The semi-weekly miner. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1882-1886, 1884-01-16

DALI LIAM rs Odus 1s" AC lug
Iature convened this aft -rnoon in
the City Hall. w. w. Cluff, Bishop
of Coalviile, was elected Speaker OF
the Council; Charles Stayner, Clerk.
James Sharp, son Of Bishop John
Sharp, was elected Speaker of the
House. Junius F.. Wells, son of
Daniel H. Wells, First Counsellor of
the Mormon Church, was elected
Chief Clerk. In the Council are two
bishops and one apostle. In the
House are three bishops, three presi-
dents of the stakes of Zion. Arthur
L. Thomas, Secretary of the Terri
tory, administered the oath with the
addition that none were living in
polygamy, or Eve had been polyg-
amists. After a short session they
adjourned until Tomorrow, when
the Governors message will be read.
A small lobby and no enthusiasm.
WASHINGTON, January 1.-THE
House Committee on Elections heard
the arguments in the ChalmeIs-Man
ming contested election case, and
continued same until tomorrow.
Hon. Philip Phillips died this
morning He represented Mobile
(Ala.) district in Congress from 1853
TO 1855.
WASHINGTON, Jan. 14.-The bill
Introduced to-day by Dockery pro-
vides that postage on newspapers
and periodicals published in the
United States shall be abolished on
June Both of the present year.
Groves introduced y bill providing
that the jurisdiction of the United
States shall not be extended to any
judicial or other officer elected or APP
pointed under the laws OF any state,
to compel such officers to- perform
any official act arising under the
laws of such Stale; also extending
the Jurisdiction of a court of claims
to adjustment of claims for damages
arising from the use of the appropri-
alton for injury to property bv the
army and navy bv the late civil war.
Senator R,mo, the Mexican Mn
lister. aid to-day to the Secre airy of
stale the eighth instaIlment in
dtmnity due January 31st, 1854, from
Mexico to the United States
Senator Beck intr ,duced in the
Senate d bill with the Identical pro-
vision Of that introduced in the House
by Willis. 1t provides all ex-
tension of two years bonded periosi
for distilled spirits; it also provides
for an act empowering the Secretary
Of the Treasury to apply all surplus
money in the treasury at any time to
tre purchase or redemption of U. s.
bonds for cancellation, which shall
not be construed to authorize him to
purchase at a premium any Outstand-
ing bonds of the United States in adj
vance OF the time when they become
due.
At a meeting of the House Com
mittee on Public Lands to-day
Chairman Cobb submitted a report
declaring forfeited all land giants to
the Gulf & Ship Island, Tuscaloosa,
Mobile, New Orleans, Elyton &
Boards Bluff, Memphis & Charles
town, Savannah, Albany & New Or
leans, State Line, Iron Mountain
and Arkansas Railroads, which COM
panies have not complied with the
terms of the grants bv building
roads. The report was adopted and
ordered presented to the House.
Van Eaton read a dissenting opin-
ion in a special case of the G.. & S. I.
r. He said the condition of the
Southern States in seven years from
1871 was such that no railroad enter
CAIRO, Jan. 1.-THE minister of
war has drafted a statement regard
ing the purpOsed evacuation of Sou
showing 81 900 men and 81 guns
in Soudan. The removal 10 Kart
houm of the ammunition stored at /
would require 40, 600 camels
or 5000 if the material on the Abys-
sinan frontier also be removed, it will
necessary to make the
tourney by river, which takes
three months, and requires 1900
boats. Several Bedouln tribes along
the between Khartoum and Berber !
have declared for Ell Mahdi. Orders
been sent to Khartoum for the
civil population to quit the town i'm.
mediately.
BOSTON. Jan. 1s.-Within the past
TWO weeks there has heen an alarm.
ing fr quency of. boldly precipitated
md brutal assaults upon respectable
citizens have been committed for the
sole purpose of robbery. Now it is
considered absolutely unsafe to walk
N public highways between Co,n-
non and Dover streets either late at
light or early in the m0rnidg. /