The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1884-03-21
From Washington.

IHE VOIe IN inc united states Senate on
the 18th on the passage by that body of the
bill for the relief of Fitz John Porter was
as follows:
Yeds-Bayard, Brown, Butler, Call Cock
rel, Coke, Colqultt, Fair, Farley, Garland,
Hoar, Jackson, Jonas, Jones Fla.), Jones
Ney.h Lamar, Mcpherson, Maxey Morgan,
Pendleton, Pike, Pugh, Riddleberger, Sabin,
salisbury, Sewell, Slater, Vance, Voorhees,,
NdyS-Aldrich, Allison, Blair, Bowen, Con-
ger, Cullom, Dawes, Dolph, Edmunds, Frye,
Harrison, Hawley, Hill. Ingalls, Mcmillan,
Henderson, Miller Call, Mitchell, Morrill,,
Palmer Platt, sherman, Van Wyck and Will
son.
Pdired-Beck, aye, with Hale, no; Cameron
WisG aye, with George, no; Miller IN. ",
no. with Camden aye; Plumb, no, with Vest,
aye; Sawyer no, with Kenna aye.
ATTORNEY GENERAL BREWSTER has sent
a circular to all United States Attorneys
and Marshals calling their attention to
the statutes regulating the shipment of
explosives, and urging vigilance to pre-
vent the preparation of heinous crimes at
foreign ports.
LII is recited in the preamble of the bill
passed by Congress for the relief of Fitz
John Porter that board of officers con-
vened by the President to examine and re-
port upon the case of General Porter, stated
that justice required the President to annul
the findings and sentence of the court
martial, and to restore him to the
position of which the sentence de-
prived him, such restoration to take
effect from the date of his dismissal
from service; that the President had re-
mltted so much of the sentence as dis
qualified Porter from holding office. The
bill authorizes the President to appoint
Porter to the position of Colonel in the
army, and, in his discretion, to place Gen.
eral Porter on the retired list of that grade,
Porter, however, to receive no compensa-
tion or allowance prior to his appointment
under the act.
AN opinion was expressed on the 14th
by members of the Banking and Currency
and Of the Coinage Committees Of the
House of Representatives that there was
no prospect of the passage Of law at this
Congress for the suspension of silver coin
age.
THROUGHOUT the United States and Can
ada the business failures during the seven
days ended on the 14th numbered 294,
against 264 the previous week. The dis
tribution was as follows: New England
States, %; Middle, Al; Western, So; South
ern, 81; Pacific States and Territories, IS;
Canada and the Provinces, SS.
THE American Tract Society held its an
nual meeting at Washington on the 10th.
The receipts for the year were shown to be
$369,066; expenditures, 1851 ,2SO; donations
and legacies $116,957; available for benev-
olent work, $S4,551.
DURING February last the value of Elk.
ports of breadstuffs was $40, 100, 1893, against
$l1,577,301 for the same time last year.
For the eight months ended February %
the value was sic, $40, against $780,.
43l, l43 for the corresponding period last
year.
A COUNTERFEIT silver certificate of the
denomination of twenty dollars was dis
covered on the 10Th by the Secret-Seryice
division of the Treasury Department. The
paper is much shorter than the genuine,
and is thick and stiff.
1T was shown by official reports at
Washington on the 10th that for six years
and seven months, ended with December
last, 47S,SoS persons emigrated from the
Dominion of Canada into the United
States.
PRESIDENT ARTHUR's sister, Mrs. Nc
Elroy, assisted by fourteen ladies, received
over one thousand persons at the White
House on the 10th.
AT twenty-six leading clearing houses in
the United States the exchanges during the
week ended on the 10Th were 1874, All,
against 81, 29,62S,O5S the previous week.