St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1884-03-04
committee had amended few of the bills and

er noticed that some of the bills did not contain
the usual clause regarding the cesson of juris
| diction over the sites and had
j it inserted. Senator Cuom voted
for the passage of his bill to buy the additional
ground at Springfield and his was absolutely the
only vote either for or against any one OF the
| twenty FIVE bills. Silence was assumed to assent
in all the other cases. The buildings
voted for to-day are judiciousy
/ scattered over the eastern, western
and southern sections of the country and the
total amount Appropriated for them is S33, 900, 0OO
Bills for the erection of eighty public buildings
! at an expense of 1924, 900, have been intro
duced at this session and the senate to-day
passed nearly one-third Of them in number and
| amount.
PERSONAL.
Hon. George H. Walsh, of Grand Forks, Dak
leaves tomorrow for home accompanied by Miss
Bell Williams, of st. Louis, who has been visit
ing Mr. Ferris, of the Evening>4Star.
Mr. and Mrs. Ben MacKall, of Norwood, Mimi,
are here on their wedding trip visiting Prof
Nourse.
Loren Fletcher and wife, of Minneapolis, have
returned to Washington and are registered at the
Riggs.
Western Associated Press
WASHINGTON. March 3.-The senate com
mittee on public lands decided by nearly a
unanimous vote in favor of the forfeiture of
the Texas Pacific territorial land grant, as
signed to the Southern Pacific Railway COM
pany. Mention was then made to restore
the land to the public domain without other
action than is provided for in the house bill,
which would, in the opinion of some Of the
members of the committee, leave the land
subject to appropriation under the existing
laws, for speculative purposes. 1t is pro-
posed TO consider and, perhaps,
amend certain features of the house bill
so as to make sure that the lands
will be available for no other purpose than
actual settlement. A special meeting will
probably be called within a day or two, to
dispose of the matter.
sPRINGER's COMMITTEE.
Ex-Postmaster General James, telegraphed
to Springer, that it would be inconvenient
for him to appear on Tuesday in the Star
route investigation, and the latter postponed
the examination until Wednesday Nc
Weigh appears on Thursday, ex-senator Spen-
Ger on Friday and Gibson on Saturday The
house committee on appropriation, agreed to
report adversely the joint resolutions, max
ing appropriations for the relief of the stlf-
ferers from high water along tbe lower Miss
issippi.
1 Ex-Marshal Strobach was again before
Springer's committee to-day as witness.
The statement of Brewster Cameron that the
deputy who had been an embezzler was still
in his employ, ''was a lie out of whole cloth.i
''Oh, Mr.. Strohach,;' replied Hemphill,
''the committee cannot allow statements of
that character"
Excuse me-" said the witness, 'I've
only been in this country twenty-five years,
and don't know whit you call lie."
In regard to the alleged conspiracy
of Strubach and Turner to remove
United States District Attorney smith, thas
Turner might be appointed, Strobach said ::
''That conspiracy, if it was conspiracy, was
entered upon by me and nine-tenths OF the
Republicans in the district. Smith had dis
missed grand jury before it had had an op-
portanity to do any work. The pea.ss
thought something out to be done. i wrote
out the charges, and being prominent Re-
publican, it was thought would be the
proper person to ask the removal OF Smith.
l went to Garfield, and he said,
Smith has been appointed at the instance
of Sherman and he did not feel like reInov-
ing him."
Ibid not Smith dismiss the grand jury be-
cause there was no money:'' was asked.
''There was plenty of money! replied the
witness ''and I'll tell you how it was spent.
Smith demanded in open court that the
charge be investigated and the witnesses
sent Tor. l refused to pay out money for
witnesses, believing Smiths case personal
matter, and l asked the department of JUS
tice Tor instructions. l was ordered to pay
the money for the witnesses, and that was
the way it was spent.
THE LAND CASES.
decision was also rendered fy the supreme
court on what are generally known as the per
cent. land cases, viz, the state of Iowa and the
state of Illinois against Noah c. Mcfarland,
commissioner of the general land office These
| were petitions for writs of mandamus to compel
the commissioner general of the land office, to
make statement between the United States and
the states of Iowa and Illinois, for the purpose
| of ascertaining what sums of money were due
said states under the acts providing for their ad
mission into the Union, which authorized the
payment to them of per cent. of the net pro-
ceeds of the public lands lying within their lin
its which should be sold by congress. The
question presented by the cases, is whether OF
not public lands located by military bounty land
warrants come within the scope OF tho acts above
| mentioned, that is, whether such lands
Glands sold by congress"
The court holds, under the act of March 8,
1S45, relating to the admission of the state of
| Iowa into the Union, the act of April 1S,
1918, for the admission of the state of Illinois
into the Union, by which five per cent. Of the net
proceeds of the land lying within the state, and
| afterwards sold by congress, is reserved for the
| benefit of the state the state is not entitled to
the percentage on the value of the lands disposed
of by congress in satisfaction Of military land
| warrants. The writs of maDdamus prayed for
are therefore refused, and the petition dismiss
ed. Opinions by Justices Gray and Miller are
| filed dissenting The amount of land located
with military bounty land warrants, under the
various acts in nineteen southern and western
states, up to June 80, 1882, was 63,322, 600
acres, the largest amounts being in Iowa,
Illinois, Missouri, Wisconsin and Minnesota.
The bill introduced in the senate by NCockrell,.
! to authorize the appointment of special COM
mission to visit the prime pal countries Of Central
! and South America for the purpose Of collecting
| information, looking to the extension Of Ameri-
! can trade and commerce with those countries,
provides for the appointment Of three commits
sioners for term of two years
each at an annual salary of
| $1,000 to visit Mexico, Guatemala, Honduras,
Salvador, Nicaragua, Costa Rica, Columbia, Ven
ezuela, Ecquador, Peru, Bolivia, The Argentine
Republic, Chilli, Uruguay Paraguay, and Brazil,
and for an appropriation of $4,000 for carrying
out the purposes of the act.
| A bill was introduced in the Senate to consti-
| tute Seattle, Washington territory, port of en-
try within the collection of the district of Puget
| Sound
| All Americdns Lore Wordstcorth.
Modern Age.
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