The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1885-04-03
NEWS OF THE WEEK.
Cleaned by Telegraph and Mail.
CONGRESS.
EXTRA SESSION.

EXTRA SESSION.
The business transacted in the Senate
on the Sd was in executive session, the pro.
ceedings of which were secret. Senator
George III. Pendleton. of Ohio, was confirmed
in open session as Minister to Berlin.
In the Senate on the oath memorials
were presented from the Legislature of
Arizona praying for the return to the public
domain of the lands granted the railroads In
r and tho TO
ate then held a short executive session, after
which the credentials of James H. Berry, the
sented ans Senators em Hd1rbees AND SOONER
were appointed by the Chair as members OF
the Board of Visitors to the Naval Academy.
In the Senate on the 25th the oath of Of
fee was administered to Senator-elect Berry,
OF Arkansas. The executive session then
began the consideration of the Wiel and La
Abra treaty. This consumed the entire day,
and was not concluded when the doors were
reopened and the Senate adjourned.
Soon after assembling on the Goth the
Senate went into executive session, during
which Daniel McConville of Ohio, was con-
firmed as Auditor of the Treasury for the
POst-office Department, and batch of nomi-
nations received from the President. The
We'll and La Albra treaties were then dis
cussed for a short time but final action was
postponed until the next session. When the
doors were reopened Mr.. Sherman's resolu-
ton providing that committee of two Sem
ators be appointed to wait upon the Presi-
dent and inform him that if he had no further
communication to make the Senate was
ready to adjourn was adopted.
THE Senate in executive session on the
9Th confirmed large number of nomina-
tons. Among them the following Postmas-
tiers: John Mileham, Topeka, Kan; Vincent
j, Lane. Wyandotte, Kan: James NJ Dear
mon, Davenport, Ia: James Larder, State
Center, Ia: NJ. VI. Ham, Dubuque, la. The
committee appointed to wait upon the Pres-
dent reported that they had performed that
duty, and the President had expressed wish
that the Senate should remain in session
until Thursday. Adjourned until Monday.
WASHINGTON NOTES.
MRS. MARGARET CLEMMER, mother of
the. well-known writer, the late Mary
Clemmer, died in Washington the other
night. ..-.'E
THE Secretary of State has been in
formed by the United States Minister at
Stockholm that the Swedish diet has voted
to admit pork, all grain, flour and meat
into the ports of Sweden duty free.
THE United States Supreme Court, in
test case, affirmed the constitutionality of
the Edmunds law restraining poly gamy in
the Territory. p fsE2
THE Minister from Japan has written a
letter to Secretary Bayard, expressing the
warmest thanks of his Government to
Lucius Foote, United States Minister to
Corea, for protecting party of Japanese
during the recent disturbances in that
country.
THE President sent in the name of Sam
uel S. Cox, of New York, for the Turkish
Mission.
ATTORNEY GENERAL GARLAND has fur
nished an opinion to the Secretary of the
Treasury in which he holds that salted
meats which are exported with the benefit
of drawback of duties on foreign salt,
used in curing meats, are entitled to be re-
imported duty free upon a refund of the
drawback.
THE House bill to compel railroad COM
panies and other corporations doing bust
ness in Texas to maintain general office in
the State passed the Senate recently. The
penalty for a violation of the act is fixed at
1000 per month.
THE Senate, on the 9th, was in execu-
tive session, and adjourned until the 30th.
THE Secretary of the Treasury has pre-
pared a circular letter to Collectors of Gus
toms requesting information as to the
practicability of reducing the expenses of
collecting the revenue from customs by
curtailing the present force of clerks and
other employees. .. .....
A TELEGRAM recently received by the
State Department at Washington said
Barrios had landed boats crew of men
dressed as citizens from a Pacific Mail
steamship and had cut the telegraph cable
at La Union. ... ......s
GENERAL JOE JOHNSTON, the ex-Con-
fol r.
President for Commissioner of Railroads. |
Ex-Governor Coleman, editor of the Rural
World, of st. Louis, was also nominated
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