Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1883-02-08
CAPITAL NOTES.

WASHINGTON. Feb. 1.-THE house com
mittee on Indian affairs decided 80 report
adversely Craven's bill authorizing the
Mississippi, Albuquerque 81 Inter Ocean
Railway company, to consist of a railway
through the Chocktaw and Chickasaw ma
tons.
In the star route trial, Fred. Steenecke,
former sub-contractor, testified that John
Dorsey told him that the department would
make allowance for bad weather in winter,
but added, he must not miss any. The
mails were carried on snow shoes for four
months in the winter.
THE LABOR INTERESTS.
The examination of Robert D. Layton
was continued before the senate committee
on education and labor on the different
kinds of work in the iron mills and the
wages paid for each. The iron workers
were paid better than the coal miners. The
latter were compelled by the employer or
operator on penalty of discharge to deal
altogether at "pluck 'em" stores owned by
the smployer, and to pay for everything
that they would be obliged to elsewhere.
They also had to buy all their tools, lamps,
oil, powder, ETC., out of their wages, which
averaged not more than $3.50 per year.
At the last session the Pennsylvania leg
islature passed an act prohibiting ''pluck-
'em" stores, but some legal lights of that
state had made sales in it, and it was really
imperative. He said the cooperation plan
of the order was the Rockdale system of
England. A certain per cent. of the profits
was divided each quarter among the pat
rons of the store, not stockholders. Their
most successful store of this kind was at
Shawnee, Ohio The knights of labor
would like to see law passed prohibiting
gambling by speculation in the necessaries
of life, particularly in breadstufs, and
also national eight hour law applied to
all workmen not in government employ.
SILVER COINAGE.
Director of the mint Burchard was be
fore the committee on coinage, weights
and measures to-day. He thought it mex
pedient to coin more silver until there
shall be an international agreement fix
ing the rates between gold and silver. His
theory was that without an International
agreement as to the relative values of the
two coins, continuance of coinage and
circulation by the United States would
tend to make this country the dumping
ground for the silver of all nations, while
gold would find its way out of the country
as fast as imports came in.
COMBINATIONS.
Commodore Chas. Fl. Baldwin to be rear
admiral; Wyman Lincoln, of Iowa, Indian
agent at Ft. Belknap. Postmasters-Jos
H. Cowden, Delphos, O.; Louis Fisher
| Sparta, Wis; Robert S. Patterson, Muncie
Ind; Harry Fisk, Aurora, Ind; Alonzo T
Lewis. Carthage, Mo-; Chas. W. Wilson
Lebanon, Mo-; Oscar Gareisen, Galveston,
Tex; Henry P. Phillips, Columbus, Tex.
Mrs. Maggie B. Aikens, Canton, Oak.
Geo. G. Codd. Detroit, Mich; Chas. D
Crandell, Big Rapids, Mich; Luther
Whitney, Muskogse, Mich; Stephen D
Bingham, Lansing, Mich; Henry J.
Kendall, st. Paul, Neb.; Joseph F. Woods
Schuyler, Neb.; Chas. W. Reynolds, GrundJ
Center, Ia.; W. Francis, Ackley, Ia; Fay
cite W. Crane. MagualetOn, Ia; Robert q.
| Spencer, Algona, Ia; Justice M. Rhodes
Jefferson, Ia.
THE COST OF oKLABAMA.
The officials at the Indian bureau asser
that Capt. Payne's raid upon the Okla
| hama lands in the Indian territory has
! already cost the government 100000 and
this expenditure might have been saved
if congress had adopted the repeated
recommendations of the commissioner
providing punishment for intruders upo1
| public lands.
| NOTES AND NEWS.
The president has gone to Mt. Vernon
to-day with party of friends.
The Garfield Monument fair nettet
| $500.
The secretary Of the interior has decided
! that railroads are not limited TO lands i'm
mediately adjoining their roads in cutting
ties and obtaining other construction
material.
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