The Middlebury register and Addison County journal. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1883-1885, 1884-07-11
Washington.

IL the Iowa contested election case of
Fredericks versus Wilson, the House commit
tee on elections 10y a vote of six to five de-
cided to report in favor of Mr.. Fredericks
Democrat, and against Mr. Wilson Repub-
licanl, the sitting member
THE Indian appropriation bill as AR I'd
upon by the conference committee of the
House and Senate. approprates S5.S)9,4O?.
DURING June there was a reduction in the
national debt Of l125GS 50.
THE fiscal year closed June 30. shows a re-
duction in the public debt of Sl0l,OOO,O0O
against Sl3S 00j,0 for the preceding year.
TIE available cash in the United States
treasury in July was $3.50, SS1, 439.
EXPENDITURES by the government during
the past fiscal year were: Ordinary, S134, 3d.
GS9; pensions. $j6G03, 995 interest, S5,51S,-
ISL; total, S245, 49S,51S, against S2Gj, 4OS, 1877
during the previous fiscal year.
GOVERNMENT receipts during thepast fiscal
year We're as follows: Customs, Sl95, 1924, POI;
internal revenue $122, 0)4, 400: miscellaneous,
$50, 1876, Oh total, S347 79S, 134, against $685.,
2S1, 5S2, received the previous year.
THE House committee on elections decided
to reconsider its previous action whereby it
was agreed to seat Mr.. Fredericks in the
contested election case of Fredericks vs. Will
son. of Iowa
REV. IL V. PLUMER, a colored man, has
been appointed chaplain of the Ninth cavalry,
a colored regiment with white officers. Mr..
Plumer is the frs colored man ever appointed
to the army and the first colored chaplain that
the army has ever had.
Is the contested election case of Craig
against Shelley, of Alabama the House COM
mttee on elections decided to report in favor
of Mr.. Craig 1t was also agreed to report in
favor of Mr. Maginnis in the contested case of
Batkins against Maginnis, of Montana. Mr.
Shelley and Mr.. Maginnis are the sitting
members.
A NOTION to pass the bill for the relief of
! Fitz John Porter over the Presidents veto
was lost in the Senate by u yeas to - nays
not the II ecessary two-thirds majority.
THE gross receipts of the postoflice depart
ment for the quarter ended March 81, 1884,
We're $40 1GS,293, decrease of Sl,O43,OOJ as
| compared with the corresponding quarter Of
/ lsS3 The expenditures for the same quarter
We're 81, lG3,5Ni, or S2SS, SJ1 more than the eX-
penditures III the corresponding period in 1888
THE President sent the following nominal
tons to the Senate: John A. Kasson, Of
! Iowa, to be envoy extraordinary and minister
| plcnipotentiary of the United States to Ger
many; Alphonso Taft, of Ohio, to be envoy
/ extraordinary and minister plenipotentiary of
the United States to Russia; John NJ.
| Francis, of New y ork to he envoy eXtraordi-
nary and minister plenipotentiary Of the Uni
ted States to Aus;ria-Hungary; Lewis Rich
mond of Rhode Island, to be minister
resident consul general to Portugal; Sam
uel IL. NJ Byers, to be consul-general at
Rome; Ramon o. Williams, to be con-
sul-general at Havana; Ward McAllister.
Jr., of California, to be United States
judge for the district of Alaska; f. W. Has
kell, of Iowa. to be United States attorney
for the district of Alaska Frank Sperry, of
New York, and Seward Smith, of Iowa, to
be associate justices of the supreme court of
Dakota; John Jarrett, of Pennsylvania, to be
commissioner of labor.