The weekly Elko independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 1872-1887, 1886-05-02
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message upon the labor tzou6ies b ,vins
been read BY the Clerk. il Was rvfeIpd
to the Committee on Labor.
AdSices Of the 2Iih are as follows:
The Senate has confirmed the nomi-
nation of Samuel II. wasvner. Post
uaster at Ssa Jose. California
Notice o. the continuation of General
Ro.s,r4us to be Register OF the Treas
airy has not yet reached the President.
UTon inquiry. il is learned that the
noniinati Ii is Eli | hung up in the S<u.
ate upOuA nOti n To lie. on~d-r the vote
oy %hich Rosrcrans vs. = few days ago
confirmed.
Tue Committee on Education ad-
iuurnsd until the third Friday in u ~.
and consequently action pa the Blair
Dill Is deferred until then.
The Senate Committee on Arpropri-
atiouS finished the consideration of the
pos;offee appropriation bill AMI Sena-
tor Plumb will report it MondLy.
The Conference Committee OF the
two Houses upon the Indian appEopIi-
atom I'LL have reeoncIlr,l theIE slight
| Offence Of opinion. ami n LllI will be-
reported to the t~o Houses at oacv.
rhe chief issue was in respect to the
increase made by the S-nat= IL the pro-
I ,s,.,, g. I,.ls., .-b.,f-
Civil Engineer Robert Z. Perry. L.
s. ". has been gran eileave o! nh>euc-
for a year for the purpose Of eNpio ing
the interior of Greenland. he will
leave 81 Johns early IN Nay Tor Disco
and be accompaai,d by three men.
Orders have beeu issued from the
Treasury Department for the fitting out
OF the reyeu e steamer Bear" at san
| Francisco, ( r a cruise 10 Alaska. She
is t. proceed as far North as possible
aud make a thorough search for the
crew Of the wrecked Whairr Am
ethyst."
Commodore Russell. Commanding
Mare Island Navy Iari. California.
will probably be ordered at an early
day u coumaud the Sou Ii Atlalt.c
squadron 10 succeed Rear Admiral Eu-
glish, retired. II is thought Commo-
dore Beiknap. at present Superiutend-
ent OF the Naval Observatory, Will lie
ordered TO succeed the Commodore III
command at Mare Island Navy YaId.
The Senate Committee on Public
Lands has ordered Il favorable report
on the House bill TO forfeit the graft of
ia. Atlantis 4 PA-iic Railroad Com
pany, and has amended the bill so AS to
exempt from forfeiture the right to take
material for construction from the pub
lie lands. and the night to grounds for
the "ompany's machine shops and 9TH
er building.
During the first nine months of the
present fiscal year ending June -.
1856, there was an increase of over 81
OOC, o, u in the OF the Govern
meat Is compared with the correspond
ing period Of last year. and the evPenl-
iturrs for the first nine months of this
year were over SIG, OOO. 900 less han
tls expenditure, for tas sane pe.iDl #
las: year, making a net gain OF over
S23. zoo, 900.
G~overnonor West called uPon the
President AMI conferred ut length with
him on the Mormon question. The new
Governor also paid Lis respects to n
humber of officials prior TO his depart
uTe for his new post Of duty. Nothing
can be stated a. to the probable policy
OF the new Govvvcrnor.
Stephen d. White to-day applied for
. mandan.uS un Secretary BayHrd. to
compel him t. pay to the ~rrl"tor as as
siSuec, tue tenth ins;nlIment Of an
award made by the Mexican Claims
Commission, amounting TO about $780,
90.
In conversation on the Pr sideni's
Message. Could said: IL would prefer
10 haze u Commission like the one IN III
Gated Ivy the President to any other
pau that has been suggested for n > =
ticmcni o the questions arising bet, en-
lnborcrs nnl th.i, employ, RS"
The fourth days session Of the House
Committee uu the Lnl or Difficulties IN
the Southwest was % encd 1T IL II. M,
by the examination of FIR, derrick 5. 1ur.
ner, General Seer ary and TreAsur.ro Of
The Knights OF Labor.
being questioned on the subj ct OF
arbitrut'on, Turner said he had read the
Presidents Message on TINT point to-
day aud ~thoroughlv agreed with it. He
believed tn, re should be some fixed tri-
Luunl Of arbitration.
The committee. after hearing Mr..
farmer, closed it, sitting in Washington
aud nrrargcd TINT the members should
leave this city for St. Louis on Monday
morning.
The Cleveland Dny is n breed Of hor-