River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1880-02-12
THE WEEKS WORK
Selected From Every Source.
WASHINGTON.

TIE senate finance committee decided
on the 3Td inst. TO report adversely on
The Warner silver bill. Those voting
for the bill were Beck and Voorhees, !;
those voting against il we're Bayard,
Herman, MOriIl, Ferry and Allison. wo
members of the committee were absent.
THE president, on the Bird inst, nomi-
mated Geo. Walker, consul general at
Paris, Jas. L. Howard, of New York,
appraiser at New York, Robert NJ. Wal
lace, Of South Carolina, U. S. marshal
for the district of South Carolina, and
/ William NJ. Hartsuf, postmaster at Port
Huron.
, THE president on the 4th inst, nomi-
mated Chas. L. Holt Of Ind, United
/ States attorney for the district of Indiana i;
Alex. G.. Wells, of La, surveyor of Gus
toms for that state; Edgar w. Mann, of
Wyoming, register of the land Office at
| Cheyenne.
The Indian appropriation bill, says q
dispatch of Feb I'd, appropriates an ag-
! gregate Of $4,493, 645, which is $2i9, 523
( less than the apprC priation Of last year.
/ The principal items of decrease are for
/ the Red Cloud and Spotted Tail Sioux,
$4,000 less than last year; Yankton
/ Sioux $4,000; industrial schools, $4,000;
/ expenses of Indian commissioner, 81 800.
/ The senate, on the 2nd inst, confirmed
/ the following nominations to be super
( visor OF census of Pennsylvania: Ed
! ward A. Howell, 3rd district; postmast-
/ ers, James H. Ashcroft, Paducah, KY;
/ Charles E. Burney, Harrisonvi,le, Mo,
/ Elihu Enos, Waukesha, Wis. Wisconsin
/ supervisors of census, A. A. Lopez, lst
/ district, David A. WEIGH, End, Leonard
| Lottridge 3ri, Thos. S. Allen, 4th.
THE report of the majority of the SEN
ate committee on military affairs recon-
ncndin& the restoration Of Fitz John
Porter is signed By Senators Randolph,
Cockrell, MaXey, Grover, and Cameron,
Of Pennsylvania, says Washington dis
patch Of Feb. end. Senator Hampton is
absent. The minority report will be
signed By Burnside, Plumb, and Logan,
and an exciting debate on it may be ex-
pected
SENATORS Wallace, Mcdonald, Gar
land, HoaT and Blair went to New York,
| February 4th, to take testimony as the
subcommittee of the senate select Com
mittee, formerly the Teller committee,
appointed to inquire into the alleged
frauds in late elections. 1t is understood
this renewed inquiry will be directed to-
wards the operations of chief supervisor
] Inn | Davenport.
The bill introduced in the house by
Representative Hazelton, Feb. 2nd, to ex-
tend the provisions of an act entitled,
| AN act for the relief Of certain pen
sioners," approved March 8, 1879, to
certain other pensioners, extends the
! provisions of that act to all pensioners
| now on the roll, or who may be here
after be placed thereon, for amputaton
Of either arm at the shoulder joint. The
act referred 10 gives pensions at the rate
| OF $37 so per month.
THE quinine interest in this country
has been very active in its efforts to Sc
cure a relmposition of the duty on that
article, says a Washington dispatch Of
the 5th inst. The manufacturers of qui-
nine in the United States will ask a
hearing before the committee on ways
ard means They have concluded not
to ask a restoration of the duty to 20 per
cent, which was imposed at the time
quinine was placed on the free list, but
viii be satisfied if they can get 10 per
cent.
The published statement that General
Sherman has recommended a mitigation
of the sentence of Major Reno to sus-
pGuSIOn Is uubI uC, say a Nio JbtOAA Va IL
5th inst. He has Endorsed 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-
fidence, and has not yet shown an intGn,
ton to reform according to the promise
made by him two years ago, when SIM
liar sentence was RENTED.
GEN. BEAURKGARD, who for several
years has permitted his name to be used
by L 1uisiana lottery institution con-
trolled by Charles Howard, appeared be-
fore the house post office committee Sat
urday, says dispatch of February Cd,
and delivered a long speech in defense
of lotteries and in antagonism to the bill
prepared by the pOstmaster-generai to
prevent the mails from being used by
lotteries ard other fraudulent concerns.
Gen. Beauregard will probably remain
here the greater part ofthe winter to look
after the interests of this lottery, and use
his influence with his former comrades
in arms to defeat the postal authorities.
AN important step was taken in the
lottery letter case in The. District supreme
cour, on the 4th inst, by the filing of
Postmaster Graves answer Cemurring to
the bill of the lottery company, on the
ground first, that the order complained
Of was issued by Key in his capacity as
postmaster general, and in the discretion
and authority granted him by law, and
that the court has no jurisdiction that
the case presented is not one that in
eqdity entities to relief, the order being
addressed to the postmaster in New Or
leans and not executed or put into ope-
ration by the defendant, the local post
master being also an officer of the United
States, under oath, bound to execute his
duties and responsible for the custody OF
registered letters; that the bill does not
show an impediment to exist to an ac-
tion at law or any title to relief prayed,
nor the privity of contract betW ZEN
parties to it for delivery of, letters to
complainant; that the writers should
have been made and are necessary parties
70 any such suit. The paper is signed by
4. A. Freeman and othec counsel, and
sworn to as not being for delay by ID. NJ,
Key. Judge Freeman also certifies that
the demurrer is, in his opinion, we'll
taken in law The complainants will i'm
mediately join issue on this plea and the
case will come on for an early hearing.