The Indianapolis sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis, Ind.) 1880-1904, 1885-01-21
NATIONAL NOTES.
Will Remove the Oklahoma Boomers-Re-
dactiOn of Newspaper Postage-LiVe
Stock transportation, Etc.

WASHINGTON, Jan. 2O.-The Adjutant Gen.
eral OF the Army to- day received a telegram
from Brigsdier General Anger, commanding
the Department OF the Missouri, announcing
that the number OF settlers on Oklahoma
land was steadily increasing, having reached
nearly AGO. and resistance to the Federal au-
hority was threatened. Secretary Lincoln
ad q conference with the President on the
subject this afternoo the result of which
xes that General Anger was instructed to
concentrate more troops at the settlement
and remove the people from the territory in
as peaceable manner as possible.
The House Committee on Postofices and
Post-roads will next Friday consider the va.
rious bills re lative to q reduction of news.
paper postage. The committee is in receipt
OF a memorial on the subject prepared by
Messrs. Nor son, Mumford DR.. Locke and
William PEN Nixon, committee repre-
senting the newspaper publishers of the
West. T CON mittee was appointed st the
last NEE : az the Western Associated
Press, helG At De- roit, to call the attention
of Congress 70 to inequalities of the postal
laws bearing on the rate charged for news
papers ana periodicals. The memorial says
In part: Newspaper publishers are not
nendicants, but they claim to have such re-
lations to the diffusion OF light and knowi-
edge among the people of to day, and which,
We understand is one OF the objects for
which the poetal department Of the Govern.
ment was cfeate3-&s gives them right to
demand a fair hearing and just treatment.
The incongruity IN the law referred to above
would, to q stranger to our institutions, in
dicsta that the Government looked with dlsta
vor upon al publications circulating beyond
the confines of the country in which they
are published. We certainly understand
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anEise for Congress to permit such incon-
sistency to remain on our statute books,
We hope you viii add nothing to the burdens
OF The publishers now free. but ask that YOU
will dimish the burdens OF those for whom
we speak,
Representative Claridy wac instructed by
the House Committee On Commerce to day
to report favofably Re preventative Hopkins
resolution, introduced last session, directing
that the committee inquire into such evils
as may exist in the transportation of live
stock. One of the evils cited in the res5la
tion IS that by the present system of trans
porting live stock by rsiircac companies tan
per cent, Of the animals perish in coDse-
QuenCe pi baFbbrOus treatment, and the
flesh Of the dead snimsls is ssld to the pub
lie. Representatives Hopkins and c. II.
MCkenBa. members of the American HUI
name Society. addressed the committee IN
behalf Of the resolution.
The committee also decided to report a
bill providing fer q lighthouse at Grand
Marias, Mich.
Tie Senate Committee on Pensions favor
sbly reported bill to place upon the pen
sion rolls the name of Margaret g. Halpine,
widow of Lieutenant Colonel Halpine,
author of the war songs which appeared
under the nom de plume of private Miles
O'Reilly." His death was due TO an over
dose of chlor0form, taken TO alleviate suffer
ing caused by his military services. The
Pension Bureau held that as his death was
not directly attributable to his military ser
wee his widow could not be pensionsd
under the general pension laws.
The Secretary Of War has declined 70
order cnurt martial for the trial of Chief
Signal Officer Hszen. on charges preferred o.
Lieutenant Darlington, and has decided 70
take 10 further action regarding the relief
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