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Newspaper

Monticello Express

Location

Monticello, Iowa, United States of America

Date

Mar 07, 1889

Page

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Senate and House Scene Marks Lively 1889 Legislative Session

A sweeping report from the week’s sessions details conference reports on the Inter-State Commerce act and various appropriation bills, plus actions in the House on naturalization, Alaska salmon protections, and a Kalamazoo public building. It notes pensions approved, vetoes sustained, adjournment sine die, and notable deaths and crimes in the interim.

Senate Sioux City Idaho Wyoming House State Department Washington Tar Senate Post Office Alaska Kalamazoo Mich Iowa Dakota Mexico Canada Fort Dodge Kansas John J. Ingalls John G. Carlisle Sinc

Obituary and political notes from the era

John W. Joneston a U S Senator from 1870 to 1883 died at his Richmond home aged eighty eight. At the Democratic State convention in Grand Rapids Mich T E Sherwood Kalamazoo was renominated for Justice of the Supreme Court and W Z Dailey John S Lawrence for Regents of the State University. Hannibal Hamlin then living ex Vice President spoke to the U S Senate on the 28th. The National League of Republican in convention at Baltimore on the 28th ult.

Rupert Wattxrtns Conway County Ark John M. Clayton Hartsville Ind Lostant Ill Milwaukee Herman Umnberger Jennerstown Edward CoLpurn Boston United States Hawaii Starrorn Edgartown Mass Washington Standard Oil Company Ohio Oil Company Lima George Foster Tuscaloosa Ala Wauulaer Ben Hur Crawfordsville A. B. Cleveland New York Frm Cincinnati Laura McDonald Alexander McDonald Edmund K. Stalle Edward Rudder Felton Adam Shoney Pennsylvania Railroad Company Ernst Hudson New Earl Tenn Robert SteEn Franz Sigel Farmers’ and Mechanics’ Bank Carleton Neb Deadwood D. T National League of Republican Clubs Baltimore John M. Thurston Nebraska I. B. Humphreys P. C. Lounsberry Connecticut Henry A. Gouin & Co Gipsoux N. N Wilson West Virginia J. D. Alderaon J. K. Jackson Cononrn BE C. McCruns South Carolina Post Office Department Henry Macoon Darlington Wis Congress General Rosecrans Benjamin Hannison Tok Fuller Senate Levi P. Morton Senator Ingalls Ingalls Morton Fifty-First Congress Barbour Virginia Higgins Delaware McMillan Michigan Marston New Hampshire Walcott Colorado Nathan Garr K. 8 Carr State Senate Goff Fleming Thompson Enwin Japson Chicago Hartford Conn Stevenson John W. Joneston Richmond Grand Rapids Mich T. ER. Sherwood Kalamazoo Supreme Court W. Z. Dailey John 8. Lawrence State University Hion Hannibal Hanmix United States Senate National League of Republican Classey

Various 19th Century Headlines From The Times And Abroad

The Times withdrew pamphlets on Parnellism and O Donnell versus Walter and expressed regret for forged letters. North Sea pale caused seventy deaths. A passenger and freight collision near Sweetsburg killed three trainmen. Chess champion Sternitz won all nineteen games in Havana. A Marthaville dwelling burned. old lady Callivan perished. Prince Oscar of Sweden welcomed a daughter. Mrs Conuins, a murderess, hanged at Sidney Nova Scotia. Pauncefote named British Minister to the U S. forger Pigott reportedly died by own hand in Madrid. Earthquake shocks hit Guayaquil. Weedon stores burned. Peruvian Cabinet resigned. Pope’s seventy ninth birthday noted. Captain Barney Cook jailed six months at Brussels.

London Times O'Donnell Walter Loxpon North Sea Sweetsburg Can Sternitz Havana Cuba Marthaville Ont Callivan Oscar Sweden Conuins Sidney N.S. W Richard Pigott Parnell Madrid Julian Pauncefote United States Guayaquil Ecuador Weedon Eng Rome Barney Cook Brussels

Presidential Nominations Confirmed and Notable Events

President Harrison sent and Senate confirmed a full slate of cabinet nominees including Blaine Windom Proctor Tracy Noble Miller Rusk and Wanamaker while a large White House reception followed. A Montreal mill collapse killed eighteen. a Rhode Island House member urged repeal of a prohibitory amendment. a farmer from Indiana and a mob lynching in Arkansas marked a day of violent events.

Cabinet Nominations by President Harrison Announced

President Harrison sent to the Senate a full slate of cabinet picks including James G. Blaine for Secretary of State William Windom for Secretary of the Treasury Redfield Proctor for Secretary of War Benjamin Tracy for Secretary of the Navy John W Noble for Secretary of the Interior John Wanamaker for Postmaster General and Jeremiah M Rusk for Agriculture The nominations were quickly confirmed with praise from Republicans and anticipated delays in filling other posts as the new administration settles in

Harrison Senate James G. Blaine Maine Treasury William Windom Minnesota Redfield Proctor Vermont Navy Benjamin I. Tracy New York Interior John W. Noble Missouri John Wanamaker Pennsylvania W. H. H. Miller Indiana Jeremiah Rusk Wisconsin Slack Mountain City Altoona White House Montreal Can Rhode Island House of Representatives Clark Gallagher New Waverly Ind J. B. Robinson Dalby Springs Ark Ng Reading Iron Works Reading Dth Joan D. Rockvereller American Baptist Education Society Farner Stephens Dublin Ivy Peru Mary I. Boor Harper’s Bazar Springfield Cal United States Senate Blair Marston New Hampshire Pruden Walshinerton Benjamin I’. Tracy John Panamaker Ohio Tn Gian Garfield New York City Proctor Rutland Benjamin F. Tracy Brooklyn Oswego Nora County General Assembly Prac United States Court of Appeals Supreme Court of New York Warner Miller John Willock Noble Secretary of the Interior Miami College Keokuk Louis Johnson John Wannamaker Jeremiah M. Rusk Salkehatchie Congress Messrs. Wanamaker Rusk Cleveland Capitol Allison Tracy Spooner Northwest Vernon County Wis University of Wisconsin Ever Wanamaker Railway Mail Service Department Blaine Consular Diplomatic Service Internal Revenue Whitelaw Reid England Evarts Hiscock House of Representatives Porter Rome

Fifty Congress Summary of Bills and Laws Passed

Washington reports a record fifty congress closes with 1,791 laws amid 16,657 bills and 412 resolutions. Four new states admitted, vetoes beaten, and major measures like Sioux reservation split and Chinese Exclusion Act enacted. Senate and House produced numerous reports while many bills failed in conference or the Senate.

Washington Cleveland Tiftieth Congress House Senate Congress Des Moines Great Sioux Dakota Department of Agriculture Department of Labor Evansville Ind Indianapolis Wichita Kan Portsmouth Duluth Minn Bay City Mich Jackson Youngstown Sioux City Nicaragua Canal Company United States Chicago Panama Samoa Alaska Secretary of the Interior Milwaukee Omaha Sacramento San Francisco Winona Sheridan Logan Frank P. Blair Rosecrans Oklahoma Internal Revenue Law Five Civilized Tribes Hastings & Dakota Railway Company Minnesota Northern Pacific Panama Canal Ontonagon & Marquette Inter-State Commerce Commission John C. Fremont Pacific Railround Utah Idaho New Mexico Wyoming Canada Dominion

Wheat shortage grips Dakota seed and bread supplies

Aberdeen dispatch reports a statistician's finding that both Dakotas lack sufficient wheat for seed and bread. Total on hand is 8 million bushels, short by about 3 million, with South Dakota holding 50 to 60 percent of the 188d crop and northern counties only 8 to 10 percent. Drought drives southern losses and early frost harms the north.

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