Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1871-12-18

MIR. CUSHING.
WASHINGTON, Dec. 17.-Caeb Cushing is
still here, and don't expect to 90 to Geneva for
some months
GOING HOME FOR THE HOLIDAYS.
Many congressman will leave on Wednesday
for home to spend the holidays. Quorums are
not expected ON Thursday.
SAN DOMINGO.
A private letter from San Domingo saws the
two years lease OF the bay of SANTANA having
expired, the United States flag has been hauied
down.
SOUTHERN CLAIMS.
The southern claims committee will resume
sessions Immediately after New Years; mean
time, they will take up two or three hundred
cases now ready for decision, and prepare them
for consideration by the house committee of
claims.
MINOR MATTERS.
Dilatory holders ofAlabama claims, who have
neglected to present them in season to be laid
before the conference of Geneva, on the 18th
inst, as provided by the treaty, will be pleased
to learn that there is also a provsO by which
additional claims can be presented on the sew
enteenth of April, but these should be filed at
the state department here within the next thirty
days.
The controller of the currency has notified
the clearing house association of New York
that he will make the appointment Of bank eX-
amlner for that city upon their recommends
ton. All applications for the position will be
referred to the association.
There is no uneasncsS concerning our fea-
tiOns with Spain, on account of Cuban matters
among those who know what is Transporting at
Madrid and here. The Spanish government is
endeavOring TO disarm and to disbaud the
voluntarios by sending out regular troops to
take their places on garrison duty, and Valma
soda hopes to restore Spanish rule in the island
The reports concerning the insurgents are very
contradictory.
The British-American commission, now sit.
ting here under the treaty Of Washington, has
decided that the United States are not RESPONSE
bic for acts of spoliation committed by rebels,
or for the bonds issued by the confederate goy-
ernment These decisions afford complete
answer to two of the most current objections to
the treaty. The MeXican-America an commission
had already come to the same conclusion on
both points, rejecting claims on account Of the
spoliatiOEs or the bonds of Eaolaga hiramon
and Macmillan, They will, doubtless, serve to
fix the rule of International law on these sub
lects, and will simplify our future relations with
the Spanish-Americag republics.
lie leErenchment committee selected by the
senate republican caucus is not such commit
tee as the advocates of Mr.. TrumbulPs uropOsi-
tons say they had right 10 expect, and there
fore they are not satisfied. 1t is charged that
the committee is composed of senators who, it
is feared, will not give such searching inyesti-
CATION as Mi. lfpmnull proposes shall bc made.
rms opinion, however, is not shared by those
who are classed as strictly administration SEN
ators, and they scout the idea that the com
mittee will not be faithful to the trust assigned
them
delegation of Oincinnatians are here to urge
the selection Of Cincinnati as the place for the
next republican convention,
The British. American mixed claims commits
SION have under consideration the question as
to whether b: itiSh subjects domciled in the
United States are protected by the provisions Of
the treaty of Washington, The British crown
lawyers have decided that they are not