The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1874-07-14
WASHINGTON.
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WASHINGTON, July 13.-Gen. Pope says in
relation to trading firms at Dodge City who
have, in violation of law and to the incalculable
injury of peaceful and honest farmers and from
tier settlers of Kansas, established trading
posts or rather grog shops On the "Pan Handle
OF Texas" 70 miles along the Arkansas, to
trade with buffalo hunters and ruffians who
have invaded the Indian country and commit
ted violent and inexcusable outrages upon the
Indians, he has no word of sympathy or con
cern, and if he should send troops to the local-
ty of these unlawful treating establishments it
would be to break up and not to protect them.
He says that to the INSCRIPTIONS and Illegal
transactions of these people-the murder of in
nOcent settlers on the routier-are largely at
tributed, and they ought to be punished and
not protected.
Gen. Pope writes to Gen. Sherman that ex-
cept to careless stragglers outside the military
lines and to few remote settlers, he thinks we
are fully able to give protection from Indian
outrages.
The New York Central Tax Case.
The Attorney General has directed the q. s.
Attorney for the Western District of New
York. to take the appeal to the Supreme Court
in the case of the New York Central & Hudson
River Railroad Company against U. S. Internal
Revenue Collector Bailey.
Treasury balances.
The following are the Treasury balances to-
day:-Currency, $l3, 233, 219; special deposit of
legal tenders for redemption of certificates of
coin certificates S32, All, 600; outstanding legal
tenders, $685., 100000.
Various Matters.
The Navy Department will not order vessels
now in the Gulf of Mexico and cruising in the
waters ad accent to the West Indies north this
summer out they will all remain about the
present stations,
The amount advanced to date for payment of
the Indebtedness of the District of Columbia is
| $473.046 of which Sl54.50O is in con.
| The Court of Commissioners on the Alabama
| claims will occupy rooms in the Department of
| Justice building, and expect to be in working
| condition early in August.
Chief Justice Waite has just purch3 sed lot
| in the northwestern part of the city, in the
| neighborhood where Attorney General Will
| liams, Sir Edward Thornton aud Senator Stew
art have erected dwelling houses and viii build
one for his family residence
| The Civil Service Reform.
NEW YORK, July t3.-The Times special
| from Washington says that the civil service
| system will not be abrogated by reason of the
! failure of Congress to make an appropriation
| for the purpose. The President declares his in
| ten.ion to execute the civil service law so far
| as he has power. Candidates will hereafter be
| obliged to visit Washing on at their own ex-
pense for examination, as the Chief Examiner
will no. be able to make regular visits to the
five civil service divisions, there being no APP
preparations to pay expenses.
No Call for Currency.
The same despatch says that the West is TAX
| ing up very little currency under the pew law,
and il is not believed that the crcu latiou of any
| of the eastern banks will be distributed before
| Congress meets
| The Geneva Award.
/ The commissioners under the Geneva award
bill will meet in Washington Oh the 22d inst.
| Orangemeu.
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