The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1870-05-09
WASHINGTON NEWS.
The Medical C0nvention-FOrefg
Reiafi0ns-COrrRpft
MEDICAL CONVENTION

MEDICAL COSfENTlON.
WAsHINGToN, May 6.-In the Amer
lean Medical Convention, the COMMITTEES
on Ethics reported favorably on the
credentials of delegates from the
Women's Medical Colleges and the
Women's Hospital at Philadelphia.
The report was indefinitely postponed,
but notice given Of an amendment TO
the constitution not excluding women
from the Association Resolutions look
ing to discountenancing the renewal of
prescriptions by apothecaries without
due authority from the physicians, was
referred to special committee. Reso.
lutions declaring Dr. Horace Wells, OF
Massachusetts, the discoveror OF anas-,
thesis, was adopted. DR.. John o. Sol
wan, of Boston, offered resolutions
that no distinction of race or color shall
exclude persons from claiming admis-
sion to the Association, who are duly ac-
credited thereto. The resolution was
received with storm of hisses through
out. DR.. Sands, of the committee on
Ethics, who explained the reasons for
the exclusion of the District Of COlum-
bia delegates, viz: that they were mem
bers Of the National Medical Society,
which society receives medical men who
are not licentiates, openly violates the.
rules of the association, misrepresented
the action of the Medical Association
OF the District of Columbia, and is dis
honorably endeavOring TO procure the
destruction thereof bv inducing Congress
to abrogate the charter. DR.. Storer Of
Boston, offered resolution declaring
the report of the committee unani-
mously adopted, which was carried, III
to g. and adjourned sine die.
FOREIGN RELATIONS.
The condition of our relations with
foreign governments presents little or
nothing new as revealed in the official
dispatches received at the State Depart
ment. Consul General Biddle reports
from Havana the details of the release
of the Lloyd Aspinwall, but does not
mention any of the rumors current
here that the Spanish volunteers made
any threats of physical resistance to
the same. So far as he can learn, the
insurgent cause has not gained a step
since his advices submitted in March,
but, on the contrary, is growing weaker
Dispatches from Minister Sickles state
that affairs in Spain are more quiet
than they have been, and that there is
less dissatisfaction with the authorities
at Madrid. The department has had
rome correspondence recently with re-
gard to some imprisoned Fenians, but
mastery inactivity prevails as to the
Alabama claims negotiations. The de-
partment is preparing the general in
structions Of Rumsey Wing our new
Minister to Ecuador, who sails on the
2Oth instant
CORRUPTION.
The Georgia bribery investigation
committee today examined the pub
Usher Of the Washington Chronicle with
regard to certain sums Of money receiv
ed in checks and otherwise from Gov
ernor Bullock, of Georgia. Those who
are prosecuting this investigation assert
that Forney was paid for opposing the
Bingham amendment to the Georgia
bill, and for the publication of stories of
alleged outrages in Georgia. Forney
denies this, and says the money paid
him was for job printing, in the way of
pamphlets, speeches, &c, for Bullock
and cOmDany