Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1884-03-20
NEWS AND NOTES.
4 Summary Of Important Events.
CONGRESSIONAL PROCEEDINGS.

tOnStltutlOn 10 1Ullt Cne power Oh congress IN
relation to the issue of legal tender money.
Various bills were reported for passage and
placed on the calendar. A minority report
grant forfeiture The bill to establish
q bureau of statistics was debated with
out acton The pleasp bill
1th. An executive session was declared for
consideration of the. Mexican treaty. In
the House it was agreed to concur in only one
of the Senate amendments to the Military
Academy bill. A message having been re-
out recommendation the returned Lasker res
oiutions, Mr.. Hiscock offered resolution
the expressions of regret at the death of Las
ker, and declaring anew the sympathy of the
House with the German Parliament. This
was cautiously referred to the Committee on
Foreign Affairs.
In the Senate on the 18th bill to ratify
agreements with the Shoshones and Bannock
Indians for sale of lands was reported favor
ably. Among the bills introduced were the
years; to make a Lake Borgne outlet for the
mississippi; to pension dependent relatives of
declared to consider the Mexican treaty
which was finally ratified. In the House
the tariff Dill was reported with ma, majority and
was one to place Colonel Getty on the retired
list with rank of Major-General. The Post
office appropriation bill was discussed with
out action.
In the s nate on the 18th a resolution
was offered for a constitutional amendment
making the Presidents term six years. The
pleuro-pneumonia bill was taken up. Senator
Coke opposing it. The Fitz John Porter bill
House consideration of the Post office appro-
priation bill was resumed in COMMITTEES of
ah to Wss strckeg on
eral amendments to increase appropriations
were defeated.
In the Senate on the 18th the bill for adj
mission of Dakota was reported favoraby. A
Joint resolution for immediate appropriation
of $4,000 for use in expressing foot and
mouth disease in Kansas was reported and
laid over. Tne Htz John Porter bill was taken
up: Mr.. Henderson spoke in opposition TO it,
the same side. The bill then passed by a vote
of 36 to 25. -. In the House resolution was
10000 acres Of land to the State of Michigan
for harbor construction was liable to forfeit
ure. The Post-office appropriation bill was
considered in committee of the whole, and
an amendment increasing the appropriation
for the free delivery system to $4,OOO,O0J was
adopted.
In the Senate on the 14th the joint reso-
luton to appropriate So, 600 for eradication of
foot and mouth disease was called up and
brought on a long discussion as to the consti-
tntional points involved in a measure which
was intended to empower the Commissioner
of Agriculture to go into the State and kill in
fecte animals, if necessary, to stamp out the
disease. No conclusion had been reached
when the Senate adjourned ii Monday.
In the House the bill granting a pension to
Septimina Randolph Mel Gilman. grandchild
OF Thomas Jefferson. was taken up, and after
atty, the enacting clause was stricken out.
A night session was held to consider pension
bills.
PERSONAL AND POLITICAL.
In the Seventh District of South Car
DINA, Robert Small received the nomina-
ton for Congressman, to succeed Mackay,
deceased.
WESLEY A. MCPHERSON and William
Wright, street-car conductors, were each
fined 500 in St. Louis, No., on the 18th, for
insulting two young ladies on the public
streets. They were sent up for six months
in default.
The so-called new testimony reported
tn have been discovered in relation to the
Fitz John Porter case proves to be fraud.
ORRIN CARPENTER, on trial for the
murder of Zura Burns at Petersburg, ILL.,,
will rely on an alibi for his defense.
The Arkansas Democratic State Con-
vention is called for June %.
The situation of General Gordon at
Khartoum is regarded as decidedly critical.
On the 18th George McFadden was
arrested in Sherman, Tex, charged with
completely in the Pacific Express robbery
in st. Louis, Mo.
The attention of District Attorneys is
called by Attorney General Brewster to
the Federal laws regulating the shipment
of explosives, and he has directed that due
vigilance be exercised to prevent such
shipments from being irregularly made.
Inis is to stop the infernal-machine bust
ness.
LIEUTENANT JOHN W. DANENHOwER
and Miss Helen Sloan were married on the
18th at Oswego. N. Y.
The bill introduced by Representa-
three-dollar gold pieces and to limit the
coinage of double eagles to twenty per cent.
of the bullion purchase will be reported
favorably.
In his communication to the Secreta-
~ of the Navy, Captain Mares, the Arctic
explorer, expresses belief that the chances
are good for finding Greely's party alive
and safe.
On the 18th Matt Lewis was hanged
in st. Louis, Mo-, for the murder of his wife
u October, 1876.
On the 18th Jay Gould sailed from
Havana for st. Augustine, Fla.
The Legislature of Massachusetts, on
th 18th rejected the bill extending munich
pal franchise to women.
PRENTICE FILLER, the st. Louis Ex-
press robber, was arrested in Milwaukee,
Wis, on the 18th, and the bulk Of the stolen
money was recovered. An alleged accom-
piice named McFadden has been arrested
in Sherman, Tex, and both will soon be
"doing time"
On the 18th Archbishop Gibbons ar
rived at Baltimore from Rome. He declined
= public reception.
THE Senate passed the bill to reinstate |
Fitz John Porter on the 18th. So to %, and it |
now goes to the President for approval
T. J. DIETRIcHs, teller Of the La
clede Bank of st. Louis, Mo-, who was re- |
Gently given leave of absence by reason |
OF ill health, appears to have carried up |
wards Of So, 600 away with him.
RESOLUTIONS were adopted by the
Western wool growers, in convention at
Denver, COL, on the 18th, opposing tariff |
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