Omaha daily bee., 1888-01-31

OF the land ONCE AZ Nlltcnell l)ak. OOHimo-
dore Bancroft, of Gierardi, to be rear-ad-
miral; Captain William +. fitzhugh, te be
commodore commander; Henry s. Robeson,
to be captain. f -
Pensions Granted Westerners.
WAsHiSGroN, Jan. Especial Telegram
TO the BEE. The following pensions were
issued for Nebraskans to-day:
Mexican war-Ira N. Taft Omaha Orig
inal-Joseph J. Sperry, Fairfield. increased
Joseph p. Smith, York; Clifton Newkirk,
Blair: Isaac Lent, Lincoln.
Pensions for Iowans:
Mexican war-Sophronia, widow of Or
lando Fellan Peterson; John Lynch, Perry.
Original - Hampton II. Jones, Corning;
Charles =. Slaght, Iowa City; William Burk,
Lcmars; William Dodgson,- Floyd; Josiah
Hardy; George j. Dennis, Harvey
vile. IncreaseNelson Burris, Brooklyn;
Stephen Schrum, Charton Morris Burnett
Mt. Vernon Edward Lewis, Mt. Pleasant;
Samuel Brunek, Savannah; Henry o.. Con
ley, Toledo James Mutchler,- Centre Point;
Arthur G. Quingley, Floris; jerome II. Pot
ter, Beacon Washington Davis, Ottumwa:
Charles II. Burlseon, Nashville; John Z.
Swasson, Des Moines Josiah Hughes, Union;
Ames McKeon, Summitville; Charles M.
lerton; Casper j. Reed, ,.Eddyville; John Pen
dergast, Seymour. Rcissue---William o.
Wickham, Iowa Falls; Thomas Lantry, YES
Ia. Reissue and increase-Charlcs Daley,
Keokuk.
Army Orders.
WASHINGTON, Jan. 3O.-[Specal Telegram
to the BEE. Leave of absence from Febru-
ary to March was granted Major Israel o.
Dewey, paymaster.
Captain Frederick II. Eckstein, First in
fantry, now on leave of absence at Brooklyn,
N Y, has been ordered to report by letter
to the superintendent of the recruiting SER
vice at New York. to conduct detachment
of recruits to the department of the Platte.
Major j. Dckey, Eighth infantry, hac been
ordered to report for assignment to post IN
the departm ent of the Platte.
Lieutenant Colonel M. Snyder, Tenth in
fantry, has been ordered TO report for assign
ment to a post in the department of
Colonel Henry Misner Fifteenth infantry,
has been ordered to report for assignment to
u post in the department of the Platte.
Leave of absence for four months has been
granted Second Lieutenant Bertram 7.
Clayton, Eleventh infantry.
Leaves of absence First Lieutenant
| Waller w. X. Fisher, u S. A., one month;
Major. G. H. Whipple, paymaster, fifteen
days from February Il First Lieutenant b.
| A. Byrne, adjutant Sixth in fantry, one
month from February 5, with permission to
apply for an extension
An extension of seven days has been
| granted Captain A. II. Apple.
Among the Committees.
WAsHISGToN, Jan. 30.-The house com
mittee on invalid pensions has agreed to re-
port favorably to house bill granting q
pension of 81, 900 a year to Mrs. Logan, and to
| increase the pension of Mrs. Blair, widow OF
| the late Francis p Blair, ir, to the same
amount. A minority, composed of Matson
Walker and Pidcock, will make an adverse
report.
| house postoffice committee on Representative
| Anderson's bill requiring subsidized railroad
| companies to afford equal facilities to all tele
| graph companies for the prompt and conven
| lent interchange of telegraph business over
| their wires and to maintain and operate their
/ amendment made was the including of sub.
| sdized or aided telegraph companies within
| it's provisions
The house select committee will report fav.
| orably the Grain resolution proposing an
| amendment to the constitution substituting
| the 31st of December for the 4th Of March as
| the commencement and termination of the
term of members of the house, and providing
that congress shall meet the first Monday ir
| january. ......
The subcommittee of the house committee
on public lands, which has been considering
the various propositions to change the lane
laws, completed its labors and will report t.
the full committee next Thursday. Result
ing from its deliberations is bill in lieu o.
all others on the subject The chief pro
visions are: All public lands are to be classi
fled as agricultural, timber, mineral, deser
or reserved No timber land is to be sold
but the timber growing upon it may be dis
posed of to the highest bidder, after adver
tisement, in forty acre tracts, the timber t.
| be removed within six years from the date o
sale. Mineral entries may be made of th
same land, even after the sale of the timber
| but cannot impair the right of the purchase
| Of the timber. Timber land shall not be ap
praised at less than 80 per acre. Th
| president may set apart any frui
lands as public reservations. The deser
| land law is continued in effect, but witt
an amendment requiring entrymen to fiji
| maps exhibiting the mode of contemplate
irrigation and the source of water supply
All laws allowing the pre-emption of publ
lands and all others in conflict with the pre-
visions Of the pr sent bill are repealed, bu
all bona -tide claims initiated before the pas
sage may be perfected All laws relating t
county land warrants, college and other Ian
script remain in force. The homestead la,
is amended so as to allow the heads of fam
| lies and citizens of legal age, or persons wh
| have filed declarations of intention to becom
. | such, to enter Il quarter section or less {
| public lands, but no person who is the pro
| prietor of 100 acres of land, or who quits an
| abandonS his residence on his own land
! reside on public lands in the same state G
territory, shall acquire any right under tt
| homestead law.
: The Measure OF Damages.
WASHINGTON, Jan. 3O--Among the deci
. ions rendered by the supreme court tuda
a was one in the case of the Western Unic
a Telegraph company versus George f. Ha
Q brought here by writ of error to the Uuit,
q States circuit court for the southern distri
:, | of Iowa iuvolvinp the ouaStiOn Of the no
g sibilty of the telegraph company for negle
d and delay in the delivery of kilograms. III
points in this case are we'll l-known. TT