The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1869-06-05
WASHINGTON ITEMS.
by Telegraph to the Rsgister.l
WASHINGTON, June 4.
The Peruvian ulonitors.


the belligerents in Cuba aud that a |
Cuban envoy has arrived in Lima to ask
the loan of the monitors. He accord.
ingly called Secretary Fish's attention
to these matters and said he thought
the monitors were lying among the
West India Islands longer than gneces-
sary. The Peruvian Minister Informed
Secretary Fish, in answer to these COM
plants, that the monitors would re-
main in the West Indias late in the
summer, as the win ter was terrible
weather for their passage through the
Straits Of Magdalin. This explanation
given by Mr.. Fish to the Spanish Minis
ter, with the INFORMATION that Peru had
given bonds not to use the monitors IN
aid of the Cubans, appeared to mollify
his uneasiness.
Indian Policy.
1t is stated that the subject of the re-
cent Indian outrages on Smoky Hill,
the Saline and Republican rivers, and
the line of the Kansas Pacific railroad,
in Kansas, has been very earnestly con-
sidered by the President, the Secretary
of War, General Sherman, the Commits
sioner of Indian Affairs and the Western
Congressman. They have resolved to
take Immediate action for the protection
of the frontier from predatory bands of
Chsyennes and Sioux. Senator Ross
called upon the President, and recom-
menGed the propriety of stationing mil
itary garrisons along the frontier at the
proper points and Of furnishing addi-
tional trsops for that purpose. The
President stated that he was fully de-
termined to take steps for the suppress
sion of the frontier outrages, and would
follow his recommendation. He also
said the necessary orders would be for
warded to General Schofeld at once.
All bands absent from their reservation
will be treated as outlaws, and Presi-
Dental proclamation to that effect will
soon be promulgated. rTE
Not Credited.
The report that Russia is geiDg to send
a special agent here to congratulate
Grant on his election as President is not
credited in diplomatic circles, but it is
thought by some persons that she may
be preparing to give us one of her first
class citizens as Minister.
An Agent from InyIi.
A private letter from Hayti says the
government of that country is going to ;
send an agent to New York to borrow
money, and to Washington to buy 4 cOu-
pie of iron.clads.
The Trial Of Judge Fullerton
For alleged completely in internal reve-
nue. frauds and Matchmaking opera
tions, comes on in New York next week,
unless it is again postponed.
Iron lmds 10 be sold.
The government sells the iron steamer
Shamokin here at auction on the 18th
inst, and the Hornet in the same way
at Philadelphia on the 2lst.
Row mt n Public Meeting.
A Republican mas meeting here night
before last broke mp in = little row, in
which pistols were fired, stones thrown,
and q couple of men injured.
Minister Harvey
Writes from Portugal, receipting for his
salary for three or four years, which was
voted to him at the last session of Con-
gross.
The Woman Question.
Tho National Division of the Sons of
Temperance, which meets here next
week, will be called upon to decide
whether women shall be admitted to
full membership in the Order in all
parts of the country.
Pension Claims
The Pension Office received 1904
claims last month, disposed of SAG, and
still has 62, l12 on hand, which the Com
missioner will get out of the way as
soon as possible.
Lenye Of Absence Granted.
The President has given Knight Tenn
plar clerks leaves of absence for next
week, to attend tho semi entennial an
niversary at Philadelphia of st. John's
lodge.
KeVerdy OhnSOn
Is expected in Baltimore, and will eat q
dinner at the expense of the Council on
Saturday.
More Money.
A letter reached the Treasury Depart
ment yesterday morning in six days
from San Francisco, saying the Sub.
Treasurer there has six million of dol
lars on hand, subject to the Secretary's
order.
miscellaneous
The Postmaster General has removed |
ten clerks from the Finance Bureau and
appointed Others in their places.
The receipts of internal revenue to-
day is over million dollars. The cur
rency balance in the Treasury is about
twenty-three million dollars.
Several clerks and six out of nine
watchmen at the Navy Department.
have been dismissed, owing to reduced
appropriations by Congress.
The national currency plates were to-
day reduced to solid steel in the fur
mace at the navy yard.
The Bricklayers' Union, at meeting
last night, adopted resolution for the
immediate strike of the bricklayers at
the Navy Yard, unless two colored
workmen there employed be dismissed.
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