River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1882-03-09
TELEGRAPHIC.
Condensed for Convenient and
Ready Reading.
WASHINGTON.

MINISTER ROMERO has arrived at New
York from Mexico. but declines to state
the objects of his mission.
A WASHINGTON special says that an in
innate friend of Conkling is authority for
the statement that he will certainly ac-
cept the justiceship.
Roscoe CoNKLING has been confirmed
as associate Justice by 80 yeas to II nays,
among the latter being Hoar, Dawes,
Morrill,, and Hawley. The nomination
of Aaron A. Sergeant to be minister to
Germany was approved without division.
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
Conkling was by general consent, and not
at formal meeting.
On charge of violating the law in not
providing seats for their female clerks,
several leading dry goods retailers of n ew
York were arraigned in the police court.
Each merchant brought along squad of
employees to testify in his favor, and no
punishment was inflicted.
THE senate naval committee will report
favorably on the nomination of Theodore
Wilson, of New York, TO be chief OF the
bureau of naval construction. The house
naval committee is preparing bill APP
propriatiDg So, SOC, 900 for the construction
of seven irst-c class vessels.
The attorney general has advised pro-
ceedings to cancel to the government all
lands located with scrip stolen by parties
to the Missouri land frauds. in cases where
the present holders are believed to have
beeen implicated Innocent owners will
not be molested.
THE house commerce committee is still
hearing arguments on the Reagan bill. +.
B. Thurber, of New York, insisted upon a
law defining public rights, and its strict
enforcement by the executive power. G..
w. Loring spoke for the milling interests
of Minneapolis, and ID. Il. Henderson for
the Dubuque board of trade.
REPRESENTATIVE HAWK escorted dele
CATION of citizens of Dixon, ILL.,, to the
rooms of the house committee on railroads
and canals, where they sought to demon
strate that the manufacturing interests of
that town would be permanently injured
by the construction of a branch canal, and
asked that such damages be ascertained
and paid by the government.
A NEW YORK dispatch says 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. MIR. Conkling declines to talk on
the subject with any but his most intimate
friends.
THE Garfield memorial services in the
national capitol were very impressive.
Every seat in the hall was filed by 10
o'clock. The bereaved family was not
represented. but in recognition of his SER
vices in securing the relief fund Cyrus w.
Field was given seat beside President
Arthur. Govern ors Hoyt, Foster, Porter,
Hamilton, and Bigelow were present.
Generals Sherman, Sheridan, Hancock,
Howard, and Meigs entered at 1l:30.
BEFORE the senate committee on rail-
roads, arguments in regard to the right of
way through Indian Territory were made
by representatives of the st. Louis and
San Francisco and the Chicago, Texas and
Mexican roads. Dwight K. Trip. coun-
sci for the latter organization, charged
that the st. Louis road obtained an ex-
elusive grant from the Choctaw legisla-
ture by trickery. Legislation is asked by
which any road can run trains over the
tracks through the territory by paying
fixed charges.