River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1881-02-24

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Ready Reading.
WASHINGTON.

IHE bill reported by Senator Saunders,
to establish the territory of Pembina, pro-
poses TO form new territory from that
portion Of Dakota lying north of the forty
sixth parallel.
Mr.. HAWK, OF Illinois, has presented
TO the house resolutions of the Illinois
state board of agriculture, asking legisla-
ton to prevent the spread of pleuro-pneu-
monia among cattle.
CIGAR MAKERS are here urging the
amendment to the tax laws which now i'm
pose unlimited bonds on them, so that
$4,000 will be the maximum bond placed
upon any firm manufacturing cigars.
THE sundry civil appropriation bill, as
adopted by the committee sets aside $3.50, :
900 for the support of national soldiers
homes, and provides for the appointment
of General Mcclellan as one of the man.
ayers.
The senate committee on foreign rela-
tons favors the insertion Of a clause in
the sundry civil appropriation which
would permit the sending of special en-
bassy to Mexico to negotiate in regard to
commercial intercourse.
REPRESENTATIVE of the dairy interests
are here, presenting the bill to prevent the
manufacture and sale of oleomargarine
as butter in any part of the United States.
This viii probably be adopted in the adul-
teration of food act, agreed upon by the
special committee
The house committee on war claims
agreed to report favorably to the house
the bill appropriating $3.50, 1888 for the
payment of claims reported allowed by
the commissioners of claims under the act
Of congress, March 3, 1871. 1t embraces
ninety-three claims of persons residing in
Alabama, Arkansas, Georgia, Louisiana,
Mississippi, North Carolina, Tennessee,
Texas and Virginia.
REPREsENTATIvE WEAVER writes that
there is no truth in the published story
that the nationals in congress are endeav-
ol3ng to organize peoples party, and to
that end intend to hold a conference in
Chicago. The national party, he says, is
! the peoples party i n the truest sense OF
/ the term, and under its banners will rally
all who wish to rescue the liberties of the
people from the grasp of banking, rail
road and other monopolies.
THE senate committee on military af
| fairs has authorized favorable reports tc
| be made to the senate upon all pending
nominations for army appointments and
| promotions. These include the nomina.
| tions Of Major G. ID. Swain, to be Judge
Advocate General; Colonel c. II. Temp.
| kins, to be Assistant Quartermaster Gen
eral; Lieutenant Colonel Febiger, to be
Assistant Paymaster General; the two APP
| polntments from civil life to the position
of Major and Paymaster. and forty or fiji.
| ty others of less note.
The senate has confirmed Adam
u. Mallory as collector oil
customs at Galveston; William
5. Wilson, collector of internal rev.
enue, Fifth district of Kentucky. United
States consul-W. w. Randall, of Wiscon-
/ sin, at Sabanila -Pennsyl-
vania, o. +. Gleason, CORY; A. T. Pom
titus, Parker's Landing. Ohio, Edmund
Barnett, Canal Dover. Illinois, c. f
Houser, Lena; Wisconsin, Hiram Med
berry, Monroe; G. A. Spencer, Sheboygan
| Falls; 5. w. Osborne, Darlington. Mich.
| igan, {. q. GrIffey, Negaunee; Frank T.
Albright, Mason.
The following card from Judge Noah,
of the war department, was printed on
the 10th inst, and has created great sur
prise:
To MY FRIENDS AND THE PUBLIc: In conse-
quence Of recent disclosures from friends and
| prominent citizens of Washington affecting the
presumed integrity of Mr.. William II. Lewis the
cards of invitation to the nuptials of my daugh-
| ter, at Ascension church, on Wednesday next the
10th inst, are, with her earnest approval, hereby
recalled. The marriage with Mr.. Lewis will not
take place. j. J. NOAH.
! Mr.. Lewis professed to be clerk in
the pension office, receiving 81 500 per
year, and owning a house in the upper
part of the city, besides having an in
terest in the business of the avenue Jew
elers, Lewis Bros, of whom he was a rela-
lhaSa
and refuse to have anything to do with him.
! Besides, he was not a clerk in the pension
office, and had no visible means of support.
He went to Semken's early in the week
and purchased diamond locket, giving a
check on Riggs & Co. He then pawned
the ticket for $40, and went to Baltimore
on drunk The entire arrangements
! for he wedding had been made, but the
| friends of the young lady thought that il
was better to retFact the step than wait till
it was too late.
Mr.. BLAINE will go to Mentor next
week Mr.. Nichols, Gen. Garfield's mes
senger. has arrived here, and has spent the
greater part of the time in Mr.. Blaine's
bedroom, giving the latter fall reports of
the situation at Mentor. Gen. Garfield is
so torn in his own mind over who is to be
placed in his cabinet that it is now certain
that nothing definite as to its entirety will be
known until after the consultation with Mr..
Blaine Mr. Blaine intends to have Senator
AllisOn secretary of the treasury. and his
positive desires and opinions will soon
eliminate that matter from the muddle.
If Illinois gets cabinet place it will I'M
questionably go to Robert Lincoln. The
only doubt in this case is as to whether
Illinois is to have cabinet position. The
Blaine people say, too, that Charley Eos
ter will be in the cabinet, but according 10
all reports no cabinet will be made at
Mentor. Gen. Garfield is so overwhelmed
with advice in that place that he will not
presume to act until he has come to Wash
ington Then his closest friends, headed
by Blaine, will consult with him, and
agree in friendly caucus upon the seven
cabinet advisers. Public men who have
seen Garfield within the past week say no
cabinet will be made at the Mentor farm
house