St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1884-03-26
not exceeding 1925, 900 out of the unexpend-
ed balance of the sums appropriated for the
relief of those rendered destitute by the
floods in the Ohio river and its tributaries.

not exceeding S125, 600 out OF the uneXpend-
ed balance of the sums appropriated for the
relief of those rendered destitute by the
floods in the Ohio river and its tributaries.
THE POSTAL TELEGRAPH.
Representative Sumner, of California, ap-
peared before the house committee on post
offices and post roads to-day, in advocacy of
his bill to establish government postal tele-
graph, and in opposition to the proposed
contract between the government and the
Postal Telegraph company, and his bill, he
asserted, would not cost the government a
dollar, as the money necessary to establish a
postal telegraph, would be raised by the
issue of bonds. This was more than could
be said Of the other propositions. He assert
ed the government could do the telegraphing
OF people at ten cents per message, and
more than clear expenses, as it
would be under comparatively little
expense for office rent fuel
and light, which were very expensive. The
proposition of the postal company, he de-
clared, was but a trick of Mackay & Co. to
prevent the establishment of a postal tele-
graph. The government proposed to give
the franchises to this company, and also give
a monopoly worth forty millions of dollars to
them, in return for which the people get no
lower rates than they could secure at present.
MISCELLANEOUS.
The committee representing the national
association of ex-union prisoners of war ap-
peared before the house committee on in
valid pensions to-day and urged the passage
of bill pensioning union soldiers who were
imprisoned in confederate prisons.
A committee, representing seventy-four
posts of the G. A. R.. of Massachusetts,, ap-
peared before the committee and urged the
passage of bill placing all Union soldiers
of the late war on the pension rolls, at SIS
per month.
THE FLOODS AND TELEGRAMS.
Dispatches received here to-day from
Louisiana, state the Mississippi has broken
out over most of the levees, and government
aid to prevent the people and stock from
starving. Representative King received
among others the following kilograms:
TRoYvILLE, La, March 25.-The county is
entirely submerged and the people and stock
need immediate relief (Sigued)
R. B. w. WALTERS.
RODNEY, Miss, March 25.-Tensas parish
is entirely inundated. Rations will be re-
quired for 20, 900 destitute people, and feed
for stock is necessary. The emergency is
very great. Immediate relief is necessary
(Signed), Joseph Moore, VIM. D. Davidson,
Robert Murdoch, D. H. Chamberlain and
Thos. P. Clinton.
ST. JOSEPH, La, March 25'-This dispatch
was sent from Rodney, Miss, because the
overflow has destroyed the telegraph wires in
Louisiana and Vicksburg, Miss. The river
at st. Joseph is six inches above 1882. The
levees are all gone, with the river rising
from Cairo down. (Slgned) C. C. CoRDELL.
Governor McHenry, of Loui siana, tele
graphs General King: Great distress; Nor
gansea, Scott and Waterloo levees gone. 1
have wired the secretary of war for ratons.
Same amount is needed as in 1882. Labor
ing classes in great distress.
THE SETTLERS CLAIMS.
President Harris, of the Northern Pacific
railway, explains the recent action of the
board of directors of that com pany in relation
to the settlers on its lands as follows: To re-
move all cause of complaint on the part of
settlers, the board of directors of the company
at their last meeting, adopted a resolution
in structing their land department that
all actual settlers on the agricultural lands of
the company west of the Missouri river who
made their settlements on the lands, either
under the provisions of the resolution Of Jan.
4, 1873, or of the resolution of Nov. 10,
1879, viz: between the 4th of January, 1878,
and the goth of June, 1882, at which last
named date public notice was given that the
lands were withdrawn from the marke are
alike entitled to the purchase of the quarter
sections on which are their Improvements
for the price Of $500 per acre cash or 81 per
acre on time, and further that this price ap-
plies to the settlers within the indemnity
limits as well as those within the granted
limits.