Senate and House Proceedings Detailed in Mid December
Senate and House conduct on December 12 to 15 shows resolutions on political assessments and War department actions, reports on New York agencies, and library funding debates. Bills on post office, rail right of way, and French spoliation are discussed as committees report and adjournments follow. A Philadelphia disease report faces physician opposition amid rising diphtheria deaths and notable local notices conclude with major estate, fires, and deaths in early 1883.
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Senate
Beck
Edmunds
Committee On Judiciary
Hoar
New York Custom House
Post Office
Surveyor's Office
House
Page
California
Henderson
Randall
Congressional Library
Morrill
Finance Committee
Ingalls
Butler
Charleston
S. C
St. Louis & San Francisco Railroad Company
Fort Smith
Ark
Dunn
Ryan
United States
Washington
Navy
Pendleton
Hovst
Pound
Committee On Public Lands
Secretary of the Interior
Congress
Upson
Postmaster General
Converse
Columbus & Eastern Railroad Company
Columbus, Ohio
Ferry
Post-Office and Post Roads Committee
Anthony
Tariff Commission
O'Neil
Philadelphia
Kasson
Committee On Ways and Means
Cape of Good Hope
Guenter
Fort Smith Military Preservation
Arkansas
McLean
Missouri
Thomas Allen
Senate confirms multiple nominations and military appointees
The Senate on the 12th confirmed nominees including Edward M. Cheng United States Attorney Northern District of Florida Francis Atkinson registers land office Indiana Helena Montana Charles Alexander Wisconsin Tuc son Arizona James P Luse Indiana Deadwood D T Also confirmed on the 7th were Henry N Morgan Louisiana secretary legation to Mexico George E Waring Jr Rhode Island member National Board of Health Commodore Earl English chief of Bureau of Equipment and Recruiting and Navy Captain Belknap reports to the Secretary of the Navy on King Kalakaua birthday celebration aboard the Alaska A regatta race was won by a barge crew from the ship Cuandler Telegram from Lieutenant Haber dated Bulun September 16 reports Jeannette crew pursuing Chipp party with no trace yet found and plans to reach Irkutsk mid December Ex Senator Hendricks health outlook remains poor Senator Voorhees notes Hendricks told him recovery unlikely President nominates Colonel Robert Murray to be Colonel and Assistant Surgeon General of the US Army.
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Senate
Edward M. Cheng
United States
Northern District of
Florida
Registers Land Office
Francis Atkinson
Indiana
Helena
Montana
Charles Alexander
Wisconsin
Tucson
Arizona
James P. Luse
Deadwood
D. T
Henry N. Morgan
Louisiana
Mexico
George E. Waring, Jr
Rhode Island
National Board of Health
Earl English
Bureau of Equipment and Recruiting and Navy
Belknap
Secretary of the Navy
King Kalakua
Hawaiian Islands
Alaska
Cuandler
Haber
Hendricks
Voorhees
Robert Murray
United States Army
Trial and crimes span wide on twelve day report
The Omaha trial of D. J. Wen for false vouching claims totals twenty three counts with losses between five and six thousand dollars. In Cumberland Ohio a schoolmaster stabbed two pupils during a discipline attempt, killing John Hayes and wounding Charles Luce. A guard at Oakwood Cemetery Richmond Virginia arrested two medical students and two colored men for grave tampering. four bodies were later found at the Virginia Medical College.
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D. J. Wen
Omaha
Wintham C. Pratier
Cumberland
Guernsey County
Ohio
John Hayes
Charles Luce
Frazier
Cambridge
Oakwood
Richmond
Virginia Medical College
New Board of Trade
Chicago
Fort Hall
Idaho
Price
Smith
State Railroad and Warehouse Commission
John F. Potter
Congress
Roger A. Pryor
Muskwonage
Wis
American Agricultural Association
General Grant
J. Tilden
Turbridge
Great Dry Canyon
Pecos River
Sunset Railroad
Texas
Ohio State Grange
Mansfield
Mester
Brighman
Fulter
Old Michigan Capitol Burns at Lansing
Latter news reports the destruction of Michigan's two-story frame State Capitol at Lansing by fire on the 16th, built in 1847 and once occupied by Pratt Brothers. Also noted are Treasury limits on a Pitts burgh Chinaman’s intended China wife, Sherman to retire next fall, and various political and financial items including a Newport Arkansas blaze, birthday in Boston, and railroad matters.
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Michigan State Capitol
Lansing
Pratt Brothers
Secretary of the Treasury
Pittsburgh
China
Arthur
Arizona
Indian Territory
New
Atlantic & Pacific
Newport
Ark
Joan G. Wauttier
Boston
England
Greorge J. Rice
Utica
Great Kingston Fire Report From Jamaica Vividly Described
A cablegram recounts Kingston Jamaica s great fire in the business quarter. Losses reach £6 000 000 with hundreds homeless as wharves stores and banks burn. City without a fire department and fear and fatigue hindered response while relief is urged to Kingston Charity Organization s W K Arbill. Kingston a maritime capital sits on Blue Mountain slope and reports coffee sugar tobacco dye woods exports and broad imports.
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Kingston
Jmaica
W. K. Arbill
Royal Mail Steamship Company
Atlas
McDowell
Jamaica
Surrey
Spanish Town
Europe
Strange Freak of a Crazy Man
Westerly Rhode Island dispatch reports Cyrus Barber a young man in a morbid religious fixation tried to end his life by chopping off his leg with a axe. He fainted and was treated by a surgeon as dawn broke and he spoke of doing right. He had previously attempted suicide by holding his breath.
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R. I
Cyrus Barber
Mr. Barter
Barber
Timber-Culture Question Resolution from National Agricultural Association
In Chicago the National Agricultural Association adopted resolutions urging state legislatures to appoint forestry commissioners, establish state arboreta and forest stations, and push federal forest experiments. It calls for annual reporting, seed and plant distribution, and testing of tree species suitable to climate and soil.
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National Agricultural Association
Chicago
Ith
Wuerras
United States
Commonwealths
Congress
State Boards of Agriculture
United States Agricultural Department
Proposed Bankruptcy Law Summary Includes Trustees and Court Oversight
Washington report outlines Lowell bill provisions for estate administration by a creditor chosen trustee and a Committee of Supervision. It creates a complete bankruptcy code with Commissioners in Bankruptcy, Supreme Court oversight, and limits on voluntary filings. It details asset seizure, pre adjudication receivers, and creditor appointed trustees. Also notes a Chicago clergyman’s remarks at a bank president’s funeral amid an inquest finding four aces in the deceased’s sleeve.
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Washington
United States Senate
Supreme Court
Circuit Courts
Chicago
Boston
Commissioner of Railroads Reports on 1882 Year and Rates
The annual report outlines vast railroad improvements, substituting steel rails, more ties, better fastenings, and renewed bridges. It details subsidies, indebtedness of Pacific lines, sinking funds, and calls for reform including possible issue of interest bearing bonds and a federal commission to regulate rates and signals.
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Commissioner of Railroads
Pacific
Central Pacific
Central Branch
Union Pacific
United States
Sioux City & Pacific
Central Branch Union Pacific
Treasury
Secretary of the Treasury
Great Lakes
Congress
Supreme Court of Illinois
Supreme Court of the United States
Rairoad
Reform of Pensions Proposed in Commissioner Dudley Report
Washington reports the Commissioner of Pensions recommends remodeling Bounty Land laws and simplifying pensions to prioritize disability over rank. He cites 117 pension grades, proposes honoring actual rank, extending filing windows for widows and invalids, dating pensions from accrual, and a $5000 yearly pension agent salary. The census gap is noted with only about 26 percent of 2,053,591 veterans seeking pensions, leaving a surviving soldier population around one million with future pension potential.
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Washington
Commissioner of Pensions
Dudley
Bounty Landows
Congress
Regular Army
Job Material Offers Latest Styles for Quick Job Work
The H Brain office announces a new complete outfit of the latest job material and is prepared to execute all kinds of job work on the shortest possible notice.
Vast wealth and infrastructure notes from 19th century data
A sweeping compilation reports Massachusetts valuations at 1,149,826,625 with a gain of 28,033,224 over 1881, Southern cotton mills employing 40,000, world iron output pegged near 19.5 million tons with Britain and the US leading, and Russian marsh draining reclaiming 1.7 million acres. It lists timber, charcoal, Idaho mining yields, first snows in recent decades, Royal Limited Express costs on the Pennsylvania Railroad, and a survey of 118 world observatories with Europe leading by nation counts.
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Massachusetts
Southern Cotton Mills
Great Britain
United States
Germany
France
Ireland
Antrim
Kerry
Wood River
Saw Tooth
Idaho
N. Or
Picayune
Pennsylvania Railroad
Europe
Asia
Arica
America
Oceania
Prussia
Russia
England
Italy
Austria
Switzerland
Sweden
Spain
Portugal
Holland
Norway
Greece
Belgium
Denmark
Leyden
Copenhagen
Paris
Greenwich
Moscow
Quotable Fragments of Wit and Folly Across Papers
A collage of quips from Boston Post and New York Herald satire, with jokes on nihilists salesmanship and fashion, and humorous exchanges about women, speed, and sermons. The pieces showcase era humor, misprints, and light lampooning of clergy, families, and social quirks.
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