Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1885-11-13
FROM THE CAPITOL.

SECRETARY LAMAR has approved OF
the action of Commissioner Sparks in
restoring to the public domain an im-
mense tract of land in California claim
ed by the Sout. era Pacific.
The postmaster general has solicited
bids for the publication of weekly
postoffice guide for New York and its
vicinity. Should the experiment prove
successful III that quarter, 1t will be
duplicated in Chicago.
NEWSPAPERS and periodical postage
for last year shows gain of per cent.
over the previous year, in spite of the
reduction made on second-class matter
and the increase of weight of transient
newspapers that can he mailed for one
cent. 1t is supposed that the depart
ment is getting some business away
from The express companies.
DAKOTA men profess to know that it
is the intention of the president te rec
ommend the admission of Dakota as a
state, but that he is inclined to think
that the territory is large enough for
two states. He requested Delegate
Clifford, of that territory, to come here to
onfer upon this subject Secretary
Lamar is considering the question,
and the president will probably adopt
Mr.. L3mar's conclusions.
THE administration will take very
positive ground upon the financial ques-
tion. Mr.. Jordan and Mr.. Manning will
rec ommend in their reports the suspen-
sion of the silver coinage. The president
will indorse their views. Mr.. Jordan
will be able to show in his report that
$45,000,0 has already been lost in the
attempt to force silver into circulation.
1t is understood that the policy of the
treasury will be against any further
calling in ef bonds. 1t is held that it is
not good financiering to reduce the ma
tional debt, which bears interest of
only 3 per cent. when the current ate
is 6.
THE quartermaster general in his
annual monthly report says the
necessity of as s5embling troops at larger
and more permanent posts near the
Indian reservations and i'll proximity
to the great strategic points of the coun-
try and adjacent to its public reserva
tions, harbors and ports, becomes daily
more and more apparent. He urges that
the troops garrisoned i'll casemented
forts be kept in barracks outside the
easement in time of peace, for sanitary
reasons. He says barracks should be
built at once. The financial exhibit
shows that at the beginning of the fis-
cal year there remained in the treasury
balances applicable to the expenses of
prior years, 81, 1913 962; appropriated for
the year, $9,611. .056; the.balance un-
drawn June so, 1885, was 1866, ,075,
which Is required to meet outstanding
inde btedHpss; Then follow statements
of the buildings and barracks erected,
m i, Als,c f,,A
portion, purchase of horses, claims set
tieG, etc.
The president has issued the fol
lowing proclamation:
BY THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES OF
AMERICA:-A Proclamation.
WHEREAS, 1t is represented to me- by the gov
ernor of the Territory of Washington that domes-
tic violence exists within said territory and that
by reason of the unlawful instructions and com
binations and the assembage of evilly disposed
persons it has become impracticable to enforce
by the ordinary course of judicial proceedings
the laws of the United States at Seattle and other
points and places within said territory, whereby
life and property are threatened and endangered,
and
WHEREAS the legislature of said territory can
not be convened; and
WHEREAS. in the judgement of the pres
dent emergency has arisen, and a case is
now presented which juSttiss and requires, and
by the constitution of the United States the em-
ployment of the militia to suppress violence and
To enforce Il faithful execution of the law of the
United States, il the command OF this procla
nation be disobeyed and disregarded. now there
fore Grover Cleveland, president of the United
States of America do hereby command and warn
all insurgents and all persons who have assembled
at any point within che territory of Washington
for the unlawful purpose aforesaid, to desert
therefrom and to disperse and retire peaceably
TO their respective abodcS or before l2 o'clock
ON the morning of the Sth day of November, inst;
and do admonish all good citizens of the United
States, and all persons within the lands of the
jurisdiction thereof, against aiding or abetting
countenanctng or taking part in any such unlaw-
full acts or aSsemblageS.