes be abjured. 1t was
for free ballot and . fair count; opposed t.
large standing army but in favor of one auf-
ficiently large to impel invasion and ut
| terly opposed to the use of the military forces
of the United States in controlling or IN any
way interfering with the freedom of election
They are for the maintenance of public credit
| inviolate, but are utterly opposed to the IN.
crease of the bonded debt unless the exigen.
| cies of war SHOULD render it necessary. They
are for retrenchment of expenditures, lessen.
| ing burdens of taxation, and thorough re
form in the present unequal and unjust meth
cd of raising revenue. They are for placing
tho coinage of gold and silver upon the SAINT
footing without restriction of limitation upOr
the amount of either. They are for revivinl
the languishing and perishing industries OF
a,fvh M
the currency, founded on sound basis suffi
cient to meet the urgent demands of trade il
every department of labor and business.
BLUE GRASS POLITICS.
The Republican State convention o
Kentucky met 1t Louisville on the 10th. JohI
ID. White was chairman. Walter Evans receiv
ed the nomination for governor, defeating Gen
Eli H. Murray. Evans received 759 votes
Murray 7l2. The speeches were ultra in ton
and the resolutions which followed were adopt
ed with wild enthusiasm
FINALE SUFFRAGE.
In Massachusetts the House rejected tn
| bill to secure to women the right to vote Il
municipal affairs in cities and towns. The bill
to give women the right TO vote for member
of the school committee passed.
| NOMINATIONS.
The President has nominated ]. r. Hal
| -. g parn.yiy,n;. .ecret.,v ~ JTta
Territory.
REPUBLICANS ELECT.
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