River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1882-05-18
TELEGRAPH TICKS.
Important and Interesting Items
from the Wires During the Week.
WASHINGTON.

THE President has signed the Chinese
emigration bill.
The house committee on elections hai
decided to report in favor of seating Lowe
the Alabama greenbacker, and oHstins
Wheeler, democrat.
THE legislative, executive. and judicial
appropriations bill appropriates about two
and a half millions for clerical work
heretofore paid out of appropriations not
specified for that pun pose. 1t makes spe-
cihc appropriations for all the clerical
force.
In the petition for writ of habeas cor,
pus in the case of Sergeant Mason, the
United States supreme court decided thai
the court-martial had full jurisdiction
and that the sentence pronounced was moi
in excess of its power.
SECRETARY TELLER proposes to disarm
the Indians on all the reservations, anC
then use troops to take the weapons from
rowing bands. He insists that the wards
of the nation shall be treated pretty nearly
the same as the whites, and be punished
in the civil courts for misdeeds.
BEFORE Senior Zamaccua, the late Mex.
lean minister to the United States, was
relieved, treaty between the URited
States and Mexico was signed providing
for the readjudication by a new commits
sion of the notorious We'll and La Arbrs
claims. So far as known this treaty has
not yet been submitted to the senate.
A VESSEL will leave San Francisco
next month in charge of Lieut.. oseph 8.
Powell, for the relief of the Point Barrow
expedition. Persons desiring to send
supplies will forward the same to Lieut..
Powell at San Francisco not later than
June 80. They should be marked Point
Barrow expedition, care of United States
signal Office"
New postofices have been established al
Bogota, Jasper Co., ILL.,. Gillum, Mclean
Co, ILL.,. Hartsville. Pope Co., ILL.,. and
Keystone. Benton Co., Iowa. Posto flee
sites.have been changed as follows: Wyke-
ham, Todd Co.. MInp., one mile north
Battle Creek. Lake Co., d. t., one quar-
ter of mile northeast; Union Hill, Kan
kakee Co., ILL.,, to railroad. one-quarter of
a mile south.
TIE army appropriation bill remains
in the senate committee on appropria-
tions, and has only once been briefly dis
cussed. There is reason to believe that
the provision making retirement COM
pulsory after forty years of service will be
stricken out. Two or three members of
the committee have expressed opinions
adverse to this provision, and it is not
known that it meets with favor from any
of them. There is also disposition to
make the age at which retirement is conf
pulsory IS instead of SO years, as in the
house bill, but it is not yet safe to predict
either that this will or will not be DONE
The senate has confirmed the following
nominations: Indian Commissioners =
Jackson Orr, James F. Gardner, and Hen
ry Page, Colorado, to be commissioners to
accept and ratify the agreement submitted
by the Ute Indians. Indian Agents
Jonathan F. Minnis, Of Colorado, for Gu
ray Agency, Utah; John S. Mayhugh. of
Nevada, for the Western Shoshone Agen-
ey, Nevada; Charles Willoughby, for the
Neenah Bay Agency, Washington Terri
tory. Postmasters-James H. Douglass,
at Freeport, Pa; John G. Sullivan, Stark
vile, Miss; James S. Wood, Catlettsburg,
KY; Joseph S. Lenney, Danville, Ky;
Joseph B. Harris, Franklin, KY. The
nomination of Temple G. Byrn, to be
postmaster at Terrell, Texas. was rejected.