River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1884-03-06
THE PlT'H OF THE MEMS.
Washington Gossip.

A bin has been introduced to give pension
| to the widow OF the late Gen Fitzpatrick
The senate confirmed Cornelius S Palmer as
associate justice of the supreme court Of Da-
| kota.
/ The widow Of Gen Fitzpatrick is in Washington
4 Introduced circumstances, and congress will be
asked to grant her pension
Postofiices established: Wisconsiir-Bryant
Ianglade county. Postmasters commissioned:
| Edmund X. Cayiieer, Pembina, Oak
The following postoffices were recently es-
| iablished: Bondurant, Sawyer county, Iowa;
| Manwarlng, Sawyer county, Wisconsin.
| The nominations of b. G. Tiffany, register,
and w. J. Anderson, receiver at Grand Forks,
| have been favorahly reported TO the senate.
The name Of Hon James NJ Tyner is being
mentioned in connection with the goyemorship
of Dakota. after Gov ordway's term expires.
| The controller Of the currency has author
| lied the st Paul National bank of st Paul,
/ Neb. to commence business with capital of
/ $4,000.
| Louis Tasistro, the ex-translator of the state
/ department is prostrated with paralysis at
| Washington He is eighty years old and starv
| ing poor.
Col Royal of the Forty Eighth United States
/ cavalry il in the city. He is detailed as pres-
dent of the board of officers to consider cavalry
| equipments.
| tits said the proposed news copyright will
| have no chance of going through the house. as
| enough members are already pledged against
1 It to defeat it.
| Ex-president Gowen Of the Reading road, is
| succeeding in his law practice. He has yearly
| retainer of $4,000 from Vanderbilt and the
Reading road.
| Special mail service was recently discontin
| ned TO DarliagtoA Dakota: Mingo, Jasper
| county, Iowa; Hillsdale Gallatin county and
| Lewis, Meagher county, Montana.
| The secretary of the treasury has given no
| tee that the department will redeem bonds en-
| braeed in the l26th call prior to maturity May
| l. with interest to date of presentation
| Hon Milo White of Minnesota asserted pos
| itively that there would be no compromise in
/ the Owatonna postrnastership matter, and that
| he will not withdraw Judge Wheclock's name.
| J. B. Butler, formerly of New York, appoint
ment clerk of the treasury department recent
| " mentioned as successor to Assistant Secre-
| tary New, has resigned his present position,
| The movement to secure the appointment Of
| Postmaster General Gresham to the circuit
| iud9eship in the Seventh judicial district is
| serious one and is undoubtedly made with his
consent
| The American government has received an
| invitation through the Imperial German lega-
| ton at Washington to participate in the exhi
bition of dairy products at Munich, from I'd TO
| 18th October, 1884
The house committee ON invalid pensions has
agreed to report favorably Representative Mat
sons bill increasing the pension of widows and
| dependant parents of deceased soldiers and
| sailors from SSto sl2 per month
Senator Sabin introduced Wednesday the
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| committee on Indian affairs, to open up the Red
| Lake Indian reservation. This will very ma
terially facilitate action on the bill by congress
An application has been received at the post
Office department for the appointment of Miss
Lizzie Mutt as postmistress of Uniontown, Pa |
She is tho sister of young Mutt recently acquit
| ted at Pittsburg on the charge OF numbering
| Dukes
On the mutual application of the officers
concerned, the following transfers in the First
| infantry have been ordered: First Lieut. III.
T. Reed from Company to Company |; First
| Lieut. NJ p. Mans from company to Com
pany b.
Acting Assistant Surgeon W. H. Faulkner,
U. S. A., has been ordered to proceed from
Washington to Fort Smelling MINI, and re-
port iii person to the commanding general of
the department of Dakota for assignment to
duty in that department
Representative Brewer was directed by the
house committee on manufactures to reportfa
vorablv his bill to impose a fine of not more
than 500 or Imprisonment of three months, CD
any person interfering in any way with com !
mercial traveller selling goods by sample
Gen Longstreet. United States Marshal of
Georgia. testified before the Springer commit /
tee recently He denied that he was a default |
er TO the government and said, on the contra |
nv proper footing of his account would show |
the government was indebted to him Sl,oOu
The senate committee on public lands report
ed the bill for allotment of lands IN seyeralty
to Auekaro Grosventres and Mandan Indians /
on Fort Bertholdi reservation, Dakota, giving |
each head of a family 1850 acres, each single /
male above twenty-one, eighty acres of land, I
to be held in trust for them twenty-five years.
The postofice appropriations bill, as pre- /
pared by the subcommittee, which was con |
sidered Wednesday by the full committee, APP |
propriates $45,0 on, 800. The estimated reyen-
ues of the next fiscal year are S47. lO4, 00O; |
amount asked for by the department $50, o62,- |
1879: appropriation for the current fiscal year, /
$44, 49, go
Postoflices established Wisconsin-Birch, |
Chippewa county. Postnasters commissioned: |
Daniel T. Roger, Alpena, Oak. Robert Camp |
bell. Buffalo Grove Iowa; William s Sevanson, |
Crescent Iowa; Jane Van Antwerp, Dennis, |
Iowa: Alfred Frazier, Honey Creek, Iowa; Hen |
ry Halter, Selection, Iowa, Enos q kayton, |
Strahan, Iowa.
The house committee on accounts is investi |
eating the practice which has long beena scan
dial, of spending enormous amounts of money |
at congressional funerals. It usually costs !
from $4,000 to ST, 900 to bury congressman, |
and it very seldom costs less. More than nall, |
in many cases two-thlrds, of the money IS |
wasted in useless extravaganza.
The bill repeating the test oath, which re- |
Gently passed the house. has been passed by !
the senate, after being modified by an amend |
ment proposed by the senate Judiciary commit |
tee, providing that no person who held COM |
mission in the United States army or navy be |
fore the war, and was afterward engaged in |
the military naval or civil service of the So |
called Confederate States, shall be appointed to !
any position in the United States
On Friday Senator Mcmillan presented |
petition from the common council of Duluth, |
asking for the improvement of the Duluth |
harbor Petitions were presented to the house |
by Mr. Nelson from Burdiek in favor of the |
Reagan interstate commerce bill; from G. II, |
BeaTbin relative to Indian traders; from W. /
p Todd and others relative TO the improve /
ment at Lake Traverse and Big Stone, and the |
head waters of the Minnesota and Red Rivers |
| in Minnesota.
Department of state has received information |
from the United States consul at Birmingham, /
England, that the foot and mouth disease is
among cattle in almost every county in Eng |
land. The secretary of the treasury has re-
uuested the secretary of state to notify United |
States consuls in Great Britain not TO certify /
invoices of cattle unless after an examination /
of the animals by q veterinary surgeon they I
are satisfied that the animals are free from /
disease.
Senator sabin gave dinner party Friday !
evening to some Minnesota friends. 1t was So
cial gathering Of old acquaintanccs, and was ex
tremely enjoyable There were present |
Senator Mcmillan, Gen. John B. Sanborn, Gen. I
r. n McIaren DR.. David Day, Judge Greenleaf /
Clark Judge II. r. Brill, Charles E. Otis, w. d. /
Cornish, Horace Thompson, r. e. Crowell, W. !
r. Merriam of st Paul. G. II. Nelson and ). Il. |
Sfimson Of Saltwater, Charles johnson of Min !
neapolis and J. BookwalteT of Pembina Oak,
Pensioners in all parts of the country are !
sending mammoth petitions to congress pro |
testing against any change in the present man |
ner of disbursing pensions. bill is pending |
providing for consideration of severrl of the /
pension agencies and this has raised great |
commotion amongst those interested. Mem |
bers Of congress, beside being requested 10 I
present the petitions of Grand Army and other /
soldiers organizations, are personally appealed |
to by pensioners to use their influence to pre- |
vent any such step being taken.