Daily Los Angeles herald., 1878-07-28
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The 1. b.r .f..ae Drowned Out.


rain this afternoon put an end I
the labor troubles at the Washing
ton monument. Esry in the da
the presence of a large police fore
was necessary to preserve the prop
erty of the contractors. In othC
portions of the city q gang of me
visited those engaged at less thai
ST so per day and persuaded then
to quit.
The NUr'a Gar i.a Revenus
WAsuINGToN,July 27.-The cred
1t of maintaining the sovereignty o
the Federal Government and o.
making the issue with North Caro-
lima about the revenue, belongs tc
Secretary Evarts, not to the Presi
dent or Gen. Devens, both of whom
were in favor of allowing the case!
to go to The Supreme Court of tina
State on appeal. Secretary Evarts
who was called into the conference
took a very positive stand in favol
of the Government, asserting it'
right to control the cases, anC
was so determined that no othel
course was open to the Administra.
ton. The President suspended
his orders and directed the Marshal
to adopt the course RECOMMENDED by
Evarts. It's known that the Pres.
ident and General Devens were de.
sirous of avoiding any conflict with
the State authorities and had about
decided not to have the cases trans
ferred.
striLe-s Di-persed by P"itcr.
CHICAGO, July 27.-The Journ-
ats Washington's special says:
In anticipation that the rioters who
yesterday stopped work on the ex-
cavations for the new government
building for the Bureau of Engrav-
ing and Printing, would renew
their demonstration to-day, large
police force was early on the
ground to protect the workmen.
Before 7 o'clock the contractor an.
nounced that he intended to pay
his hands 81 25 per day, but this
was not satisfactory to the 200 or
800 idle workingmen. When the
hour arrived for beginning work,
they were greeted with
shouts of, "Stop work; We will moi
let a man work for less than 81 sc
a day. There being some indica
ton that the crowd assembled in.
tended to resort to force, the
mounted police charged upon
them and drove them in all direc'
tions. They were followed for sew.
eral blocks and several shots were
fired by the police to stimulate
their movements. They went
went off threatening to come
back several hundred strong
and wipe out the police.
1t has required the presence of
nearly fifty policemen to keep the
streets approaching the monument
lot, near which the new building
is to be built, clear of the disorder
ly crowd of idle ineD. A majority
of the rioters are negroes, the resi-
being Irish. Tue police believe
that they eau quell any riot which
may occur, but in order to afford
protection to tue men who are
working, some sections of the city
are lefi without single policeman
to protect valuable property. a
force of marines is held in readi.
ness to assist the police, in the
event of the rioters becoming too
strong.
wants &" SiRe II ,hr r,r~tdent
WASHINGTON, July PA prom
inent Georgia Democrat, writing
to the Postmaster-General in re-
gard to the Independent movement
in that State, says: The strength of
the Independent movement in
Georgia is greater than you or any
one else outside of the State imag-
ines. The Democratic party lead
ers are very much alarmed and ad-
nit that a Democratic defeat in
1880 would dissolve the party in
Georgia. The writer expresses dis
gust for Northern Democrats and
says as class that they bear about
the same relation to the Republic
can party of the North that the
Of the South bear to
the Southerners who have hereto
fore acted with the Democratic
party. He desires his name with
held from the press until the move
ment shall take shape. Conclud-
ing, lie says: II want no Office,
aud only write to stiffen you and
the President in perseverance in
following a straight road in which
| never knew man TO get lost.o
The Potter InvesiIgatIOn.
ATLANTIC CITY, n. j., July 81
Elk Congressman Morey's testi-
mony continued-The witness in
cidentally said that he had one or
two interviews with the President
at great length, during which wit
ness argued that the withdrawal of
troops from New Orleans and not
maintaining the Packard govern
ment would be the destruction of
the Republican party in the South.
The President took the position
that the Republican party could no
longer maintain that policy which
had lost New York to the Republi-
cans and the party had become
weaker in consequence; therefore
the good Of the party demanded a
change. The President treated the
subject as of national concern.
Witness said so far as he knew, no
returns had been thrown out by the
Returning Board on insufficient
proof. There was q movement to
make Nichols Governor even to
the extent of violence.
Gen. Butler interrosed, saying,
why did Nichols have the aid of
the President and the McVeagh
Commission?
Witness-I wish, gentlemen, you
would distribute these questions
among others.
Gen. Butler-We have been ask
ing many of them because it is SO
rare that we have an honest wit
ness.
Morey testified that it was a ne-
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