River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1882-06-15
TELEGRAPH TICKS.
Important and Interesting Items
from the Wires During the Week.
WASHINGTON,

PRESIDENT ARTHUR has approved the
act for the distribution of the Geneva
award
FRIENDS OF the Hennepin Canal project
feel encouraged over test vote in the
house
THE friends of the Lowell bankruptcy
bill are actively at work pushing that
measure to the front.
The house, Saturday decided the Lowe
Wheeler contested election case by seat
ing the contestee, Lowe.
A CAREFUL canvass of the senate indi-
Gates that the house Japanese indemnity
bill will go through the upper branch.
SENATOR HoAR introduced in the SEN
ate bill to establish uniform system
OF bankruptcy. 1t is substantially the
amended Lowell bill as reported to the
house.
THERE is a rumor about that Marshal
Henry. of the District of Columbia, will
be removed, owing to the manner in
which the star-route ury were drawn.
The bill introduced by Representative
Butterworth TO authorize the consolida-
lion of the Southern Atlantic and Pacific
railway companies with other Pacific
companies. provides nothing in the SCI
shall be held TO authorize the consolida-
ton of parallel or competing lines be-
| tween the Pacific coast ard ports on the
Gulf of Mexico or the Mississippi river
or impair any right acquired by these
companies under previous acts of con-
gress.
THE president has appointed the fol-
lowing TO be members of the tariff COM
mil sion:
VIM. A. Wheeler, of n. Y, chairman.
Jno. L. Hayes of Massachusetts.
Henry W. Oliver Jr., of Pennsylvania.
Austin NJ. Garland. Of Illinois.
Jacob Amber, of Ohio.
Jno. S. Phelps, of Missouri.
Robert P. Porter, of Dist. of Columbia.
Jno. w. Underwood, OF Georgia.
Duncan T. Kenner, of Louisiana.
IT is expected that the house naval
| committee will have authority to sit dur
| il the vacation of congress. This Will
be made necessary through the intention
of the administration to reorganize the
navy, if congress will only vote the money:
| If The naval committee is not authorized
to sit during the session it will be neces-
4ary to have a special commission APP
pointed to go into the subject of iron-clads.
| the latest sly les in the construction OF
vessels, and the like. At best, it will aff Drd
a very nice summer trip for a number OF
statesmen, as the points to be visited Tor
| experimental observation are all upon
| th.. sea-hore.
The deficiency bill drought up in the
house revived some of the scar dals of he
| Yorktown Centennial. The bill showed
=. deficiency in the fund for expenses OF
entertaining the French and German
guests while here, of $50, coo. nearly double
what was authorized TO he spent. L.
| leaked out, a lutte at a time, in state
ments from Holman and Sparks. and ad-
missions from Hscock, that the money
was largely expended for wines and a
high old time generally. Eighteen
thousand dollars of it was for hotel bills
in New York and Washington, and sever
al thousand for the use of the steamboat
| on which The committee took the parties
10 Yorktown. Hiscock vsinly tried to
keep the matter AZ quiet as possible, say
ing it would be an Insult to our guests to
bubble over the bills for their entertain
ment.
| THE house has unanimously passed a
| bill which 10 likely TO prove another sur
prise to those who have taken an interest
| in the pension laws. The bill ia entitled
AN act TO amend the pension laws by In
| creasiDE the pension Vi soiuieIa anu san
ora Who have lost an ara or a leg in the
service" hut that is not what it really Is
In the text is significant clause VIII ich
includes all those on the pension rolls, oil
| who shall hereafter be granted pension
"who shall have suffered disability sqnal
thereto shall be granted a pei sion of $4C
per month" TIL clause, IN the opinior
of pension office off ;ial, will flood the
pension Office anew with large class @
pensioners, and ii as literally construed al
other laws. will take la, ge amount from
the public treasury.