Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1880-02-13
VERY LATEST NEWS
A Record of Important Events
Domestic and Foreio!n.
WASHINGTON.

A WASHINGTON dispatch under date OF
Feb. 9Th says at the cabinet meeting yes
,erday the sentence of the Court Martial
which recently tried Maj. II no. recon-
mending his dismissal from service, was
affirmed, and the proper orders TO That
effect will soon be issued.
A. WASHINGTON telegram Of the oh
saws the house committee recommended
an appropriation or $500, 600 tor public
building at Denver, Col, and xlO0,uOU
for public building nj Minneapolis,
Mimi, $50,0 of the former amount ana
$40 900 OF the latter TO be expended dur
ing The current year.
Col GREENBURY i. FoRT, representa-.
tive in congress from the eight Illinois
district, says Washington dispatch OF
the 10th inst, has announced that ne VIII
allow his name to be used In tue Illinois
republican state convention, as a candi.
date for governor.
A WASHINGTON dispatch of tho 9Th
says that preparations for invading the
Indian Territory are assuming formid-
able proportions This question was the
subject of somewhat prolracted discus.
sion at meeting, to-day, and, IL is un.
derstood, n proclamation similar to that
OF last spring on the same subject Will
soon be issued by the president.
A DISPATCH from Washington under
date of Feb. 9Th, says that the house
committee voted Z 10 3 against the grant
ing of tho application of Ezra Miller for
the extension OF his car coupling patent.
The commute iiae the ground that the
seventeen years length of time the patent
has seen, IL The limit contemplated by
the act of 1861, and that the general
policy Of the government IL adverse TO
extending patents beyond that period.
THE senate commit tee vii recommend
the passage of the Burnsides bill which,
dispatch of the Oh says, provides that
the net proceeds Of the sales OF public
lands and the net proceeds OF the patent
office shall hereafter be devoted 10 the
establish ment of an educational fund to
DO appropriated annually among Tho
several states and territories and the Dis
trict Of Columbia.
A WASHINGTON dispatch under date OF
Feb. OH stated That the ways and
means committee today gave hear.
ing To persons interested In the passage OF
Representative J0rgcnson's bill provid-
Ing for the cancellation OF export bonds
of tobacco manufacturers who claim that
the present law not only imposes hard
ships upon them, but tends to drive
business out of the country, and In
support ofthe proposition instanccd the
the case of manufactures In Virginia
exporting as high as $4,000, 600 worth OF
tobacco year, who has removed his
business to Australia, and simply ex
ports from this country tho raw leaf.
TnE following, says n telegram of the
OH inst, IS the iul text Of representative
Forts bin to reduce the duty on soda.
ush, Co.:
"a BnI. TO place certain articles imported md
used IN tho manufacture of paper 0f glars,
ana of wooden fabrics IN the free list aud TO
reduce tho import dnty on prinllnR'paper urcd
for buohs pamphlets, magazines, aud news
aHs IL enacted, etc That on and after tho fret
day Of July, 1885, all soda nsh and impure carbon
ate OF aida imported 10 be USED ~ lhe mnhula0-
tnro Of paper, or nf RnsH or OF cloths or lhorlcs
composed wholly or In part of wool, shall DO nd
mitttd free OF duty.
"sEo y TINT all unsiHed printing paper used
/ for bucks, pnn phlrtH, magazines hIh newspapers
exclusively shall bo subject 10 an import duty oil
| b per cnntum nd vaorem"
| SAYS Il Washington dispatch Of tho 9th
inst, the state department IL said TO have
received information that the statistics
used by the British government to sns.
lain tho Canadian claim before tho Hal
| flax commission were fraudulent; that
the attention of the British government
has been called to these fraudulent ias-
| flcations, and the items of change indi-
Gated, but Tint tho British government
has declined To take any notice oi this in
formation. Dclfossc, formerly Belgian
minister Mt Washington, who WAS piesi
dent Of the Halifax commission, has
been informed oi this fraudulent change
In the case, which was the basis OF the
award In which he acted as arbiier
| ApyfoEs of The 9th state that the sen.
ate to day confirmed tho following nom
nations: Henry w. Leonard, of New
Jersey, consulate 10 Compcachy; j. q
Gu G, of Bergen, Norway, U. ), consul
ut that place; T., Z. Kilder, collector OF
customs, fourth district OF Dunkirk, New
York; James A. Connolly, U. y district
attorney for the southern district of I'LL
nois; M. g. Brown, U. ) attorney for
wyoming, q A Stone, of Ohio, agent
for the dians Of Scmphia agency, Ida
no. Posimastcrs; Wisconsin-Elisha
Enos, Waukesha. TT - senate, in execu.
tive session, rejected the nomination of
John NJ. Morton, OF California, M col
leetur of internal revenue for the first
! district of California, by yea and nay
vote of ~ against 10 The nomination
of julius A. Waylnnd, 10 be postmaster
at Harrisonvile, Mo-, was to-day with
drawn.