Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1882-05-11
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Important and Interesting Items
from the Wires During the Week.
WASHINGTON.

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 Senator Joe Browa
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
lnger5oll. After the Judge had quieted
the belligerents he adioyned the hearing
for ten days to secure the attendance of J.
w, Dorsey.
i SUB COMMITTEE of the house of rep
resentatives, after investigating the ques-
ton of lapsed land grants, decides that
the charters of the Northern Pacific and
the Atlantic and Pacific are non-forfeita-
Bile.
IHE 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 ad-
Vocated the allotment of land in severalty
to the Indians. Mrs. Senator HawIey and
Mrs. DR. Sunderland accompanied the
lady.
IT is announced by the Garfield monu-
mfnt 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 30, in order to allow the general
public TO contribute to a more elaborate
monument.
THE Fitz John Porter case and the Ari-
zona troubles, both with the cowboys and
the Indians, were the questions consider
ed at the cabinet. 1t was decided that
the president should issue 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.
TIE communication from the secretary
of the navy, in response TO the house reso-
| luton calling for information relative TO
the condition of the navy, contains a tab
ulated statement showing the time and
cost req uired to make each vessel Of the
navy engage in battle with an enemy on
the same general classification, omitting
hulls 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 81, l $4,000,
and the time necessary is va riously esti-
mated at from two to eighteen months
each, eighteen months being the estimated
time required on five vess els. The COM
municatiOn also embodies a detailed state
ment of the cost of repairs on vessels
since 1865, the total being $22 ,G75 600.
The total cost of vessels In the navy is
$72, 2,345 776.
In the United States senate, on the Sd
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-
zona to disperse. and then use the army
attention to the necessity of comforting
criminal Jurisdiction upon our ministers
and consuls, to prevent outrages on
American citi zens in the far east. An
| appropriation of $350,000 was recon-
| lin collection in London. Mr.. Allison
| slruction of the illinois and Mississi ppi
river canal. On the bill to repeal the
discrimination against ex-confederates in
to the Judiciary committee was carried
| David Davis made an elaborate argume ent
in favor of establishing court of appeals