The Kimball graphic. (Kimball, Brule County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1905, 1884-03-14
THE PITH OF THE NEWS,
washington e.s.,r.

ss -
Tho United States supreme court deries ha-
socas corpus in the Georgia ku klux cases.
A bill WAS introduced ia the senate to consti-
tate Seattle Washington Territory, a port of de-
livery within tho collection district of Puget
Sound.
Tho house committee on military affairs or
dereda favorable report on tho bill giving army
aelegraph operators, who served as such in the
late wal, INC same right to homestead entry al
lowed enlisted men.
The house committee on naval affairs appoint
ed Representatives Buchanan, McAdoo and
Boutsfle q subcommittee to investigate tho man.
ageYaent of the Jeanette expedition, in accord
sncs with the WashbrlE resolution.
The grand Jury has reported to the court
that they had examined witnesses regarding
2ie alleged unlawful acts of Mrs. Belya A.
lockwood IN connection with tho prosecution
of the pension claim of one Jane Dorsey, and
had ignored the charge
The hczse committee ON ssrvalid pensions has
agreed - report a bill to allow the widow of
Gen. Frank p. Blair of Missouri 5000 and a
pension of $50 per month for money expended
and services rendered the Union cause by her
husband during the war.
A bill introduced in the senate by Mr.. Beck
to regulate tho reSiscment of army officers
prc#ides that hereafter all officers who may be
Recommended for retirement by disability by =
retiring board shbM he placed upon the nc
Grod list in the order of the recommendations
~ said board
The memorial no congress petitioning for an
Investigation cf'tiie official conduct Of Comp
4 troller Knox, anti Bank examine Needham, in
1 connection with the Pacific bank collapse, has
been forwaTdsi from Boston to Washington.
It bears the signatures of abont 100 stocShold-
ers, Of the Agolict institution.
The following postofices have been assigned
to the thiraslass, presidential, and salaries of
postnlastel1iiixcd at amounts stated: Carlisle,
KY, $I,l9e; Flemingsburg, n.y., $1,000; AIT
kin, Minr.. 81 ,O0O; West Plains, Nh, $1,000;
Windsor, Mo, 81 200; North Bend, Neb., ST.
600: Weeping Water, Neb., SLIGO; Grcensille,
Tenn, $l,0U.
The senate committee on railroads haze re-
ported fayorably MI. Sawyer's bill, granting
tho right Of way to tho Ginnabar & .ciark's
Fork Railroad company. Petitions very largely
signed have been forwarded from Livingston,
Cinnabar and Cooke City, strongly urging
that congress grant u right of way through the
parktso this company.
Senator Ingalls' bill to relieve from the obi
gatsen Of secrecy the surviving members of the
court martial that tried Fitz John Porter Is a
bill to allow Gems. Hunter and Ricketts, to tell
all they know about the trial, as they are the
only survivors. Mr.. Ingalls, is an opponent of
Porter, and he is not at all the man to introduce
u bill without knowing precisely what he could
accomplish with it
The house committee on Indian afiairs are
considering MI. washburn's bill to open tho
Indian reservations in Minnesota and CONSOLE
date the Indians on White Earth reservation.
Mr. Washburn and Capt. Blakeiey have had
hearings before the committee in behalf of the
bill, and Joseph Robert of st. Paul has spoken
in opposition to it, and IN the interest of the
Mile Lac Indians.
The naval bill, which has passed the senate
authorizes the president to construct seven steel
vessels for the navy, consisting of enc cruiser
Itof 4, 500 tons displacement, ono cruiser of 5000
tons, ono dispatch vessel of | 800 tons, two
heavily armed gunboats of 500 tons each, one
light gunboat of $50 tons, and one ignnboat of
OF 800 toms, 1t further authorizes the con-
struction of ono steel ram, one cruising torpedo
and two harbor torpedoes.
The treasurer Of the United States has pre-
II pared o statement showing that tho total coin
age of standard silver dollars under the act of
Feb. %, 1878, to March l, 1854, was s166, 1885,
1t9; held in the treasury offices and mints.
$l2B, 81, $50; outstanding, S39. 3G2, 720. eOf
, the amount held by tho treasury, there are
J held to redeem outstanding silver certificates,
sA6,247 III, leaving owned by the treasury,
$30,574,67S.
Additional steps toward charging the pension
II liElNsA AZ lhhS1 ~ ~ I'LL q INV tttC "a
That all persons actually engaged in the sup
J, preston of the Sioux Indian war in Minnesota.
In 1862 aud not belonging to any organized mil
itia, but called into service by the sheriffs of
the severralcounties Of Minnesota, be and they
are hereby placed, i'll regard to pensions, on an
I, equal footing with persons providedfor by the
act Of July 4, 1864,
! Gen. Horatio G. Wright, chief of engineers,
will be retired from the army this week, after
forty years of active service, and will, probably
DO succeeded by Gen. Newton, who has had
J charge of the Hell Gate improvements Mt New
. York. Gen. Wright has n brilliant military rec
ord and stands very high AZ an engineer. Al
lent physical condition, and might esrve for
several years longer, for the good ofstlle ser
] vice.
For the third time since the war the supreme
court on Monday decided that the much abused
greenback was constitutional money and legal
tenders for all debts, public and private. Tho
decision rendered to-day was to the effect that
, treasury notes Ieissned under the act Of 1873
was MS good as the original money. The first
! decision in this particular was by Chief Justice
Chase in 1866, the second in 1871. and to-day
the opinion was read by the Justice Gray,
which was concurred in by entire court.
II A decision was rendered i'll what are known
as the Ku Klux cases, which stand on the origi
nal docketundcr the title ex partein the matters
of jasper scarborough and others. They are
~patitions for writs of habeas corpus to release a
number of persons now imprisoned under
Judgment of the United States circuit aonrt
for the Northern district of Georgia, rendered
after the trial and conviction of the prisoners
for the offense of threatening, beating and other
wise intimidating colored voters at elections in
Georgia for members of congress. The petit
ton was denied.
". A. Burleigh, formerly delegate in cen
gress from Dakota, but now a resident of Mon
tana. was before Springer's committee ON
March 1st., and examined relative to the Off
cial conduct of Judge Conger, one of the
district judges OF Montana. recently succeeded
by Judge Coburn of Indiana. The witness tes-
titled that, Judge Conger was under the influ-
ence Of liquor 30 often that business suffered.
Burleigh has seen him go to sleep on the bench
while important cases were being tried. The
delay in appointing a successor to Judge Con-
ger, Mr.. lRurleigh asserted, cost the district
from s75, 600 to 100000.
Joaquin Miller appeared before the house
committee,pn territories and gave, his views on
the Mormon, question. He characterized the
Mormons rs cranks and Guiteaus. and opposed
reprcssive measures. only tending to lncite
them to fuKtlser lawless acts instead Of subdu-
ing them. Dslis, he said was the history Of all
such measures. Polygamy, he thought, was
on the decrease and he described education as
o panacea fcrithe ills for which the people of
Utah suffered. s.Ihe Mormons as a people
.were, in his opiEion, extremely ignorant per-
sons, led by ,ciasnks aud those who had their
Gwn ends to seEye, and all that was necessary
to bring them basss to the paths OF morality
vas to show themstheir time condition.
1.-The new Kansas Representative Edward ia.
Funston, elected by 500 majority to congress-
fresa Kansas, in place of Haskell, deceased,
was born in 1887 IN CLARK county, Ohio, grad
uate6 at Carlisle academy in that county. was
threeyFears . union soldier. and lieutanass of