The Cheyenne daily leader. [volume] (Cheyenne, Wyo.) 1870-1884, 1881-12-15
WASHINGTON NOTES.

Washington, Dec. 14.-Despite the
denials the postmaster-general has re-
signed for January LIST. because Of i'm
portant and pressing private business in
connection with a new bank which can
not wait.
The supreme court will be adjourned
from the 22d inst. until July 4th.
Secretary FreIinghuysen will take
charge of the state department next
Monday.
Randall, Friday next will introduce
a bill to redeem and refund portions of
the funded debt.
1t is not true that Ex-senator Pad
dock will be made first assistant secre-
tary Of state. Folger will appoint a
| New Yorker whom he knows.
George Scoville, brother-in-law and
counsel for Guiteau, lectured tonight
on the Guiteau case. The audience
was small but heartily a%pplauded the
lecturer.
The committee of the American bar
association appointed to devise a plan
for expediting the business of the
now in session.
Judge Advocate General Swain to-
day submitted a review of tho Whit
aker court martial case to the secre-
tary of war, the verdict of the court
not to be made public uRtil the case is
acted upon by the president.
Acting Postmaster General Hatton
authorizes the ruling: No supplement
containing anyadvertisements whatever
can be allowed in the mails at second
class rates, unless the publisher makes
affidavit to the same rates paid for adj
Refreshments in the supplements as for
those in the body in the paper itself.
A debate On woman's rights sprung
up in the senate this afternoon from
the opposition of Vest, dem., mo, to
the creation Of a special committee on
that subject. Vest said he regarded it
as a step toward woman suffrage, to
which he was opposed. Hoar replied in
an animated strain, reciting oppressive
laws of the past regarding woman, and
advance in public sentiment on the sub
ject and the propriety Of the senators
taking special supervision Of the matter.
The senate and house committees on
the death Of President Garfield, held a
joint session to-day, and considered the
proposed memorial service, and re-
ferred the matter to a subcommittee,
Of which Representative Mckinley is
chairman, with instructions TO report
to the joint committee as soon as prac-
ticable. General preference was ex-
pressed that some distinguished orator
be invited to deliver the eulogy, and
that two senators and two represen-
tatives be selected to follow the orator
with brief remarks; each being allowed
about fifteen minutes. Services to be-
gin and close with prayer, and held in
the house of representatives in January.
In the case of the Bodie Tunnel and
Mining Company VS.. Bechtel & Tioga
Consolidated Mining Companies, the
secretary of the interior decided that as
the Tunnel company filed no adverse
claim, it had no right to object to issue
patents to the Tioga & Bechtel COM
panies, except as protestant, to show
the latter companies had not proceeded
according to law in the matter of their
applications for patents, and that it
could not settle up its tunnel claim in
the department against the Bechtel
& Tioga companies claims, or rights to
patents. The secretary held that gen.
orally there can be nj such thing as
a contest before the land department,
as between two mining claimants for
the same tract of land. Such claims
being adverse, can only be adjudi-
Gated in the courts.