The Canton advocate. [volume] (Canton, D.T. [S.D.]) 1877-1897, 1880-06-10
VERY LATEST NEWS
q Record of Important EveLt :
Domestic and Foreign.
WASHINGTON.

IT is expected that next week, when
Garfield, Conger, Frye and other leading
mem bers are away, that the free traders
will try 10 precipitate the Tucker bill
upon the house.
! THE senate pensions committee have
voted to report, with some verbal amend
ments, the house bill granting pensions
to certain soldiers and sailors OF the
Mexican war, and in the Indian wars
with the Greeks and Seminoles.
THE secretary of state received tele
graphic dispatch from Mr.. Farman
consul general at Cairo, stating the
obelisk ard pedestal had been placed en-
board the steamer which will sail in q
fortnight for the United States.
THE senate committee on foreign re-
lations has agreed to offer as an amend.
ment 10 the sundry civil appropriation
bill the joint resolution introduced by
Senator Morgan, which proposes an ap-
preparation of $4,000 for publishing
more frequently commercial reports.
THE greenbackers of the sixth Mis-
souri, district have nominated Ira 5.
Hqzeltine for congress, and elected VIM.
Brown and Nj. N. Mills delegates to the
national greenback convention. One of
the alternates is woman, Mrs. Louise
G. Curtice, Of Newton county.
THE weather is the hottest ever known
in May. This makes members doubly
anxious to adjourn congress and get
away, but there is now no possibility
that an adjournment will be effected be-
fore the middle Of June. The house
looks very thin, and there is danger that
it will be reduced below quorum
Chicago is the attraction.
There was lively debate in the SEN
ale executive session, over the contirma-
ticn of Horace Maynard to be postmaster
general. judge Key was confirmed with
out dissenting voice or vote from any
senator, but Maynard will not go through
50 easily, and i. is question whether
he goes through at all.
THE supreme court of California has
dismissed Dennis Kearney from prison
on a. writ of Aa6eas corpus. Upon his re-
lease the workingmen, headed by brass
band, escorted Kearney from his house
to the sand lots, where very large
crowd was gathered. Kearney addressed
them in his usual style announcing his
intention of taking up the agitation
where he left it and making it more bit
ter than ever.
THE house committee On foreign af-
fairs agreed 10 report resolution re.
questing the president to take such
measuresSas will secure indemnity to
Canadian fishermen for damages sus-
tanned by them from violence committed
by the inhabitants Of Newfoundland,
and protection from any repetition of
such violence, and to procure the early
abrogation or termination Of the articles
of the treaty of Washington relating to
the fisheries.
THE house judiciary committee have
considered the Acklen case, upon which
they will take vote at an early day. A
member Of the committee stated this
evening that the committee would prob
ably agree to report exonerating Aclen
from improper motives in printing the
report which he wished to palm off on
mis- colleague, Mr.. King, from the CON-
mittee on foreign affairs. He will how
ever, probably be censured for the ir-
regular m amer in which he presented
the report to the house.
CONGRESS IS as much at sea as ever
about adjournment. The senate appro.
priation committee made careful can
vass of the business on hand, aud decid-
ed that probably it would be about June
10Th before they could get through. No
resolution was introduced to that effect,
however, in the hope that if the senate
would vote soon on the electoral bill,
and if the house would hurry up on the
sundry bill, they might get throus sh by
the end of the month after all. AS the
day passed, however, with but little
headway in either, June 10 is perhaps as
early date as adjournment can be
reached.