The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1870-04-25
FROM WASHINGTON.
Nominations To-day

Nominations To-day
Despatch to the Associated Press.
WASHINGTON, April 25.-The following nomi-
nations were made in the Senate to-day
Commodore Samuel P. Lee to be Rear Admi-
raj; Captain Enoch G. Perrott to be Commodore;
Commander William j. Spicer to be Captain;
Lieutenant Commander Edmund j. Mathews to
be Commander; Lieutenant John MCGOWAN to
be Lieutenant Commander; Frank Burnett to be
Supervising Inspector of Steamboats,, Fourth
district: Granville Hosmer to be Coiner at the
Branch Mint at Carson City, Nevada; John B.
Kilburn to be Postmaster at Rutland, Vt; VIM.
Holland to be Postmaster at West Troy N. Y.
James Low, Jr., to be Postmaster at Suspension
Bridge, N. Y.
Regiments Ordered to the Plains.
Special orders have been issued from the War
Department directing the 18th United States
Infantry, now stationed in Virginia, and the
18th Infantry, now in Kentucky, to proceed with
all possible despatch to Sioux City, Iowa, and
report thence to the General commanding the
Department of Dakota for assignment to duty.
Their colonels will select suitable officers to
take charge of the company and regimental pro-
perty pertaining to the command, which will be
forwarded after the regiment.
Mail steamship Routes.
The Postmaster General has addressed letter
to Senator Ramsey, chairman Of the Post Office
Committee giving the reasons why there should
be an increase of service on the mail steamship
route from San Francisco to Japan and China.
Naval Orders.
By the Associated Press.
Assistant Paymaster John w. Jordan is or
dered to the receiving-ship New Hampshire
Assistant Naval Constructor William Ii. Varney
is detached from the Navy Yard at Portsmouth,
N H., and ordered to duty at the Navy Yard
Mare Island on the 18th of May. He win be re-
lieved by Assistant Naval Constructor Philip
Hitchborn, now on duty at Mare Island; Captain
| George B. Corse, unassigned has been ordered
! to repair to this city from Tallahassee, to give
! testimony before the Committee on Education
| and Labor of the House of Representatives.
RecruitinR.
! The superintendent of the General Recruiting
! Service New York, is ordered TO forward one
! hundred and fifty recruits from Fort Columbus,
| N. Y, to Fort Leavenworth, Kansas, where
! they will be assigned to the 18th United States
! Infantry.
Brevet Lieutenant Colonel John p Willard,
First Lieutenant, unassigned, has been ordered
to report to Lieutenant-General Sheridan for
| duty in the Division of the Missouri.
| Indian Duties.
Major John NJ. Goodhand unassigned is de-
| tailed to execute the duties of Indian agent at
! the Yankton Agency, Dakotah, where he will
| relieve Captain D. w. Broatch, who will await
| orders at his home.
Enforcement OF the Fifteenth Amendment.
| The bill to enforce the fifteenth amendment, re-
ported this morning. provides That all citizens or the
United States who are or shall be otherwise qualified
by law vote at any election by the people, in any
State Territory, district county, city, parish town
Ship school district municipality, or other terrific
rial subdivision shall be entitled and allowed to vote
at all such elections without distinction OF color
previous condition of servtude, any law, CUSTOM
usage regulation OF any State Territory or by
| or under its authority to the contrary n0twth-
standing Also, that the laws OF any State or Ter
rtOry shall require any act to be done as a pre-re-
qusite 10 voting it shall be the duty of the Ofcers
OF the law in said State or Territory to give equal
opportunity to all citizens OF the United States to
perform such prerequisite; and any such official
| falling so to do shall forfeit and pay $500
| to the person aggrieved thereby, to be
recovered by action at law, and in case Of con-
yicon snail also be fined not less than $500 and i'm
prisoned from one month to one year. The offer OF
any citizen for whom such prerequisite is required,
shall be deemed performance in law OF such act If
such act fails to be carried into execution by reason
of the wrongful act or omission OF the said officers
charged with the duty OF receiving or permitting
such performance OF offer. The same penalties are
prescribed against any person who shall hinder or
| attempt TO prevent any citizen from per-
| forming such prerequisite. Persons derived
! of any O1ilCe except that of a member OF
Congress state Legislature by reason OF violation
of the foregoing provisions may receive possession
| through United States courts which are given con-
| current jurisdiction in all such cases. The Unted
States District Courts shall have exclusively OF the
State courts, cognizance OF all crimes and 0enses
against the provisions Of this act All the Officers OF
| the United States courts required, under q
penalty of $1,000, to institute and enforce proceed
ngs Hereunder, and the President Is authorized tC
! employ the land and naval forces or the militia tc
! enforce its execution.