McCook weekly tribune. (McCook, Neb.) 188?-1886, 1884-02-14
WASHINGTON.

The following nominations have been
confirmed: Richard S. Tuthill, as attorney
of the northern district of Illinois; John
Watts, postmaster at Ames, Iowa; George
Eberhart, Cedar Falls, Iowa; Daniel
O'Cross, Brownville, Neb.; Morris Dem
mis-, Syracuse, Neb.; Marley B. McNutt,
Red Cloud Neb.; NJ. Grimes, Kearney,
Neb.
Representative Robinson says in re-
gard to his resolution for an export tax on
cotton that tax of one cent will yield rev.
enue Of $13, 0OO, 900.
Captain William A. Kirkland, COM
mander of the receiving ship Colorado at
New York, has volunteered to command
the proposed Greeley relief expedition, and
| will be assigned to that duty.
| Senator Van Wyck has introduced a
resolution in the senate, which was agreed
| to, providing that no dividends shall here
| after be made by the Union Pacific railroad
company but from actual net earnings there
| of, and no new stock be issued or mortgages
or pledges be made on property or net earn
congress, except for the purpose of fund
ing and securing debts or the renewal there
Of, and any director or officer who shall pay
| or declare, or aid in paying or declaring,
| any dividend or creating any mortgage or
pledge prohibited by this act, shall be pun
| ished by imprisonment not exceeding two
years and fine not exceeding S., ZOO.
The Western Associated Press has
memorialized congress, setting forth the in
justice of the present rate Of newspaper
lent papers. The association are unanimous
in the opinion that the law should be amend
ed to make the rate on transient papers one
cent for four ounces or fractional parts
thereof, which would cover nearly all news
paper issues, including supplements, and
put stop to the loss of millions of copies
now mailed which are not forwarded by the
postoffice department, but seized and sold
as waste paper to the serious damage and
annoyance Of the people.
The limit of appropriation for rivers
and harbors the next fiscal year was inform
y
mittee having in charge these subjects.
While no decision was reached majority of
the committee seemed to favor the appro-
priation of not more than $40, 0OO, 900
and expressed themselves DESTROYS, if pos
sible, to confine it within $4,000, 900. The
estimates of engineers having in charge the
improvements of rivers and harbors amounts
to about S35, 100000.
The house committee on appropria-
| lions has about completed the naval appro-
priations. 1t provides for an appropriation
of $14, 500, 1876, being less than the esti-
mates, and 81, $50, 23s less than the appro-
priation for the current year.
The senate committee on agriculture
unanimously ordered favorable report on
the bill to prevent the spread of pleuro-
pneumonia.
The Mississippi river commission has
made arrangements with the marine hospi-
tai service for the treatment in its hospitals
of all their sick employees along the Missis-
sippi from st. Paul to New Orleans.
Representative Ermentrout was in
structed by the house committee on banking
and currency to report the bill for the ex-
change of the trade dollars for standard dol
lars, at par, by January 1, 1885.
The president has approved the bill
appropriating 500, 200 for the benefit of
destitute Indians.
A committee of fifteen citizens of Da-
kota appeared before the senate committee
on territories to advocate the passage of a
bill providing for constitutional conven-