River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1880-01-22
THE WEEKS WORK.
Selected From Every Source.
WASHINGTON.

FIFTEEN hundred claims are now
pending before the house committee on
INVALID pensions, says telegram of Jan.
18th.
THE postoffice department, says a tele-
gram of Jan. 16, has reconsidered its
order excluding greenbacks from the
mails.
THE senate on the 18th inst. confirmed
Samuel S. Paekman, consul at Client;
Jacob Wheeler, u. 5. marshal for The
southern district of Illinois; G, NJ.
French, chief justice for Arizona.
HoN. LUKE Pryor, appointed by the
governor of Alabama to fill the vacancy
caused by the death of Sen. Houston,
was sworn into the United States senate
Jan. 10, and took his seat.
THE house agricultural committee has
begun on investigation Of lie Due, says
telegram of the 10th inst. Repre- senta-
tives Defevro, Hatch, Anderson, Nc
Gowen and Dibrell were appointed a
special committee for the business.
THE following nominations were
made by the president, Jan. IA: B.
Pomeroy, U. S. attorney for Arzonia ;
E. A. White, collector of internal rev
enuc End district of North Carolina;
Henry NJ. Atkinson, L. S. surveyor gen
eral ofNew Mexico.
Register land office-Isaac Fl. Wing,
Bayfield,, Wis; Stephen II. ALBION,
Wausau, Wis; ii. W. Parker, Beatrice,
Neb. Joseph B. BlOss, Detroit; Samuel
NJ. Malloy, Camden, Oak; Felix G.
Clark, Des MOines, Iowa.
CHIEF OURAY, in an interview with
Secretary Schurz, Jan -, virtually adj
mitted taat he cannot deliver the Indians
engaged in the Meeker massacre, because
the tribe will not consent To it. He says
he can have the guilty ones killed. He
says that the White River Utes should be
removed to the Uintah valley, Utah, and
the Uncompahgre Utes to Grand river,
in Colorado. The Colorado delegation
are for this plan, for two reasons: They
believe that il the Utes are separated the
Uncompahgre Utes will within a year
remove 10 Uintah valley of their own ac-
cord secondly, the plan will obviate the
necessity of an In ian war in the state
next spring. Such war would, il is es-
timated, cost the people OF Colorado
$l0,000,000.
THE bill introduced by Representative
Ellis, Jan. - and referred to the com
mittee on commerce, entitled "To estab
lish an ocean mail service, and revive
and reassert the supremacy of American
merchant marine" directs the post
master-general TO contract for ! weekly
mail service between Portland, Me, and
Glasgow, via Queenstown, between Boston
and Liverpool, via Queenstown; between
New York and Liverpool, via Queens
town; between Baltimore COUGHING at
Norfolkl and Bremen and Hamburg, via
Southampton betwt en- Philadelphia and
Liverpool, via Queenstown: between
Charleston, S. c., and Havre, via South,
ampton; between New Orleans and
Liverpool; semi-monthly service
between New York and South America
as far as the mouth of the river Plata,
BuenOs Ayres; between San Francisco
and Hong Kong via the Hawaiian Is
lands, and Yokohama; between New Or
leans and certain points to be fixed upon
by the postmaster general, in Central
America and the Argentine Republic;
between Galveston and Vera Cruz and
intermediate ports, and postal to be fixed
and determined by the postmaster gen
eral 1t provides that contracts shall be
made in the usual mannerby sealed bids,
and awarded to the lowest bidder, and
that vessels employed in mail service I'M
der provisions of this act, shall be iron,
screw steamships, built and owned by
Americans, in American ship-yards, of
American materials, To be constructed
upon the most approved models, and with
all modern Improvements and appli-
ances.