River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1880-02-19
THE WEEKS WORK.
Selected From Every Source.
WASHINGTON.


THE American Congressional Temper
ance Society elected Secretary of the
Navy Thompson, president, on the 9th
inst.
THE committee on interstate com
merce on the 18th adopted Representa-
tive Henderson's bill as a substitute for
Reagan's.
The following nominations were made
on the 10Th: Frank II. Mason, of Ohio,
to be L 5. Consul at Basic, Switzerland,
and William Alexander, to be postmaster
at Charlton, Iowa.
THE house committee on war claims,
says a dispatch of Feb 10th, has decided
10 report adversely on the claims of Bur.
bridge & Co., amounting to $4,000 for
sugar, mOlasses, and rum sequestrated
by Gen. b. f. Butler at New Orleans.
A WASHINGTON telegram of the 18th
inst says: A meeting of the national
democratic committee has been called
here, for Monday, Feb. %, for the pur-
pose of fixing the time and place for the
next democratic national convention.
THE president nominated the following
civil officers Feb. IL: Geo. Baldery,
register of the land office at New Or
leans VIM. NJ. Burwell, receiver of pub
lie moneys at New Orleans; Charles G..
Belknap, Indian agent ut the Tule River
Agency, California; VIM. Whiting, of
Ill.,, Indian agent at the Ponca Agency,
Indian Territory.
SAYS a Washington dispatch of the
10Th inst: The senate exodus committee
up to the present time have called to
Washington sixty-eight Witnesses Thirty
- y tyhpun ora RnDub1ipa0S two Nation
ais, and thirty Democrats. twenty-five
of the witnesses are cOlored men. The
total number of witnesses brought here
from Indiana is twenty-five, of whom
five are Republicans.
A DISPATCH of the 18th says the demo-
cratic majority of the sub committee of
the house committee on elections, TO
which was referred the contested case of
Ignatius Donnelly against w. ID. Wash
burn, OF the Minneapolis district, has
decided to report to the whole committee
in favor of unseating Washburn and of
seating Donnelly, on the charge of brib-
cry on behalf of Washburn at the cleo
ton.
The senate on the 18th inst. rejected
all the nominations of census supervisors
OF the eight districts of Ohio. This re-
session. The democrats objected TO the
nominations on the ground that there
was distinct understanding when the
law passed that the supervisors and
euumeratOrs should be chosen without
nominations in Ohio were republicans.
The senate confirmed the following
names to be supervisors of census Kan
sas, 1st district. Dwight butcher; Cd,
David j Evans; Sd, Chas. M. Kellogg.
New Mexico-Abraham S. Hoyt. Wash
ington Territory-Frederick A. Sparkling.
Wyomin g-Homer Merrill. Postmaster
at Port Huron, Mich, VIM. H. Hartruff.
The following names for census supervi.
scrs were rejected: Chas. ID. Campbell,
LIST district Ohio; John Henry Thomas,
I'd; VIM. H. Mcdowell, 3D. A. TOwne,
4th; Albert c. Byers, 9TH Moses NJ. Ho-
bart, 9Th; VIM. A. Hunt, 18th; Joshua w.
Hanley, Sth.
THE following says telegram of the
9th inst, is the full text of Representative
Forts bill to reduce the duty on s0da-ash,
&c:
a BILL TO place certain articles imported and
used in the manufacture OF paper, of glass,
and of wooden fabrics, on the free list, and 10
ItOuCt AHt import uulf uu ptihliuS pdpGi dsch
for books, phamphlets, magazines, and news
papers:
Be il fndcted, etc, That on aud after the 1st
day of July. 1880 all soda-ash and impure carbon
ate of sod2 imported TO be used in the manufac-
ture of paper, of glass, or of cloths or fabrics
composed wholly or in part of wool, shall be ad-
miJed free of duty.
"SEc. Q That all uns'zed prIntingpaper used
for books. phamplets. magazines, and news
papers, exclusively, shall be subject to an import
duty Of per centum ad valorem."
TIE house committee on ways ard
means, says a dispatch of the 18th, has
disposed of the refunding question
Tie rate of interest was de-
cided in favor of 3l5 per cent. by vote
Of 10 to 3 The question of time was
settled by the decisive vote of II to in
favor of a 20-40 bond. The interest on
these bonds are TO be paid quarterly, ana
they will be used in funding the 5s and
g., amounting to about $500,000000 The
=. lmittee decided also to recommend
that authority be given the secretly of the
treasury u issue $20G,000,000 of 4-per-cent
treasury notes. redeemable at pleasure,
to assist the reduction of the annual in
icrest burden in the manner proposed by
Representative Kelley. Those in favor
were: Representatives Wood, Tucker,
Gibson, Carlisle, Phelps, FELTON,, Conger,
Dunnell, Frye and Kelley. Opposed ;
Representatives Garfield and Morrison.
Representative Mills not voting.