The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1880-12-23
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THE House Committee has agreed upon q
pension bill which appropriates $50, 600, 900.
GEN. Francis A. WALKER, Superintendent of
the Census, is suggested as Secretary Of the
Interior.
THE nomination of John B. Neil, as Governor
of the Territory of Idaho, has been confirmed
by the Senate.
been nominated for Justice of the Supreme
Court. Wood is q native of Ohio.
MIR, SAULEsBERRY, Chairman of the Commit
tee on Privileges and Elections, proposes to
resurrect the Kellogg case.
In 1879 the gain to the revenue resulting
from the increased classification OF sugar was
s303, 367, and in 1880, 81, 239, 872.
SENATOR PENDLEToN has introduced o Civil
Service bill in consonance with the
atoms of President Hayes in his last message.
The Committee on Pensions is very decided
in the belief that some new law to protect the
Government in pension payments must be en-
acted.
TIE drift of talk about the House is that
the membership, under the new apportiCn-
ment, will be 300 which will make the ratio
166, 666.
SENATOR WILLIAMS has introduced o bill to
| prevent the introduction or dissemination Of
infectious diseases among the domestic AMI
mails of the United States.
SECRETARY SEIZURE, upon his retirement from
Office, will settle permanently in st. Louis, and
divide his time between writing a book and ed
iting the WestRche Post.
GEN. o. o. HOWARD has been appointed
Commandment at West Point. General Howard
is friendly to the negro, and, naturally, there
is much unfavorable criticism.
DELEGATE CAMERON, of Utah, protests against
that portion of the Presidents message relating
to polygamy. Delegate Cameron himself re-
joices in the possession of two wives.
SECRETARY THOMPSON has rendered his re-
airnafiAp RI r. b. ofoot nc Cnpr, 90 hfu orrooaouor
can be appointed. He desires to accept the
Craftsmanship of the Panama Canal Company.
The Senate has unanimously confirmed the
nomination of Col. VIM. B. Hazen, Chief Sig
nal Officer, with the rank of Brigadier Genetal,
and Col. Wilson A. Miles, to be Brigadier G. n
eral.
A TREASURY official has received a letter from
Sitka, Alaska, saying that the mineral wealth
there will produce a gold fever. Old miners
pronounce the quartz found the richest they
ever saw.
THE President has approved the bill author
izing the Secretary of the Interior to dispose of
the Fort Dodge Military Reservation to actual
settlers under the provisions of the Homestead
Laws.
The matter is being considered of lighting
the Capitol Grounds by electricity. 1t is pro-
posed that the grounds shall be lighted from
four points by condensed light Of 900, 600 can
die power.
GEN. WALKER is only waiting for returns
from one of the frontier districts of Texas be-
fore reporting the total of the census for each
State and Territory. This will probably arrive
within ten days.
ARMY promotions and army retirements has
and still is vexingP President Hayes more than
any other minor matter connected with his ad-
ministration. He seems to inset violent opp
sition in whatever step he takes in this direc-
ton.
BROADER GENERAL R. B MARCY, Inspector
1A-a-.1 T 4Ja,,r - Eo~A Iv.--.A. Il
NJ, by the Secretary of War, has made applica-
ton to the War Department to be placed on the
retired list. He will probably be placed on the
retired list january 2.
The Department of Agriculture says of the
condition of cotton: There is a decline in the
return of December l, compared with that re-
ceived November l.. The continuance of rain
and very cold weather during November lowered
the stimate of the States bordering on the
Mississippi River
THE American Woman Suffrage Association
held a meeting in Washington last week, al
which twelve States were represented. A tele.
gram was received from Governor Hoyt, of Wy.
oming, indorsing woman suffrage. Congress:
will be asked to enact q law giving women equal
political rights in the Territories.
GENERAL TERRY will perhaps be made com
mandant at West Point. 1t was the purpose Of
the President to make General Howard com
mandant at that point, but he was dissuadet
from doing it by General Sherman and Secretar,
EVartS. HOWARD, however, is promised q place
in the East as soon rs he settles up his affair
in Oregon.
A BILL introduced by Senator Hill, O
Colorado, "for the retirement of small legal
tender notes. provides that in place Of legal
tender notes of denominations less than IS
which may be held in the Treasury or here
after presented for redemption, the Secretar.
of the Treasury shall each month substitute
notes of the same character, but of higher de
nominations, to the amount Gas nearly as prac
fticable) of standard silver dollars coined durin,
that month, and that no money legal-tende
!, notes of a lower denomination than five dollar
shall hereafter be printed.
| SAYS q Washington correspondent: ''The bot
: tom seems to be out of the Monroe doctrine
: Secretary Thompson's detection is regarded a
| fatal, when, with his full knowledge of the req
condition of our navy, he deliberately take
part in a foreign attack on this great doctrin
of one of the fathers, and in the face of tn
| Presidents position on the subject, it is &C
: the task of stopping the rest of the world. TIL
: feeling of Congress OIL this subject seems to b
one of entire apathy"