Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1884-04-03
TIIE Hiag..THE NEWS.
wasnirgtcrf Gossip.

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tute Seattle Washington Territory, aport OF de-
livery within the collection district OF Puget
Sound.
The house committee on MILITARY aiairs OF
| dereda favorable report on the bill giving army
eleqranh operators, who served as such IN the
! late war. the same right to homestead entry al
lewed enlisted men.
The grand jury has reported to the court
that they had examined witnesses regafain3
the alleged unlawful acts of Mrs. Belya A.
lakewood in connection with the prosecution
Of the pension claim of one Jane Dorsey, ana
had ignored the charge.
The house committed on invalid pensions mas
agreed To report a bill to allow the widow OF
Gen Frank P. Blair of Missouri 5000 and q
pension of $50 per month for money expended
and services rendered the Union cause by her
husband during the war.
A hill introduced nthe senate by MI. Beck
10 regulate the retirement of army officers
provides that hereafter all officers who may be
recommended for retirement by disabahty py .
retiring board shall be placed upon the re-
tired list in the order OF the recommendauohs
by said board.
The memorable congress petitioning for an
investigation of the official conduct of Comp
troller Knox. and Bank Examines Needham; IN
connection with the Pacific bank collapse, mas
been forwarded from Boston To Washington.
1t bears the signatures of about lU stockhoid-
ers, of the defunct institution
The following postofices have been assigned
to the third class, presidential, and salaries OF
postmasters fixed at amounts stated: Carlisle,
KY, $L,100; Flemingsburg, ny, Sl,Vo; At
kin. Mimi. 81. 600: West Plains, Mo, sl,UU;
| Windsor. NO. 81, 200: North Bend. Neb., ST.
600: Weeping Water, Neb., sl,iOO; dreenylile,
Tenn, $1,000.
The senate committee on railroads have re-
ported favorably Nj. Sawyer's bill, granting
| the right of way to the Cinnabar Il Clarks
Fork Railroad company. Petitions very largely
| signed have been forwarded from Livingston,
| Cinnabar and Cooke City, strongly urging
| that congress grant a right of way through the
park 10 this company.
Senator Ingalls, hill to relieve from the obi
CATION Of secrecy the surviving members of the
court martial that tried Fitz John Porter is q
bill to allow Gems. Hunter and Ricketts, to tell
all thev know about the trial, as they are the
only survivors. Mr.. Ingalls, lis an opponent OF
Porter. and he is not at all the man 10 Introduce
a bill without knowing precisely what he could
accomplish With IL
The house commitsee,en Indian affairs are
considering Mr.. Washburn's bill to open the
Indian reservations in Minnesota aud CONSOLE
date the Indians on White Earth reservation.
Mr.. Washb1rn and Capt. Blakeley have had
hearings before the committee in behalf OF the
bill. and Joseph Robert Of st Paul las spoken
in opposition to il, and IN the interest OF the
Mile Lac Indians.
The naval bill, which hes passed the senate
authorizes the president ~te-construct seven steel
vessels for the navy, consisting of one cruiser
Of 4,500 tons displacement, one cruiser Of 5000
tons, enc dispatch vessel Of ls5oO tons, "
heavily armed gunboats Of loo tons each, one
light gunboat of 800 tops, and one g,tnboat OF
Of 800 tons, It further amthorizes the con
struction of one steel ram, one cruising torpedo
and two harbor torpedoes.
The treasurer Of the United States has pre-
pared 4 statement showing that the total coin
age Of standard silver dollars under the act of
Feb 2S 1878, to March /, 1884, was s166, 125,
I19: held in the treasury offices and minis,
S126. ST., 800; outstanding, S39,302. 100 OF
the amount held Ivy the treasury, there are
held to redeem outstanding hlfsar certificates,
$685. "a, 121, leaving owned by the treasury,
$3O,514,6S.
Additional steps toward enlarging the pension
lists il taken by a bill introduced intothe house
That all persons actually engaged III the sup
! preston of the Sioux Indian war in Minnesota,
in 1862 and not belonging to any organizedm mil
itia, but called into service by the sherifs of
the several counties of Minnesota, he and they
are hereby placed, in regard to pensions, on an
equal footing with persons provided for by the
act of july !, 1864.
Gen. Horatio G. Wright, chief OF engineers,
viii be retired from the army this week, after
forty years Of active service, and viii probably
be succeeded by Gen. Newton, who has had
J. aha~ of fha Lan Cate ~ o,fo AZ Naa,
York. Gen. Wright has q brilliant military rec
ord and stands very high as an engineer. Al
though ever sixty years of age. he is in excel
lent physical condition, and might serve for
several years longer, for the good of the ser
vice.
For the third time since the war the supreme
court on Monday decided that the much-abused
! greenback was constitutional money and legal
tenders for all debts, public and private. The
decision rendered to-day was to the effect tina
! treasury notes resssued under the act of 1S1s
was as good as the original money. The frs
decision in this particular was by Chief Justic'
Chase III 1866, the second in 1871, and to-da,
the opinion was read by the Justice Gray
which was coneplrcd in by entire court
A decision was rendered in what are known
as the Ku Klnx .cssos, which stand on the origi
nal docket under the little ex parte in the natter
of Jasper GarborOaEh and others. They az,
r~atitions for wrins of babeas corpus to release
number of perssss nov imprisoned undel
| judgment of tie United States circuit cour
Cor the Northern@istrict. of Georgia, rendered
after taAe trial and cRnviotion of the prisoner
for the ofsense OF threatening beating and other
wHse intimidating co}ored voters at elections il
Georgia for membsEaao f congress. The peti
ti0R was denied
W A. Burleigh, 4~asnaerly delegate in coz.
grcss from Dakota, hut now q resident Of Mon
tana, was before spxngor's committee OF
March 1st., and exsaf:sSed relative to the Off
cial conduct Of Judge Gonger, one of the
disadvantages Of Montana. recenhy succeeded
by Judex Cobsra of Indiana. The witness tes
{iiad thM Judge Cnnger was undar the infn
tence of H9nor so often that business suffered
Rlrleigh has seen him gote sleep ON the bencl
fwkile important cases were being tied. Ths