Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1883-05-10
THE PRESIDENTS MOVEMENTS.

THE PRESIDENTS MOVEMENTS.
The president will probably accept an
invitation to attend the ceremonies incl
dent to the Inauguration of the New York
and Brooklyn bridge the oath inst. He
will certainly be present on that occasion
if his engagements permit. It is also
probable he will participate in the
memorial exercises in New York city on
Decoration day. The president will not
take up his residence at the Soldiers home
before next month. He has not made his
arrangements yet for the summer.
THE FRAUDULENT SUGAR COMMITTEE.
The special committee appointed to in
vestigate the alleged frauds in the customs
service at San Francisco in connection
with the importation of Hawaiian sugars
had an interview with Secretary Folger to-
day, and received their final instructions
from him. The committee will leave for
San Francisco in few days.
TO ACT FOR TEN DAYS.
The president has designated John j.
Knox, comptroller of the currency, to act
as commissioner of internal revenue for
ten days from the 10th inst. The term of
Deputy Commissioner Rogers, as acting
commissioner, expires tomorrow. He
could not be legally designated to act for
longer period. Knoxwas designated by
the president upon the recommendation of
Secretary Folger.
FLORIDA SHIP CANAL.
The Florida Ship Canal company effect
ed an organization at meeting of stock
holders in this city, by the election of Ex-
Governor John G. Brown, of Tennessee, as
president; Geo. G. Gorham, secretary: S. T.
Mercer, treasurer, and Gen. Chas. P. Stone.
chief engineer; with the following directors:
John G. Brown, VIM. Window, Gov. Benz,
F. Butler, Senator VIM. Malone, Town
send Cox, Gov. VIM. E. Cameron, S. T.
Mercer, A.W. Jones, A. S. Mann, M Jacobs,
V. D. Grover and Senator John P. Jones.
1t was announced that $26, 100000 had been
subscribed to the capital stock of the com
papy. General Stone will place corps of
engineers in the field without delay, and
the work is expected to be under contract
by the first of September.
It is estimated the canal will cost $780,
100000 and will be completed in years.
The proposed route will leave the st. Johns
river about twenty miles above Jackson
vile, and run thence in direct line as
nearly as possible to the Swanee river in
the Gulf of Mexico, making a tide water
canal of less than 100 miles in length, and
deep enough 10 float the largest ocean
steamer from the ocean to the Gulf.
SIX HUNDRED MILES BEYOND THE MISSOURI.
The president has accepted another fifty
mile section, of the Northern Pacific rail
road in Montana. This section, recently
completed, extends from $50 to the 6OOth
mile of road west of the Missouri river.
RESIGNATION rendered.
H7n. George SLOVENIAN of California,
has rendered his resignation as a member
of the board of Indian commissioners.
DON'T APPLY TO FARMING LANDS.
Secretary Teller rendered decision to =
day in which he holds that the act of June
3, 1S78,which permits the sale at minimum
price of $3.50 per acre for land valued
principally for their timber, and unfit for
cultivation, does not apply to timber lands
which may be rendered susceptible of CUT
tivation by ordinary farming processes.
''Such lands" the secretary says, "are not
within the purpose of this act, which is in
tended to embrace within its provisions,
timbered tracts emily in broken, rugged or
mountainous districts, with soil unfit for
ordinary agricultural purposes, when
cleared of timber"
REMOVAL OF THE CROW INDIANS.
Special Agent MIlburn, of the Indian
Office, will leave Washington tomorrow
for the Grow Indian reservation, in Mon
resident agent in making arrangements
for the removal of the Grows to the valley
of the Big Horn and Little Big Horn, in
NIL ruit NJ 4T
The commissioner of the general land
postoffice department that cattle herders
in Nebraska have recently enclosed with
fences, for grazing purposes, large tract
of public land, and thereby cut off an i'm
portant mail route. The case is being in
vestigated, and it is thought at the interior
department that measures are about to be
taken to break up this unlawful practice
of fencing public lands, practice which
has lately grown to be serious evil.
SECRETARY LINCOLN ON GEN. CROOK.
The war department has not heard from
Gen. Crooks expedition since the Sd, but
Secretary Lincoln says that the circum-
stance does not give any ground for alarm.
He has full confidence in Gen. Crooks
judgment and prudence and is satisfied
thathe knew what he had to encounter be-
fore he crossed the border. The secretary
is not disposed to credit the rumors of an
engagement between Gen. Crooks forces
and the hostile Indians in Mexico, in which
Crook was beaten. He thinks if the fight
had taken place the department would
have heard of it through some of the mill
tary posts along the border.
PAYMAsTER's REUNION,
The paymasters and ex-paymasters of
the United States army, who reside in this
city, have extended invitations to all the
paymasters who served in the Union army
during the late war, to attend reunion
which will be held here in connection with
the meeting of the society of the Army of
the Potomac, on the 10Th and 18th inst.
There will be meeting of the paymasters
on Wednesday at the Ebbitt house, where
they will have their headquarters, and a
large attendance is expected.
Buffers Rumpus.
Boston, May 9.-The legislative COM
mittee investigating the validity of Gov.
Buffers first veto, had the governors
private secretary before them to-day, but
he refused to give any facts relative to the