Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1880-04-30
VERY LATEST NEWS
A Record Of Important Events
Domestic and Foreign.
WASHINGTON.

lIeu 10 Duy Fo,UUUiUOO Onlicu lolhlS'
bonds at the most advantageous rates.
THE house committee on Ways anc
Means agreed TO report to the house
representative Johnson's bill to amend
the statutes relative to the cancellation
Of export bonds on the expectation o
tobacco, snuil, and cigars, on the 22nt
| inst.
THE president, on the 23rd inst, nom
mated Edgar M. Mabcrly, OF Michigan
n commissioner of patents, and Joseph
II. McCamon, Of Pennsylvania, MS as
sislant attorney general of the United
States.
THE committee on foreign affairs, re-
ported back JOINT resolution for the
abrogation of the Clayton Bulwer treaty
as the unanimous report OF the commit
tee, says IA dispatch Of th gath inst.
GEN. MILES, before the house commit.
tee on Pacific railroads, ON the 23rd
inst, favored the extension of the North.
ern Pacific railroad on the ground that
the road would prove Of great value to
the government as military highway,
and public policy should encourage It's
completion.
| THE pardon business seems to he car.
ried to great extremes Water Register
| Cox Of this district, wealthy man, who
was recently sentenced 10 pay fine Of
800 in the criminal court for assault,
applied on The 23rd inst, to the presi-
dent for n pardon.
THE postal revenues for the coming
year will undoubtedly be much greater
than the estimates. The amount OF
postagc-stumps, stamped envelopes,
and poslal-cards issued to poslmastprs
upon rcquisition during the nine months
ending March 81 last, says news of the
22nd ms, was 1913 .970, 335, an increase
Of over IA per cent.
THE house committee an agriculture
adopted resolution on the 23rd inst ,
recommending an appropriation of $40,
600 10 enable the chronological com.
mission 10 continue and complete its in
vcstigation OF insects hurtiul TO agricul-
tura interests. This IL defeat to Com
missioner Lac Due, who wanted the com.
mission abolished and the work com
pleted by the department.
TIE differences between the striking
operatives and the managers OF tho Har-
mony mills, ut Conoes, N J., have
| been settled and work was re-
sumcd on The 23rd inst. The work has
been In progress three weeks and two
days, and 100000 In wages has been lost
| TO tho operatives.
THE house commerce committee, on
tho 23rd inst, agreed TO recommend an
appropriation Of 100000 TO begin n
lock aud dam on the Illinois river, und
100000 for dredging. This is the be
ginning of series of appropriations
which the Illinois delegation hopes
| hereafter To secure for that improve
ment, and is undoubtedly the result of
the arguments made by the delegation
before that committee this week.
THE senate, on the 23rd inst, coniim
ed William A. Newell, OF New Jersey,
MS governor of Washington Territory
Il. j. Smiihcrs, of Delaware, United
States consul nj Chin Llang; Ii. $. Love
joy, receiver of public moneys Mt Mo
| brnrn Neb. Postmaslcrs-T. w. Scott,
Fairfield, H.; j. w. Groesbeck, llar-
ward, HI; l.. A. Marvin, Duluth, MINI,
Charles II, Lold, Tuscon, Arizona,
THE house committee on agriculture
recommended TO the committee on APP
preparations, on the 23rd inst, that an
appropriation of $4,000 be male to the
United States chronological commission
for tho purpose of enabling said com.
mission to complete the Investigation in
relati on to the Rocky mountain locust,
or western grasshopper, and the cotton
worm and other insects injurious to the
cotton plant.
| NEW York bankers declare that Dc
Lcsseps is indulping in pure sensation
when he declares In Paris that he re.
ceived heavy subscriptions In New York
tc his canal project. These bankers say
that, on the con rary, he received no
subscriptions worth talking about, II, IN
fact he obtained any, says dispatches OF
the 22nd inst. AT least his subscription
papers sent to the principal New York
banks remained blank. The feeling
among all capitalists was that the hostil,
attitude eff the United States was enough
to prevent investments, and this feeling
still exists,
THE Immigration bill introduced b,
Mr., Cox into the house ON the 2ith inst
gave rise 10 considerable discussion, an,
the proposition to appropriate $3.50,
600 annually Ia maintain immigran
paupers and invallds met with consider
able opposition. The question Of Chin
csc lmml graticu was brought up by Til,
California members, who appealed I,
the mem bers from New England to al,
them In preventing the Pacific Coas
from being oyerruu by Mongolian paup
ers and lepers who contribute nothing I,
the defense or support of the state or Thu
nation.
{ A LONG .pEFRRpEp tribute TO the mem
ory OF a great Journalist was consum
mated mt Washington ON the 22nd lust
by the erection OF a monument to TN,
memory of Joseph Gales over hi
grave in the congressional cemetery
The spot has remained unmarked cxcep
by the contour of the sod since his dealt
Ia 1860. The monument to be efccte,
has been procured by the contribution
Of journalists IN Boston. New York an,
Philadelphia, through the personal In
tcrest in tho matter of George Jones o
the Now York Times and George w
Childs, of the Philadelphia Ledger, an,
|, u. A Goddard, Of the Boston .idVrttSt4
to whom the project was suggested 4,
the Hon Robert &. Winthrop.
Mn. DowNRy, the delegate from wv
oming Territory, created II sensation oi
| the o3rd inst, by publishing in the Re
ord poem in blank verse, fifteen page
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