River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1882-05-11
TELEGRAPH TICKS.
Important and Interesting Items
from the Wires During the Week.
WARRINGTON.

FRED DOUGLASS is soon TO leave WASH
ington for an extended tour of Europe.
IT is rumored that Senator ben Hill
has resigned, and that Sen ator Joe Brows
will follow suit, the cause being i'll health.
SECRETARY TELLER has appointed Hon.
Noah P. Loveridge, of Coldwater, Mich,
assistant to the solicitor general OF the in
terror department.
In the star route cases the lie was ex-
changed between George Bliss and Bob
Ingersoll. After the judge had quieted
the belligerents he adjourned the hearing
for ten days to secure the attendance OF j.
w, Dorsey.
"A SUB COMMITTEE Of the house o. rep
resentatives, after investigating the ques-
tiOn of lapsed land grants, decides that
the charters of the Northern Pacific and
the Atlantic and Pacific are non-forfeita-
BILE.
SECRETARY TELLER says that the Indians
must be dismountei and disarmed before
peace will be secured, and that such muir
derous outbreaks as those now reported
from Arizona will occur every year 80
long as the government arms and equips
the Indians.
THE house committee on Indian affairs
heard an address from Miss Fletcher, who
for some time past has resided with the
Indian tribes of the northwest. She adj
vocated the allotment of land in severalty
to the Indians. Mrs. Senator Hawley and
Mrs DIR Sunderland accompanied the
lady.
1T is announced by the Garfield monu-
ment commission that responses to their
appeal have been so liberal as TO warrant
the assurance that their proposed work
will be contaminated, but subscription
lists will be opened in every city and
town in the United States on Decoration
day, May 80. in order to allow the general
public to contribute to more elaborate
monument.
Mr.. C8ILcoTT. a Washington dispatch
SAYS will be assigned place on the PEN
sions claims, and railroad committees,
Mr.. Teller having been member of each
of them. Mr.. Mitchell will take Mr..
Teller's place az chairman of the commit
lee on pensions, Mr.. Hoar will be assign
ed to Mr.. Teller's place on the judiciary,
and Mr.. Van Wick will take Mr.. Mitch
ellis place az chairman OF the committee
on the Improvements of the Mississi ppl
river. The judiciary committee would
prefer Mr.. Platt or Mr.. Harrison to Mr..
see their way clear to appoint either OF
them.
The Fiiz John Porter case and the Ari-
iona troubles, both with the cowboys and
the Indians, were the questions consider
ed at the cabinet. 1t was decided that
he president should issue a proclamation
for the lawless cowboys to disperse, and,
if not obeyed, to use the troops in enforc-
ing order. The cabinet differed with the
senate judiciary committee on this subject,
that existing laws were sufficient to meet
the trouble. All the members of the
cabinet were present except Attorney Gen
eral Brewster. who is sick with cold.
The session lasted three hours.
THE communication from the secretary
of the navy, in response 10 the house reso-
luton calling for information relative tO
the condition of the navy, contains tab
ulated statement showing the time and
cost required to make each vessel Of the
navy engage in battle with an enemy on
the same general classification, emitting
bulls unfit for repairing. There are sixty
three vessels in the list. Thirty-three
are reported to be efficient for immedi-
ate use" To put in condition the remain
ing thirty the estimated cost is - 1880 00
and the time necessary is vario usly estl-
mated at from two to eighteen months
each, eighteen months being the estimated
time required on FIVE vess els. The com
munication also embodies detailed state
ment of the cost of repairs on vessels
since 1866, the total being $23,O7 5OOO
| The total cost of vessels in the navy is
$72, $40 776.
In the United States senate, on the I'd
inst, MIR. Edmunds, from the judiciary
committee, reported that no additional
| legislation is necessary to suppress law
lessness in the territories; that the presi-
dent can warn the thieving gang in Ari-
iona to dispense, and then use the army
to restore order Mr.. Pendleton called
attention to the necessity of comforting
criminal Jurisdiction upon our ministers
and consuls, to prevent outrsges on
American citiz ems in the far east. An
appropriation of $35 0,000 was recon-
mended to purchase the Benjamin Frank
lin collection in London. Mr.. Allison
introduced bill to provide for the con.
struction of the illinois and Mississippi
river canal. On the bill to repeal the
discrimination against ex-confederates In
the army, a motion to refer the measure
to the Judiciary committee was carried
David Davis made an elaborate argum emf
in favor of establishing court of appeals