Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1879-02-07
WASHINGTON.

4 %oVp,bbpJ HAS btEIl paul W
the State Department.
The secretary Of the treasury has ap-
painted i. b. 5. Pinchback, Of Lousi-
ana, special agent Of the treasury de-
paitment.
SENATOR ISAAC Z. CHRIsTIANcY, Of
j Michigan, was nominated and imme-
diately confirmed minister to Peru last
week.
The last debt statement shows the ag-
gregate cash in the treasury instead Of
coin and currency, as heretofore. The
assets and liabilities of the treasury are
also shown.
/ SUBSCRIPTIONS to the per cent. loan
for the month Of January, 1879, Sl59,-
| Sol ,150 calls for bonds for the same
period, $150000,000.
/ BIDS have been received for carrying
mail in Missouri, Iowa, Illinois, Michi.
gan, Wisconsin and Minnesota. a
month will be required for opening
them and making awards.
a Washington dispatch says { course
Of the government in dealing with Sitting
Bull will be to require him and his peo-
pie to surrender as prisoners Of war, or
else go back again into Canada.
The senate finance committee Of
congress has decided to recommend the
reduction Of the tax on tobacco from %
to 20 cents per pound, and to admit
free Of duty lcorice, which enters
largely into the manufacture Of plug
tobacco
TIE war department has received in
formation that telegraphe communIca-
ton is now opened between Forts Ell
lott, Custer, keogh, and Beaufort,
which are connected with Bismarck and
Deadwood. This connects almost all
the frontier forts by telegraph.
OWING to difference of opinion re-
garding the transaction Of certain busi-
ness in the Indian Office, VIM. Leeds,
chief clerk of that office, has been sus-
pended for thirty days during which |
time there will be an investigation into
existing difficulties.
/, CHIEF JOSEPH and the interior depart,
ment have arranged for the cesslon by
the Nez Perces Of the amount Of about |
1, 500 square miles in Idaho. The terms
are, six townships in Indian Territory
and $250,000 in money, to be placed in |
the treasury and to draw ! per cent. in
tcrest, nearly $4,000,
The British Minister has informed /
the Department OF State that the pleuro- |
pneumonia having been detected in a
cargo of cattle on the ship Ontdrio, from |
Portland, her Majcsty's Government Is
considering whether it can retain the |
United States trade under the cxemp- !
ton of part four of the fifth schedule |
of the act Of 1878.
THE new river and harbor bill that |
will be pressed for early consideration
provides for approprlating between |
$1,000, 600 aad S6uO0,000, and the items
are about one half the estimate sub
mitted by the secretary of war. The
committee have recommended an APP
preparation Of $500 900 toward the pur-
chase Of st. Mary's canal from the state
Of Michigan.
THE President has stated that he shall I
Gil the vacancy on the Bench of the
United States Supreme Court which will
undoubtedly be caused by the rcsgna-
ton of Judge Hunt hy the appointm ent
of some one from that judicial district
which comprises Vermont, Connecticut
and New York. This has put an end
to the hopes Of the friends Of Chief Jus
tice Grey, of Massachusetts, and of
Stanley Matthews. 1t is generally un-
dcrstood that the President will tender
the appointment to Senator Edmunds,
OF Vermont
THE encouragement has recently
issued an opinion III which lie pro-
hibits the solicitor of the treasury from
recommending for compromise any
claim where the parties are solvent.
The brewing interest claims that the en-
isting law, sec. J, 400 OF the revised stat
utes, is very severe in cases Of mere
technical relation, and have prepared |.
bill which provides to amend the sec
ton SO that whenever any district at
torney shows that any claim, for any
or other reason, may proper !
ly be compromised, the secretary Of the
treasury may, in his discretion, COM
promise 1t,
SENATOR FERRY'S new national M {
litia bill. introduced in the senate pro-
videS that all able-boded male citizens
between the ages of Is and 40 years,
resident within the respective states
and territories, except such as may be
exempt by law. shall constitute the {
militia The militia are to be divided !
into two classcs-the active, to be
known rs the National or State Guard,
US the legislature of each state may t
and the inactive, TO be known {
Us the reserve militia. The bill pro I
poses to appropriate 100000 for the
purpose of providing arms, ammuhi- a
ion and other ordinary and quarter I
stores for the active militia. |
TIE total amount Of the legislative, !
executive and judicial appropriation
oill as reported from the house commit
ee is SO los, 800, which is S222,-
'72 less than the appropriation last .
year, and $9il ,626 less than the depart.
ment estimated. Section of the bill :
provides that the present coast and
,eodetic survey be transferred from the
reasury to the interior department. :
4 reduction of $500 is made in the sal !
lries of sub-treasurerS at Baltimore, St. Z
4ouis, Chicago and Cincinnati. Esti- !
N at Far Of lifa II