Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1883-01-12

building the following vessels: One steel
cruiser to cost 81 500 900, three steel cruisers
to cost Sl,O1, 900, one iron dispatch boat to
cost 100000, and one cruising torpedo boat to
cost 1880, ZOO.
All miners In the mines tributary to Des
Moines, Iowa except two, and numbering
500, stopped work because of reduction of
half cent per bushel.
winchester, KY, special says: Three col.
ored laborers put some wet dynamite in
stove to dry. Itexploded, blowing two of the
men to pieces and seriously injuriDg the
other The house was completely demolished.
ID. B. Robinson, General Superintendent OF
the Mexican Central Railroad, telegraphs that
W. X Morley, the distinguished engineer OF
the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railroad
system, was accidentally shot and killed al
Santa Rosalia, Mexico on the Sd.
Mrs. Lieut.. Gov. Tabor filed complaint in
the county court at Denver, Colo, one after.
noon last week, asking a divorce from hei
husband, charging desertion and non-support.
The answer was filed within an hour, admit
ting the facts as charged. The case was heard
DyJudge Harrington and the divorce granted
In just four hours, the Lieutenant Governor
deciding her city property valued at $4,000.
CONGR
The Senate the 2Sth at the close of the
morning hour on motion of Mr. Edmunds, took
up the bill reported by him from the Committee
on Judiciary, 10 prevent the Government of.
ncers ana employees collecting from or paying
10 eScn Other money for political purposes
mund's committee bill one introduced nv him
on December II, for the same general object
put prohibiting Government officers and EN-,
P i,gD from contributing money for political
purposes TO any person, whethera Government
ofncer or employe or not. The substitute w "a
rejected by vote OF Is to -. The Fitz John
Porter bill was then taken uD and discussed
until adjournment. -. The House was not in
session. 80 NV ="
In the Senate the 29th, after the introduce
ton and reference OF several bills. on motion
of Mr.. GroOme, the bin appropriating $4,000
for the erection Of monument to Baron De
MAID ut Annapolis, Md, passed. The bill to
regulate the Presidential succession was taken
up and discussed until O'clock when the hill
for the relief of Fitz John Porter was taken
up, ana MI. Logan addressed the Senate at
length in opposition. The House was not i'm
session.
The Senate was not I'm session the 3Oth..
In the House, on motion of Mr.. Kasson. the
Senate bills to reform the civil service and pre-
vent political assessments, were taken from
the speaker table and referred to the Com.
mittee on Civil Service Reform and leave
granted the Committee to report back at anv
time: On the motion of Mr.. Marsh, of Illinois,
the Senate bill was passed extending the time
for hllng claims for horses and equipmentsIo lost
by officers or enlisted men in the service of the
United States, with an amendment limiting the
extension to one year from the passage of the
act. Mr. Manning, of Massachusetts, offered q
resolution requesting the Attorney General to
INFORM the House what necessity existed for
the appointment of Jas. r. Chalmers as AS
s1stant District Attorney for the district court
of the United States for the northern district
or Mississippi, and to forward to the House all
ri N oh
ment.
In the Senate January 2, after the regular
presentation of petitions, Mr. Garland. from
the Committee on Judiciary, reported the
original bill as a substitute for the bills re-
f fers 20 tnat committee, providing for the
in brief, authorizes the Attorney General to
institute suits in the name of the United States
against roads granted land, which have not
patented the same, with the view of obtaininS
Judgment of forfeiture, and provides that If
within one year previous to the passage of the
act the roads in Question shall have made sub
stantial progress of construction, they shall be
exempt from judgment of forfeiture A NUM-
Der OF bills were introduced, when Mr. Logan
Porter bill, but finally gave way for a motion
to go into executive session. AT the con-
clusion of the call of States, the House pro
ceeded to the consideration of bills touching
the administration tax laws. The first was one
relating to the expectation of tobacco. snuff
and cigars in bond. free of tax, to adjacent ter
ritory. The bill passed. 1t was difficult to re-
tain quorum, and the House adjourned.
In the Senate the Sd, number of petitions
were presented for a constitutional amend
ment prohibiting the manufacture and sale of al
coholc liquors. Atthe close of the morning hour
Mr.. Logan continued his argument againstthe
t1tz John Porter bill, at the conclusion of
which Mr.: Sewell replied briefly. A motion to
indefinitely postpone was voted down, 20 to 2S.
A further discu sion took place, which contin-
uedto adjournment The House considered
the Army Appropriation bill until the hour of
adjournment The bill was practically con-
cluded, with the exception of the cOmpensa-
ton allowed the Pacific railroads for trans
portation.