Northern Ohio journal. [volume] (Painesville, Ohio) 1872-1896, 1880-04-17
Washington.

Washington.
JUDGE WRIGHT, who was recently
sentenced to thirty days imprisonment and
1000 fine for assaulting ex-Secretary Delano,
has been pardoned by the President.
GENERAL LOVE, of Indiana, has been
appointed member of the Board of Mar
lgers of the Soldiers Homes, In place of Joel
Parker, of New Jersey.
JOHN T. SWIFT, of California, and
William H. Trescott, of South Carolina, have
been confirmed as Commissioners to China, to
negotiate treaty.
JAMES B. ANGEL, of Michigan, was
confirmed as Minister to China on the 9th.
The amount of postage stamps,
stamped envelopes and postal cards issued to
postmasters upon requisitions during the first
nine months of the present fiscal year aggre-
gate in value $23, 979, 1876, an increase over the
issues for the corresponding nine months of
the previous fiscal year of 50, 016,052
Hon. WILLIAM A. HOWARD, Governor
pfDakota, died at Washington City on the 11th.
A BILL has been reported in the House
appropriating S6T 600 for the completion of
The Washington monument.
The Democratic Senatorial caucus, on
the 10th, concluded to postpone action upon
KelIogg,s case until after the Geneva Award
bill, the Appropriation bill and other impor-
tant legislation shall have been considered.
A COMMITTEE representing the organ
lzation of the Union of American Hebrew
Congregations has presented to the Secretary
of State a remonstrance against the Czar's al
legged recent cruel discrimination to the injury
of Russian Jews, and asking that the Minister
of the United States at the Court of st. Peters
hIIror no tad tn inf ha naff far.
and, if the report be confirmed, to enter re-
spectful protest in the interest of religious
freedom and suffering humanity, as reflected
In the Declaration of Independence.
The President, on the 18th, transmit
ted to the House of Representatives the fol-
lowing report of Secretary Evarts in relation
to the Chinese investigation: ss Secretary Ev-
arts says that on April %, 1879, when the Amer
lean Minister was about to return to his mission
in China, he was specially instructed that, as
the Chinese Ministers in this country were
understood not to have been furnished with
powers or instructions to treat in regard to
questions growing out of the presence OF
their people in California, it would be neces-
sary to conduct negotiations on that subject
In Peking. The character of Chinese move
ments toward our Pacific coast, and the con-
tract system under which much OF it was
believed to be contracted, was specifically
called to his attention and he was informed
the Government shared apprehensions enter
tanned on the Pacific coast that social and
political arrangements must result from the
excessive increase OF that people. He was
instructed to press earnestly on the Chinese
Government the grounds of that apprehen-
sion and invite a full and frank discussion
as to the proper course of negotiation to re-
lieve it; but, our own people resident
in China enjoy many important treaty privil
eyes, and as it was desirable TO work out the
results sought without disturbing the goo6
feeling now existing between the two coun
tries or impair the opportunities and prospects
inuring to us under the existing treaties, he
was directed to ascertain with precision the
disposition of the Chinese Government and *
give assurances which would enable US to pro
ceed with such further negotiations as migh
be deemed necessary
GENERAL MILES, who was in Wash
ington on the 18th, reported that the Sioux In
dams were anxious to surrender themselves te
the Government.