Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1879-04-11
WASHINGTON

THE Nebraska senators are trying to
secure branch mint for Omaha.
DAVID 7. CoRBIN. Of South Carolina,
late u claimant for the seat in the United
States senate occupied by Butler, has
been nominated by the president for
chief justice of Utah Territory.
X. j. BRIGHT, of Indiana, for sergeant
alarms of the senate, and Col. John G.
Bursch, for secretary of the senate;
were chosen by the democratic caucus
and elected.
Col. OBERRELL, from Washington,
correspondent now in the service of the
Indian bureau on the plains, has been
sent to interview Sitting Bull TO ascer-
tain whether he really proposes to come
to the United States with hostile intent.
THE bill of the Northern Pacific Road
this year is u very simple one. 1t sim
ply proposes "that ten years time from
the passage Of this act is hereby given
to the Northern Pacific Railroad Com
pany for the completion OF its main line
and branch"
THE naval authorities Mt Mare Island,
Cal, where Mr.. Benefits steam er jean
cite is being fitted for sea, have tele-
graphed the secretary that it will cost
mt least 900 to put her in first-class
condition. The secretary has ordered
the repairs to be continued. Mr.. Ben
nett, OF course, pays the bill.
TIE President has nominated Wal
ter s. Cox, of Washington, associate
justice of the supreme court of the
District of Columbia Peter A. Williams
United States Marshal of the southern
district of Florida; Dennis Eagan, col
lector of internal revenue for Florida.
A WASHINGTON special says: An effort
is to be made by southern members to
pass mt this session, a bill defining the
liability of steamboat owners. A num-
Der of owners Of steamboats, in the west
and south are here, pressing for action,
and have induced several leading south
ern members to take up the matter and
agree to try and get bill through the
house mt this session.
THE board of military officials which
investigated the charges against Fitz-
John Porter, discovered by new evil
dence that the previous court martial
made mistakes in its decision, and that
General Porter exercised the ordinary
discretion of military commander IN
not fully obcying the orders of General
Pope.
SENATOR CAMERON, OF Wisconsin, hoo
introduced II bill to establish land
district in Jamestown, in the Territory
of Dakota. 1t provides that all the
public lands in the Territory of Dakota,
lying in the counties of Barnes, Suits
man, Lamoure, Logan, kidder, Gingras,
Foster, Desmet, Ramsey, Cavilier, and
Rolette. shall constitute new land-dis-
trict to be called the Jamestown
! district.
PROF. RiLy, entomologist Of the de-
partmcnt of agriculture, finding the
close confinement Of office life in Wash
ington to DO great tax on his system,
resigns his position to continue the val
liable work done by him in the gras-
hopper region of the west. The pro-
fessor is chief Of the grasshopper COM
mission appointed some years since
and his salary ~ such is larger than
| that allowed to the entomologist of the
department.
A WASHINGTON dispatch says the or
ganization of the National Emigration
Aid Society, having for its object the
regulation of emigration from south
to west, has been further perfected by
the choice of national executive COM
mittee consisting Of the following gen
tlemen: Senator Window, president;
senators Hamlin, Chandler, Teller, rep
resentatives Garfield, Chas q. Williams,
Jargenson VIM. +. Chandler, Geo.
Clymcr, Jas. II. Rainey, sec, Rev. ].
| Il. Rankin, A. NJ. Clapp, John ). Lynch,
Miss, Hon. J. NJ. Edmunds, Prof. Il. 4.
Greene, sec, Nj. M. Holland. ]. ".
Adams, NJ. Howard, II. A. Menderhall
and Q. B. Wall.
The senate confirmed tho following
nominations: Consuls general-Dayid
II. Strother. West Virginia, at the city
Of Mexico: Jos. Riley, Weaver, w. Va,