Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1880-05-12
THE uowGATE EXPEDITION.
GENERAL CAPITAL NEWS.
ADJOURNMENT.

ADJOURNMENT.
WASHINGTON, May IL. AT the meeting OF the
House committee on ways and means Mr..
Phelps moved to substitute May Slst for the
Oath as the date for adjournment of the present
session of Congress. Thursday next was fixed
to consider the question.
RIVER AND HARBoR BILL.
The House committee on commerce decided
to make the effort to secure the passage of the
river and harbor bill Monday next under
pension of the rules
SILVER IN GERMANY.
Mr.. White, minister to Germany, in a dis
patch dated April 18th, states the German gov
ernment is about to increase the consultation of
silver coin 20 per cent, that is from ten marks
per head of the population to twelve marks,
on the ground that the present amount is not
adequate. The proposed increase, it is repre-
sented, will afford an opportunity to recoin
silver which has accumulated in the hands of
the government since 1873.
PUBLIC BUILDINGS
The House committee on public buildings
and grounds agreed to report favorably to the
House bill for the erection of public buildings
as follows: New Albany, Ind. to cost $75. 600;
Idaho, $4,000.
POSToFFICE APPROPRIATION BILL.
The Senate sub-committee on the postofice
appropriation bill this afternoon heard Post i
master General Key, Second Assistant Brady
and Salisbury, western mail contractor, in re-
gard to previous portions of the bill and subse
quently agreed to report it back to the full
committee tomorrow, with amendments add
ing the following amounts to the House appro-
priations for the purposes named: $3.50, 600 for
transportation of mails by railroads, $4,000
for steamboat mail service and $25,0 900 for mail
messengers. The most prominent subject OF
controversy in the bill, viz, the House require
ment for reletting all star routes on which ser
vice on the 1st of October next shall have been
expedited at increased cost, exceeding 80 per
cent. of the original contracts, will be reported
back by the subcommittee, unaccompauled
with recommendation either way.
LANDS IN sEvERALTY FOR INDIANS.
The House committee on Indian affairs to-day
instructed Representative Scales to report fav-
orably to the House the general allotment bill
which provides for settlement of all Indian
tribes on agricultural lands in their several
reservations, and authorizes the secretary of
the interior to grant them lands in severalty.
REIMBURsING MINNEsoTIANs.
The committee also ordered favorable re-
port to be made to the House on Representative
Washburn's bill to authorize the secretary of
the interior to ascertain the amounts due citi-
zens for supplies furnished the Sioux or Dakota
Indians in Minnesota subsequent to August,
1860, and prior to the massacre of August, 1862,
and providing for payment of the same.
AMERICAN EXHIBITORS AT SIDNEY.
Augustus Morris, one of the honorary COM
missioners representing the United States at
the Sidney international exhibition, says the
exhibitors from the United States have been
very successful in obtaining awards. In all
cases where our leading manufacturers have
sent their goods for competition they have
either excelled all others or stood in the first
rank The result will be large sale of Amer
lean articles of various kinds which heretofore
have been unknown in Australia.