The Kimball graphic. (Kimball, Brule County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1905, 1886-01-22
Washington Gossip.

The wife and daughter of SenatorM Malone
are expected to return from Europe short
~ and join the senator at the capital.
Secretary Lamar refuses to compromise
the Gull River Lumber ~company's case,
and recommends q criminal prosecution OF
their agent.
The restaurant privilege OF the national
house OF representatives pays n profit OF
Sc, 900 u year. Dick Gnthright OF Jeffer-
sonville, Ind, is after it.
Mr.. Nelson OF Minnesota has revived the
Bill OF the last session in relation to the
Red Lake Indianreservation, also to estab-
lish the Northern judicial district OF Mime.
sofa.
President Cleveland is by no means sure
b he will satisfy the curiosity Of senate
committees who want to know why remov-
ais were made. He says the request is
without precedent.
Secretary Whitney has d%ecidedpot to re-
convene the court martial, in the case OF
Paymaster General Smith OF the navy.
He will approve the findings OF the court
and submit the case to the president for
his action.
The Washington Star says that the i'm
preston grains ground there that Controll.
sition in a bank in New York. The posi-
ton is believed to be hat of vice president
OF the Bank OF the Republic.
Seventy Of the 14O postofice nomina-
lions In Illinois, Wisconsin and Minnesota
have been reported favorably to the SEN
ate by the committee on postoffices and
post roads, being hardly Is per cent. There
are but four such cases in Minnesota. and
OF these all hnve not been reported as re-
jected and will not De Immediately.
The secretary OF the interior sent thir-
teen timber trespnss suits to the attorney
general for prosecution. Most OF them
were against lumbermen in the South, and
one large suit was against large Utah firms.
Amongthe suits were two against Minneso-
TIA parties, J. B. Hubbell DIST. Paul md the
Gull River Lumber Company of Minneap-
oils. Suits were also recommended against
Thomas Wollett and Charles Northrup OF
Miles City, Mont, on the same charge.
Chairman Bland, of the coinage commit
tee, is inclined to believe that the commit
tee stands seven for suspension to six
against, but the fact causes him no special
concern. He places Messrs. Seymour,
Scott, Hemphill, Norwood, James, Rock.
well and Little for suspension. Admitting
that a majority ofthe committee will favor
suspension, Mr.. Bland says that, should
such q bill be presented, there would be
a minority report recommending free coin
age.
The expenses OF %thefuneral OF Gen. Grant,
which were assumed by the government,
have not been paid. They amounted
only to $14,153, although newspapers
have frequently estimated them as high as
$4,000. The money was advanced by
Stephen Merritt, an undertaken OF New
York. His bills are in the hands OF the
quartermnster general OF the army, and
have been pigeonholedfour or five months.
Mr.. Merritt came over here last month,
and succeeded in having them taken up,
but it was discovered that there was not
sufficient money in the contingent fund Of
the war department to pay them. An
order will be given Mr.. Merritfor a portion
OF the amount, ..and congress will be asked
to make an appropriations Tor the balance.
In the cnse OF an application OF a mar
who has relinquished Il land entry to make
q second entry where no specific tract was
specified, the secretary of the interior has
decided that such an application amounts
simply to a request for q decision as to
whether the party would be allowed to
make such an entry if it should atany time
hereafter be desired, and that it is there
fore a hypothetical question which the de-
partment has refused to answer. The com
missioner OF the general land Office is direct
ed to refuse hereafter to consider applica-
tions Tor a restoration of the right to make
premptory filing OF homestead or timber
culture entries. except when accompanied
by the application to make filing or entry
for some specific tract.
The Manitoba railway has taken the
position that the road does not come with
In the spirit or language OF the act of June
., 1878, which requires asystem OF reports
from the so-called land grant roads, for the
reason that the government made it's grant
81 land in this case through the state or
territorial government. Mr.. Montgomery,
the assistant attorney general for the in.
terror department, has decided that with
out doubt the statute applies to all ON.
panies, corporations or individuals which
are the owners Of railroads that have been
built in whole or part upon the credit or
by the aid OF subsidies in either bonds or
land o. the United States, whether such
credit was loaned by such subsidies given
directly to the builders or first proprietors
OF sach roads, or to their predecessors in
interest.