The sun. [volume] (Morris, Stevens County, Minn.) 1882-1895, 1886-04-22

Knights OF Labor.
The senate committee on commerce
agreed to favorable report on Represen-
tative James bill to regulate commercial
sales OF goods and merchandise. The bill
as agreed upon reads as follows: That
residents OF each state and territory may,
within the other states and territories, and
within the District OF Columbia, solicit
from dealers or merchants orders forgoods
and merchandise by sample, catalogue,
card, price lists, description or other repre-
sentation without the payment OF any
license or mercantile tax.
Assistant Secretary OF the Interior Null
drow has requested the attorney general
ii in his Judgment he shall deem it for the
interest of the United States, to institute
a civil suit against the firm of Ordway,
Weidler & Co., and also against Julius Ord
way, G. w. Weider and Milton Weidler in
dividually, all OF Portland, Or, to recover
the value, at $12 per thousand feet, OF six
million feet of timber alleged to have been
unlawfully taken by them from the public
lands of the United States; also, criminal
proceedings against the said parties indi-
vidually for the trespass above described.
The following nominations were confirm
ed by the senate. Indian agent, j. T. Greg
ory, La Pointe agency, Wis. Postmasters:
+. Gibbons, keokuk, Iowa; b. c. Hunt,
Delavan, Wis; c. F. Sharpe, Oconto, Wis.
1t is announced that Secretary Manning
will be able to resume his duties at the
treasury department before the hot weather
begins. 1t is reported that Mr.. Manning
will be appointed minister to Australia.
The public land committee OF the house
agreed to report the bill repeating the pre-
emption, timber culture and desert land
laws.
Net gold coin and bullion in the treasury
April 10 was $153, 800, S5S, an increase of
$27 ,242, ,263 since July 81. The amount
OF standard silver dollars in circulation
April 10, out of total coinage of S226.-
GAG, ,121, was $52, 1854, 396. On July 81
the amount in circulation was $39, ,2S4, :
ABB, out OF a total coinage of $2O5, 7S4,-
3S1. The silver coinage during the first
ten days OF the present month amounted
to $464 200, and during the same period
the increase in circulation was 81 j 194, COG.
Senator Jackson, Immediately upon his
confirmation as Judge OF the Sixth Circuit,
gave up his seat in the senate and forward
ed his resignation to the governor OF
Tennessee.
General Committeeman Hayes, of the
Knights OF Labor, says it is their pQrpose
to keep up the fight if it ruins the Missouri
Pacific.
The house committee on public lands
has agreed to report favorably Payson' 8
bill to forfeit the land grant lying along
the uncompleted portion OF the st. Croix
River & Lake Superior railroad, and the
bill to forfeit the grant of the Houghton &
Ontonagon railroad.
Senator Sabin and wife have perma-
nently taken into their family the two little
orphan girls of the late Delegate Raymond
of Dakota.
Although Senator Ingalls, is charged with
scepticism in religious matters, it is observ-
ed that he had all his children baptized
in the Episcopal church.
Democrats oppose the confirmation OF
Douthitt, nominated postmaster at Salem,
the rebel army.
One of the saddest-looking OF all con-
gressmen is Senator Morgan OF Alabama,
whose family bereavements have left deep
marks upon his face.
The house committee on Indian affairs
has agreed to a favorable report on Davis
bill to provide for the allotment of lands
in severalty to Indians. The committee
has amended the bill by providing for the
issue of individual instead of tribal pat.
ents in all cases. The section of the SEN
ate bill, authorizing the secretary Of the
interior to sell the Indian lands in excess
of the allotments, has been stricken out,
leaving to congress the power to determine
the procedure in each case of the sale oi
reservation lands. A section has been
added requiring the consent OF a majority
OF adult male Indians Of any tribe before
the allotments shall be made.
Among the pension bills passed by the
house in the past few days are the follow.
ing: Mrs. Barbara Fuchs, stepmother oi
John Fuchs, Sixth Minnesota infantry;
Jannet Il. B. Smith, widow OF Stephen
Barton, Twenty-first Iowa infantry; Tunis
j. Rossa, late private in the Seventh
Iowa volunteers a pension OF $40 per
month; Eugenia Smally OF Fillmore county,
Minn. widow Of Robert Smally, late Sec
ond Minnesota volunteers; Frederick
Korth OF Hudson, Minn., late teamster
shot wounds received at the hands of hos
tile Sioux Indians at Lower agency in 1862,
Minnesota.
The following northwestern nominations
were confirmed: M. L. Mccormick, secre.
tary of Dakota; N. G. Barney, receiver at
Spokane Falls, WASH; M. D. Baldwin, Ohio,
agent Of the Blackfeet agency, Mont. Post
masters: Dakota, Z. B. Miller, Pierre; Wis
consin. M. w. Ryan, Medford; V. Ringle,
Wausau; H. C. Hunt, Reedsburg; NJ. H
Mould, Baraboo; w. H. Dawley, Amigo;
J. Dave, Edgerton; D. g. Craig. Ft. Atkin-
son; w. III. Cannon, Merrill; J. W. Beattie,
Marshficld Samuel Smead, Fond du Lac;
H. G. Moore, Broadhead.
Gould expresses curiosity as to how the
Central Labor Union could boycott him
as it threatened. He says he can wear his
clothes for some time yet and raise all he
vanta tn eat ON his Iryington farm. 40 he