The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1880-04-08

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THE NEWS.
Compiled from Latest Dispatches
Congress.
SENATE.-The Deficiency Appropria,
ton bill containing the appropriation Of
$oo7, oo) for United States Marshals and depu
ties, was reported on the 18th ult., and placed
on the csisndar, The Geneva Award bill va,
HOUsr.-A number of bills were in.
PRODUCED. among which were: BY Mr.. Her
bert, prescribing and defining the man
ner of guaranteeing to each State Q repNblt
can form Of Government; by Mr. Robert
son. reefiirming and applying the Mon
roe doctrine. by Mr.. Morton, providing that
United States shall be Interchangeable at theii
lawful value on the demand of holders thereof:
by Mt: Davie tCell to orsanize the Territory
%ent M 70 for ns
the tariff and revenue laws The Consular
and Diplomatic Appropriation bin was further
considered in Committee Of the Whole.
SENArE-On the SOth ult. Mr.. LQ:
gan, from the Committee on Military Affairs,
reported adversely on the joint resolution au.
thorizing the Secretary Of War to furnish
tents, ETC., to the Grand Army of the Repub-
Bile for the purpose. =. "A bill was introduced
by Mr.. ingalls, to provide for the sale of the
lands Of the Miami Indians, in Kansas. The
fisheries and for the preservation Of shad and
herring in the Potomac River was passed .
Amendments to the Deficiency Appropriation
bill were agreed to.
HOusE.-The Consular and Diplomatic
Appropriation bill was passed. :. Mr.. Clymer
reported the Army Appropriation bill, and Mr..
Blackburn reported back the "Star Service
Deficiency bill. with the Senate amendments,
of the Whole. >. The contested election case Of
Bradley VS.. Slemons, from the Second District
of Arkansas, was taken up, and Mr.. Bradley,
half '''
SENATE.-Bills were passed on the
3lst ult.-providing for an international exhi
bition in New York in 1883, and to equalize
homesteads by allowing locations in more than
one place where necessary to make up 100
acres. The Immediate Deficiency Appro-
priation bill was taken up, and Mr.. Blaine
moved an amendment giving employees in the
holidays without q deduction of pay; this was
opposed by Messrs. Carpenter, Edmunds and
others, and was finally rejected. A motion by
to the appointment and pay of Special Deputy
Marshals, leaving the appropriation intact,
was rejected-2 to 34-and the bill was then
read third time.
HousE.--Several bills were reported
and the Post-Route bill was passed "A reso-
luton was adopted-l49 to 2l-declaring the
sitting member, VIM. F. Slemons, entitled to
the seat in the House from the Second Arkan-
sas District.
SENATE.-Majority and minority re-
ports were made on the LIST from the Special
Committee on Election Frauds. %. The Imme-
date Deficiency Appropriation bill was
further considered, Mr.. Edmunds making q
lengthy speech in opposition to the measure,
and Mr.. Eaton following in defense of the bill.
The bill was then passed-SS to IA party
vote.
HoUsE.-The Senate bill to amend
the Census act was amended and passed.
The Star Service Deficiency bill was debated in
Committee of the Whole.
From Washington.
The excess of American exports over
imports for the year ending February 20 was
s2l2, 2es, $685.
A WASHINGTON dispatch of the 29th
war were at the Isthmus of Panama engaged in
surveys and other operations distasteful to
the Colombian authorities
BETWEEN the LIST of last September
and recent date 2,97l miles of railway were
completed in this country, and within the
same period arrangements were effected for
the building Of 2,64l miles more.
The National House Committee on
Elections on the 3Oth ult. again postponed
final vote on the Donnelly- Washburn contest
ed election case.
UP to the 31st ult. the National Bank
circulation had increased s2O696, 10S since
January l, 1879, and legal-tenders on deposit
with the Treasurer for the purpose of retir-
ing circulation increased $685. S2 during
the same period.
DURING March the receipts from in
ternal revenue were about 81, O0O, 900; from
customs, $4,000, 900.
Mr.. BREWER. of Michigan, recently
presented in the National House of Repre-
sentatives petition lss yards in length, and
signed by SO, 4S4 ladies belonging to the La
dies National Temperance Union, praying
for the appointment of . commission on the
alcoholic liquor traffic, and for such legislation
as will prohibit the manufacture and sale of
alcoholic liquors.
COMPLAINTS have recently been made
to the State Department at Washington, by
United States Ministers abroad, that the bogus
medical colleges at Philadelphia have resumed
the selling Of diplomas in Europe.
On the 1st the Committee on Elec-
tons of the National House of Representa-
tives took final action upon the contested
election case Of Donnelly vs.. Washburn, of
the Third Minnesota District. A resolution
was first adopted-6 to 5-(there being two
pairs)-declaring that Washburn was not
entitled to the seat; it was then resolved
to Zone pair and one absentee)-that
Donnelly was not entitled to q seat in the
House. Instructions were given for the
preparation of . report, which will declare the
seat vacant and recommend that the matter
be remanded to the people of the district for
a new election. A minority report win also
be made.
The public debt statement for March
makes the following exhibit: Total debt lin
GLIDING INTEREST,", $2,1Sl, 499, SO6. Cash in
Treasury, SOL, 106, 9S3. Debt, less amount in
Treasury, $3.50, 392, 1928 Decrease during
the month, $14,7l9, 1896. Decrease since June
30, 1879, $46,sl4,4Sl.
The nomination of A. c. Wells, son
Of Ex-Governor Wells, to be Surveyor Of the
Port Of New Orleans, was rejected by the
United States Senate on the 1st.
The East.
A DORCHESTER Mass.) church has
recently celebrated the two hundred and If
tieth anniversary Of it, organization in Plym-
outh, England.
The New York Democratic Conven-
ton to select delegates to the Cincinnati
Convention is to be held at Syracuse April 20.
KEMBLE and the other convicted
Pennsylvania bribers, who were to have been
sentenced At Harrisburg on the 10th ult.
failed to appear in court, as they had prom,
ised. Their bail was forfeited. and warrants
were Immediately issued for their arrest
They had probably fed beyond the jurisdic-
ton Of tho court
Ar "a business meeting of the members
Of the First Reformed Presbyterian Church Of
Pittsburgh, Pa, few mornings ago, the dis