Idaho semi-weekly world. [volume] (Idaho City, Idaho Territory) 1875-1908, 1889-03-19
FROM THE CAPITOL.
THE ALASKA oUTRAGEs DENIED BY
GOVERNOR SwINEFORD.
An Agreement on the General Lana Bill
"A Measure for the Suppression
ofthe Green Goods Fraud
Retiring Officials.

will practice law
The direct tax bill was passed over the
Presidents veto late Saturday night
The bill for the admission OF Idaho and
has been favorably reported.
Lieutenant l.. p. Jouett has been dis
missed from the navy with one years pay.
The bill establishing life-saving sta
ton at Coquille river, has passed the SEN
ate.
An appropriation OF $l75, 900 for repairs
on the old flagship Hartford has been
made.
The proposition to admit Utah as a
State has been favorably reported to the
House.
The pension of the widow Of General
Kilnatrick has been reduced to $75 per
month.
The inaugural ceremonies were the
most imposing ever witnessed az the
Capitol.
The appropriation for the Agricultural
has been agreed TO by the
Senate.
Postmaster-G General Dickinson will re-
sumo the practice of law in Michigan, and
Secretary Villas will do the same IN WIS
consin.
Ex-President Cleveland during his en-
tire term of office never entered depart
ment building.
The Senate bill to provide for the better
protection to the salmon fisheries in Alas
ka has been passed.
Within ten years, according to Senator
Hale, the United States will have the
best navy in the world.
1t is semi-officially announced that Sir
Julien Pauncefote will be appointed Brit
ish minister at Washington.
General Harrison was sworn into office
on the old bible that he carried in his
saddlebags through the war.
Stephen Grover Cleveland is the ex-
Presidents full name. In late years the
first name has been dropped.
The bill appropriating $50, 900 for a
lighthouse at Heald's head, Oregon, has
passed both houses of Congress.
The new silver vault in the treasury is
now filled to its utmost capacity, $o6,O0O,'
900, weighing over $4,000 tons.
A resolution has passed the Senate il
regard to the examination of the Oregon
California and Nevada war claims.
The bill to prohibit the use of the
mails for the "green goods " or sawdus'
game has been favorably reported in thu
Senate.
The only negro in the next House o
Representatives will be II. ?. Cheatham
from the Second North Carolina district
He is thirty-two years old.
The State department has notified the
| German government that its demand TO
the prosecution of Klein for participation
in the Samoan affair, cannot be compiled
with.
An amendment to the postoffice appro
priation bill provides that the rent of al
postoffices of the third-class shall not ex
coed 5000, and fuel and lights $50 pei an
mum.
Senator Dolph has presented to tn
Senate petition from citizens of Oregon
praying against the passage by Congress
of any bill for the suspension of work o.
Sunday.
The Arizona legislature has memora'
lied Congress again to take action on tn
desert land law, and also asking an email
ling act, SO that constitutional CONVEX
ton can be called this fall.
Four years ago Cleveland, Democrat
was sworn in by Republican Chief Jus
tice. President Harrison, Republican
had the oath of office administered t
him Monday by Democrat.
Senator Stanford has introduced hi
amendment to the army appropriate
bill authorizing the Secretary of War I
purchase four pneumatic dynamite gun
for the harbor of San Francisco. TIL
cost will be $250,000.
The Senate amendment appropriatin
81, 1872, 900 to pay the Seminole Indian
for lands in the Indian Territory coded I
the United States was agreed to. TIL
lands acquired, 2,037 900 acres, are mad
open to settlement under the homestea
law.
The conferrees on the general land bi
reached an agreement, which provide
for the repeal OF the presumption an
timber culture laws, modification of tn
desert land law, and the substitution of
general and effective law to protect actu;
settlers upon the public domain.
N. H. Patrick, of Cottage Point, Lon
| LII, 4 :.l II Y
partment to furnish three controllab
automatic torpedoes of the Patrick paten
at cost of $50 900. Each torpedo is t
carry 400 pounds of dynamite, and is t
run statute mile at the rate of twent
knots an hour.
Col. Lamont, President Cleveland
private secretary, has refused to aceel
the increase of salary recently provide
by Congress, upon the ground that h
preferred not to be BENEFICIARY i
retroactive legislation" and that he Wa
well aware of the salary attached to til
office before he accepted it.
The Secretary of the Interior has FINAL
approved the lands remaining in what
known as list No. 5, and found, aftt
careful examination, to be swamp land
and amounting to about IL 900 acre
The lands are located chiefly in klamath
Lake and Grant counties, Oregon. Tn
list originally embraced over &C, 900 acre
Harvey Spaulding, a Washington clai,
agent, has brought suits for 800 OC
damages in each case against VIM. n
Villas and Don NJ. Dickerson, postmast.
generals during Cleveland's administr,
ton, for forwarding to postmasters of n
third. fourth and fifth classas IL -,