Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1882-02-09

Douglass, Houghton, Mich; Oliver H.swina
Mount Morris, Ill. Commodore John G. Fetl
erington, rear admiral, and Capt, John L. d.
Wis, commodore.
INDIAN AFFAIRS.
The house committee on Indian affair
agreed to report. with favorable recommends
ton, Representative Washburn's bill, author
izing the secretary OF the interior to ascertai
and pay the amounts due citizens OF the Uni
ted States for supplies furnished the Siou
Indians subsequent to August, 1860 and prio
to the massacre of August, 1862. Claim
must be presented within two years from tn
passage of the act.
Representative behring's bill will be favora
| bly, reported, giving the Creek Indians $257,
O55, and also interest at 5 per cent. on $176, 755
| from April 6, 1872, due them under the treat,
Of March 26, 1882.
GENEVA AWARD.
The majority of the house judiciary com
mittee on the Geneva award recommends tn,
passage of their bill, which provides for tn,
payment, first, Of exculpate cruiser claims
and second, for war premium. It also provides
the balance shall remain fund for future
action of congress.
SUPREME COURT DIVISION.
Senator Pugh introduced to day bill Il
regulate the hearing of causes by the suprem,
court of the United States. The bill proposes
to divide the court into three divisions, will
three justices In each, to be known % federal
equity, and admiralty law divisions. The sew
eral divisions are empowered to sit separately
for the hearing OF causes, and all causes are tC
be heard in the first instance by one division,
except causes in which jury is required, and
these must be heard by court in banc.
PACIFIC RAILROAD GRANTS.
A prominent member of the house commit.
tee on Pacific railroads, on the subject of pro-
posed compulsory forfeiture of land grants
by various railroad companies which have not
compiled with the law, says it is quite prob
able the Pacific railroad committee will not
act on the matter until after the judiciary
committee has decided as to the power
which was vested in the respective rail
roads by issuance OF the land grants. The
gentleman added: ITO compel the railroads
to give up these lands would undoubtedly be
a great hardship, and the question is one of
great i'm portance.'
BREvITIEs.
The new Scent Garfield postage will be ready
for issue March /. The stamp is pronounced
the truest likeness of Gen. Garfield and the
hand. omsst stamp yet issued by the postof1ce
department.
Represe NATIVE Carpenter, of Iowa, address,
ed the house COMMITTEE on railways and ca
nails to-day, In favor of the H-nnepin canal.
The Dakota delegates are pressing the com.
missioner. general of the land office for divi-
sion of the land district and Dakota new
land offices.
The president signed the commission of
Leopold Markbrest as assistant treasurer of
the United States at Cincinnati, and Henry
Booth receiver Of public moneys at Larned,
Kansas.
At the instance of the adjutant general of
Kentucky the records of the adjutant generals
office here are being searched for the roster of
the company which Gen. "Cerro Gordo" VIII.
liams took into the Mexican war.
Representative Ermentrout, of Pennsylva-
MIA (Democrat), says he will not be bound by
any party action on the subject of tariff, and
will SO declare. He will admit the commission
bill adopted by the ways and means committee
is not intended to accomplish anything, and
that its purpose is more to prevent changes in
the tariff than ought else, but it is to Penn
sylvania's interests to have perpetual protec-
ton, and he intends to vote for it regardless of
any action his party may take.