Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1883-01-30

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longevity pay, was dismissed.
A decision was rendered in the supreme
court to-day in case in which counsel for
prisoner in the circuit court of Kentucky
moved to qaush the Indictment for murder
against his client for the reason that the
grand jury which found it was selected by
virtue of state law from whites exclusive
ly in violation of the fourteenth amend
ment to the federal constitution. The
state court of appeals sustained the ruling,
but to-day's decision reverses it, holding
that the motion to quash should have been
granted for the reason that the state twice
enacted laws inconsistent with the fours
teenth amendment. The opinion was by
Justice Harlan.
Mr.. Butterworth expects to have hear
ing before the ways and means committee
tomorrow on the bonded whisky extension
bill now on the speakers table.
The court in banc heard the application
of John j. Key for mandamus to compel
secretary of state to pay to him share of
moaeys received from Mexico under the
award by the Mexican mixed claimed COM
mission.
Boone's cross-examination was resumed
in the star route trial. John w. Dorsey
and himself were partners in the firm of
J. W. Dorsey & Co. According to the
terms of the contract, John Dorsey was to
have two-thirds, and witness one-third of
the profits. In August or September,
1878, the partnership terminated and the
routes were divided. The rules prevent
the partners from bidding against each
other. Witness said the congressional in
vestigation paralyzed them. They did not
know where they stood, and were afraid to
move.
The secretary of the interior has decided
that under the law regulating the allot-
ment of lands to the Winnebago Indians in
Nebraska, every Indian woman married to
an alien white man and having children by
him, must be regarded as the head of a
family, and is therefore entitled to an al
lotment of eighty acres of land.
The supreme court also rendered a de-
cision to-day in which it is held that the
law of Alabama prohibiting miscegenation
is not in conflict with the fourteenth
amendment or with the civil rights legisla-
tion founded on it for the reason that it
applies the same punishment to both offend
ers, white and black, without discrimina-
rion.
The president will give state dinner to
the justices of the supreme court Thurs
day.
The first public reception will be held
tomorrow evening.
The state department has made formal
request on the Canadian authorities for
the return of Hall, the New Jersey fugitive,
The senate appropriations committee
completed the army bill to-day, adding
100000 to the amount appropriated by
the house bill.
The First National bank of Yelling ton,
O., capital 100000, and the First Nation
al bank of Honey Grove, Tex, capital
$4,000, are authorized to commence bust
ness.
NOMINATIONS.
Postmasters: Henry P. Phillippi, Col
umbus, Tex; Robert I. Patterson, Muncie,
Ind; Samuel Lynn, Earlville, ILL.,; Charles
Lynn, Carrollton, ILL.,; Jacob Freindlich,
Mt. Sterling, ILL.,; Cornelius 3. Pond,
Quincy, Mich; Justus II. Rhoades, Jeffer-
sen, Ia; Rsbt. Fl. Spencer, Alger, Ia;
Alonza F. Lewis, Carthage, 40.
SENATOR LoGANs 4RMY BILL
that the number of enlisted men in the
army, including the $50 hospital stewards
and 200 Indian scouts, shall not exceed
10000, increases the pay of privates from
$13 to $16 per month, and of nOn-com-
missioned officers and submarines in pro-
portron. It allows commissioned officers
to employ privates as servants, first OBJ
tanning their consent and the consent of
the commanding officer, and provides that
the pay of the private in such cases shall
be deducted from the pay of the officer.
The provisions relative to staff duty in
Washington are as follows: No officer shall
remain absent from his regiment On duty
at Washington Or on the staff of the major
general or brigadier general for longer
period than three years at any one time;
provided this provision shall not apply to
+ officers on the staff of the commanding
general of the army.
The following provision of the house
bill was struck out: For the better accom-
plishment of the object of the act author
izing the construction of railroads herein
referred to-, and the better to secure to the
government the use and benefit of the
same; all acts authorizing the building
and construction of those railroads which
have received, in addition to
land grants, government aid by
loan or guarantee of bonds by
the United States, and all other acts, parts
of acts and provisions having relation
thereto, are hereby so altered, amended and
modified that hereafter the compensation
had or allowed for carrying AID transpor-
tation of property or troops of the United
States by such railroad companies, or their
assigns or successors, shall not exceed fifty
per cent. of the amount paid by private
parties for the same kind of service.
PURCHASING RELICS.
Congress is asked to vote $4,000 for the
Rochambeau papers, referring to French
troops in the American war Of independ-
ence. The papers include 152 letters
from Washington to Rochambeau. $4,000
is asked for ex-senator Carpenters col
lection of supreme court decisions and
briefs.
RED CLOUD WANTS HIs PONIES Oh CASH.
Red Cloud, in an interview to-day with
the secretary of the interior and commits
sioner of Indian affairs, demanded the res
toration of his horses or cash. The COM
missioner of Indian affairs remarked that
the whole number Of horses taken from
the Sioux up to date was 1000, which were
sold for S19,4O0l and that
the war department could
not satisfactorily account for
the proceeds of these sales This fact he