The Osceola times., 1888-01-28
IN BRIEF.
Compiled from Various Sources.
>uuvcHEssroNaL TRocEEprNGs.


CUNcREssTONAL IROCEEDINGs.
m the Senate. on the i7th. bills relating 10
permissible printing or writing on second, third
or fourth-class mail matter. granting certain
lands N Colorado for water reservoirs; author
izing the construction OF railroad bridge
across the Ouachiia river IN Arkansas, and re-
iating 10 marriages between white men and In
dian women, were passed. The Blair bill was
also discussed. The Presidents message on
thess Pacific railroad reports was re-
ceivon and laid over. :. In tho House Samuel
S. Coz. Of New York, was elected Speaker pro
scm, during the Illness of Speaker Carlisle.
Nearly the entire day was taken up with fill-
buste ring ts>s'cs on the part OF the Opponents
" he bRi providing Tor the issue Of circulating
notes 20 National banks, and adjournment
was taken before any thing was done.
IN the Senate, on the 18th, the bill for refund
Ing the direct tax of 1851 was passed, after
numerous amendments were defeated. by q
vote Of Is TO lo...... In the House Mr. stone, OF
gAissoari, from the committee on public lands,
reported Q resolution calling upon the
Secretary Of the Interior for Information
ss 70 what legislation is necessary. for
the disposal Of the public timber lands
90 rs to secure at the samo time tho pre-
scrvation Of the natural forest lands at
the,headwaters Of navigsble streams and put
within reach OF settlers legal means OF pro-
yiding themselves with timber for building
purposes. Tnc bill making appropriation to
carry into effect the provisions of the Agri-
cultural Exper riment Stations act was passed.
~ the Senate on the 10th, Senator Hoar In
troduced bill providing for q service pension
70 al SURVIVORS of the unionarmies ip the lats
war Mostof the day was spent in executive
session, considering the calendar Of treates.,
Tho House accepted the invitation 10 par
ticipate in the Melbourne Exposition. Portraits
OF Theodore Sedgwich, Jos. u. vatnum and Ma
thaniel p. Banks, ciuzeas Of Massachusetts,
who have h}ed tho spe alser' ychalri we re pror
sented 10 The House, Tho willsins BANK biii
was filibustered out
Tvs Senate wus not IN session on the eoth -.
In the House Mr., Springer of Illinois, ex.
piened rertain charges made iagainsthi N by
ME- Kelley of Pennsylvania relative 10 tho
appropriation for the Philadelphia centennial
celebration. The report Of the elections COM
p1ftteo on the Thoehe-Carlisie contest was then
vskeu m and carried over, quorum not voting
on the adoption of the report ~. = ~
TIE Senate was not In session on the 2ist
.-,.,in the House NJ. Crisp, OF Georgin called
up the contested ELECTION case OF Tbeobe
against Carlisle, the pending question being on
the resolution OF the minority of the commit
tee on elections confirming Mr.. Carlisles title
! TO his seaf The vetc cn the resolution dis. !
= closed 20 enornu, 2 theie ease vent oyer, and I
the House sdieurne& Y Tk'
RERsONAL AND POLITICAIx
FoR inc,tine tenSpts9 to rcsis bafliHs
Mr.. W. Lane, member of Parliament l
for the Eastern division rof Cork Couuty,
helas6. has been ssAtsuced 70 a months
imprisonment without labor. (. A
THrnccident to Mrs. John A.Logan, n,says
the New York 7rttune, by which she was
thrown from a carriage, has left lasting
results. Her friends are informed by let.
ters that she bns severe pain ALMOST cob.
stnntly in the Injured shoulder. MIRA,
Logan is saidto fMvc grown old ppidly3
since the Generaps death, aud 70 havoc
lost much Of her old-timo vIvacity and
epergy. = efe.aatf ia ~
OK the17th Jacob Sharpe swore that ho
expects to die soon, and that he wants to
ssttle up -eA his earthly affairs without
delay in order that he may die In peace.
The suit in which he made this melan-
choly affldavlt Is one brought against
him to recov~ an unpaid bill for wire
fenos. o.. -sa~ r. k
Y on the 10Th Bal four was ahootcd ana
called q liar by the populace Of Dublin.
i OK the 19th Representa- i've Belmont,
chairman OF the House committee on for
ei1n Affairs said that he did not believe
fish would be put on the froelist in any
tariff bill 10 be introduced at the present
session OF Congress. and that certainly
apy proposition TO admit fish free, or TO
reduce the duty upon it. would bo unfavQr-
ably regarded by the foreign airalrs'eorn-
On the 10th a number OF gentemeu,
headed by Senator Beck aud Represents
ntiye Butterworth, called ON tho Presi-
dent TO invite him to open the Centennial
Exposition Of the Ohio Valley at Cincin-
pati next summer. Mr. Gooaale, the
president of the Cincinnati Chamber of
Commerce. presented the matter, aud in
reply the President said that he would 20
: unless public duties which he conll not
neglect should prevent. e.
THS project of police at st. Petersburg,
General dresser, states that the police are
convinced that there has been no organ.
lied plot against the Cars life recently.
But no police in the world, he says, can
prevent attempts of individual dssper-
ADDE'S to kill the Gar.
THE newly-appointed Minister TO MeM-
co, General Bragg, is IN daily consulta-
tion with the principal officers ofxthe
State Department in reference to his
duties. There are now pending large
number OF diplomatic questions between
the United States and Mexico, which re.
quire careful treatment. Among these
IL the demand recently renewed by Sec.
retary Bayard that Mexico must renounce
the claim TO extra territorial jurisdic ton
which is made in the Cutting and other
: '|AssisrASr' SECRETARY MUI.Dnow has
been relieved by Secretary Vnas OF tho
care Of land decisions. Mr.. Villas has
taken this class of work under his own
In Russia Lord Randolph Churchill is
being iioniZed by the royalty the nobility
and the aristocracy. o .-ar -.- - .
-IE the Kentucky Legislature bill has
been introduced practically prohibiting
marriage with any man whose morelsare
not of the purest.
Dox C,Rtps SAYS he wants Spain to be.
toms n gfeat nation, and -sayshe isa via
Ing TO fight to make her such.
ON the 2oth Lieutenant Thies, Quarter.
master Third infantry, died Tat Fort Shaw,
Mont, Of erysipelas, after an Illness OF
lut a few days, Heentered the service as
. rritate IN 1864 ~ r. t-AtA
OK the night of the Goth John p. Rea,
Commar der-in- Chiefsof the G. A. r.;
Adjutar t-Genersi Fish, of Minneapolis,
aud Quartermas ter-General John Taylor,
OF Philsdelphia, were rendered recep-
tion by Lafayette Post g. A. II. in New
York.
On the Goth Mr.. William o'Brien, ed itor
of Uhifsd ireland, was released from
Tullamore prison. A number OF otler
similal1 l1Difenders were sent to jail during
NE day.
! ZEE supreme chancellor OF the World.
Kn1She u Pythias, Mr.. Howmd Doug
ttaA states that the necessary funis hase
been secured for the entertninment'ef tho