Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1880-03-06

mittee on commerce has authorized q favorable
report upon the bill making St. Vincent. Mimi,
port of entry.
SILVER PURCHASES.
The treasury department purchased 16l, GOO
ounces of silver, yesterday.
COTTON CLAIM ALLOWED.
The committee on claims submitted report
to the House, to day, which favored the claim
of Warren Mitchell for 7SS bales of cotton sold
in 1868, and the proceeds, sl2s, 1899, conveyed
into the treasury.
LIFE SAVING SERVICE.
The bill to improve the life saving service
introduced in the House to-day, authorized the
establishment of stations near Grand Marais,
Lake Superior near Pentwater, Lake Michi-
gan, near the Falls of the Ohio, Louisville, to
be attached to and form part of the Tenth life
saving district.
SPECIAL DEFICIENCIES.
The House committee on appropriations has
agreed upon special deficiency bill aggregat-
ing $500, 900, including the following items:
for public printing, s4OO, 900; to complete the
Chicago postoffice, 100000; for the postal ser
vice, $4,000, including $4,000 for tho pay of
mail route messengers; SIS, 900 for the pay of
rostsl car clerks; $4,000 for increase in the
paw of route agents; $1,000 for extra pay of
clerks in the postofiices at Boston, New York
and Chicago; SIS, 900 for lighthouse steamer
on the Mississippi and Ohio rivers; $4,000
for Winnie Ream for completion of her statue
of Admiral Fsrragut. Other deficiency items
will be incorporated in the general deficiency
bill.
LAND B. LIS FAvoRABLY REPORTED.
The House committee on public lands agreed
to report favorably the following bills: Rep
resentative Andcrson's to create an additional
land district in Kansas; Representative Poeh-
ler's bill to open to homestead settlement and
timber culture entry lands within Fort Ridgely
military reservation, Minnesota; Representative
Washburn's bill abolishing the military reser-
walton of Fort Abercrombie, Mimi, and au-
thorizing the secretary of the interior to have
the lands embraced therein made subject to
homestead, presumption, entry and sale, and
Representative Sapp's bill to transfer to the
States title to all islands, beds of lakes (nOt
nsvigable) buoys, s!oughs, ponds etc., which
at the time the public lands were surveyed by
the government were meandered.
DANGEROUS COUNTERFEIT.
A very dangerous counterfeit ope hundred
dollar note on the Pittsburg National Bank of
Commerce, Pittsburgh, Pa, was detectedat the
national bank redemption agency to-day. 1t
purports to be of the series of 1875, and IS
printed on an imitation of fibre paper, and is
the first counterfeit which has yet appeared on
this series of NATIONAL bank notes.
GOLD BULLION.
There is at present s45, 0O0, 900 worth of gold
bullion in the New York essay office ready to
be transported to the Philadelphia mint for
coinage. The appropriation made for this pur-
pose for the present fiscal year was out S5,OOO,
which is already exhausted. The director tOf
the mint, to day, made application for an ad
ditional appropriation of $1,000. Application
has also been made to Congress for an addi-
tional appropriation for transporting gold and
silver bullion between assistant United States
treasurers.
DEATH OF COMMODORE HANscoMB.
Commodore Isiah Hanscomb, chief of the
bureau Of construction and repair, of the navy
department, died this morning.
sLEMENs TO REMAIN.
The committee on elections, Representative
Weaver alone dissenting, adopted the majority
report in favor of Slemens, sitting member,
and against Bradley, contestant.
JUSTICE DONE.
In the House to-day Mr.. LeFevre, from the
committee on military affairs, obtained unani-
nous consent and reported q bill for the relief
of Father Gillen, of Indiana. for services rem
dered as chaplain in the army of the Potomac.
The bill passed without objection.