Pullman herald. [volume] (Pullman, W.T. [Wash.]) 1888-1989, 1888-12-15
CONGRESSIONAL.
ITEMS OF INTEREST THROUGHOUT THE
NORTHWEST.

"A railway pOstot1ce service has been
established on the lineof the Northern
Pacific and Puget Sound Shore rail-
roads, between Seattle at Tacoma, w.
T.
The following fourth-class postmas-
ters have been commissioned: At
Eola, Or, Sylvester Wilson; At Jewell,
Or, Charles A. Bottom; and at Rip
aria, w. T., Henry Carstens.
The pension department has granted
a pension to Elizabeth Quinn, of Can
yonville, Or. Her husband was a SOL
der in the Mexican war.
Representative Hermann has secured
a pension and considerable back pay
for Christopher Lehman, an old sol
dier of Douglas county, Or, who was
wounded in the civil war.
Daniel w. Barker has been ap-
pointed postmaster at Cherryville,
Clackamas county, Oregon, in place
of William L. Young, who has been
removed.
Isaac N. Sargent, postmaster at
Mitchell, Crook, county, Or, has re-
signed, and James II. Oakes has been
appointed in his place.
The following resident OF Oregon
has been granted pension Mexican
survivor, Henry Fillery, Perrydale.
An increase of pension has been
granted to John Stock, Baker city.
Secretary Villas has informed Sen.
ator Mitchell that he has just arranged
to complete the allotment of the lands
of the Umatilla reservation, in accord
ance with the terms of the act passed
at the last session of congress.
Patents have been granted as fol
lows: Oregon-John S. George, New
port, gold separating apparatus. New
ada--Sands Worman, Gold Hill,
bicycle and wheel (two patents).
Idaho-Charles Smith, Pocatello,
locomotive boiler.
The house committee on river and
harbor improvements held an in
formal meeting, and it was agreed to
prepare bill at once. The prospect,
however, of river and harbor bill be-
ing signed by the president, is so dis
NAL that it requires much effort to get
either branch of congress to enter
heartily into the work of preparing one.
The attorney general has decided
that the secretary of the interior has
no authority of law to permit the
Washington & Idaho Railroad Com
pany to construct, under the act of
May Is, 1888, a railroad through the
Occur d'Alene Indian reservation in
Idaho territory, in advance Of the as
certainment, fixing and actual pay
ment of the compensation provided
for in the act.
In the senate Senator Mitchell in
troduced q resolution, which was
agreed to, directing the secretary Of
the treasury to transmit to the senate
copies of the settlement between the
United States and Oregon, on account
of the sum OF $70,268 appropriated by
congress to pay the Modoc war claims /;
also statement of the 8 per cent.
claims on account of cash sales of
public lands.
Commodore Stockton, who, with
Capt. Dahan and Commodore Hester,
constitute the board appointed by the
secretary of the navy to select site
for a navy yard on the Northwest
coast, stated that the board would
probably start within the next ten
DAYS to examine the Pacific coast for
that purpose. The coast of Oregon
and Washington territory will be thor
oushly examined for an eligible loca-
ton. The site selected will probably
be on Puget Sound, or thereabouts.
The fish commission has written to
Senator Dolph that he proposes to
take up and ship, in January next. a
carload of Holsters and white fish to
the coast of Oregon. The car will be
dispatched from Woods Holl, with a
number of mature Holsters, sufficient
to establish several colonies st quit
able points on the coast OF Oregon
and Washington territory. At North
vile station some seven or eight mil
lions of white fish eggs will be taken
on and Matched en- route. The white
fish viii be planted in Wyoming and
Dakota, as well as in Oregon.
Commenting upon prospective work
for Oregon, Representative Hermann
says that his attention will be chiefly
confined to measures introduced in the
last session of congress, and still pend
as unfinished business. The chief of
these which remain pending is the In
pdian depreciation bill, providing for a
final adjustment of spoliation claims.
This passed the house and is now be-
fore the senate, where it was not con-
sidered at the close of the last session.
Then come bills for light house and
life saving stations at the mouths OF
the Suislaw and Ooquille rivers, pub
lie building bills for Portland and
appropriation of arms for the Oregon
militia, which passed through the
house last session, but which was not
then considered by the senate; bill
forfeiting the Northern Pacific railroad
land grant between Wallula and Port
land, which passed the house and is
now in conference between the two
houses; wagon road land forfeiture
bills; pensions to Oregon Indian war
survivors; and the Indian war debt.
The project for boat railway on the
Columbia river at The Dalles may be