The Portland daily press., 1875-07-17
WASHINGTON.
The Charges Against District Attorney |
Fisher.

The Charges Against District Attorney
Fisher.
WAsHINGToN, July lex Judge Fisher,
Attorney for the District of Columbia, has not
yet resigned as requested by the Attorney Cen
eral. The general charges against him are
carelessness and neglect in the administration
of his office. He has just returned from a
visit to Long Branch to see the President with
view to his retention in office. The Attor-
ney general has allowed him time to reply to
the charges. Meanwhile ex-Gov. Wells of
Virginia, for many years resident of Wash
ington, having been rendered the office, says
he will accept it. The complain5 of the Post
master General against Fisher was in conse-
quence of the apparent listlessness and lack of
interest displayed in the preparation of the
Kinds case. Seeing this, and fearing that
Fisher had too much business in his office to
allow him to attend to these cases, the Post
master General offered assistance by the en-
ployment of assistant counsel which Fisher de-
clined. The Postmaster General reported this
fact to the President, and was directed by him
to again make the offer of assistance to Fisher.
He did so anG the offer was again declined.
Fisher assured the Postmaster General that he
would attend to the case. BY lack of interest
and failure to devote proper time to the case
before the trial, mistakes occurred which re-
suited in the acquittal of Kinds.
Cuba and Spain.
There are no recent developments whatever to
give the least color of truth to the rumor that
England and Germany are cooperating with
the United States in pressing upon the Spanish
government the policy of abandoning her West
Indian possessions, with view either to their
division among the three powers named or
their organization into a republic under the
protectorate, express or implied, of said powers;
nor has Great Britain or Germany ever hinted
at such cooperation. Both Great Britain and
Germany have been remarkably careful not o
offend the sensibility of the United States, the
latt tad ooaiO rloro
immovable adherence to the Monroe doctrine,
and which both Great Britain and Germ any
have said they would respect
1t has been ascertaned confdentially and
otherwise that the opinion of leading men in
Spain is that every day that the band that
unites Cuba with Spain becomes weaker and
that the separation Of the island from the moth
er country is merely the work of time, inde-
pendently of any action which may be taken
by the Spanish government.
) Treasury Balances.
The following are the Treasury balances of
to-day ay:ICuTrency, $2o49, ,Oa5 90; special deposit
of legal tenders for redemption of certificates of
deposit $61, ,225000; coin, $68, 1852, ,974, including
coin certificates, $23 291 800; outstanding legal
tenders, $375,771 $50.
Various Matters.
The President has signed the commission of
Francis B. Stockbridge of Washington to be
Minister resident at the Hague; the commits
mission of Christian Wellweber of Iowa, to be
Minister resident in ECUADOR, and that OF Geo.
III. Owen Of Vermont to be consul at Messina.
The commission of Adam Badeau to be Min
lister resident at Brussels has been sent to the
President for his signature.
The removal of the furniture and archives of
the Department of State to the new building
in proximity to the War and Navy departments
has commenced, and will be completed by
Mond ay, when the Secretary of Stlte will take
full possession.
The Secretary of the Interior has appointed
members of Congress elect Van Voorhees, of
Ohio, Parker of Missouri, and Indian Inspect
or Kemble as commission to visit the Osages
and examine Into their condition. Hon. John
Hancock of Texas, will be added to the COM
mission if he will accept the position.
p. G. Clark of Rhode Islapd has been ap-
pointed chief clerk of the Pension Bureau