Eureka daily sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1871-1887, 1878-02-12

an empty appeal to the mercy OF the
Court.
In the House, Ewing, Buckner and
Phillips, u Committee of the Com
mittee on Banking and Currency, have
agreed on a substitute for Buckner's
bill. 1t to retire national
bank notes as they may be received by
tie Treasury through legitimate busi-
,eess channels, and substitute therefor
Treasury notes, to be receivable for all
duties to the Government, and funda-
bile in four per cent. bonds at par.
Banks may voluntarily retire their cir.
culating notes and receive for them four
per cent. bonds.
At the conclusion Of the morning
hour, the House resolved itself into "A
Committee OF the Whole on the cousid-
Grafton Of the Military Academy bill.
A large number OF petitions from all
| parts of the country in favor OF the Six
teenth Amendment to the Constitution,
| prohibiting States ron di>franchising
persons on account of sex, was pre-
scented and referred.
General Mcmillan has withdrawn his
claims for the Collector>hip of the port
of New Orleans. in favor of II. r.
Steele, who held a high judicial posi-
ton under the Kellogg Government.
1t is said the President is disposed to
| yield 10 the pressure in favor of Pack
ard for the place.
Minister Foster, of the Foreign AT
fairs Commission, said in the House,
on Saturday, that the hostile feeling
toward this country which previled in
Mexico when Diaz became President,
did a great deal to unite the various
factions and cause them to give their
support solidly to the Diaz Admins
tratiou. He was of the opinion, had it
not been for this fact, that the Diaz
Government to-day would be counted
among the things that were. With
reference to the authority of the Diaz
Government IN the provinces neal the
Rio Graude frontier, Foster said it was
very limited. DiaZ seems practically
powerless to influence the provincial
officials in their attitude toward the
United States. AS a case in point,
Foster cited an instance in which Diaz
had sent General Blanco to Governor
Canales with orders to arrest certain
Mexicans who bad broken open the
Ledas Jail, at Rio Grande city, and
liberated a number of murder
ers, and Canales positively re-
fused to obey the orders sent.
Foster also called attention to the fact
that, although the Diaz Government
had sent troops to the Rio Grande with
orders to co operate with our military
forces in the suppression of depreda-
tons, and had paid the second install
ment of the award of the Claims inn
mittee, the Mexican newspapers at the
capital are emphatic in their intima-
tons that these acts must not be re-
garded as concessions to our demands.
or as relinquisbing a defiant refusal of
the people of Mexico to allow terms 10
be imposed on them as conditions pre-
cedent to our recognition of the Diaz
Government. Should this recognition
he forthcoming, Foster thought Diaz
would consent to the appointment oil
Commissioners to settle the unadjuii-
Gated claims between the citizens of
Mexico and the United States, and
would exert his best efforts to suppress
troubles on the border.
Completed his Walk.
New ORLEANS, Feb. II.
Henry Schimehl, the pedestrian,
completed, at St. Patrick's Hall, at 1880
Yesterday afternoon. his walk of 500
miles, in AZ hours. II minutes and 55
seconds, having ~ minutes 10 spare.
A collision.
NEW YORK, Feb. IL.
The brig Carrie Winslow, from Mon
tevideo, and the ship British America,
from London, collided early this morn
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