The Forrest City times., 1888-01-14
The House.


 WASHINGTON, D. C.. Jannsry e.-Mr. Baker of Illinois said that he felt con strained to resign his position as a member of the Committee on Claims, adding. however. & sincere expression Of his high appreciation or the per sonnel of that committee. The resig- nation was accepted.
 Mr. Milliken of Maine introduced a bill to take the tax off tobacco and the duty of sugar with rebate or bounty to compensate the producers of cane sugar in Louisiana and the beet and sor orghum sugar in Illinois, Kansas and elsewhere. This will amount to Sl0.- 0O0, 900 and the reduction under the bill will reach nearly S90,000,0O0. The measure was referred to the Committee on Ways and Means.
 The subject of providing clerks for certain minor committees was then taken up and a general debate fol- lowed.
 WASHINGTON NOTES.
 {. The President signed an order direct. ing the removal of the land-oliice from Lake City, to Montrose, Colo.
 Lamar has resigned the secretary Ship of the Interior He will enter on higher and more congenial trust, likely that Of one of the judges of the supreme bench.
 Among the Presidents callers Fri- cay were Representatives Anderson, Lane and Landers, of Illinois, and Breckenridge, of Arkansas.
 Tho Comptroller of the Currency au- thorized tho North Texas National Rank nf naIl.a Taxaa hRpin business with a capital stock oi soOO,- 900.
 The Senate committee on Indian af- fairs listened to arguments in favor of opening that portion of the Sioux In. dian reservation in Dakota, between the White and Cheyenne rivers, 10 set- tlement.
 The Missouri congressman are read ing with great deal Of gies the refer ences in the Eastern papers to the fact that Missouri got more really import ant Chsirmsnships than any other State. New York got six.
 The State department is in receipt of communication from the Belgian minister giving information that space for intending exhibitors can be applied for now, for the Intern stional Univer- sal exposition, to be held at Brussels | next May, under the patronage of the king and government of Belgium, to l be received up to thel5th of March, in- stead of being limited to January b, as originally proposed. Applications may be made directly to Armstrong < 1 Co.,, No. s22 Broadway, New York, | who have been appointed the agents Of the exposition for the United States. | The minister adds that international l juries will be appointed to award di- | plomas. medals and cash prizes, and 1 the sun Of 500. 900 francs will be placed 1 at their disposal for this purpose. All of the protection members of the Massachusetts Congressional delega- tion, accom- panied by MT. Herbert Rad cliffe. Of the Home Market Club of Bos- | ton, called upon Senator Sherman Fri- day in body for the purpose Of urg- | ing him 10 accept an invitation to be l present and to speak at 8 complimcn- tary banquet which the Home Market Club proposes to give him in Boston some time this month or early in Feb ruary. The club is protection organ- ization and is devoted particularly to the interests of wool-growers. Senator Sherman accepted the invitation and l will probably be accompanied to E, E. ton by Representatives Mckinley of | Ohio, and Golf of West Virg mia. The date of the banquet will be fixed in a few days
 Bill Jones, who gained national mo- toriety by trying to shoot Guiteau, the assassin of President Garfield, is in hard lines. He has been pretty steady drir ker for several years, and not long ago an effort was made by a prominent member of the Prohibition party to reform Bill. Several months ago he was appointed a special police man. The other night, however, in co,apany with an old soldier, Jones entered a saloon in the suburbs, got to drinking whiskey, it is charged, and finally became involved in a fight, in which several people were hurt and the avenger also came out of the con fict with a black eye and badly cut face. Jones, when trying to explain the affair, says that the saloon-keeper was to blame. The case will be inves- tigated by the police court.
 The Critic says editorfally: One of the best and most merited assignments made by Speaker Carlisle in the selec- tion of bis com mittees was the ap- pointment of Hon. R. W. Townshend of Illinois to the chairmanship of mill tary affairs. Mir Townshend as a mem Der heretofore of the aDproprla- tions committee-a position fully equal in importance to the head of many other committees-has demonstrated his ability and fidelity to the public interests, and his latest honor may be regarded as a conspicuous proof of the confidence reposed in him. The com mittee on military affairs ranks with the other great committees, having jurisdiction of all the appropriations for the army and the military academy, and MT. Townshend will no doubt ex- ereise the duties of his new trust with the same dilige2ce and discretion that has always characterized his public life.