The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1880-04-23
TELEGRAPHIC.
ConcressionaI SUMMARY.

Congressional Summary.
WASHINGTON, ID. c., April l4-SEN-
ATE.-The consular and diplomatic APP
preparation bill was taken up, and after
some amendments was passed, and the
| senate adjourned
| WASHINGTON, April 14-HoUsE-On
| motion Of Mr.. Ryan, of Kansas, the bill
passed authorizing the secretary of the
interior TO dispose of part of Fort Dodge
military reservation to actual settlers I'M
der the provisions of the homestead
laws.
WASHINGTON, April 10 SENATE
| The Vice President laid before the SEN
ate u message from the president of the
| United States, transmitting report of
| the secretary of state concerning the ac-
ton of the executive With reference to
the investigation of certain eases in
which awards We're made by the late
United States commission. Referred
Pending debate, the morning hour eX-
pired and the senate resumed considera-
| ton of the Geneva award bill.
4 running debate ensued between SEN
atoTS Jones, Thurman, Conklin, Blaine
and Carpenter, and the latter after hav-
ing continued at some length, finally
! yielded to the motion for an executive SEES
sion, with the understanding that he
would resume his speech on Monday.
After executive session the senate adj
journed till Monday
House Considerable miscellaneous
business was disposed Of
The senate bill removing the political
| disabilities of Roger A. Pryor, passed.
On motion, the Valentine bill passed
| for the relief of. settlers on the public
lands. 1t provides that when pre-empt-
! ing homestead on timber culture, the
claimant has filed Il written relinquish-
ment of his claim in the local land office.
| The land covered by such claim shall be
| open to entry without further action on
| the part of the commissioner of the pub
lie land office.
Washington Notes.
WASHINGTON, d. C., April 13.-To.day
thirty exodus witnesses from Kansas and
| Louisiana were discharged without hav-
| ing testified before the committee.
The receipts from tobacco tax for the
| first six months of the present fiscal year,
compared with corresponding period of
last fiscal year in 4li districts which re-
! turned $4,000 and upwards during last
| fiscal year, show = total increase of
| $776,790
The secretary informed the cabinet
| that Gen. Miles, who is nov in the city,
reported the Sioux Indians DESTROYS of
| surrenderIng themselves to tie govern
ment rs comparatively few, and il is not
| anticipated that there will be any more
Indians surrender than can be properly
| fed. Those that present themselves will
be received as prisoners of war, and car
| ed for accordingly.
There was a somewhat protracted dis;
cussIon on the West Point outrage, and
| the general sentiment is that the cadet,
Whitaker, should be represented by a
consul before the board of inquiry now
sitting, and that the government should
| provide means for the impartial inVesti-
| CATION of the affair. 1t was decided
that the department Of justice should de-
| tail one of its officers to be present dur
| ing the progress of the investigation.
District Attorney Martin j. Townshcnd,
of New York, was assigned this duty.
SENATE EXODUS COMMITTEE.
| WASHINGTON, April 15.-The senate
exodus committee examined DIR. Lamb,
of Parsons, Kansas. Many refugees had
| told the witness that they were induced
| to come to Kansas by circulars which
were distributed III Texas last June.
| Witness had never been able to procure
one of those circulars, but was informed
that they were signed by Gov. st. John,
of Kansas. He did not wish to be un-
| derstOod as saying that Gov. st. John
himself issued the circulars, but said he
believed they were issued from Republi-
can headquarters, with st. Johns knowl-
edge.
Mr.. Bosworth, dry goods merchant, of
Topeka Kansas, said he was member
of the Freedmcn's Relief Association
and the eX-trcasurer of the ASSOCIATION.
He denied the truth of the assertion of
previous witness, DIR. Lamb, SO far as il
| iHtimated that the relief association had
inStigated the exodus from Texas. The
association had issued no circulars in
Yiting negroes to come. Governor st.
John might have done so, but the wit
ness did not believe he had.
MAXEY's BILL.
Senator MaXey introduced into the
senate to-day n bill appropriating $1,000
Ia reimburse captain Payne and other
officers for losses of personal property
captured and destroyed by the Ute In
dams in fight WITH Capt. Thornburgh's
command at Milk river, Colorado, in
September, 1879.
EXODUS COMMITTEE.
WASHINGTON, April A6.-The senate
exodus committee to-day examined NJ.
w. Reynolds, president of the Parsons,
Kansas branch of the Kansas freedmans
relief Association. He said zhe exodus
had not yet damaged Kansas, but thought
that If it continued at the same rate as
IN the past year II might in the course of
time prove damaging TO the white peo-
pie OF the state, more so than o.ske col
ored emigrants.
AtehisOn Accidents.
THE SHOTGUN.
ATCHIsON,' Kas., April 14-On Sun
day afternoon, Oscas Beckman, nine
years old, WIS shot and instantly killed
by the accidental discharge of a shot
gun in the hands of his four year old
sisters. He had been swapping the gun
and 1t did not go off. His sister then
took it and again swapping it at him
when it was discharged, the contents
entering his abdomen and killing almost
instantly.
A BIG TUMBLE.
n. H. Mexican, passenger conductor
on the Hannibal & St Joe road, came in |
with his train Sunday morning and was
TO have gone out this morning at 5 O'Clock.
When the porter at the house went to call
him this morning the room was empty,
and upon investigation Mexican was
found in an insensible condition in eel
lar-way outside. He had fallen out of
the fourth story window, a distance of
eighty-seven feet, striking in sit
ting posture, and his head failing down
the stairway. He has been unconscious
ever since, but the physician says no
bones are broken and he may possibly
recover. His wife, who was teIegrapiled
for and arrived this afternoon, saws he is
a sleep walker. His condition is dan
gerous.
Acquitted.
LEAvENwoRTH, Kas.. April 14.-Thos
c. Thurston, one of the editors of the
late Sunday Herald, who shot and killed
his partner, w. W. Embry, on the first
day of January last, had a second trial
in the district court of this county to-
day, and was acquitted. The killing
was held by the jury to be justifiable, on |
the ground that Embry was known to be |
a dangerous man.
Captured at LeadvflIe.
DENVER, Col, April 14-Peter Low
ing, the leader in the celebrated gold |
brick swindle perpetrated upon n. d. |
Clark, the Ohio banker, in LeadYilIe, |
last October, was captured here tonight |
by Capt. HawIey, of the Rocky Noun |
tain Detective association, as he stepped |
Jail.
New YORK, April 14.-O'Leary chal-
lenges any two men in England TO make |
, six day goas-you-please match with
Hart and DObler for $4,000 to $50, 600 a /
side; the contest to take place here.
How the w. U. Seooped them.
DENVER, Col, April 15.-The wires
on the Denver Pacific and Kansas Pa
CHIC railways are restored 10 the West
ern Union Telegraph company. This
completely reinstates the w. U. compa-
ny in all its lines. and fully vindicates
its claims and conduct in the premises
The restraining order, which is directed
to the American Union company as well
as TO the other defendants, Restraints them
from preventing the Western Union |
company from restoring its connection
with the wifes on the Kansas Pacific and
Denver Pacific railways, and prohibit
ing the defendants from any connection
of their wires or either of them with any
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