The weekly miner. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1878-1881, 1881-04-05
nation very severely and its articles excite

nation very severely and its articles excite
comment.
Many senators do not conceal their appre-
tensions of a break in the party over the
New York nominations.
WASHINGTON, April1.-The resolution for
the election of senate officers was laid before
the senate as unfinished business.
A motion to go into executive session was
made by Pendleton. yeas, % nays, 20.
Lamar said the present condition of the
senate and the republicans demands were
unprecedented, He said if Hoar's charges
that the democratic side was reasonable were
true it was a terrible responsibility on the
democrats. But lie denied there was any
factious opposition. The minority were pro-
tecting themselves from oppression and from
a disregard of a precedent. He wondered
what the great object of the republicans could
be. He defied them to announcei it.
Dawes hoped Lamar would impress OH his
side the necessity of considering the pre- sent
resolution.
Lamar asked, was the removal Of the Off
GERS of the senate as important as filing the
vacancies on the supreme bench, which was
not setting now on account of that vacancy.
New YORK, April 1--Secretaly Window
conferred to-day with prominent bankers on
monetary questions.
COLUMBUS, O., April Jacob Michael,
aged p, suiciIed. Domestic incapability
and old age the causes.
TYRONE, Pa, April 1.-The explosion of a
locomotive this morning shattered everything
in the vicinity of the Ward house and Rays
tannery was badly damaged. Twenty per-
sons more Or less injured. None fatally.
NASHVILLE, April 1.-The senate, by a
vote of s to - rejected the house bill to set
tie the debt at par and 3 per cent. bonds.
W~AsIHNGToN, April 1.-Pension agent
Brown, Of Cincinnati, who lost a leg during
the war, will be appointed commissioner of
pensions.
CHICAGO, April IA Washington special
says the Ute commission has been in consul
tation several days and has come to all agree
ment as to the plan or work. The members
will leave for Colorado in a few days undo
instructions from Secretary Kirkwood to the
effect that while the utmost liberallty must be
used in constituting the law SO as to provide
the Indians with good agricultural land the
terms of the treaty must be carried out.
OMAHA, March 31.-A party of cowboys
creating a disturbance at O'Neill City, Holt
county, Tuesday, were partially disarmed by
the sheriff, and went away, but soon re.
turned, when a cowboy named Harry Dean
shot sheriff Barnard Kearns in tile heart. and
the deputy sheriff also was wounded.
TOLEDO, O., March 31.-Those injured by
the accident OH the Wabash road at Cation
Station last night, number seven persons
They were mostly in the smoking car. A
defective switch caused the collision of the
Atlantic express with a freight train.
CHICAGO, March 31.-A local paper reports
that the Lake Shore & Michigan Southern
railroad having earned nothing during the
last quarter, but wishing to keep the stock
up will declare a dividend of two per cent. tc
be taken out of the surplus fund.
WASHlNGTON, March 31.-Attorney-Gen-
eral McVeagh, Secretary Window and Assis-
tant-Secretary Upton this morning went to
New York to confer on finances.
LONDON, March 3l.-Beaconstield is nc
worse.