St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1884-02-28
nomination of Medical Director A. NJ. Gun
nell, to be surgeon-generalo Of the navy.
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nomanatlon OF Medical Director a. M. Gun-
nell, to be surgeon-general Of the navy.
THE TEST OATH.
The bill repeating the test oath, which re-
Gently passed the house, has passed the SEN
ate, after being modified by an amendment
proposed by the senate judiciary committee,
providing that no person who held a commits
sion in the United States army or navy be-
fore the war, and was afterwards engaged in
the military, naval or civil service of the So
called Confederate States, shall be appointed
to any position in the army or navy Of the
United States.
APPROVING BILLS.
The house committee on railways and
canals, ordered favorable reports on Hoblit-
zelps bill, appropriating 81 100000 for the
construction of the Maryland and Delaware
ship canals; on Wemple's bill, providing for
an appropriation Of 81, ,000,0O0 annually, for
ten years, for the permanent improvement
ofthe Erie canal and to aid in maintaining
the same free to the commerce Of the United
States, and Brents' bill, providing for an ap-
preparation for the construction of ship
canal from Union Lake, Washington terri
tory, to Puget sound.
The house committee on Indian affairs
agreed to report favorably Morrill's bill for
the sale, with the consent of the Kickapoo
Indians, their diminished reservation in
Kansas, and the removal of the tribe to the
Indian Territory. The reservation contains
10000 acres, and it is proposed to allot lands
in severalty to such Indians as choose to re-
main, the remainder of the reservation to be
sold to settlers, nor at less than So per acre,
the proceeds to be used for the benefit of the
tribe.
General Longstreet, United States marshal,
Georgia, testified before the Springer COM
mittee to-day. He denied that he
was a defaulter to the government,
and said, on the contrary, a proper
footing of his accounts show the government
is indebted to him $1,000. He said the re-
port that he was in default grew out of the
fact that he was charged with $4,000, which
he never received. This sum has been all
along, and is now, in the United States treas
ury. He said further, the circulation of the
report that he was a defaulter was in pur-
suance of regular conspiracy against him on
the part of Bryant, Ballin and others. The
scheme was to get him out of office and to
get Bryant in. In event of success, Ballin
was to be Bryant's deputy. Gen. Longstreet
asserted his ability to prove this conspiracy
rity.
In the senate committee ON claims, Sena-
tor Jackson, chairman of the subcommittee,
reported favorably the bill for the relief of the
Citizens National bank of New Orleans. The
claim is for $3.50, 900, being money taken by
Gen. Butler.
In the contested election case of O'Ferral
VS.. Paul, of the seventh district Of Florida.
no c,1h-o 10 @< 10
full committee that the former is entitled to
the seat.
GALVESTON HARBOR BILL.
A bill introduced in the senate to-day by
Maxcy to provide for the improvement of the
channel between Galveston harbor and the
Gulf of Mexico, provides that James B. Eads
and his associates be authorized to construct
jetties and other works for the creation and
permanent maintenance of channel thirty
feet in depth at mean high tide between
harbor and gulf, for which congress shall pay
him S7,750, 600, at certain times as the depth
of the channel will be shown to have been in
creased.
THE CREEK CHIEFTAINsHIP.
After careful consideration facts and ar
guments presented by the lawyers represent
ing Perryman and Ispaheche, the rival aspi-
rants for the chieftainship Of the Creek Indi-
an nation, the secretary Of the interior has
reached conclusion that Perryman should
be recognized as the principal chief.
TIE LAND GRANT FORFEITURE.
The senate committee on public lands had
meeting tonight, at which there was a
general discussion of the question of the
forfeiture of unearned railroad land grants.
No conclusion was reached, as the committee
finds the question is q complicated one, which
cannot be disposed of without considering
the various collateral questions, among
others, the question of the disposition of the
forfeited lands in the event of the forfeit
ure being declared. In connection with the
question of forfeiting the grant of lands to
the Northern Pacific railroad, for which bills
are pending in both houses of congress, the
discovery has been made that the act Of July
8, 1882, ratifying the agreement between the
Northern Pacific company and the
Crow Indians, for the sale Of a
portion of the reservation of the latter
for the use of the former, may be construed
as a recognition by congress of the right of
the Northern Pacific Railroad company to
proceed with the construction of the line
after the expiration of the time fixed by con-
gress, in the act creating the company, for
the completion of the road, and so may be
used as an argument against the forfeiture of
the lands granted this company. This bill
passed the house of representatives without
discussion, under suspension of the rules,
and does not appear to have been discussed
much in the senate.
The postofice appropriations bill, as pre-
pared by the subcommittee, and which was
considered to-day by the full committee, ap-
propriates $45,071, 900. The estimatee re-
venue for the next fiscal year is Al, ,1O4, 900.
The amount asked for by the department was
s50,062, 1S9. The appropriation for the cur
rent fiscal year was S44, ,4S9, $50.
A FENIAN ARRESTED.
Ryan, Correspondent of the Irish
World, Arrested at Winnipeg.