Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1886-06-03

Ouuc ~-tAHOLHcT DdtCA "a SctOCsA II cA-
sion Bills-The Eads Ship Railway Bill
Recommended For Passage BY the Sen.
ate Committee on Commerce.
DAY AND DATE FIXED.
WASHINGTON, May 29.-An speculation
about the fact and date of President
Cleveland's marriage was brought to q
close last night by an authoritative an
nouncement that the much talked-of event
will occur here next Wednesday. The
knot will be tied about five O'Clock in the
afternoon in the Executive Mansion, and,
after an ample collation., the evening will
be passed with an old-fashioned social
mingling of few and select invited
guests. The President will go to New
York on Sunday to participate in the Dec
Grafton Day ceremonies there, and in
Brooklyn on Monday, and will return to
Washington Tuesday, accompanied by
Miss Folsom and some of the invited
guests to the wedding.
1t is not expected that the President
and his bride will make bridal tour.
They will remain at the Executive Man.
sion for while, he attending to his
business and his wife devoting her time
to fitting up and furnishing the new
home in Tenallytown, recently pur-
chased by the President, which will
ploJdDiy NC 1Cdty "tCuiu lHOHUii, anu
will then be occupied as a summer resi-
dence.
There will be no fuss and no feathers
at the wedding or on the wedding day.
Jeffersonian simplicity will predominant
throughout.
Colonel Lamont returned to Washing
ton yesterday morning after having met
Miss Folsom on her arrival Wednesday
night. He was at the White House for a
few minutes about noon to see the Presi-
ident, and then went to his home.
PENSION BILLS VETOED.
WASHINGTON, May 29.-The President
returned to the House of Representatives
yesterday, without his approval, the bill
entitled: can act for the relief of Re-
becca Eldrdge." In this case the widow
of WILDER H. Eldridge claimed a pension
on the ground that her husband was
slightly wounded during the war. The
President says: Con the 2Sth of January,
1881, while working about a building,
he (Eldrdge) fell backward from
a ladder and fractured his skull,
from which he died the same day. With
out a particle of proof, and with no fact
established which connects the fatal ac-
cident in the remotest degree with the
wound referred to, it is proposed to
SIdHt ptISiou W IuC NluOW Va D16
per month. 1t is not a pleasant thing to
interfere in such case, but we are deal
ing with pensions and not gratuities.
The President also returned to the
House, without approval, bills entitled
can act for the relief of Eleanor C.
Bangham" TThis bill is vetoed on the
ground that the disease which indirectly
caused the death of the claimants hus-
band was not contracted in the service1,
and can act granting pension to Sim
mons A. Harden" The President de-
clines to approve this bill because the
claim, in his opinion, was justly over
ruled by the pension bureau. The claim
ant, the President shows, has survived
all his ailments long enough to reach the
age of seventy-two.
Bills granting pensions to Mrs. Annie
C. Owen and J. d. Haworth were re-
turned to the Senate without approval,
on the ground of insufficient evidence to
warrant payment of pensions.
THE EADs SHIP RAILWAY BILL.
WASHINGTON, May Ex-senator Con-
ger yesterday submitted to the Senate
the report of the committee on commerce
on the Eads Ship Railway bill. The re-
port states that many of the most dis
tinguished engineers, naval constructors
and ship builders of the world concur in
the opinion that the project is in every
way practicable, and that the largest
ships, with their cargoes, can be safely
carried upon properly constructed rail-
way over moderate grades. From these
opinions the conclusion is Irresistible
that the project is a practicable one.
The committee is of the opinion that
an isthman transit way is now absolute
ly necessary, from whatever way the mat
f>o 1oI. nd fhn+ Sc to
the interest of the government and of the
enterprise that the company organized
should be chartered by Congress. The
report of the committee in concluding
SAYS:
Believing that the commercial and indus
trial interests of this country VIII be greatly
benefited by the construction of ship rail-
way; that it will have tendency to largely
increase our commerce and stimulate our
shipping and ship building Interests, and
that it Is essential, IL our Government would
retain the respect of it's own people and of
foreign nations, that it should now practi-
cally demonstrate it's determination to for
ever discourage foreign control upon this
continent
The committee report back the accom-
panying bill with recommen-
dalton that it do pass.
THE PROPOSED LAW ON THE FISHERIES
QUESTION.
OTTAWA, Ont, May 2S.-The bill
amending an 'act respecting fishing by
foreign vessels was amended by the
Senate yesterday by repeating the section
and substituting the following:
Any one, officers or person hereinbefore
mentioned loffcers Of the royal navy, Gus
tom house officers, stipendiary magistrates
and others specially appointed may bring
any ship, vessel or boat, being within any
harbor in Canada or lowering in British
waters within three marine miles of any OF
nf ha
in Canada, into port and search her
cargo, and may also examine the
master upon oath touching his
cargo and voyage, and if the master or per-
son in command does not truly answer
questions put to him in such examination he
shall issue penaly of $500, and, IL such ship,
vessel or boat, il foreign, Or not navigated
according to the laws of the United King
dom of Canada, has been found fishing or
preparing to fish, or have been fishing In
British waters within three marine miles of
the coasts, bays, creeks Or harbOrS of Cana
da, not included within above mentioned
limits, without license, or after the expira-
ton of the term named in the last license
granted to it under the first section of this
act; or has entered such waters tor any pur-
pose not permitted by the law of nations,
such ship, vessel. or boat, shall be forfeited.
The act of the former colonies of Nova SEQ
tia, New Brunswick and Prince Edward
Island are repealed by this act.
This bin has been passed by the lower
House.
hoard of Visitors to the Naval Academy.
WASHINGTON, May 29.-The President
yesterday appointed the following board