The semi-weekly miner. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1882-1886, 1885-01-21


Washington Ncws Budget.
WASHINGTON, Jan. 19.-The presi.
dent decided to n0nlinxte Wright. o.
Massachusetts,, commissioner Ut lsbol
statistics. -
In the house, the speaker laid be-
fore the house 3 communication from
the secretary OF the treasury trans
hitting the estimate of an apprO-
priation of $40, 0OO t. meet tho Incl
dental expenses of the United States
naval vessels attending the Worlds
| Industrial Exposition at New Or
leans. Referred.
A bill was introduced and referred
to indemnify California on account
of indebtedness incurred in the In
dian wars.
BY Townshend q resolution re-
questiDg the Presidsnt to furnish the
house copies of all correspondence
relative to tho so-:alled Oklahoma
lands in the..Indian Terrlt0ry,together
with information as to the present
condition of the controversy growing
out Of the attempted occupation of
such lands.
WAsH1NaoN, Jan. l9.-Dr. Adair,
of the Indian Territory, a Cherokee,
was examined by the senate com.
mittee ON Indian affairs to-day. He
sad he was president Of an association
of Cherokees formed for the purpose
of taking a lease of the vacant land
of the CherOkees. The associations
agents were authorized to offer $685.
900 for the lease. but it was secured
by outsiders for $1,000 The i'm
preston. of the member Of the native
association was that money was used
by its rivals. Cash was q very rare
commodity among Cherokees before
the lease was MADE. About the time
It was made, however, members of
the council came to witness store
with $50 bills to be changed.
The bill introduced by Senator
Coke to establish and q~uaEatine stock
trails, provide for the appointment of
three commissioners to lay out and
establish a public highway for the
purpose of driving live stock to
market or from one place to another,
and also to establish at convenient
points or this highway or trail, suit
able quarantined grazing grounds
where live stock is to be held and
grazed for a snort period during the
drives. The trail snail begin on Red
River near the Tooth degree of longl-
tude, thence run northeasterly
through the Indian Territory, follow
ing. as far as practicable, the Fort
Griffin and Dodge City trail to the
southwestern corner Of Kansas,
thence over unappropriated lands OF
the United States in a northerly di-
rection to the boundary line between
the United States and Canada. The
trail is not to exceed six miles in
width and quarantined grounds not
to exceed IL miles square. Unappro-
prialed puDlic lands needed for the
purpose Of the act are to be withdrawn
from settlement and set apart for the
purpose named in the act, for ten
years. The report of the commits
sioners requires the approval of the
Secretary of the Interior before the
trail shall be established.
The treasury department issued
special instructions to collectors of
customs and its other agents In the
vicinity of the Gulf coast to be on the
alert to prevent any violation of in
ternational obligations in fitting out
filibustering expeditions against
Cuba. The steamers Dix and Forward
are now cruising in the Gulf on the
outlook for suspicious vessels. The
Unt'ed States steamer Galena is at
New Orleans and the United States
steamer Tennessee, is on her way to
Key West. The Yantic steamer and
Alliance are cruising near the West
Indies.
The president decided on the ap-
pointment of Emery Speers as United
States district judge for the southern
district OF Georgia.
The house committee on public
decided to report Repre-
sentative Stockslager's bill providing
for the establishment of Il board con-
of the secretary of thetreasury,
general, attorney general,
architect and an architect
by the president who shall
select sites and superintend the erec-
ton OF public buildings.
The bill Introduced to-day by Rep
resentative Cox provides for the re.
of army captains and lieu
tenants upon sixty per cent. of full
pay when they reach the age of fifty.
In response to a request from the
on rivers and harbOrs,
Gen. Newton, chief engineer, sub
mitted a reporG to-day On Capt. Eads'
proposal to- improve Galveston har-
Dor. Gen. Newton says the proposed
contract is entirely one-sided ; that
1t provides for a depth of 80
feet of water over the harbor, no par
width of that channel il slip.
and that the contract could be
srried out by not making it over
;wo feet wide. Newton finds that
IN undue proportion of the contract
price is payable for the earlier stages
II the work, which might make it
1eslrat1e for the contractor to throw
Up the job before it was completed.
And finally that it Civ y undue
ooWer to the contractor over navi-
Fable waters.
CONGR ESSIONAL.
SENATE.
WASHINGTON, Jan. l9.-Coke i'd
reduced q bill to establish snd regu-
ate and quarantine a live stock trail
nd regulate commerce b>tween
StAtea az to live stnck. roforrod