Connecticut western news., 1884-12-17
UNITED STATES CONGRESS.

 Mir. Mitchell withdrew his bill to pension Gen. Ulysses s. Grant at the request of Gen. Grant, who had written him that he would not accept pension. Mir. Blair, of New Hampshire introduced 8 bill to appropriate $500 00O in aid of the Col ored Peoples Worlds Exposition to be held in Chicago in 1885. The bill providing for the admission of the the southern part of Dakota as State was taken up. Mir. Harrison, of Indiana, said that | it proposed to make State of that part of the territory lying south of the 46th parallel, and | the name of '.Lincoln, and continue for it the present Territorial Government. The population is estimated at 230, 900. The bill to provide for the sale of the Chero- kee reservation in Arkansas and the bill to give the Court of Claims jurisdiction to adjudi- I cate the French spoiation claims were passed.
 The bill to amend the sections of the Revised ! Statutes which prohibit delivery of registered | letters and the payment of money orders to | lottery companies was passed. The amend ment strikes out the word fraudulent" i" mak- | the law cover lotterles generally, and not | merely fraudulent lotteries. | HOUSE. | Mir Hewitt of New York presented & me- moral from the New York Chamber of Com | merce praying Congress to make an appropria- ton for the improvement of the defences of 1 New York harbor. MT. Warner, of Ohio introduced bill for | the contraction of the currency. It provides that whenever the volume of the national bank | currency falls below $303, SIS. .984 by the sur render and cancellation of national bank l notes, the Secretary of the Treasury is au- | thorized and directed to issue United States notes, in denominations as near as may be of the bank notes surrendered and cancelled, re- deemable in coin in the same manner as United States notes are now redeemable, in sufficient tp mai fair ha n r1aY currency, including national bank notes, greenbacks, and notes authorized by the act to total of $650,0O0,000. Mr. Townshend, of Illinois, proposed Con- stitutional amendment providing that treaties shall be made by and with the consent of both branches of Congress instead of the Senate alone.
 Mir. Cox, of New York, offered resolution asking that $100,000 be appropriated toward the erection of the pedestal for the Bartholdi statue.
 Representative Willard, of New York, intro duced proposed constitutional amendment making the Presidents term six years and pro- viding that he shall be ineligible to reelection. By the amendment 8 pension, the amount of which is to be fixed hereafter, is to be paid to ex-Presidents.
 Chairman Buckner, of the House Committee | on Banking and Currency, introduced bill to l suspend the coinage of the silver dollar. FOREIGN ITEMS. At Retchitza, Russia, town of five thou | sand people on the Dnieper, subterranean | passage has been discovered under the tax re- ceiver's office which contained 80,000 rubles. It was Fl Mahdi's uncle, the Governor of | Obeid, and not the Prophet, who died re- gently.
 | Thirty rebels were killed in the attack on | the railway at Suakim. l England has announced that she has failed | to settle the Franco-C Chinese difficulty. | A female nihilist named Kovalskaia, who | escaped from Siberia in September, has been | rearrested.
 | The English claimant is to enter the lec- | ture field.
 | Extra guards are on duty at Windsor Cas-
 tie.
 -England's neutrality scheme for the Congo
 and Niger has been accepted by the Berlin
 Conference.
 The Pope expresses great affection for the
 American clergy.
 | The steamer Pochard, bound from Cork to | Liverpool, foundered in gale of Holyhead
 Monday. All on board, believed to have num-
 bered thirty, were drowned.
 "A steamer, supposed to have been the Ali
 ance, of Cardiff, foundered with all hands, in
 the British Channel, off the town of Boscastle
 on Monday.
 The total emigration from the British Isles
 to the United States during the month of No
 vember, 1884, was 7,499; to Canada 378, and tc
 Australia 3, 3,436. The figures for November
 1888, were respectively, 7,927, S05 and 5, ,929.
 The King of Talata and all his household
 were blown up by hostile Mohammedan tribes
 engaged in the slave trade, which the King hai
 opposed vigorously.
 | France is warned that if she increases tht
 duty on grain other countries will follow witt
 reprisals.
 The Gloucester fishermen protest against
 Canadian reciprocity for fear they could no
 compete with British fish imported free oi
 duty.
 The gunboat Coridad has captured off the
 coast of Manzanillo boat containing fifteeI
 men, among them the Cuban bandits Bonachea
 Varona, Peralta and two estradas.
 Tt is said that the Marquis of Ripan ii
 spoken of for Vieeroy of Ireland; but, being {
 Catholic, an act of Parliament will be neces
 sary to legally qualify him for that office