Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1879-07-03
THE WEEKS WORK.
A Record of Important Events,
Domestic and Foreign.
WASHINGTON,

THE senate rejected the nomination
of D. [. Corbin, for chief justice OF the
supreme court of Utah, June 18th.
OLEARY won the seventy-fve hour
walking match in Chicago by twenty
five miles, making 250 miles to 225 by
Grassland. The match ended at IL D..
M, June 28th.
A WASHINGTON dispatch of June 28th
says the receipts from internal revenue
for the last fiscal year were $110,0 ,033,-
879; for the fiscal year, which expires
Monday, over $1l3, ,036, 600, an increase
of over $4,000. 600 despite the reduc-
tion on the tax on tobacco.
SAYS press dispatch of June 29th,
the excess of exports over imports of
merchandise for the twelve months
ended May 81, 1879, was 1859 709. .876;
for the twelve months ended May 81
1878, $241 859, ,989. Excess of exports
over imports of geld and silver coin and
bullion was for the twelve months
ended May 81, 1879, S.. 294. .615, for the
t~ elve months ended May 81, 1878,
s., ,248, ,901.
THE president made the following
nominations for members of the Missis-
sippi levee commission June %: Harri-
son, Iud., James B. E4ds, civil engineer,
Missouri, Thos Morgan Harrod, civil
engineer, La, 1t. Col. @. A. Gilmore,
Major Cyrus B. ComstocK and Major
Chas. r. Sutton, U. S. engineer corps,
and Henry Mitchell of the coast and
geological survey.
THE following card was furnished for
publication June Goth: The statement
published throughout the country that
the managers of the Toledo convention
had received encouraging letters from
Wright, Jones, Lowe, Murch, and other
national members of congress is wholly
untrue. There Is not a national IN con-
gress who approved of the coalition
there or elsewhere.
(Signed) T. III. MURCH.
Chairman National congressional COM
mittee.
THE president on June 24th received
a communication from the senate ju-
dietary committee with regard to the
withdrawal of the nomination of Secre-
tary McCrary as judge of the eighth
judicial circuit. 1t states that there
was no personal objection to the nomi-
nee, and that the only reason for not
recommending his confirmation was
that the vacancy could not be antici-
pated. 1t further intimated that re-
newal of the nomination at the proper
time would receive favorable consider
alton.
SAYS Washington telegram of June
2Slh: The extreme silver men in the
senate are still unrecOncIied to the re-
tention of Senator Bayard as chairman
of the finance committee. Eighteen
democratic senators have signed a
paper urging Bayard to withdraw his
resignation; sixteen other democratic
senators declined to sign it, namely:
Beck, Cockrell, Coke, Garland, Grover,
Hereford, Houston, Jonas, Maxey,
Morgan, Pendleton, Slater, Vest, Voor
hees, Walker and Williams. The pre-
nounced silver men who signed the
paper are: Wallace, Thurman, Nc
Donald, Ransom, Vance, Jones, Fla J
Call, Hill, (Ga.) Harris, and Bailey.
The remaining eight are senators in
accord, more or less, with Bayard. Of
the seven democratic senators absent
when the paper was in circulation, it is
conceded that Gordon, Lamar, Ran.
dolph, Mcpherson and Farley, would
have united in the request to Bayar0 to
retain the chairmanship, but 1t is said
that Johnston and Withers would have
refused TO sign it.