Democratic Sentinel, Volume 8, Number 4, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 22 February 1884 — WASHINGTON. [ARTICLE]

WASHINGTON.

A Washington dispatch says the House Committee on Public Lands will report a bill forfeiting the land grantsof the Houghton and Ontonagon, the Marquette and State Line, the Brule River, and the Ontonagon Railroads, comprising about 200,000 acres in Michigan. President Arthur has ordered the promotion of Lieut. Rhodes, of the revenue cutter Dexter, for heroic work at the wreck of the steamer City of Columbus. The Bureau of Engraving and Printnlg at Washington has made the last delivery of Si and $2 notes warranted by the appropriations, and there will be determined opposition in Congress to providing for any more small bills. Thomas Benton, colored, was hanged at Plaquemine, La., in the presence of 2,000 people, for the murder of Robert Duggan, July 8, 1883. A Congressional delegation visited Baltimore last week to inquire into the advantages of a proposed canal across the peninsula, which would require the expenditure of $30,000,000. The metal men were before the Ways and Means Committee last week. Mr. Horr, of Michigan, declares that Morrison’s bill will pass the House. He counts but three Republican votes in its favor, but not more than twenty-five Democratic votes against it. The House Commerce Committee has voted to strike out the provision in the Reagan bill relative to the discriminations between short allong hauls on railroad, and also the section requiring fixed rates to be posted in public places and not changed without five days’ notice. The committee has indicated its intention of recommending a bill forbidding discrimination and pooling combinations for the purpose of raising rates.