Los Angeles daily herald., 1889-03-24
Nominations to Office Being
Sent in.
CUSTOMS CONCESSIONS MADE
The Late Attorney-General Charged
With Wantonly Prosecuting
Nevada Miners.
Associated Press Dispatches to the HERALD

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silence of the previous two days.
ADDITIONAL NOMINATIONS.
The President sent the following nom-
nations to the Senate to-day: James
Tanner, of Brooklyn, n. Y, to be Com
missioner of Pensions; James M. Shack
elford, of Indiana, to be Judge of the
United States Court for Indiana; Zacha-
riah L. Warend, of Kansas, to be Attor-
ney of the United States Court for In
dian Territory; Walter L. Corbett, OF
Georgia, to be Marshal of the Southern
District of Georgia; Edwin Willets. of
Michigan, to be Assistant Secretary OF
Agriculture.
Also Commodore David B. Harmony |
TO be Rear Admiral; Capt. Francis M.
Ramsay to be Captain: Lieutenant Com
mander R. B. Bradford to be Com
mander; Lieutenant +. II. @. Leutze to |
be Lieutenant Commander; Lieutenant
Charles NJ. Mccartney, in grade, to be
Lieutenant.
In the Treasury Department, to be
Collectors of Customs Charles NJ. Brad |
shaw, of Washington Territory for the
District of Puget Sound in Oregon and
Washington Territory; Albert A. Bur-
leigh, OF Maine, for the district Of Aroo.
stock, Maine; James w. Wakefield, OF
Maine, for district of Bath, Maine;
Charles G. Edwards, OF Minnesota, for
district of Minnesota; G. W. Mcbride, of
Michigan. for district of Michigan.
SENATE PROCEEDINGS.
WASHINGTON. March 23.-In the Senate
Stewart. from the Committee on Mines
and Mining, made report in regard to
timber depredations in Nevada, which
was laid on the table. Mitchell offered
a resolution (Which went over authoriz-
ing the Committee on Mines and Mining
to continue the inquiry into the causes OF
delay in considering the contested cases
in the mineral division of the Land
Office.
THE ATTORNEY. G ENERAL sNUBBED.
By resolutions of the Senate dated
January 9TH last, the Committee on
Mines and Mining was instructed to as
certain all the facts and circumstances
connected with the bringing of certain
suits by the United States against persons
for cutting timber for mining and do
mestic purposes in Nevada, and to in
quire if such suits have cause
any interruption in mining operations
in that State. In accordance with
this resolution, Senator Stewart sub
mitted a report to the Senate to-day OF
the inquiry by the committee into the
subject. The report says that since 1S49
miners have made their own rules and
regulations limiting the extent of mining
claims, governing the right of possession
and regulating the use of lumber and
water for mining purposes: the legality
of these rules and regulations was
affirmed by decision of the courts. The
practice of cutting timber was continued,
says the report, until 1877, when Secre-
tary Schurz caused prosecutions to be
instituted against the miners in some
of the Territories for cutting timber. |
The matter was brought to the attention |
of Congress and, on June 3, 1887, an act
was passed authorizing miners in the |
mining districts of the United States to |
fell and remove timber for mining and |
domestic purposes. The miners, the re-
port says, treated this act as settlement
of the question, and we're not interfered |
with again for some time. In April, |
1887, the District Attorney of Nevada ad. |
vised the prosecution of miners in that |
State for using scrubby timber for min
ing and domestic purposes. Later, the |
Department of the Interior sent special |
agent to the State, who was authorized |
to make thorough investigation of the
alleged cutting. The special agent ad- |
vised the institution of three suits for |
timber trespass. The department. SUBJ
sequently authorized those to be insti-
tuted. These suits, and seven others, |
were brought in December last, and, as
a result, the two principal mines in
Eureka closed down. The conclusion of |
the committee is that the suits brought |
by the United States had been a great |
obstruction to the mining industry in
Eastern Nevada; that they are needless
and vexatious, and that the Attorney
General, in authorizing three of the suits,
must have done 30 under misappre-
hension of the facts.
Sundry messages in writing were re-
ceived from the President, and the SEN
ate Immediately went into executive
session to act upon them.
The Senate at 40 p. M. adjourned till |
o'clock Tuesday.
NOMINATIONS CONFIRMED.
The Senate to-day, in executive ses-
sion, confirmed the following nomina-
lions: Andrew G. Bradley, Associate
Justice of the Supreme Court, District OF
Columbia, Fred d. Grant, Minister to
Austria Hungary; Frank r. Aikens, AS
sociate Justice, Supreme Court of Dako-
ia John r. McFee, Associate Justice.
Supreme Court of New Mexico; Henry
w. Blake, Chief Justice, Supreme Court
of Montana John D. Fleming, District
Attorney of Colorado; Miles G. Moore,
Governor of Washington Territory; Oil
yer @. White, Secretary of Washington
Territory Edwin W. Willitts, Assistant
of Agriculture; Whitelaw Reid, {
Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plen- '
potentiary to France; Nathan o. MUIR {
ohy, Secretary of Arizona; Julius Gold !
Consul General at Vienna, and t
number of postmasters, among them l
William E. Culver, Las Animas, Cali
ornia.
TO BE EXEMPTED FROM DUTY.
Secretary Window has issued the fol-
owing instructions to customs officers in !
egard to the Paris Exposition: Manu-. q
actured articles or wares produced or &
in the United States. n
,hich may be sent to the Paris Exposi. r
on of 1889 for exhibition, will, upon n
heir return to the United States, be ad- i
lifted to free entry upon compliance n
18th the following requirements that is f
} say, shippers at the time and port of
xportation shall file at the custom house
manifest, showing the marks and num-
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