The Bottineau pioneer. (Bottineau, N.D.) 1885-1895, 1889-04-11
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One step has been made in the direction of
the appointment OF the Sioux Indian COM
mission. The instructions to the commits
sioners have been drawn, approved by the
indian bureau and sent to the secretary for
his signature. 1t is SAID they do not con-
template the pictorial red and blue nonsense
OF the last commissions papers, but advise
the commissioners carefully OF the practical
way to go to work to induce the Indians to
sign the agreement.
Pension Commissioner Tanner issued an
order reciting that the act of congress ap-
proved March l, 1880, provides that whom
ever q pension certificate of any character,
original, increase, restoration, arrears or
otherwise, shall have been issued by the pen.
sion bureau and the beneficiary mentioned
therein is found to have died before pay
ment, the amount on the certificate to
the date of the pensioners death will be
paid to the widow Of the pensioner. 1t there
be no widow, then it is to- be paid to the
minor child or children of the deceased PEN
sioner. If there be neither widow now minor
children, then the amount will, in the discre-
ton of the secretary Of the interior, be paid
to the executor or administrator OF his es-
tate.
The president sent the following nom:na-
tons to the senate on Monday. James N.
Huston Of Indiana treasurer of the United
States; Ellis H.. Roberts of New York. as
.,sistant treasurer at New York; William F.
Wharton of Massachusetts, assistant secre-
tary OF state; George II. Shields Of Missouri,
assistant attorney general, vice Rich Mont
gomery, resigned; Maj. Charles s. Byrne,
surgeon. to be lieutenant colonel and sur
geon; Capt. Curtice +. Mum, assistant
surgeon. to be major and surgeons: Capt.
George B. White, U. S. N, chief of the bureau
of yards and docks in the department of the
navy, to fill n vacancy; L. Bradford Prince,
New Mexico, governor of New Mexico; Louis
A.. Walker of Helena, Mont, secretary of
Montana to be agent Tor Indians at the
For Peck agency in Montana.
In the supreme court at Washington the
chief justice rendered q decision Diminishing
Adams against the board of county com
m~issioners of Brown county, Oak. This is
the case in which Adams sought to restrain
the transfer OF the county seat fro IN Column
bia to Aberdeen. Adams claimed that the
special election by which the country voted
to change the seat was held under an act Of
the legislature which was void under the
terms of an act Of congress approved. July
20, 1888 6, which forbids territorial legisla-
lures enacting special legislation for various
cases, among them the removal Of county
seats. Adams won his case in the lower
court. md on all appeal being taken to the
supreme court, pleaded want Of jurisdiction
because, as required by the statue of March
3, 1855. governing appeals to the supreme
court, the validity Of a United States statute
WINS not called in question. The court too
this view of the case and dismissed the ap-
peal.
Chief Clerk Hassler, Of the appointment OF.
fee of the interior department, leaves Wash
ington in company with ex-Gov. Bulkley of
Connecticut, for Dakota, where they will go
into business with tho working members Of
the Forest City Land Improvement COM
pany. The company has bought $40 acres
of land within the city limits of Forest City,
md they will proceed to extend that town
md boom it's interests. The company will
Also build the bridge across the Missouri au-
thorized by the last congress for the Forest
City, Watartown Il Dakota railroad. The
Dad will cross the res ervation to Deadwood
as 500 as the reservation is opened. This
road will really take the place Of the North
western line which has been surveyed from
Pierre, and it is said that the line will not be
built. The parties interested besides Capt.
Hassler are ex-Gov. Buckley of Connecticut.
capt. X. W. Smart of Portland, Me-. r.. M.
Springer and a lot ofChicago men of wealth.
Capt. Hassler will lave the general manage
ment of the business.
OF the $50 nominations sent to the senate
during the special session by President Har-
rison the following were rejected: Murat Hal
stead to be minister to Germany: 1sadore s.
Lowenthal to be postmaster at Modesto,
Cal. The following remain Enacted upon
land therefore died) at the end ofthe session:
William H. Whiteman to b. associate JUS
tice Of the territory of New Mexico; Edwin 1.
kursheed to be marshal for the eastern dis
trict of Louisiana. Postmasters: Kittel o.
WaIders, at Minot, N. D.; Carl Z. Crippen,
at Eustis, Fla; Burt G, Drake, at Gainsville,
Fla; Robert F. Bebout, at Rushville, Ind;
George E.. Nicholson, at Ness City, Kan;
Eamuel C. Moore, at FindIey, Ohio. Presi-
dent H%nrrison's nominations were contained
in 2S4 messages. During the special session
of the senate at the beginning OF President
Cleveland's term he sent to the capitol 41S
messages. eighteen of his nominations failed
to receive confirmation, and there was no
reflections. At the last session of congress
during the administration of President
Hayes, the senate failed to act on LOG of his
nominations and rejected three, This.record
has never been equalled.