Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1884-12-20
WASHINGTON TOPTCs.

The arguments in the Union Pacific case
was concluded in the Court of Claims re-
Gently, and the case submitted
General Sheridan will be Marshal of the
day for the celebration of the completion
| Of the Washington monument.
The Washington monument is compile
ted. The cap stone was put in it's place
! December 9th, and the event Justly cele-
brated. A more elaborate celebration Oh
| the monument Will be instituted on Wash
! ingtOn's birthday.
The House Committee on Education has
/ instructed Representative Willis to call up
his Educational bill as soon as possible,
and move to substitute for it the Blair bill,
which has passed the Senate and is now on
/ the SecretarY's table.
The Secretary of the Interior has prepar-
ed a circular to take the place all previous
circulars concerning the importation of old
rags. 1t provides that no old rags shall be
landed in the United States except after a
thorough distinction.
General B. F. Butler has decided his fine
/ residence in Washington to his law part
ner in Boston. The consideration named
! is SIS, 600, but there is a stipulation that
! Butler can rePurchase the property by pay
/ ing the principal and interest.
! The hvdrographio Office has prepared for
/ exhibition at the New Orleans Exposition
a chart of the Arctic region from Bafhn' s
/ Bay to Lincoln Sea, showing recent discOV-
/ cries, including those of the POlaris eZpe-
ditiOn, the Mares expedition and the Lady
Franklin Bay expedition under Lieut..
/ Greedy.
The subcommittee agreed to favOrably
report to the House COmmi rtee on Indian
Affairs the Senate bill providing for the al
lOtment Of lands in seVeralty to the Indians
on the various reservations and extending
the protection of the laws of the States and
Territories over them.
Representative MOrey has informed the
House Committee on POstOfhces and Post
Roads that he has received Information
from the Senate which leads him 10 believe
that if the House passes q bill to secure
Chaper telegraphiC correspondence, the
Senate viii accept it as a substitute for the
Postal Telegraph bill now before it.
In the Supreme Court at Washington, D.
c., a decision was rendered in the railroad
land case of the Kansas Pacific Railway
Company, appellant, against the AtchisOn,
Topeka & Santa Fe Railroad Company, e
suit involving the title to I'VE thousand
acres OF land in Wabaunses and Usage
counties. The Court held that the Kansas
Pacific Company, under acts Of Congress of
1862 ana 1854, by complying with all the
provisions in the construction OF its road,
acquired the title to the land in cOntro-
versy, and has accordingly the right to re-
cord evidence of it in the form Of a patent.
The decree Of the court below is therefore
reversed, and the case remanded, with di-
reCtiOBs TO enter q decree adju0gIng the title
to the lands In controversy to the Kansas
Pacific Company, and that the AtchisOn.
Topeka & Santa Fe Company execute to
the Kansas Pacific Company 3 conveyance
Of its Claim and interest therein.
In response to the request of the chair
man Of the Committee on Expenditures of
the Department Of Justice, TIE Attorney
General sent the committee the correspond
encs on fle in the Department Of Justice
relating 70 the appointment Of United
States Deputy Marshals at the COngres-
siOnal election in Ohio, last October. Sep
TENDER p, Marshal Lot Wright, in g let