River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1881-05-05
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WASHINGTON

/ GRIER, who started the votasfor Garfield
at the Chicago convention. declines to ac-
| cept the Office of third assistant postmas-
ter general
JOHN X. BoIs, of Hudson, Mich, and
! William McMichael, of Philadelphia have
| been nominated members of the board of
/ Indian commissioners.
IL the United States senate, the judiciary
committee have been granted leave to sit
during recess to investigate the subject
OF bankruptcy.
THE judiciary committee of the senate
! considered the nominations of the presi-
| dent, and refer ed most of them to a sub
/ committee.
/ SENATOR FRYE. having secured pair at
| Washington, has gone to Halifax with his
law partner to attend to case for a lady
| clientinyolving $4,000.
G. n. TYNER, a brother of the First As
| sistant Postmaster General, who has been
a special agent at Holyoke, Mass, was
| dismissed from the service by The post
master-geners
POSTMASTER GEN. JAMES has awarded
to the American Bank Note Company of
New York the contract for supplying the
DEPARTMENT with all CLASSES Of postage
stamps for the next fiscal year.
kAssoN, Keifer, and DunneIl, three of
the western aspirants to the sssakership,
are in Washington, awaiting the arrival
of Burrows and Haskell. when an harmo-
NOUS campaign will be planned.
SENATOR EDMUNDs asked that the senate
Judiciary committee be granted permits
sion 10 sit during the recess should that
ever occur, he parenthetically said in
order to investigate the subject of bank
ruptcy. Leave was granted.
SENATOR ANTHONY, Chairman of the
| republican senatorial caucus, has been
requested by majority of the republican
senators to call a caucus to consider the
| advisability of going into executive session
TO take action on some of the president s
| nominations.
SECRETARY WINDOWS bond policy may
be classed as success. In order to pre-
| vent gold from leaving the United States,
an agency of the treasury department will
| be established in London to extend the 6
per tents at 81. Two treasury attaches,
| Charles E. Coon and Isaac n. Martin, will
sail for London this week
IN the supreme court of the United
| States Christopher Oscanyan, consul gen
eral of Turkey, endeavored to secure 10
! per cent. commission on rifles of the value
| of 81 5000 sold to mis- government by
| the Winchester Arms company. but was
defeated, on the ground that public officer
had no right to sell his influence.
THE republican senator's have held a
caucus and adjourned without taking any
! action. Mr.. Hale, the administration
| leader, insists upon executive sessions at
once, but the majority seems to favor con
! sideratlon of only those appointments
H N pia
Miller, of California, has warned the re-
publicans thai if they refuse to hold an
executive session he will vote with the
democrats to secure one.
THRRE are nInety-three star routes in
| process of investigation, upon which the
| aggregate increase of pay over the origi-
nal contract rates within less than two
! wears was $2,075,095. That such an enor-
nous discretionary power should be placed
| in the hands Of any official of the govern
ment is a subject of wonder, and the fact
| would give rise to suspicion even il no
| allegations were heard. The postmaster
! general is not taking the word of ire
| sponsibIe people, or of those who have
| been, by their own confession, jointly in
| volved IN the irregular transactions which
they seek to expose, except as a basis for
investigation by his own trusted agents.
THE senate proceedings we're uniRterest-
ing save for two curious plumbers. Sena-
tor Jones, of Florida, replied to portions
! of Senator Frye's recent speech, after
which the democrats began to make dila-
tory motions. At the close of the roll
call. on a motion for a recess, it was found
the ayes" had a majority of one vote
Senator Rollins started on hunt for the
missing republican, add Just in the nick
of time discovered that the delinquent
was himself He voted ''no, ;" and the mo-
tion was declared lost Somebody then
moved to go into executive session, and
this the affirmative seemed to have car
ried, when Senator Lamar, who was pair
| ed with Senator Sherman, explained that
he had unwittingly voted. He was given
leave to withdraw his vote, and the senate,
to avoid further mistakes, adjourned