River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1880-03-25
THE WEEKS WORK.
Selected From Every Source.
WASHINGTON.

mated Jacob kendTick Upton, OF New
Hampshire, assistant secretary of the
treasury, in place of Hawley, resigned.
THE postoffice department has estab.
lished an Office at Anchor, Mclean coun-
ty, Ill, and chan ed the name of the
office at Oakall, Iroquois County, to Loda,
says dispatch of the 10Th inst.
THE senate on the 18th inst confirmed
j. X. Upton, as assistant secretary of the
treasury, and J. H. Udell, postm aster at
Centerville, Iowa.
THE senate committee On privileges
and elections decided by a strict party
vote on the 18th, to report to the senate
two resolutions, on the Kellogg-SpOfford
case; first that Kellogg is not entitled to
his seat; and second, that Spofford was
duly elected.
The president on the 10th nominated
for supervisors of the census: Charles
ID. Campbell, of Lima, for the first CEN
sus district, Ohio; William A. Hunt, 81
st. Clairsville, for the seventh district OF
Ohio, and William r. Brown, Metropolis
City, for the eighth census district OF
Illinois
EDMU'IDs' bill introduced in the senate
on the 18th, TO regulate the counting OF
tue pIesiucHtldL et6ClOTdl NOltSy pIONlues
that the meeting of the electors shall be
held in January instead of the second
| Wednesday of December and makes pro
vision for state disposition of any con-
tr0versy under such laws as it may have
in existence prior to the date of choosing
electors. 1t provides for later meeting
of the electors in order that each state
may dispose of any controversy that
may arise aud then provides, as the bill
of last session did, for the meeting of the
two houses and proceeding in confor-
nifty with decisions reached in the re-
spective states in any case of dispute.
THE senate in executive session, on the
18th, confirmed the following nomina-
ti0ns: United States attorneys-James B..
Butler, Idaho Territory; John G. Pat
terson, Delaware. Collector of customs
Stephen Moffett, district I Champlain,
n. Y; John T. Haynes, district of Bro
EOS, De Santiago, Texas. VIM. Whiting,
agent for Indians OF the Ponca agency.
Postmasters-John Z. Bliss, Ottawa,
Kansas; H. r. Milward, Lexington, Ky.
A large portion ofthe time spent in exec
utive session was devoted TO the case OF
Rev Thomas j. Simmons, nominated as
census supervisor for the fifth district OF
Georgia. The adverse report of the SEN
ate committee was read and DISGUISE d,
but no action taken.
THE president, on the 18th, nominated
Charles Adams, of Colorado, minister
resident and consul general TO Bolivia.
T. S. Consuls-Bret Harte, of Colorado,
at Glasgow; G. l.. Catlin, New Jersey, at
STUTTGART VIM. P. Mangum, North Car
DINA, Tien-Tsin, China; Alex. G. Jones,
West Virginia, Nagasaki; Harry A. Co
nant, Michigan, Naples; w. l.. Scroggs,
Georgia. Canton; Victor Thompson,
Mississippi, St. Thomas; Henry G. Mars
ton, Illinois, Malaga; Jno. Holderman,
Kansas, Bangkok. Henry G. Snowdep,
supervisor of census, I'd census district,
Pennsylvania. Postmasters-A. 7. Stree
ter at Calumet, Mich; f. Chamberiain,
Hannibal, Mo-; Danl Choate, Sandiego,
California.
As a result of the bargain between the
Pacific railroad companies and the Pa
ciiic Mail Steamship company, freights
from New York to China have been ad-
vanced from $50 to $3.50 ton, says a
Washington dispatch of the 10th. The
purchase by the railroads of the Pacific
Mail steamers plying between San Fran
cisco and oriental ports leaves them prac-
the Asiatic trade is concerned. The con-
gressmen who will endeavor to break
the corrupt compact are said TO have the
sympathy OF Gould and Huntington, as
having secured the better portion of the
property of the Pacific Mail company
beyond hope of redemption, hostile &C
ton at Washington may relieve them of
the necessity of paying the subsidy of
$4,000 per month for the privilege of
fixing rates between New I ork and San
Francisco.
The secretary Of the Interior having
received information that large mum.
Der of tresspassers were stalking out
placer claims on the L tie reservation, a
conference was held with Ouray and
another Ute chief then in Washington,
on the nth inst, at which il was decided
that the chiefs should leave for their
| tribes at once in order to influence their
people against hostilities. The following
order was issued:
DEPARTMENT OF THE ISTsRIoR
| WAsHIEGToN, March IS.
1t having been brought to the attention oil the
| Interior department that persons are now enter
| ing the Ute reservation in the state of Colorado
! for the purpose of locating ranches and mineral
claims, notice is hereby given that such locations
ana claims will not be recognized by the interior
/ department, as the lands embraced within SAID
| reservation are not public lands of the United
| States, and no location made thereon can or VIII
| be recognized as legal. except those made after
/ the lands shall have been regularly restored &c
| the public domain.
tsignedJ C. scuURz. sec'y.
| Hon. ISAAC p. CHRIsTIANCY, minister
to Peru, has applied to the state depart
ment tor a six weeks vacation, says a
dispatch of the 18th. 1t appears that
| Minister Christiancy and his young treas.
ury clerk wife are "out," and suits for
divorce will soon be entered by both. II
! is alleged that the former has evidences
that his youthful partner in matrimony
has. since her return from Peru, conduct
| ed herself in such manner as to war
ant him in seeking separation, and on
| her part it is stated that, owing to the
! disparity in their ages, they never lived
! happily together, the old man frequent
! ly striking and threatening her. Mrs
| Christiancy denies the charges preferred
by her husband, and claims that they are
made public for the purpose of prejudic-
ing her case. Mrs. Christiancy, it will
he remembered, was formerly Miss
I,ugenbeel, treasury employe.
THE report of the committee appoint.
ed by the postmaster general, in January
last, to examine into the operations and
effect of the "letter express" business of
Wells, Fargo & Co, was made public on
the 10Th. In conclusion the committee
say at is our deliberate opinion that
the 'letter express" business of Wells,
Fargo & Co, in all lis phases, is at vari
ance with both the spirit and letter of
the postal law. That its operation is
calculated to injure and degrade the
postal service, and that the interests and
dignity OF the post office department de
mand its immediate discontinuance. We
think, moreover, that the free convey
ance by this company of the cores
pOndence of its banking house, of the
Western Union Telegraph company, and
the Central Pacific railroad company is
gross wrong to the government and
an indefensible infrac ion of law that
ought not only to be at once interdicted,
but for which, if there is any legal means
for obtaining it, the department ought TO
seek indemnity"