River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1882-03-16
TELEGRAPHIC.
Condensed for Convenient and
Ready Reading.
WASHINGTON.

ROSCOE CoNKLING sent to the president
his declination of seat on the supreme
court.
The president has authorized the use of
troops to aid the governor of Nebraska to
suppress disturbances at Omaha.
THE president nominated Charles Ewers,
of Michigan, to be consul at Windsor,
Ont, and withdrew the appointment of
James f. Swords as consul at Cadiz.
APPLICATIONS for relief of the sufferers
from the floods continue to pour in. 1t is
believed that fully 100000 persons are in
need of relisf.
THE president has signed the bill for
preparation of 100000 will be reported
Tor similar Institution at Cincinnati.
A WASHINGTON special says that an in
innate friend of Conkling is authority for
the statement that he will certainly ac-
cept the justiceshiP.
THE democratic members of the house
of representatives held caucus and re-
solved to resist, ny every pa liamentary
method, the adoption of the amendments
to the rules.
MEMBERS Of congress from the states af-
fected by the overflow of the Mississippi
have agreed TO ask for an additional ap-
preparation of 100000. The repair of the
levees by the federal government is pro-
posed, at an expense of 100000.
THE senate judiciary committee agreed,
unanimously, to report favorably the
nomination of Mr.. Cenkling for associate
Justice of the supreme court. The action
of the senate judiciary committee ON
COnklins was by general consent, ard not
at formal meeting.
CoNKLING's letter declining the ascot
ate iusticeship is said to have been merely
private note to the president, and will
not be given out TO the public. The va
cant seat was next rendered to Senator
Edmunds, who felt obliged to refuse the
honor.
APPEARANCES indicate further changes
in the cabinet at Washington: There is
talk of transferring Mr.. Howe to the in
terror department, when Hiram Price and
other Blaine men will give place to stall
warts. Secretary Hunt has never been
certain of remaining at the head of the
navy.
THE six months of mourning which the
president fixed for observance of Garfield s
death has nearly expired, and in few
days the heavy black bordered paper upon
which all official communications have
been written at the white house, and the
other public tokens OF the mourning, will
disappear from public view.
IT is understood the subcommittee of
the house committee on ways and means,
have virtually agreed upon bill reducing
the internal revenue tax on whisky and
tobacco. and removing the tax entirely
from number OF articles not embraced
in the schedule. The total amount of re-
venue to be effected by the bill is estimat-
ed at about $70,000,000.
A NEW YORK dispatch says a strong eff
fort is being made by several of Mr.. Conk-
ling's personal and political friends to in
duce him not to accept the position to
which he has been nominated. They as
sure him that he will be stronger polite
ally off the bench than on it, and that the
practice of his profession will yield him
more than the salary of an associate JUS
tice. Mr.. Conkling declines to talk on
the subject with any but his most intimate
friends
In the house of representatives, a bill
was passed for local board of inspectors
of hulls at Gallipolis, Ohio. An sppro-
priation of $4,000 was made to erect a
statue to Chief Justice John Marshall. In
committee of the whole on the state of the
union, the tariff commission bill was
tabled by n to So A bill from the senate,
authorizing the secretary of war to use
hospital tents for the relief of sufferers
from the overflow of the Mississippi was
passed.