McCook weekly tribune. (McCook, Neb.) 188?-1886, 1884-05-01
CAPITAL TOPICS.
A NEBRASKA CASE DECIDED.

The United States supreme court has
decided the case of John T. Blair, plaintiff
in error, from the circeit court of the
United States for the district Of Nebraska.
This was suit upon coupons OF series Of
bonds amounting in the aggregate to So, GOO,
issued by Cunning county, Neb., in behalf
of West Point precinct, that county, for
the purpose of improving the water power
Of the Elkhorn river. The county now re-
fuses payment on the grounds that the
bonds in question are not its obligations.
but the obligations of West Point pre-.
cinct. The court holds that: ''The
bonds issued by the county commissioners
Of a county in behalf of a precinct of that
county to aid the county in improving the
propelling public grist mills, are issued to
aid internal improvement, within the
meaning of the act of February 10, 1869, as
amended by the act of March S, 1870, and
that suit On the coupons of such bonds is
properly brought against the county,
Judgment was reversed with costs and the
case remanded, with instruction to over
rule the demurrer to petition and take such
further proceedings in the cause as may be
required by law and as shall not be incon-
sistent with the opinion of this court.
INDIAN LANDS.
Secretary Teller has decided that the
for ISL, 1887 acres of land at 30 cents per
acre, with interest from 1866, for lands
taken by the United States under the pro-
visions Of the treaty Of Jun e, 1866, over
and above the 8, 250, $50 acres coded by that
treaty
MISSOURI RIVER COMMISSION.
The house committee on commerce
has directed favorable report ON Repre-
sentative Graves bill authorizing the ap-
pointment Of Missouri river commission.
COMPTROLLER KNOX EXoNERATED.
The house committee on banking
and currency agreed on a report entirely
generating Comptroller Knox and Bank
Inspector Needham in the matter of the
failure of the Pacific National bank, of Bos-
ton, wherein they were charged with fraud.
INTERNAL REVENUE RECEIPTS.
The collections of internal revenue
for The first nine months of the fiscal year
ending June 80, 1888, are as follows: Spir-
its, $50, 497 1893, an increase Of So, 102, 44O
over the corresponding period of the pre-
vious year; tobacco, $1S, S54, 535, a decrease
IT $13, 755, 1893; fermented liquors, SIP, $685.,
$50, an increase Of 1895, 773; miscellaneous
sources, $40, 9O4, decrease Of Sc, 006, 539;
aggregate receipts, $67, 454 1854, which is
$26, sos, 253 less than the collections of the
last fiscal year.
Postmssters: Francis Barber, Rock
Rapids, Ia; Rudolphus Hubbard, Nc
Gregor, Ia. ;; L. Jones Melick, Neigh, Neb.,
John Groesbeck, Harvard, Ill.
INTERSTATE COMMERCE..
The senate committee on railroads
unanimously agreed to report, with few
Senator Cullom to establish a commission
to regulate interstate commerce and for
other purposes. This bill has been printed.
RIVER IMPROVEMENT.
Members of the Mississippi river COM
mission have appeared before the house
committee on leyees and improvements of
the Mississippi river, and President Com
stock, of the commission, explained the
plan of Improvement adopted and said it
would, in q commercial sense. pay the gov
eminent to expend SIS, 00o, 200 or 500, OOO,-
600 to get the depth of water ten feet from
St. Louis to New Orleans.
Representative Nc Cold, of Iowa, in
an interview upon the tariff question, said:
ssThe party lines cannot be drawn upon
the subject, and it must be treated as a
business matter. The railways, telegraphs,
mutual Intercourse, inter- marriage and
commingling Of states are bringing unity of
sentiment in favor of reasonable protection
as an act of national policy, and 1t is the
part of craftsmanship to hasten it by en-
couraging improvements in immigration
and transportation facilities, and cheap and
indiscriminate interchange for our infinite
variety of products. Equitable protection"
he said, ''would cheaper all agricultural
implements and preserve the dignity of
labor.'
CIvILlsERvIcE DATES.
DIR. Gregory, of the civil service COM
mission will hold examinations for general
departmental service in the various cities.
The dates of the examinations are arranged
as follows: May 18th, Des Moines; 18th,
Omaha; 18th, Lincoln; oath, Topeka; Goth,