Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1884-02-14
NEWS AND NOTES.
a Summary Of Important Events.
CONGRESSIONAL PROCEEDINGS.

a. In the Senate on the 4th the committee to
investigate the Southern elections was author
lied to work by subcommittee and sit when
ever necessary. Bills were reported favora-
establish a bureau OF labor statistics; to regu-
late workshops and make eight hours a days
York; A number Of new Il bills were in1ro-
changes were announced. resolution for
inquiry as TO the workings of Government
Among the bills introduced were Mr.. Morri-
sons tariff rev son bill and Mr.. Anderson's
measure to prevent the sale of certain Pac fic
railroads before bonds guaranteed by the
United States shall have been paid. Also a
the Greedy party. A resolution to investigate
charges against Chief-Justice Samuel b. AK
tell Of New Mexico was referred.
In the Senate on the 9Th the members of
the two rev committees were announced.
Among the bills reported and placed on the
calendar was senator Cockrelrs Missouri war
claims bill. Several resolutions of inquiry
were adopted all bearing on some of the in
X Xestigauons In PROCESS or in contemplation
The Bayard bank currencv bill was made the
special order for the 18th inst. Discussion
progressed on the bill to settle titles to Next
making an appropriation TO send an inveStf-
eating committee TO Hot Springs was rejected.
calendar. Resolution for a cons itutionai
amendment to make elective the Offices of
Postmaster, Collector and District Attorney
was tabled. A number of bills were reported,
and the House went into committee on the
bill establishing a bureau of animal industry.
Mr.. Hatch explained the bill at length. Final
action was not reached.
= In the Senate on the 9th the bill amenda-
tory to the antiChinese act was placed on the
calendar. The bill passed appropriating
$7I7.5s0 for improvements to the capitol
grounds. A number OF bills were reported
bill was debated at considerable length, and
an amendment was adopted exeepting certain
persons from the three years limitation for
Hing claims. ......: In the House, resolutions
were adopted for inquiry as to absence from
tradition of British fugibives from Justice.
consideration OF the pleuro pneumonia bill
Oped. Final action was not reached.
In the Senate on the 7th resolution was
offered; protesting against the delivery to
Spain of Aguero. the Cuban revolutionist, up
on charge OF robbery. Resolution of Mr..
Beck direct ng inqu ~ as to the cause of re-
laid over, The bin passed. returning to the
R nn he domain lads formerly LEI; be.onging to
eign patents was discussed without aS, on
The rest of the day was taken up with he
Mexican land grant titles bill A bill was in
Commission to all the navigable tributaries of
ra so MsssiRs m9nse adopted
pliers and CHANGING the me hod of their ap-7
pointment. Among numerous bills reported
was one to establish q bureau of navig ttion
IN the Treasury DepartT emit, 1t relates to
the commercial marine, and was referred to
the Committee of the whole. The remainder
of the session was consumed in discussing the
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In the Senate, on the 9Th, Mr.. Rddleber.
ger offered resolution for joint committee
to inquire into the causes of removals of en-
ployos of both houses of Congress. Among
commission to inquire, into the condition and
progress of the colOred race. The land gran
titles bill passed An effort to call UP the Gree
ly relfef matter led to some speech making, in
which the Navy Department was severely crit
icised. Adjourned 10 Monday. In the House,
z Consills are behind in their accounts was re-
ferred; also, resolution inquiling as t. the
forean "a be ne OF
N offered a resolution eulogizing Wendell
Phillips A bin was introduced repeating in
ference committee on the Greedy relief bill
announcing further disagreement was adopt
Chalmers Mannins contest. r eeoHrr enc me
that neither be seated, was ordered printed.
With var: Gus anne ldments. the report of teh
committee on rules was adopted. Adjourned
to Monday. f'-
-i PERSONAL AND POLITICAL.
= ON the 9Th the Democratic Senatorial
its deadlock and nominated Blackburn for
Senator. sssate -
The President gave his first public
IcCtptlOu Oh luo SedSOu Oh Tue OJu lue az
tendance was very large.
THE cause of Wendell Phillips death
is found to have been paralysis of the
heart. His funeral took place in Boston on
the 9th.
IMPRESSIVE funeral services over the
Jeanette victims were held in Hamburg,
and were participated in by members of
the Geographical Societies of Munich, Ham
burg, Berlin and Vienna.
On the 9th Mrs. Mary Sable, aged
seventy, committed suicide by hanging
herself at Toledo, o.
GEO. B. LOVING, representing the
Texas Improvement Company, sold to
Scotch syndicate on the 9th, in England,
extensive ranch property and cattle for the
round sum of $4,000, O00.; Its said to be the
largest sale of this kind ever made.
BILLY MCGLORY, the notorious New
York dance-house keeper, has been sem
fenced to the Penitentiary for six months
for violation cf the excise law.
ON the evening of the 9Th the Very
Rev. j. B. Brulle5, rector of the Catholic
bureau of Indian Missionaries, died at
Providence Hospital, Washington, D. C.
He was missionary among the Indians of
the Northwest, chiefly Oregon and Van
couver's Island, twenty five years.
: Mrs. STRArToN; Tom Thumbs wild
apw, is, going to. open a museum in New
York. ,r,,s..z q, ,,f.,t.,f Il
In the British House of Commons Sir
Stafford Northcote Will offer a resolution
declaring that events in the Soudan are the
direct result Of the governments vacillat-
Ing pollcyss 1.istIU =.
. On the 9th Assemblyman Donahue of
New York was arrested in Canada for COM
plicity in Fenian operations. Ia.
A CORNERSTONE and marble slab
have been sent by the Pope for the O,Gonnel
memorial chapel to be erected in County
Kerry, Ireland. -.s.r
E. On the It'll James Gordon Bennett, of
the New York Herald, was elected Commo-
tlore of the New York Yacht Club. t'ss
GOVERNOR OvERToN of the Chicka-
saw Nation died the night of the 9Th,
In the House of Commons on the Sth
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