The Northern Pacific farmer. [volume] (Wadena, Minn.) 1878-1885, 1880-06-10
VERY LATEST NEWS
A Record of Important Events
Domestic and Foreign.
WASHINGTON.


The house foreign affairs committee
on the 2nd postponed action on the Lor-
ing bill until next Thursday. the 4th.
IT is expected that next week, when
Garfield, Conger, Frye and other leading
members are away, that the free traders
will try to precipitate the Tucker bill
upon the house.
The senate pensions committee have
voted to report, with some verbal amend.
ments, the house bill granting pensions
to certain soldiers and sailors of the
Mexican war, and in the Indian wars
with the Creeks and Seminoles.
The state foreign affairs committee de-
cided to favorably report Mr.. Putnam
as minister to Belgium. Action in the
matter of Gen. Longstreet, to be minis
ter to Turkey was postponed.
THE secretary of state received a tele-
graphic dispatch from Mr.. Farman,
consul general at Cairo, stating the
obelisk and pedestal had been placed en-
board the steamer which will sail in g.
fortnight for the United States.
The greenbackers of the sixth Mis-
souri, district have nominated Ira $.
Hazeltine for congress, and elected VIM.
Brown and N. N. Mills delegates to the
national greenback convention. One of
the alternates is a woman, Mrs. Louise
G. Curtice, of Newton county.
The senate on the LIST inst. passed the
following items in the river and harbor
bill: Improving the harbor at Calu-
met, Hl.-continuing the improvement
of the exterior breakwater, $145, 900; i'm
proving the Galena river and barber, H.
linois-continuing the improvements 12
900.
Mr.. Reagan carried his point and de-
livered an extended speech on the Inter-
State Commerce bill on the I'd, in con-
nection with the general debate on the
deficiency bill. MIR. Reagan claimed
that the railroads and lobbyists asked
delay.
The weather is the hottest ever known
in May. This makes members doubly
anxious to adjourn congress and get
away, but there is now no possibility
that an adj ournment will be effected be-
fore the middle of June The house
looks very thin, and there is danger that
it will be reduced below a quorum
Chicago is the attraction.
There was lively debate in the SEN
ate executive session, over the confrma-
ton of Horace Maynard to be postmaster
general. Judg Key was confirmed with
out dissenting voice or vote from any
senator, but Maynard will not 90 through
so easily, and it is q question whether
he goes through at all.
The supreme court of California has
dismissed Dennis Kearney from prison
on a writ of babeas corpus. Upon his re-
lease the workingmeD, headed by brass
band, escorted Kearney from his house
to the sand lots, where a very large
crowd was gathered. Kearney addressed
them in his usual style announcing his
intention of taking up the agitation
where he left it and making it more bit
ter than ever.
THE house Judiciary committee have
considered the Acklen case, upon which
they will take vote at an early day. A
member of the committee stated this
evening that the committee would prob
ably agree to report generating Ac1en
from improper motives in printing the
report which he wished to palm off on
mis- colleague, Mr.. King, from the CON-
mittee on foreign affairs. He will how
ever, probably be censured for the ir-
regular n amer in which he presented
the report to the house.
CONGRESS Is as much at sea as ever
about adjournment. The senate appro.
priation committee made careful can
vass of the business on hand, aud decid-
ed that probably it would be about June
10th before they could get through. No
resolution was introduced to that effect,
however, in the hope that if the senate
would vote soon on the electoral bill,
and if the house would hurry up on the
sundry bill, they might get through by
the end Of the month after all. AS the
day passed, however, with but little
Roadway in either, June 10 is perhaps as
early date as adjournment can be