Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1883-12-15
WASHINGTON.
SPRINGER GOING FOR THE LAND
GRANT RAILROADS,
Social Gossip of the Capital-RandaH Dis
gruntled over his Defsat-Departmenu
No,es-Proceedlngs of the House of Rep
reSentatives.
lspecisl Teleprsm to the Globe. |

Special Telegram to the Globe.
WASHINGTON, Dec, IA. = Represent tive
Springer Will on Monday introduce joint reso-
luton which he hopes to have passed immedi-
ately, instructing the secretary of the interior
and the commissioner Of the general land office
not to Issue any more patents to railroad COM
panies of lana included in previous congressional
grants, and to take no steps whatever toward
confirming the title of the lands III
til congress shall have passed |
upon the whole subject. He states |
that the secretary and commissioner are con-
tinually iTnportuned to issue patents on lands |
which are the subject OF the numerous land |
grant bills recently introduced. All the lands |
earned by railroads by the completion of their |
lines within the time specified in the grant are |
already patented, az with the Union Pacific land |
grant. The only lands on which patents have |
not been issued ere those concerning which |
there is question. Ii the roads |
could obtain patents these and sell /
then to innocent purchasers the government |
would have no redress, OF at least only through |
a tedious process in the courts. The 1bjsc6 IS
so important that it viii probably take congress
six months TO decide, and in the meantime the |
temptation viii be great to outwit the govern
ment.
SOCIAL GOSSIP.
The wedding of Miss Key, of Georgetown,
and Captain Jean Leon Renaud, of the
French army, is set for the 18th instant.
The CEREMONY vii, be performed at Judge Keys
residence owing to recent death in the family
of the BRIDES mother.
Commodore and Mrs. Semmes are fairly in
stalled in their new home at the navy yard and
Mrs Semmes has SO far recovered from her &C
cident of last winter, (a broken leg) that she is
able to be about the house and to receive her
friends Monday.
Mrs. Admiral Warden has been SO indisposed
| that she has and to forego hec
usual December receptions, but she is on the
convalescent list now
The death of Mrs. Carey Long deprive5 the
literary society of one of its brightest orna-
ments.
TAKES IT To HEART.
Randall takes his defeat sorely to heart, and
is not able to repress the sentiment which it OK
cites. Tuesday last, Carlisle, suffering from
hoarseness caused by severe cold, invited Rau-
| dali to occupy. the chair as
| the first compliment he could
| offer him. To the surprise of the speaker
Randall declined the honor, assigning reason
the pretext that there was an unvritten rule of
| the house that speaker should not call an ex-
speaker to the char. Carlisle addressed his re-
| quest to Cox, wha had served as speaker during
| the illness and absence OF Mr. Kerr. Ee
| promptly and cordially accepted the effer.
! WASHINGTON, Dec 1.-THE attorney in fact
| of the Florida parishes, Louisiana, presented
! the secretary OF the interior with protest from
those parishes against the granting Of lands
| within their limits TO the New Orleans and
| Pacific railroad company and other corpora
tons The attorney protests against the grant
| ing of the lands nov claimed by the descend
| anis OF its former conquerors and for which On
action is now pending before congress, and says
| he grounds the protest particularly against
| the assignee of the Backbone railroad grant, as
| he understand the secretary, as guardian OF the
rights OF said parishes Obtained waiver Of all
| the franchises granted the New Orleans Pacific
railroad in the territory east of the Mississippi
river and such waiver is recorded IN the archives
| Of the interior department. The attorney adds
! that the protest would never have been fled if
! the New Orleans Pacific road had kept the terms
| of the waiver in good faith.
THE LATE JUDGE BLACK.
meeting of the members OF the bar of the
| United States supreme court will be held on
Monday next, to take appropriate action the
death of Judge Black.
WHISKY REPRESENTATION.
Representatives of the whisky manufacturing
districts of the country held o meeting in the
ways and means committee room this afternoon
and decided to petition the secretary of the
treasury to exercise all the possible leniency al
lowed by law in collecting the taxes on spirits at
| the present time. They will meet at the resi-
| dence of Congressman Jordan, Of Ohio, to-nor-
| row, and prepare petition,
| citing the financial distress under which
| the manufacturers of bourbon whisky are
| now laboring, by reason of the large amount of
| whisky coming outbound. The petition will
also set forth the fact that congress will proba-
| bly, extend the bonded period. and the manufac-
| turers desire that the whisky soon to come out
may receive the benefit of such extension.
THE CHINESE ELL.
| The members Of the Pacific coast congress
sional delegation held a meeting to-
| day for the purpose of agreeing on such
| amendments as may be offered to the Chinese
restriction bill. Present Senator Dolph, Oregon
| and Representatives Summer, Glascock, Budd,
| Hanley and Tuily, California, CASSIDY of Nevada
| and George of Oregon. The commute was in
secret session from to p. IN. The amend
ments decided upon and which will be embodied
| in the bill TO be introduced to the house by
| Hanley on Monday. 1t will provide for Tie
| passport system substantially Identical with
| that contained in tbs vetoed twenty year bill.
| All Chinese viii be required, before leaving
| or entering the United States to provide
| themselves with certificates containing detailed
| descriptions of their personal appearance which
| must be exhibited to the custom officers at the
| ports of entry departures A special Gordon
| OF OIncef6 Is TO guard the IrOntler OIL Br1tl6h
| Columbia in order to prevent the unlawful INA
migration of Chinese from that country. Every
constable, justice, police, sheriff and deputy
sheriff along the border IS to have the power
and authority of United States
marshal to make arrests for vio-
lation of the restrictions of the law,
| The appelIation merchant" UNDER which so
many Chinese have recently entered the United
States will be clearly defined and held applicable,
not to p=ddlers, hucksters, ETC., but only TO per-
sons actually engaged in business, and the word
as properly understood. In view Of recent de
cision by a Boston Judge, to the effect that tho
present law does not apply to the Chinese, who
are British subjects. 1t is proposed to amend
that law by providing that native Chinese
shall enter the United States except under legal
restrictions. number of regulations of minor
importance relating to the enforcement of the
| proposed new provisions were also unanimously
agreed upon. and the entire series
| of amendments go before the
house as the work of the whole.
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