Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1871-04-01
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niiicd in tone, (personal illusions being
generally avoided yet it is severe ar.
ra;cnmcnt Of the President for violations
Of international law and usurpatons Of
the war power. Mr.. Sumner asserts that
it is now in evidence before the Senate
that the navy of the United States, acting
under orders from Washington, has been
engaged in measures of violence and OF
belli.erent intcrven:ions, wagins war with
out authority Of Congress. lie says the
whole business is aggravated when it is
considered that the declared object Of this
violation is the acquisition of half an island
in the Caribbean sea and still further,
that the violence has been employed to
prop and maintain weak ruler, himself
an usurpcr, upholling him in power that
he might sell his country; and secondly,
that i, has been employed to menace the
black republic Of lIayti. The evidence,
Sumner asserts, is conclusive that means
have been employed by the Executive to
secure the ACKNOWLEDGEMENT of foreign ter
ritory which cannot be justified.
The Joint High Commission will con-
cluae its labors in few weeks; and as
surancc come from three distinguished
and wcll-informed parties that there will
be an cqitable settlement Of the matters in
dispute. IF this shall be the result, the
President will send the treaty immediate.
ly to the Senate, should that body be then
in session.
PARIS, March pa violent scene oc.
cured at meeting of the Central Com
mittcc. A member of the Committee
differed from General Lultier, commander
of the National Guards. Lultier threw a
chair at the head of his colleague, for
which he was dragged out of the meeting
and instantly deprived of his command.
Signs of dissatisfaction have been shown
among the adherents of the Central Com
mittcc Five hundred National Guards
have been disarmcd
LONDON, March 27.-The Tclcgrophs
special says the government at Versailles
has ordered Garibaldi's arrest on his APP
pcarancc on French soil.
VERSAILLES, March 27.-Tho insur-
gents seized gunboat On the Seine, and
captured the crew and documents.
The official journal of the insurgents
says that eighteen battalions of the Ma
tionals out Of twcnty-iour, in Lyons, sup
port the Communcs. The new govern
mcnt is proclaimed without bloodshccd
LONDON, March 27.-The election in
Paris passed off quietly, with an over
whclming Communist majority. The rev
dictionary authorities are completely domi.
nant. The prospect of the abdication of
Sais>it as Mayor increases. The success
Of the revolution within a week will spread
to all the towns, and render the position
of the government in the rural districts
untcnable.
New YoRK, March 2S-Thc Ttibunc's
Washington special says rumor is cur
rent that the Administration has decided
to drop the San Domingo business for the
sake of harmonizing the party. The in.
ference is drawn from the remark Of Mr..
Morton, in the Senate yesterday, that if
the Commissioners report unfavorablc to
annexation, he should favor the abandon
mcnt of the project. The declaration is
thought to be significant, in view of the
fact that correspondents with the Com
missioncrs all announce that the report is
unanimously in favor of annexation.
Another correspondent says it seems to be
the general opinion Of the Commissioners
that annexation is certain to involve the
United States in war with Hayti. Bacz
admitted that Cabral controlled one thou
sand square miles of Dominica contiguous
to Hayti The impression is that the re.
port of the commissioners, when presented
to Congress, will be rather unfavorablc
than otherwise to annexation.
WASHINGTON, March 2S.-In the SEN
ate, Mr.. Frclinghuyscn obtained the floor
add spoke in eulogy Of President Grant,
and criticised the action of Sumner in pre-
cipitating this dicussion in advance of the
report of the Commissioners, from which
alone Congress and the public could form
an opinion.
Mr. Sumner briefly defended his course,
saying he had done simply what he bclicv-
cd to be right.
Mr.. Schurz next addressed the Senate.
He did not think the report Of the Com.
mission, which had just returned from
pleasant jaunt to San Domingo, would
prove influential either in the Senate or
before the country; for he thought they
were already effectually disposed Of.
Mr.. Howe continued his reply to Sum.
ner's speech yesterday, and in defense of
the President in the San Domingo matter.
In conclusion, he said the Republican
party was not ended.
In reply to questions by Messrs. Howe
and Stewart. Mr.. Schurz denied that dis.
cretionary power was vested in the Presi.
dent, and cited them to the debates of the
Senate in 1859, when Buchanan asked
discretionary power to protect our citizens
over the Isthmus Of Panama. The Senate
then Indignantly refused. The fact was
that President Grant has fallen into the
mistake of supposing that he was the
United States of America. He defended
the course of Sumner, declaring that he
deserved the gratitude of the country. He