The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1880-12-30
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WASHINGTON BRIEFS.

WAShlNUlUA DhlErSs
valescing.
TEE Ponca chiefs have arrived in Washington
to confer with Secretary Schurz.
TIE clerks and employees of the Navy De-
partment, on the 18th, tookl formal leave of
Secretary Thompson.
IT is stated that Conger has drawn out Of
the Senatorial fight in Michigan, and looks to-
ward the Speakership Of the House.
Two bills have been introduced in the House
and Senate to extinguish all greenbacks under
the denomination of So in order to force silver
dollars into circulation
THE House Committee on Claims has deter
mined not 10 investigate or report on any more
cases before it, as it Is well understood they will
not be acted upon by this Congress. p
MIR. MCPHERSON has finally made his count
of the next House, which he claims will stand
as follows: Republicans 14S, Democrats 135,
Greenbackers g. Readjusters q Total 293.
tREPREsESTATIvE Morton has introduced in
the House bill for the repeal of tax on bank
checks bank capital in excess of the amount
held in Government bonds, and bank de-
! posits. ssrE.. sas a.. ..-- ...st
| THE Chief of the Bureau of Statistics re-
ports the total value of exports of domestic
! breadstuffs for the eleven months ending
November 80, 1880, S256, 762, $50; same period
| in 1879, $3.50, ,791, ,604.
| THE Senate IN executive session voted down
| the motion to reconsider the vote confirming
| Judge Woods as Associate Justice of the Su-
preme Court. 1t is denied that Judge Woods
is native of Ohio. E z-E .ra,r ezl-.- --
The Electoral vote of Georgia, which was
| not cast on the day prescribed by the laws of
| the United States, will be submitted by the
Vice President to the two Houses of Congress
| for consideration.
| The Printing Committee asks for an appro-
priation of S37, 900 with which to make safe
the floors of the Public Printing Office. The
running of machinery causes the entire build
ing to vibrate, and endangers the lives of six or
eight hundred employees.
The request of the Secretary of the Interior
for deficiency appropriation of SIS, ,000, 900
| for PENSIONS making an addition to the regular
appropriation of about $50, ,000, 900 for pensions
for the current fiscal year, has caused much
comment and criticism among members OF
Congress. They do not blame the Pension De-
partment, but they all say there is something
wrong, or the annual pension burdens would
not grow at such an enormous ratio.
THE Consular and Diplomatic Bill appropri
ates for the Consular Service ;S329, ,000-less
than one-third of the amount annually ex-
1 pended by Great Britain for similar service.
/ Great Britain, for example, maintains Consular
| representations in Brazil at an annual expense
of S34 $50. The United States allows its five
representatives in the same country the NUM-
the sum is paid to the Consul General at Rio
4 Janeiro leaving an average of s., 500 to each
of the others.
THE President has issued the following, un
der date of December 1871 request the fol-
lowing gentlemen to proceed to the Indian Ter
ritory soon may be, and after a confer
ence with the Ponca tribe of Indians, to ascer-
tain facts in regard to their recent removal
and present condition, so far as is necessary to
determine the question what justice and hui
B manity require should be done by the govern
ment of the United States, and report their
conclusions and recommendations in the prem
ises: Brigadier General George Crook U. S. A.
Brigadier General Nelson A. Miles, U. S. A;
VIM. Stickney, Washington, d. c.; Walter Allen,
Newton Mass. 1t is the purpose of the fore
going request to authorize the commission to
take whatever steps may in their judgment be
necessary to enable them to accomplish the pur-
pose set forth. General Crook is authorized to
take with him two Aid-de-Camps to do clerical
| work. r. B. HAYES"
The National Board of Trade in session
adopted resolution declaring that the results
of the operation of the telegraph in Great
Britain as part of the postal system of the
1 country are such as to commend the adoption
of a similar system to the people of the United
States. This. resolution elected long and
very interesting debate, but it was finally
adopted by the required two-thirds majority.
A resolution was also adopted commencing the
efforts made by the Department of State for
the collection of valuable information by oul
foreign Consuls bearing upon and calculated to
extend our export trade. a resolution to the
effect that the American malls tou the ocean
, should be- carried in American ships only was
after some debate, indefinitely postponed, The
shipping question was brought mp again 1bnt,
owing tosa difference Of opinion between Those
who desired "a modification of the navigation
laws and those who were opposed to such
modification, no action swas taken. The board
then adjourned to meet7in7 Washington next
December. -, - =
TIE following general order has been issued
! I from army headquarters: FTst-Brig. Gen. o
!; 10. Howard is assigned to command of the De
partment Of WestP Point, and to- duly ass Su
, perintendent7 Of the United States Militar.
General, and viii relieve Maj. Gen. John M
Schofeld. Second-EBfig. Gen. G. @. Augur ii
assigu6d83G command of the Department eo
| Tex a. ii hrd4Co1. Henry T. Hunt, 5th Ar
tillery, iseassigned TO the temporary command
!. of tM Department Of the South, according t
!. his brevet of Brigadier General Femthr7Th.
States of Arkansas and Louisiana and 4IndiaI
Territory will constitute military department
q and will be known as the Department OF Arkan
a lsas, nth Headquarters at Little Rock. Col R
g s. MaeKenzess4th Cavalry is aassigneds to tn
!, command, according to his breYet of Brigade
| Genefhl, ID ifth-=Depa partments of Texas AM
e Arkanses I'LL nstitute the piyiaian o
the Gulf, with HEADQUARTERS at New Orleans
/ Maj. Gen. John M. Schofeld, is assigned tc
this command. Until this division shall have
been organized, Commanding Generals of de
s to Lieutenant General commanding .Militar
e Division of the Missouri. Sixth-Bng. Gen
N. A Miles is assigned to the command of tn
: Department of the Columbia. Until the ar
d rival of Gen. Miles at his headquarters, tn
a command of the Department of the Columbi
will be exercised by Col. Frank Wharton, q
n Infantry according to his brevet of Brigade