Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1891-12-17

ley; mines and mining, Stewart; naval affairs,
Cameron; executive departments. Hiscock
| patents, Dixon; pensions Davis post offices
and + st roads, Sawyer; printing, Henderson;
| private land claims, not yet chosen; privileges
and elections Teller; public build.
ings and grounds Stanford; pub
lie lands, Plumb; railroads, Carey
revision OF laws Wilson; revolutionary
claims, not yet chosen, will be democrat;
rules, Aldrich; territories, Plat; transporta-
tion routes to the seaboard Squire; woman
suffrage, not yet chosen will be a democrat;
relations with Canada, Allen; Indian depreda-
lions, Shoup; Quadri-CentenniaL Pettigr ew
Caucus Report Adopted.
WASHINGTON, Dee. 16.-The repub-
lican senatorial caucus has approved
the report of the committee charged
with the arrangement f committee
membership and the democratic man
ayers have been furnished with the
list as adopted. Some assignments
yet remain to be fundamentally in the
case of Senator Kyle, the alliance SEN
ator-but the caucus committee was
authorized to arrange them after per-
sonal consultation with the senators
concerned.
Senate Proceedings.
WASHINGTON, Dec 16-In the senate
the vice presi ent announced the APP
pointment of Senator Morrill, (Vt. re-
gent of the Smithsonian institution, to
fill vacancy. Among the bills intro
duced and referred were the following:
For the purchase of site for a build
ing for the supreme court of the
United States; for a bronze statue of
Christopher Column bus in Washington
and the removal of the naval monu-
ment to new site; to promote and en-
courage the display of the flags of the
United States; for the survey and sale
of islands in the Plate river, Neb.
At 1905 the senate adjourned.
ton for an inquiry as to the feasibility
of purchasing the states of Sonora,
Chihuahua and Coahuila, Mexico. SEN
ator Cullom Ull.) introduced bills to
amend the interstate commerce law
and to provide for the adoption of some
kind of automatic car-coupler for
freight trains. Senator Hoar Mass
spoke of the necessity for congression-
al action on this car-coupler question.
Futures and Options.
Senator Washburn (Minn. introduced
in the senate Monday a bill defining
futures" and options" and imposing
special taxes on dealers therein. The
articles included in the bill in the two
terms are wheat, corn, oats, rye, bar
ley, cotton and all other farm products;
also pork, lard and all other hog prod
ucts. The bill provides that dealers
in futures and options therein shall pay
annually a tax of 81, 600 and the fur
Their sum of five cents a pound on cot
ton and hog products and twenty cents
bushel on any of the other articles
mention ed.
To settle Boundary Dispute.
WASHINGTON, Dec. 1G-The state Of
Maryland mas been given leave by the
United States supreme court to file a
bill in chancery against the state Of
West Virginia, to settle the question
raised by Maryland that its jurisdic-
ton extends to the south branch OF the
Potomac. several miles south of the
present generally accepted boundary.
Woods Likely to Be Appointed.
WASHINGTON, Dec. 16.-The appoint
ment of Judge Woods, Of indianapolis,
20 be judge of the Indiana circuit of
the United States court, embracing IL