The Canton advocate. [volume] (Canton, D.T. [S.D.]) 1877-1897, 1880-05-06
VOL. V.
VERY LATEST NEWS
A Record of Important Events
Domestic and Foreign.
WASHINGTON.

THE president, on the 23rd inst, nom
mated Edgar NJ. Maberly, OF Michigan,
as commissioner of patents, and Joseph
r. McCamon, IF Pennsylvania, as as:
sistant attorney general of the United
States.
THE committee on foreign affairs, re-
ported back a JOINT resolution for the
abrogation of the CLAYTON Bulwcr treaty,
as the unanimous report Of the commit.
tee, Says a dispatch Of til gath inst.
GEN. MILES, before the house commit
tee on Pacific railroads, on the 23rd
ern Pacific railroad on the ground that
the road would prove Of great value to
the government as a military highway,
and public policy should encourage its
completioH:A -~
THE pardon business seems to be car.
ried to great extremes. Water Register
was recently sentenced to pay fine of
$50 in the criminal court for assault,
applied on the 23rd inst, to the presi-
dent for pardon.
THE house committee on agriculture
adopted a resolution on the 23rd inst
recommending an appropriation of $780,
600 to enable the chronological COM
mission to continue and complete its in
vestigation OF insects hurtful to agricul-
tural interests. This is defeat tOs Com
missioner LIE Due, who wanted the com
mission abolished and the work com.
pietcd by the department.
TIE differences between the striking
operatives and the managers Of the Har-
mony mills, at Conoes, N. Y, have
been settled and work was re-
sumed on the 23rd inst. The work has
been in progress three weeks and two
days, and 100000 in wages has been lost
10 the operatives.
THE house commerce committee, on
the 23rd inst, agreed to recommend an
appropriation OF 100000 to begin a
lock and dam on the Illinois river, and
100000 for dredging. This is the be.
ginning OF Il series of appropriations
which the Illinois delegation hopes
hereafter to secure for that improve
ment, and is undoubtedly the result Of
the arguments made by the delegation
before that committee this week.
THE senate, on the 23rd inst, confirm
ed William A. Newell, of New Jersey,
as governor of Washington Territory;
E. j. Smithers, of Delaware, United
States consul at Chin Llang; II. S. Love
joy, receiver Of public moneys at Mo
brara, Neb. POstmasters-T. w. Scott,
Fairfield, III. ; J. w. Groesbeck, Har-
ward, H.; L, A. Marvin, Duluth, Mimi;
Charles II. Lord, Tuscon, Arizona.
The house committee On agriculture
recommended to the committee on ap-
propriations, on the 23rd inst, that an
appropriation of $4,000 be male to the
United States chronological commission
for the purpose of enabling said com.
mission to complete the investigation in
relati on to the Rocky mountain locust,
or western grasshopper, and the cotton
worm and other insects injurious to the
cotton plant.
THE Immigration bill introduced by
Mr.. Cox into the house on the Gath inst,
gave rise to considerable discussion, and
the proposition to appropriate $780,
600 annually to maintain immigrant
paupers and invalids met with consider
able opposition. The question of Chin
ese immigration was brought up by the
California members, who appealed to
the mem bers from New En- gland 10 aid
them in preventing the Pacific Coast
from being ovcrrun by Mongolian paup-
ers and lepers who contribute nothing to
the defense or support of the state or the
nation.
MIR. DowNEY, the delegate from Wy
oming Territory, created sensation on
the 23rd inst, By publishing in the Rec
ord a poem in blank verse, fifteen pages
in length, which he says was delivered
in tho house on Tuesday last, in support
of his bill to appropriate s$500,0O0 to
commemorate, in suitable painti ogs up
on the walls OF the national Capitol, the
birth, life, death and resurrection of our
Saviour, Jesus Christ, as told in the four
gospels of Matthew, Mark, Luke and
John. Mr.. Downey obtained leave to
print some remarks in support
of this bill, and this was fol-
lowed by the fifteen pages in
the Record which appears as having been
copyrighted. The matter was so extra
ordinary that both branches of congress
gave attention to it, In the house, Gen
eral Garfield offered resolution direct.
ing the committee On rules to examine in
to the matter and see wheth L the poem,
so called, should not be excluded from
the permanent edition of the Record.
In the senate, Mr.. Morrill, called atten-
ton to the Record, and submitted res
luton to exclude the poem from the
Record Mr. Davis and others thought
the senate had no jurisdiction over the
matter, which belonged to the house.
Mr.. Morrill, said as the poem was copy
righted, congress had no right to print
it in the Record but he would withdraw
his motion, as he understood the house
would take some action in reference to
the matter.