Butte semi-weekly miner. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1886-1890, 1886-12-18
! WASHINGTON NEWS BUDGET.

tIuIiOugueU II Cne provision lOr It's pay men1
be not soon made.
The Senate has passed the hill to repeal
SO.
Butler offered q preamble and resolution
recitiDg the close proximity OF Mexico and
United States and the desirabiIity of main.
tanning the closest of friendships between
the two countries and providing for the ap.
pointment Of select committee Of five sen.
aton to visit the places along: the frontier
and Ety Of Mexico with the approval oI
the Mexican Government) TO inquire into
a may srs 1s - eisi.sos stnss d iss. &.
two. .stuuthes, with power to send for per
sons skd papera and to employ stem.
Ograp6ef and such other persons as may be
necessary and to cit during the recess oi
COngfess. Laid on the table and ordered
printed.
Onfmotion Of Allison it was ordered that
when the Senate adjourns to-day it be till
Molday.
On motion of Miller, and after briei
statement by him, the Senate took up and
passed without discussion and without
division the bill for the retirement and re-
coinage of the trade dollar.
The House Committee on Invalid Pen
sions to-day amalgamated the substitute
Tor the Blair pension bill, prepared at the
last session, with Representative Weber's
bill relating to the pension of dependent
parties, and instructed Chairman Matson
to report the matter to the House and en-
deavor to insure its passage under sus-
pension OF the rules.
Supplemental statements were trans
mitted TO Congress to-day by the Secretary
of the Treasury requesting that for the
better administration of the business of
| ho la q ciO 1,ov 1o s,,% h.
Sundry Civil bill for one additional chief of
the division of the Board OF Review at q
salary Of 81, 900. and that new division,
to be known as the contest division, be
created, to be composed of one chief, salary
81, 900, and six members at salary Of
$4,000.
| A letter to the Commissioner of the Land
| Office is transmitted, with a statement in
which he shows the necessity of both these
divisions. He says that at the end of the
| fiscal year 12,77O contests remained un-
acted upon by the office because of iaad-
quate clerical force.
In connection with the war claim of the
State of Vermont against the government
| OF $66, $50 the Secretary of the Treasury
has transmitted to Congress let! er from
the Third Auditor and Chief of Ordnance,
| alleging an Indebtedness on the part OF
that State to the government during the
| late war for the protection of it's frontiers.
Confirmations- ns-Theodore D. Wilson, of
New York, to be chief of the Bureau of
Construction and Repairs and chief con-
structor sf the navy, with relative rank of
| commodore; Pay Director James Fulton,
of Tennessee, to be chief OF the Bureau of
Provisions and clothing and Paymaster-
General of the Navy Department; Pay In
spector Rufus Park, OF New York, to be
Pay Director Of the Navy; Paymaster Jas.
E. Tolfree to be Pay Inspecsor of the Navy;
Assistant Paymaster John Convin, of
Ohio. to sbs Past Assistant Paymaster Of
the Eax5; Quiacy A. Brooks, of Oregon, to
be Collector of Customs for Puget Sound.
A communication from Captain Eads
was laid before the House Committee on
Commerce to-day requesting the com mmittee
to SO amend the bill providing for the con-
struction OF Eads' ship railway as to con-
fer only the charter upou the company.
A caucus of Republican senators took
place this afternoon. 1t was called osten-
sibly to fill vacancies in the committee lists.
Senator Dolph was selected to be chairman
OF the committee on claims and Senator
Spooner for chairman of the committee
On coast defenses. Halt a dozen other va
cancies in the committee memberships were
also filled.
The Interstate commerce bill was briefly
criticised and discussed and the tariff was
talked about more at length but no action
was taken on either.
The bill passed by the Senate to-day for
the retirement and recoinage of the trade
dollar reads as follows:
That until July 1, 1887. trade dollars, if
not defaced, nutilated or stamped shall be
received at the office of the treasurer or
any assistant treasurer of the United
States in exchange for a like amount, dol
lar for dollar, OF standard silver dollars of
the United States.
Section 2.-That trade dollars received
by the treasury OF any assistant treasurer
OF the United States shall not be paid out
in any other manner issued, but at the ex-
pense OF the United States, shall be trans
nitted to coinage mints and s hall be re-
garded and treated as silver bullion. and
that their bullion value shall be deducted
from the amount of bullion required to be
purchased and coined by the act, Febru-
ary 20, 1878, and shall be recoined into
standard silver dollars. according to the
provisions OF said act, provided, that the
amount to be so deducted as provided in
this section shall not exceed $500, 900 in
any month.
Section 3. That all laws and parts OF
laws authorizing the coinage and issuance
OF United States dollars are hereby re-
pealed.
conference OF the House and Senate
was to have taken place to-day, but was
deferred at the request OF the Senate Com
mittee. 1t is intimated that the latter
have agreed to the House amendments, SO
that the matter of conference will be
merely a matter OF form.
A prominent treasury official who was
asked for information upon the subject,
said this afternoon that it is not ut all
likely that the department will make any
i'm mediate calls for the per cents, in view
of the fact that it has already given public
notice that it stands ready to redeem all
such outstanding, paying par and accrued
interest to date of presentation. The
amount of bonds redeemed under this
"open call, which was issued September
10th, last, is $2,2O9,9OO. This leaves
$63 sos, 500 OF uncalled SIS still outstand-
ing OF the called bonds there is outstand-
ing 81, ,O75 $50. The United States Trea-
surer has already issued checks to pay the
January interest on the registered per
cent loan amounting to $4,5OO,OOO. He
will tomorrow issue checks in payment OF
the balance of this interest amounting to
about SIS. 100000.
Checks in payment of the Pacific Rail
road interest will probably be issued to-
morrow also, amounting TO S1,SO0,UVO.
The amount of registered interest already
paid with rebate ulder the circular of No
vember 10. is $1S9,OOO.
Gen. Mcmahon. nf New York. and Major
Thomas E. Sloan, of the Old Guard, called |
upon the President to-day and invited him |
to be present at the Old Guard ball, to be |
held in the New York Metropolitan Opera |
House the evening of January I'd. The |
President acknowledged the courtesy. and |
accepted the invitation conditioned on his |
being able to leave his public duties.
Senator Dolph to-day offered an amend |
ment to the Sundry Civil Bill, appropria- |
ting $35. 900 for the custom house. building |
at Portland, Oregon.
A general army order was issued to-day. |
adding Southern California to the Depart. |
ment of Arizona, under the command OF
Gen. Nelson A. Miles, and removing his |
headquarters from Prescott, Arizona, to !
Los Angeles.
Rlddled with Bullets,
LITTLE Rock, December 17.-Factor
Jones and Dick Bullock, two OF the negroes
who. a few days ago murdered George
Taafe, in the Choctaw Nation, because he
discovered them killing his cattle and were