Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1880-02-12
THE WEEKS WORK.
Selected From Every Source.
WASHINGTON.

TIE American Congressional Temper
ance Society elected Secretary of the
Navy Thompson, president, on the 9th
inst
A WASHINGTON telegram of the 7th
says the house committee recommended
an appropriation of $200,00 for public
building at Denver, Col, and 100000 for
a public building at Minneapolis, $50
OO0 OF the former amount and SAC, 600 OF
the latter to be expended during the cur
rent year
! A WASHINGTON dispatch under date OF
Feb. 7th says at the cabinet meeting to.
day the sentence of the cOurtmartial
which recently tried Maj. Reno, recon-
mending his dismissal from service, was
af1rmed, and the proper orders TO that
effect will soon be issued
a WASHINGTON dispatch of the 6th
says that preparations for invading the
Indian territory are assuming formidable
proportions. This question was the sub
ject Of somewhat protracted discussion
at meeting, to-day, and, it is understood
a proclamation similar to that of last
spring on the same subject will soon be
issued by the president.
The senate committee will recommend
| the passage of the Burnsides bill which,
dispatch of the 9Th says, provides that
the net proceeds of the sales of public
lands and the net proceeds of the patent
office shall hereafter be devoted to the
establishment of an educational fund to
be apportioned annually among the sew.
eral states and territories and the District
Cf Columbia.
A DISPATCH from Washington under
date Of Feb. 7th says that the house
committee voted to against the grant
ing the application of Ezra Miller for
the extension of his car-coupling patent.
The commit take the ground that the
seventeen years length of time the pat
ent has seen, is the limit contemplated by
the act of 1861, and that the general pol
icy of the government is adverse to ex-
tending patents beyond tha. period.
THE quinine interest in this country
has been very active in its efforts to Sc
cure reimposition of the duty on that
article, says a Washington dispatch of
the 9th inst. The manufacturers of qui-
nine in the United States will ask
hearing before the committee on ways
and means. They have concluded not
to ask restoration of the duty to 20 per
cent, which was imposed at the time
quinine was placed on the fgse list, but
will be satisfied if they can get 10 per
cent.
THE published statement that General
Sherman has recommended mitigation
of the sentence of Major Reno to sus,
pension is untrue, says a dispatch of the
9TH inst. He has indorsed the sentence
of the court, which is dismissal from the
service. The sentence has also been ap.
proved by the secretary of war, and is
now in the hands of the president, who
feels that Major Reno has forfeited con-
t1dence, and has not yet shown an intsn,
ton to reform according to the promise
made by him two years ago, when a sim
liar sentence was remitted.
A WASHINGTON dispatch under date Of
Feb. Sth, states that the ways and means
committee on Monday will give hear
ing to persons Interested in the passage
of Representative JOrgenson's bill pro-
viding for the cancellation of export
bonds of tobacco manufacturers at ports
of Clearances. The manufacturers claim
that the present law not only imposes
hardships upon them, but tends to drive
business out OF the country, and in sup
port of the proposition instanced the case
of manufacturer in Virginia exporting
as high as $2,000,000 worth of tobacco a
year, who has removed his business to
Australia, and simply exports from this
country thn raw leaf