River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1881-12-22
pELEG RAPHIis 7.
Condensed for Convenient and
Ready Reading.
WASHINGTON.

A SON of Senator Voorhees, who has
served in the house as assistant disbursing
clerk, has been rotated out of office.
SENATOR MILLER is pressing bill to
enlarge the grants to the state OF Caliior-
MIA of the Yosemite valley and Mariposa
Big Tree grove.
In the senate, Mr.. Elmunds introduced
a bill for the payment of reasonable ex-
penses incurred in behalf of the late pres
ident, not to exceed $lO0,0O
SPEAKER KKIFER intends to announce
the house committees Just before the holt
day recess. Either Hiscock or Reed will
be chairman of the committee on appro-
priations. and Kasson will have that on
foreign relations.
As if the occurrence were wonderful
one in these days, il is gravely stated that
the booLs of John u. Thompson, late ser
geant-at-arms OF the house of representa-
tives, are found to balance 10 cent.
A STRONG effort is being made to repeal
the arrears Of pensions act. A bill intro
duced by Mr.. Hewitt, of Alabama, will
cut off 100000 claims already pending
should it become a law. Several other
bills on the same subject are promised.
ABOUT all that is positively known of
Frelinhuysen will succeed Mr.. Blaine
atithe head of the State Department, with
Judge J. c. Bancroft Davis as First As
sistant Secretary of State. This will take
Judge Davis from the Court of Claims.
and leave an opening for Secretary Hunt
when he vacates the Navy Department.
A STORY is ahoat in Washington that
| two of the Jurors in the Guiteau trial are
| disqualified because they were in the SER
| vice of the government Tor several years,
| although they swors TO the contrary.
5I-.~- IIelvIrTIiI1t, anL 'vbyirlIfdyH 'Tes'
messenger in the pension Office.
ScoyILLE, Guiteau's counsel, lectured in
Washington the other night, on "The
| Guiteaa Case" He complained that
neither the press nor pulpit was disposed
| to give the defendant fair trial. He
| was particularly severe on the ministers
of the gospel, and on Judge Davis, of New
| York, who, in an address to the jury in a
murder case recently. referred 10 Guiteau's
| crime.
| In the senate, Mr.. Beck has introduced
bill TO repeal taxes on bank deposits,
| and Mr.. Plumb an act to authorize the
issue of certificates and standard dollars
on deposit of silver bullion. Mr.. ingalls,
| presented a resolution instructing the coIn-
| lnlttee On pensions 10 report WHdl IHCTedSS
| should be allowed the widow of Abraham
Lincoln. There was prolonged debate
on the question of the presidential sue
cession. The president nominated j.
Bancroft Davis to be assistant secretary OF
state.
| SECRETARY BLAINE. with the assent OF
| the president, has furnished for publica-
| tion the instructions given last summer
| 10 the United States ministers in Chill
and Peru. They contain nothing point
ing to armed interference, and, while OPP
posing the intention of Chilli to annex
certain territory of her PROSTATE enemy,
recognizes her right 10 do as she pleas, s..
| The Calderon government is favored be-
cause it is supposed to represent the char
acter and intelligence of Peru. The sec
rotary expresses the hope that neither
side will invoke the Intervention Of any
European power.