Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1881-05-12

lRONION. NAo0OOnA-
NEWS AND NOTES.
A Summary of Important Events.
THE social and political atmosphere
of st. Petersburg is growing thicker and
thicker, and is fraught with omens OF an ap-
preaching storm.
THE Postmaster-G General has declined
to make special investigation of Mr.. Dor
sey's connection with the star route con.
tracts. The former has assured Mr.. Dorsey
he will be attended to along with the rest.
A general investigation is under way which
will inslude him.
The public debt statement shows q
decrease during April Of 50 ,699, 800: cash ir
Treasury, $3.50, 731 1876; gold and silver GER
tiicates, Sc, ga, 740; certificates OF deposit
1926, 600; refunding certificates, $725, 100;
legal tenders outstanding, $346, 6S1 ,016; frac.
tional currency outstanding, $7,115, o46.
PRESIDENT GARFIELD is said to fee
deeply aggrieved at the unfriendly insinua.
lions regarding the Administration con.
tanned in the Washington Republican, the
paper owned by Brady and edited by Cor
ham, and it is intimated he will consider
Gorham's election as Secretary of the Senate
as personal affront.
The Kansas Prohibitory law went in
te effect May 1. AT Leavenworth many of the
saloon men continued their traffic, with the
intention of contesting the validity of the
law. Generally throughout the State, how.
ever, the liquor dealers have closed up their
places and either removed elsewhere or en-
gagged in other business.
~ -H
~ JOHN DILLON was arrested at Port
Arlington, on his way to Dublin, upon 8
warrant dated April so, charging him with
melting persons to forcibly oppose and resist
execution sales, processes of law for giving
possession of land, and riot and assault. On
his arriva; at Dublin he was taken to Kill.
mainham Jail. There was not the slightest
attempt at popular demonstration.
PROF. Richard A. PROCTOR, the
eminent astronomer, and Mrs. Sallie Craw.
ley, a charming young widow of st. Joseph,
NO., were married on the Sd. There il
quite romance connected with the affair,
the acquaintance being formed while the
gentleman and lady were travelling on the
Continent--the former with an invalid wife
and the latter with an invalid husband, both
OF whom subsequently deceased.
THE decision rendered by Judge J. C.
Parker in the United States Court at Fort
Smith, in the case of the Oklahoma invaders
declares that none of the land in the Indian
Territory is subject to white settlement, the
Indians holding the proprietorship thereof
absolutely and without reserve. The opinion
is very lengthy and embraces thorough re.
view of all the laws and treaties made fol
and with the Indians from their first occupa.
ton of the Territory.
EX-SENATOR DORSEY has written q
letter to Postmaster General James In ref
erence to the rumors connecting him dor
sey) with alleged fraudulent contracts in the
star route service. Mr.. Dorsey requests the
Postmaster General to at once investigate
every contract with which his name has been
connected, and to furnish him in writing
with the true status Of such case-ts in order
that / may not rest under injurious and I'M
Just imputations, nor be unnecessarily de-
tanned from other business to defend my
reputation against base and unfounded as
Saults.''
A REPORTER of the Western Asso-
ciated Press gives the following as true
version Of the Presidents letter to Senator
Dawes. In the first place, the President
wrote thar he was in favor of free ballot
and q fair count, not only in Virginia, but in
every State, and would encourage it; but he
would not assist in elevating man who as
editor of daily paper is constantly attack
ing and defaming him and his Ad-
ministration. This referred to Cor
ham, editor of the National RepubK-
can, and nominee OF the Republicans for
Secretary of the Senate. In it the President
said nothing about the pending nominations
in the Senate. On this subject, however,
the President maintains the same position he
took before the caucus committee. He says
he sent all nominations to the Senate in good
Faith, and If the Senate sees fit to pass some
of the nominations over, that is the business
of the Senate, but the President can not
countenance any movement or suggestion for
selecting certain nominations for considera-
ton and leaving others Enacted upon.
W
the Sd says the Republican Caucus adopted
q resolution which provides, in substance,
that executive sessions shall be held forth
with Cthe first one to-morrow) for
the transaction of accumulated bust
ness in the following order: First
The reference Of I. nominations now
on the table to appropriate committees.
Second-The consideration of pending
treaties. Third-The consideration of all
nominations heretofore or hereafter
reported from the Senate Commit
tees which, respectively, are not OBJ
iected to by one Republican Senator from
the State to which the Office appertains, or
from which, in case of National or Territori-
al appointment, the nominee is to be APP
pointed. 1t was further expressly provided
that as soon as the uncontested cases shall
have been disposed Of the caucus shall again
assemble for the purpose of determining
what additional business should then be con-
sidered by the Senate, and that although in
the meantime Contested cases >, (as above