Devils Lake inter-ocean. (Devils Lake, Ramsey Co., Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1905, 1885-01-31
WASHINGTON.

Carroll u. Wright OF Massachusetts, ,is' tc
tics. $1,000
A. llfe-size portrait Of ex-President Gar
neld has been purchased for the room OF
the house committee On appropriations.
Internal revenue collec tions in the Unit.
ed States for the first six months of the ifs.
cal year amounted to Sc. SIS, 58S, a decrease
OF SH4,.1o, fS6 as compared with the CORES.
ponding period last year.
Notwithstanding recent statements to the
effect that the gold in the United States
!, the fact is that the actual gold balance
not covered by certificates outstanding has
date.
The Committee on Public Lands reports
TO the House OF Representatives that Eu-
ropean noblemen have acquired about TWEEN.
and that foreign capital will before many
years possess itself Of one hundred million
acres more by the foreclosure of American
railroad bonds.
Members of the House at Washington
VINO are interested In the preservation OF
Ghe ;Na : Ola system are trying to
Potter bills may be combined and brought
to 4 vote. The prospect for the success of
such a scheme is thought, however, to be
far from reassuring.
having come to the conclusion that it
WILL be Impossible for want of time to pass
House Committee on Public Health has de-
clued 70 recommend an appropriation of
$4,000 for the National Board of Health
and $500, 600 to be used at the discretion OF
the President in preventing the spread of
cholera should the disease appear in this
bles.
A delegation Of Iowa settlers upon lands
along the Sioux City T. st. Paul Railroad
fs urging the Senate Pnblic Lands Commit
tee to act favorably, Oh the bill already pass
Ell by Congress- declaring the forfeiture of
these tracts. 1t Is represented that many
OF the settlers will be ruined il the railroad
is permitted to hold the lands, which are
worth over 81, 900, 00O. There does not seem
to be much prospect for the passage of the
bill by the Senate this session.
1t has been discovered by the Senate
Committee on Indian Affairs that Town
Send, Il former agent OF tile Indian Bureau,
Iowa Reservation. Just before the lease
was signed. Townsend resigned. The lease
includes nearly the whole OF the Iowa Res
ervatlon, and gives the exclusive right Of
occupancy 9t some hundreds of thousands
lessees paid the Indians s., 1000. Nobody
witnessed the payment and there was no
body to protect the Indians rights. No
fences were put up, and the money paid for
the lease went back into the pockets Of
Townsend and his partner, who were r.
relsed traders at the agency.
AGRICULTURE.
The Agricultural! Appropriation bill was
COMMITTEES on Agriculture. Itprovides for
less than for the current year, and about
$l54,oo less than the estimates. The re-
port was not q unanimous one, and 1t is UNI
will provoke a lively discussion and much
opposition in the House, as we'll from the
minority Of the Committee as from a good
many other members. 1t is the provision
which authorizes the Commissioner Of Agrl-
culture to. use any part of the appropriation
for the Bureau of Animal Industry as The
may deem necessary or expedlent and in
such manner as he may think best to pre-
vent the spread of Heterogeneous not to
Conflict with the existing law" This pro-
vision, 1t Is held by its opponents, leaves al
together too mucn to the discretion Of the
head OF the department. Among the mem
beers OF the committee who will offer vigor-
Gus opposition to it Is Chairman Hatch. Who
hopes to have 1t stricken out on a point of
order.
NEWSPAPER POSTAGE.
The Ho Use Committee on Postofises and
Post Roads will consider various bills rela-
.lVt ~ uue IeuuctlOll' OF newspaper postage.
The Committee is i'll receipt OF a memorial
ON the subject prepared by Messrs. Morri-
SON, Mumford, D. r. Locke, and William
Penn Nixon. a committee representing
newspaper publishers in the west and
northwest. This committee was appointed
at the last annual meeting of. the Western
Associated Press. held at Detroit, to call to
tile attention of Congress the inequalities
of the postal laws bearing OH the rate
charged for newspapers and periodicals.
The memorial says III p,rt: Newspaper
publ .shers are not mendicants, but tliey
claim to have such relations to the diffusion
of light and knowledge among the people,
which we understand was one of the objects
for which the postal department OF the gov
eminent was created as gives them the
right to demand a fair hearing and lust
treatment. The incon sruity in the law re-
ferred to above would, to stranger to our
institutions, Indicate that the government
looked with disfavor on all publications
circulating beyond the confines of the cour-
ty, In which they are published. We GER
talnly understand such is not the case, but
believe it will be unwise for. Congress to
permit such inconsistency to remain on ,our
statute books. We iope you will add moth
ing to the burdens of publishers now free,
but ask that YOU will diminish the burdens
OF those for whom we speak"