Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1882-12-28
PIRATES s23, 0000 900, this amount being $1,000
100 less than for the currellL wear.

900 less than for the current year.
The ways and means committee on
the tariff commission report made steel ingots
gun material, etc, valued at 2lS cents per
pound or less, cents per pound; valued above
~ cents and not above cents per pound, 29f
cents per pound.
A decision has been rendered in the
political assessment case Of Newton Martin
Curtis brought from the southern district of
New York on petition for a habeas corpus,
sustaining the commitment of Curtis, and re
manding hin to the custody OF the southern
district of New York.
The supreme court has rendered a
decision In the case uf John Steel, et al against
the Sc. Louis smelling and refining company
or the possession oi the title To certain lands
In the city Of Leadvie, Col, In favor OF the st.
Louis company. This opinion Is decisive OF "A
others in which the same questions are involved.
The Senate finance committee will
not be ready to report the tariff bill before the
middle of January.
Secretary Lincoln has sent COM
muncation to the Senate declaring that he
! cannot dispense with the service of any OF his
clerks without detriment to the public service
The Mexican service bill as agreed
upon by the House pension committee gives 3
per month TO soldiers Of the Mexican, Black
Hawk and Florida wars who served not less
I, than 80 days, and also to the widows of the
same. Jeil Davis, alone, is debarred.
In the discussion on the Indian appro-
priation bill, In speaking of the education OF
The Indians, Senator Plumb said: "The true
plan would be TO teach them the arts and em
pigments of civilized life, and then let then
| 20 out and be absorbed I'm the community in
stead of sending them back to the reservations
where there is no useful occupation for them
| nd where their common school education is Of
no account"
Maryland and West Virginia Senator:
! are making efforts to prevent the proposed re
duction OF duty on bituminous coal.
From the debate in the Senate on the
| bill TO extend the time for the withdrawal o.
spirits In bonded warehouses, IL was learned
the country has enough whiskey manufactured
TO last the entire popu alton five years.
Ex-Captain Hopkins. who was recent
| " court-martiacd and dismissed for desertihI
| ais post at Pensacola navy yards during thu
yellow fever epidemic, has pctitioned congress
| Tor Reinstatement on the ground of alleged In
justice done him by the court martial
Candidates for the speakership O
| the next national house of representatives ar,
coming 10 the front. The candidates alread,
named are Randall OF Pennsylvania, Carlsl,
of Kentucky, Blackburn of Kentucky, anC
Springer of Illinois.
The Presidential mansion has beer
thrown open TO the public foI the first tim
/ since last August. The first public reception
will be given on New Years day. Much pleas
ure and satisfaction Is expressed by all with TN
| improvements made In the rc-furnishing anC
fixing up ofthe house.
The Supreme court has adjourned un
til Jan. 3.
The celebrated Rothschild tobacco
case is now before the Secretary of the Treas
ury.
The agricultural appropriation bill
which passed the Senate appropriatcs S25, 00
less than the last one
The report of the collector Of customs
at Sitka, AlaskI, has been laid before In
| House, justifying the Smelling of an Indial
village by the revenue steamer Corwin.
| Olmstead confirmation. as commits
sioner OF the District of Columbia is strongl
objected to by certain senators. and the matte
is 20 be considered by subcommittee.
Secretary Chandler has received ;
telegram from Minister Hunt ut ST. Petersburg
stating that the removal of the bodies of De
Long and men is impracticable at this time.
Whisky men throughout the countr,
arc anxious that immediate action be taken o
the bonded whiskey bill, and kilograms 10 thi
4 tllNNL ptlbS hbh
sentative
Speeches have ended and evidence i
now being taken in the star route trial.
The famous Indian chief Red ClouC
and his interpreter have arrivedin Washington
The efforts OF the reporters to obtain an inter
| view were futile.
The Secretary of War has granted
! the request Of French scientists who observes
| ha tron of a. Enr a
| for permission to erect brass tablet at tina
| fort In commemoration OF their visit.
An effort is being made 10y the Mich
igan Senators and Representatives to persuad
the ways and means committee to approve tn
levy of a specific duty on Spanish ore importe
| into this country in justice to the copper inter
ests OF Northern Michigan.
A bill is now before the Senate T.
compel railroad companies to pay taxes Of
certain lands granted by the government, I'm
der pain OF forfeiture. The lands involved in
| clu(e 100000 acres in Ea1sas, Nebraska
Colorado, California, Wyoming, Utah and Ne
vada.
An association of American econ
cnnists las been formed in Washington with tn
Hon. VIM. Lawrence as president The objcc
| Is announced to be "the gathering OF facts an
statistics bearing upon industry, commcrc
and finance and the wide dissemination o
economic knowledge"
Considerable inquiry is now bein.
made as to the whereabouts o
] Captain Howgate, who relieved tn
treasury Of some hundreds of thou
sands OF dollars and left so mysteriously. |
has been charged that certain politicians VIII
were friends of the renegade in his palmy day
have been using their influence 10 proven
proper search being made for him. This repor
having been circulated so widely Mr.. Beltzhoov
or OF Penn, has introduced into the House
resolution calling on the Secretary OF War TO
| full information In regard to all measures tina