The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1880-04-14
REsUHE OF THE WEEKS NEWS.
CONGRESSIONAL AND WASHINGTON NOTES.


In the House the naval appropriation bill
was reported. and the army bill was explained
and discussed.
The Senate. in executive session, after long
/ discussion, rejected the nominations of ex-
] Congressman John r. Lynch and John s. Bur-
4 ton as Supervisors of the Census in MisSis-
/ sippi.
/ Manning urged in vain that all the proceed
( ings in the Donneily- Washburn case should
be made pubic, and the Committee finally
l decided to remove the Injunction OF secrecy
/ only as regarded the past. Mr. Finley pub
fishes statement denying the charge that he
wrote the anymous letter to Mr.. Springer.
The Ways and Means Committee listened to
argument In behalf OF the bill recently intro
/ duced by Mr.. Wood, at the request of the New
! York Chamber of Commerce, providing for
change in the system OF collecting customs
! duties.
! sub. committee of the Ways and Means
/ Committee has agreed upon bill on the sugar
tariff question similar TO that proposed by Mr..
/ Tucker last week.
1t is claimed by those opposed to Secretary
Schurzs agreement with the Utes that the
/ bill ratifyiDg IL has been so loaded down with
amendments in the house COMMITTEE on In.
dian Affairs that IL can not pass.
MIR. Thurman was on Wednesday elected to
preside over the Senate a the absence of Vice
l President Wheeler. The chief subjects dis
\ cussed were the proposed removal of the
/ Santees from Nebraska 70 the Poncas' old
reservation and the bill latifying the agres-
ment with the Utes. The latter was so
amended as TO make the payment OF the
/ money to the Utes con ingent upon the sur
4 o
In the House Mr.. McCook offered a resoIu-
| ton calling on the Secretary of War fer in
formation regarding the alleged outrage at
/ West Point, but Mr.. Aiken objected. The pro-
posed amendment to the army bill regarding
the employment OF contract surgeons was re-
jecied and the result was a "scene" between
Messrs. Sparks and Clyme r, the former using
language for which the Republicans proposed
TO censure him. He ultimately, however,
withdrew the parliamentary words.
A Washington dispatch reports an interview
with Mr.. Gorham, formerly Secretary of the
Senate, in wich he gives his estimate of the
strength OF the different Republican cand1-
dates tor the presidency, and SCOTS az the
claims of the friends of Messrs. Blaine and
Sherman.
The Senate on Thursday further discussed
the bill 10 ratiiy the agreement with the Utes.
The House spent nearly its entire session in
Committee of the Whole in consideration OF
whether the amendment TO the army bill for.
bidding the presence of soldiers at the polls
7 was in order. The Chairman decided the
question in the Affirmative, and was sustained
by the Committee.
The Sub Committee of the House Committee
on Pacific Railroads voted unanimously
against extending the time for the cOmpleti
OF the Northern Pacific Road, but suspended
action on the matter at this point, to allow
further consideration of the subject.
A caucus of the Democratic senators was
held to consider the Spoford-Kellogg contest,
among other questions. conclusion was not
reached, but il is said that q majority of the
Senators are opposed to pressing the matter
TO vote at the present session.
Mr.. DOnnelly has written a letter to the
vestigatlon of Mr.. SpTinger's char ge that the
latters famous anonymous letter was written
with his edge and consent.
Mr.. Finley tells a cores pOndsnt that he has
nothing to do with Mr.. Tilden, does not want
TO have anything to do with him, and does
not think he can be nominated.
In the Senate, on Friday, en- anima. ed de-
bate took place on heZing and the treatment
OF colored cadets at West Point, In which
Messrs. Voorhees,. Bruce and Hoar took the
chief part. The Ute agreement was further
discussed, and the amendment of Mr.. Dawes
regarding the education OF the Ute youth, and
several other amendments, were adopted.
The House spent the entire session in the
consideration OF private bills.
The nominations of Mr.. Angel and of the
two gentlemen associated with him for the
negotiation of treaty with China have been
confirmed.
A meeting of the Canal Committee of the
House is called for TO take the evidence of sew
eral gentlemen experienced in Central Ameri-
can matters, and 1t is also said that resou-
ton is speedily to be reported from the For
eigu Affairs Committee for the absolute abro-
CATION of the Bulwer Clayton treaty.
The Exodus Committee listened TO testi-
mony regarding the feeling in Kansas toward
he emigraRtS.
The general debate on the army bill amend
ment forbidding the use of soldiers as police
force at the polls was begun on Saturday in
the House. The Democrats refused to take
part in the debate, and the Republicans soon
found IL very dull, but nevertheless refused TO
consent to vote until they had had further
opsort mites for discussing it.
The Canal Committee heard argument in
The Exodus Committee listened to the testi-
mony of several industrious and well-to-do
colOred men, who had no complaints to make
of their treatment by the whites.
The caucus of Democratic Senators decided
as a compromise measure to postpone the
Spofford-Kellogg case until the Geneva award
bill had been disposed Of which, it is generally
believed, will have the effect OF poStponing In
matter until the next session.
MISCELLANEOUS NEWS ITEMS.
There was a snow-storm in Northern Geor-
gia Friday.
Mrs Taylor, of Evansville, charged with
completely In the Alice Bruce abortion, has
given bonds in $1,000 to answer any indict-
ment the grand jury may find against ner.
Mrs. Emily Doug ass Forrest, widow of the
late Commodore rench Forrest, of the United
States and Confederate States Navies, died
suddenly in Washington on Friday night,
aged seventy.
The failures In New York for the first three
months of this year number AGO, with liabili.
the same peTiod, the failures numbered R,5o6.
with liabilities of s4S,GOOO.
A Saturday special from Reading, Pa, says
John Powell and Robert Taylor, and severely
Injured about twelve others. The killed and
wounded were quarTymen.
Returns from s27 voting precincts scattered
following totals for presidential choice: Blaine,
q $40: Grant, 6,O97 Sherman, 9i6; Washburne,
100; Edmunds, 3s5; scattering, l,11S
ment in relation to Government pensions.
According to this authority, we are the most
liberal Nation in this respect on earth. The
amount paid for pensions last year was $780,
100000
DIR. Ferdinand Meyer, of Nation, ILL.,, is ac-
cused with having vacciuaud number of
persons OF that town with virus taken from a
Smallpox patient. causing The rapid spread
of the disease He jumped the town in q
hurry.
A telegram from Singapore confirms the re-
port of the murder of Walton by natives of
Sunatra while on a scientific mission for the
French Government. The Government of
Acheen has gone with troops to recover the
body and effects and punish the murderers.
The pedestrian match for O'Leary's belt
closed in New York saturday night at 1870
o'clock, with the lowing score: Hart, 565
miles; Pegram, 5i3zs miles; Howard, 5345s
miles; DObler, 53l miles; Allen, 525A miles;
Krohne. 5l6 miles Williams, $685. miles; Han
wacker, 45O5s miles.
One of the wheel mills of Kings Great Wes-
tern Powder Works, near Fostoria, Ohio, blew
up about 30 Saturday afternoon, seriously, IL
not fatally, injuring p. Dreamer. who was at
work in the mill at the time. Two hundred
and fifty pounds OF powder were burned.
Damage TO the building light
A Constantinople correspondents telegraphs:
"Th0 elections in England have produced a