Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1877-03-03

dentelect in the Vice Presidents room. All
republican and many democratic senators called
to pay their respects. and were presented BY Sem
ator Ferry. Subsequently large number Of the
and rendered congratulations.
Vice President Wheeler Arrives.
Vice President-elect Wheeler arrived at Wash
ington at one o'clock to-day and proceeded at
once to the capital where he arrived shortly after
Gov. Hayes.
The Louisiana Case.
Representatives Ellis, Gibson and Colburn of
Louisiana called on President Grant to-day, who
showed them two kilograms prepared to be sent
to Gen. Anger and to Gov. Packard. Gen. Au-
ger Is informed that hereafter the troops must
not be used for political purposes in Louisiana,
but Tor the purpose only OF preserving the public
peace, and IN aid of the civil authorities when the
latter are powerless to dos so.
The telegram to Packard was TO the effect that
the policy of maintaining state government by
federal troops must be abandoned, as such use Of
federal troops would not be in accordance with
public sentiment.
The following kilograms have just been fur
nished by the War Depaltment;-
Headquarters of the Army,
Washington, March 2, lS77--l2 20 z. NJ.
To Gen. &. Z. Augur, Commanding the Depart
ment of New Orleans:
The following despatch has gone to Gov Pack
ard and is hereby sent to you for information and
6O'eihulSHt' NF>lRHcuJ,
WIN. L. SHERMAN General.
Executive Mansion,
Washington, ID. c., March |, 1877.
TO Gov. S. b. Packard New Orleans Louisiana /:
10 answer to your despatch of this date the
president directs me to say that he feels it hi, du
ty TO state frankly that he does not believe pub
lie opinion will longer support the maintenance of
state government in Louisiana by the use of
the military, and that he must concur in this
manifest feeling. The troops will hereafter as in
the past protect life and property from mob vio-
lence when the state authorities fail, but under
the remaining days of his official life they will not
be used 10 establish or pull down either claimant
for the control of the State 1t is not his purpose
TO recognize either claimant.
tSigned) &C. SNiFFEN, Secretary.
Financial.
The report Of the majority of the silver com
mission to congress says: The cause of the re-
cent change in relation of gold and silver are
mainly the demonstration of silver bv Germany,
United States, and other countries, and the clos
ing OF minis against silver, which resulted from
these demonstrations. These principal causes
were aided by the contemporaneous diminution of
the Asatlc demand for silver, and by the enorm-
Gus exaggerations of the actual and prospective
yield OF the Nevada silver mines, and the effect OF
all these causes principal and accessory reached
the eliminating point in the panic IN July 1876 in
the London silver markes. Many of these causes
are essentially temporary. The active demand
for silver has already recovered its accustomed
force, and the delusion in respect to the Nevada
mines no longer exist. In the opinion of the
commission if the United States estore the double
standard the progress of denonetlzing silver will
be decsivcly checked.