Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1882-01-12
from the Capital.

CHANCELLOR WYLIE, of Washington,
has granted permission to take the testi-
mony of Victor NJ. and George Christiancy
at Lansing, Mich, for the divorce trial.
THE indications are very strong that ex-
Senator Sargent will be appointed secre-
tary of the interior.
Hon r. 0. HOWE has been sworn in as
postmaster general. His irst act was to
appoint his son chief clerk.
DAVID DAVIS looks with no favor upon
the scheme TO restore Fitz John Porter to
the rolls of the army through the inHu-
ence of General Grant.
CAPTAIN HowGATE, under indictment
at Washington for embezzlement, was al
lowed by Judge Cox to leave the Jail in
charge OF bailiff, and spend New Year
with his friends.
Dr. ANDREW MCFARLAND. superintend-
ent of a private asylum at Jacksonville,
H., has been subpenard to Washington as
an expert witness in the Guteau trial.
AFTER consultation with David Dudley
Field, Representative Springer has intro
duced in the house a bill defining the law
of insanity in criminal cases in United
States courts.
said that Judge Advocate General Swain
raises the point that the proceed ngs were
void because President Hayes ordered the
courtmartial without the required re-
quest from the department commander.
POSTMASTER General James, in closing
his connection with theodepartment, ex-
presses the belief that it will be self-sus-
tanning this year. During his term of
made in the star service.
The New Year reception by President
ARTHUR was a very brilliant affair. He
was assisted by several ladies of high So
cial position, and every element of society
passed in review. The introductions were
made by Chief Clerk Brown of the state
department.
THE postmaster general recently sent to
the president letter from George Bliss,
showing up the frauos perpetrated on
straw bonds, and demonstrating the neces-
sity of legislation by congress to check the
practice.
THE appointment of successor to The
ophilus French as commissioner of rail-
roads will be left to Senators Edmunds
and Thurman, who framed the law Great
ing the bureau. The salary is IS 900 per
annum.
A MEDICAL man in Washington has Of
fered 81 900 now for the body of Guiteau,
to be delivered at any time within thirty
years, and Mr.. Scoville declares himself
in favor of accepting the proposition, in
order that the prisoner could pay some
long -dishonored debts.
THERE will be laid before the members
of congress statement showing that of
the thirty-six members Of the new legis-
lature of Utah, thirty.two are high officers
of the Mormon hierarchy. and twenty
eight live in open defiance of the federal
law against polygamy.
Ey-C GOVERNOR OvERToN, of the Choctaw
nation, is in Washington, TO protest
against the ratification of the act of the
council granting right of way through
the nation to the st. Louis and San Fran
cisco railway, alleging that it was secured
by irregular practices. Representatives
of the other tribes will visit the president
and Secretary kirkwood.
In the senate the chair submitted Pc
ttion from the bar of Rockford, Ill.,, for
the organization of court of appeals.
Mr.. Anthony introduced bill to promote
the efficiency of the navy, and MIR. Maxey
presented one to increase the value of the
signal service. A resolutien was adopted
looking toward the refunding of money
paid for protection under trademark leg
islation Mr.. Plumb handed in an act for
the sale of part of the Fort Hays military
reservation in Kansas.