The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1880-08-25
Last Nights Dispatches.
WAS sHINGPoE.

| " AohtNG1ONs mug Af.-A uo sesSlUi
of the Cabinet meeting to- day lastet
about half hour, No question of pub
| lie interest was considered. The Presiden
will not issue the Chinese proclamation
until the pending investigation with regarc
to Chinese discrimination against United
States vessels is concluded and shown con
clusively that no discriminating tonnage el
import duties are levied upon United
States vessels by the Chinese government
The President informed the Cabine.
that he would leave Washington Thursday
to visit the Pacific coast.
The Secretary of the Treasury has
placed the latest schedules of the quarter
ly dividend of interest at the disposal OF
the Superintendent of the tenth census.
j will show where the Indebtedness of the
country is owned. bow much in each state
and territory, how much In every city
containing more than 10000 inhabitants,
and how much in foreign countries.
There are large number of pardons
that are to be brought before the Presi-
dent before he leaves for the West. 1t
is said the cases of three negro murderers.
under the sentence to be hung here Sept.
80, twere placed in the hands of Judge
Gray. the Pardon Clerk of the Depart
meut of Justice to day. Il is not thought
LOWCNCAs kbot tuS l. iCOiuSuk Will
as they had an unusually loag and search
ing trial, and all thel delays and appeals
known to the law have been resorted to by
their attorneys. The cases of the Chicago
whisky distillers aud Gen. Macarthur have
not been settled, and nothing will be done,
it is expected, in these matters until the
President returns,
The Presidents party is preparing to
start Thursday. In addition to the Presi-
dents family there will be the Secretary
of War.and Gen. Sherman and family
Gen. Sherman has decided to take Mrs
Aadenreid along. the widow of his late
favorite aid -de-camp, who has been com
pletely broken down with grief since the
death Of her husband. The party goes
direct to San Francisco, then overland
north to OREGON to Pgges Sound, then
back by sea to San francisco; thence south
by the Southern California road to Fort
Yuma, across ARIZONA to Tucson, and
west to the termination of the road. The
party will then go overland TO the western
terminus of the Atchison, Topeka & Santa
Fe and home. They will occupy two
months in the trip. The President takes
with him to use in his speeches large
amount OF carefully prepared statistic in-
formation relative to the production of
gold and silver and as to the effects of re
sumption, This Information will be used
in speeches to be delivered on the paGiac
coast,
Horatio Burchard, OF Illinois. Director
of the Mint, has returned from an ex-
tended tour to the Pacific coast and in
the West, undertaken for the purpose Of
the miDts of the Pacific
coast and of the mining region. Mr.
Burchard finds that the product o:
silver is somewhat diminished. and that
the mining business is conducted by
large capitalists more than it hitherto
has been. He will embody the results of
bis Investigation IL report to the score |
tarY OF the treasury on the condition of |
the silver Yield, he having been assigned |
to that dety. Mr., Burchard found that |
in the Mississippi Valley there was an |
urgent demand for moro silver, as there |
was an inadequate supply of small notes |
and of silver dollars. II also found less |
com plant against silver among its oppo- |
nents than was noticed last year. The |
political. situation on the Pacific coast be |
regards as favorable to the Republicans, |
the Workingm9n's party not feeling dis |
posed to coalesce with the Democrats,
One Of the first matters to be called TO
the attention of MinisteE Maynard when |
he arrives here to assume the duties of |
postmaster general will be the case of
Miriam. upon whom Minister Maynard |
passed the sentence of death in June last |
for the murder of Dahain, a Murkish |
subject. Strong efforts are being made to
secure the pardon of Mirxap. and there |
are grave doubts expressed in the cabinet, |
aotably by Mr.. Evarts it is said. as to the |
constitutionaity of the law which permits |
one of our consular or ministerial officers
to pass sentence of death without trial ty
jury, In this case Minister Maynard sat !
alone as Judge and Jury. Mr.. EVarts is |
also reported as having SAID that no one |
should be hung under like circumstances,
and without jury trial, SO long az be was
minister of state and had an Influential |
voice in the management of foreign affairs. |