Charlotte messenger. [volume] (Charlotte, Mecklenburg Co., N.C.) 1882-18??, 1888-04-21
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What our Busy Law Makers are Doing.
Congressional and Other News.

What our Busy Law Makers are Doing.
Congressional and Other News.
The President has nominated Thomas
T. 7. Tunstall, of Mobile, Ala, to be
United States consul at San Salvador.
The house which was purchased in
Washington for the widow of General
Hancock has been presented to her by
the chairman of the committee, Stilson
Hutchins. 1t is afour-story brown stone
structure.
The Comptroller oil Currency has de-
clared the first and final dividend of one
hundred per cent and interest in full,
payable on and after the 18th instant, in
favor of the creditors of the Metropoi-
tan National Bank, of Cincinnati, o.
The President has appointed Fred
erick r. Coudert, of New York; Frank
lin MacVeigh, of Illinois; Alex G. Has
i kell, of South Carolina; NJ. A. Hanna,
of Ohio, and James W. Savage, of Ne
braska. as government directors of the
Union Pacific Railway Company.
By unanimous vote the House com
mittee on Elections decided the contested
election case of Nathan Frank VS.. John
NJ. Glover, in the Ninth Missouri dis
trict, in favor of Mr. Glover, the sitting
member. The two Republican members
of the committee were absent from the
meetingt
Senator Hampton, while out horse
back riding few pays ago. met with an
accident which has confined him to his
apartment ever since. The horse stumbled
and fell, the Senator breaking his arti-
fetal leg and bruising his hand in the
fall. His injuries are by no means seri-
GUS, and he expects to be out again in a
few days.
The secretary of the Washington Asso-
citation of the Alumni of the University
Of Virginia has received dispatches from
New York, New Orleans, Galveston, St.
Louis and San Francisco stating that
large and enthusiastic meetings of the
Alumni in those places were held Friday
to celebrate the anniversary of the birth
day of Thomas Jefferson.
The Secretary of the Treasury has APP
pointed Postmaster Mowry disbursing
agent for the new public building at
Charleston, S. G. The compensation,
which is 3-S of per cent of the amount
disbursed, was so small that no desirable
person could be found who was willing
i to accept the designation, consequently
Mr. Mowry was selected to discharge the
duties in connection with the postmaster
ship.
The weather-crop bulletin. issueo by
the signal offices, says: The weather for
the week has been favorable for growing
crops in all agricultural districts. Re-
ports from the Southern States show that
the week was favorable for cotton and
cane, and that small grain crops have
been affected favorably. The season is
probably ten days advanced in the Mid
die Atlantic States, and from fifteen to
twenty days late in the Northwest, where
seeding is progressing slowly.
The House committee on the Merchant
Marine authorized favorable report on
the Dunn DILL making it lawful for citi-
zens of the United States to buy vessels
built in whole or in part in any foreign
country, import them free of duty or
other charges and have them registered
as vessels of the United States, and to be
entitled to all the rights and subject only
to the same regulations as vessels built
wholly within the United States. 1t
provides further that all or any part of
the materials necessary for the construc-
tion and equipment of vessels to be built
and furnished in the United States after
January 1, 1889, may be imported in
bond, and upon proof that such mate
rials have been used for such purpose,
no duties shall be collected or paid
thereon.