Northern tribune. [volume] (Cheboygan, Mich.) 1875-1885, 1880-03-20

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and gets nearly as much
abuse.
THE increase of immigration is some
what remarkable. During the month of
February there were nearly $4,000 ar
rivals at the port of New York, while in
February, 1879, only $1,000 emigrants
arrived.
PRESIDENT HAYES last week sent a
brief message to the Senate in regard to
the proposed isthmus canal to connect
the Atlantic and Pacific oceans, in which
he re-asserts the Monroe doctrine in a
quiet and yet strong way.
THE nomination of Tilden at Cincin-
natl seems to be fOregOne conclusion.
He is the strongest Democrat in the field
because he is the most tricky and I'M
scrupulOus. He will buy his nOmina-
ton and try to buy or steal his election.
w. X. HOMAN, Republican, was elected
to the Texas state senate, few days
ago, from one of the counties of that
state, to fill vacancy, by one hundred
majority, over his Democratic cOmpeti
tor. So the Republican party is still
alive and active in Texas.
The bill for the reclamation of arid
and waste lands has passed the Senate.
1t authorizes the Secretary of the Interior
to contract for the sinking of two arte-
sian wells on the plains east of the Rocky
mountains, the wells to be in the center
of a reservation Of four square miles.
ROGER A PRYOR has petitiOned for the
removal of his political disabilities. Mr..
Pryor went to New York Immediately af-
ter the war. He has amaSSed hand
some competence in the practice of law,
and now desires to re-enter politics,
which he cannot do until his disabilities
are removed.
ACCORDING to the Department of Ag-
riculture, dogs occasion a loss to the
sheep-Owners of the country to the eX-
| tent of a million dollars annually. If
the department will now figure out the
loss they occasion to the dOg-Owners, it
will be laying the foundation for some
intelligent dog legislation.
THE Committee on Territories has re-
ported bill, which it has had under con-
sideratiOn for long time, prohibiting
the President from sending any more
Indians into Indian Territory. The pas
sage of this bill is very earnestly advO-
Gated by Representatives from states ad-
joining the territory, and it is opposed
by Representatives of other states and
| territories which have Indian tribes
within their limits.
THE House committee on apprOpria-
| lions has concluded to back down square
| ly on the United States marshals def
cheney appropriation though whether it
will do so on the regular appropriations
| for next year remains to be seen. Thurs
day OF last week the committee agreed
to report a clause in the deficiency bill
to pay the marshals without any rider
or conditions. The Supreme court de-
cisiOns seem to have produced an effect
on the Democratic leaders in Congress.
FROM the private conversations of
leading Democrats of both Houses, as
given in special kilograms to the daily
press, it is pretty safe to anticipate that
there will be no renewal of the dispute
between Congress and the President on
the subject of deputy marshalS, etc., as
| the Supreme Court has decided the cleo
| ton laws to be constitutional. The
ground is taken that the Democrats can
not sustain themselves in renewing the
struggle on this point; that it must take
the necessary appropriation to carry on
the laws, and then the true policy will
be to make the issue before the people
on the repeal of the laws.
THE programme of the free traders in
Congress, as reported from Washington,
is materially modified. The attempt to
secure any general revision OF the tariff
is abandoned. Instead, they will limit
their efforts to the work of effecting a
reduction of duties on few articles Sc
lected because of what is believed to be
the support of which their efforts will
receive from the public at large. Among
the articles thus selected sugar, malt,
paper, and paper materials are enumer-
ated, in behalf of reduction of the du-
ties on which vigorous demonstration
will, it is understood, be made.
In reporting the deficiency bill to the
House, Mcmahon, of Ohio, one of the
Democratic leaders, took occasion to
point out with especial emphasis that
| the party had not receded from its at
tempt at notification of the election
laws by cutting off the appropriations
| for their enforcement, but had made no
provision for the payment of deputy
marshals, so that those employed in the
California elections would 60 unpaid.
He also took occasion to assert to the
broadcast extent the right of notification
by refusal to make appropriation, and
fully exhibited to the country the fact
that the party has learned nothing by
its experiences during the past year, but
adheres to the perniciOus notification
doctrine.
REPRESENTATIVE WILLITs,O this state
is of an investigating mind, and is in
the habit of turning up with some old
document, when the Democracy least
expect it, to their great confusion, and
| ever since he produced the documents
which he procured from the Confederate
archives and COMPOUNDED the cOnfeder-
ate Brigadiers i'm their efforts to have
the government pay the rebel mail con-
tractors, they have been dreading he
would again confront them. The Dem
Ocrats have learned that he has written
a speech to be made on HOstetler'S bill land
documents in his possession that they
do not want to appear. The suspicion
is founded on fact, and while it cannot
milton Willis is loaded with, it is under
stood that he has been searching the
records of old Democratic administra.
| md ho fo fy hof will "A
interest to that side of the house.