The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1880-07-07
NEWS AT THE CAPITAL.
AnArcH OF RECENT APPOINTMENTS
RY THE PREsIDENT.
Cabinet MeetIng-Arrest of Deputy Col.
iectors in GeorEia-InterestinE Sta.
tistica Concerning the Fisheries
-oyer.crowded steamships
General News. {"
REcENT APPoINTMENT.


-Gsneral News IN
RECENT APPOINTMENT.
WARRINGTON, July e.-J.s Bigbee ha
been appointed United States District At
torney for Georgia, vice H. P. Farrow
Roland B. Kinne, Of Milesburg, Centr,
county, Pa, register OF land Office q
Yakima, Washington Territory; James E
Wharton, surveyor Of customs at Ports
mouth, Ohio; Andrew Y. Dument, nava
officer at New Orleans, vice James Levi
suspended; ]. Mason Rice, collector o.
customs at st Marys, Georgia, vice Thos
N. Blodgett.
The President to-day appointed VIM
A. Stone, United States District Attorney
for the Western District Of Pennsylvania
and Chas. o. Waters, United States Dis
trict Attorney for the District OF Arkansas
q reappointment. Attorney.General Dew.
ems, to whom was referred the selection ol
District Attorney at st. Louis, has vir-
tually decided TO recommend the reap
pointment Of the present incumbent.
Secretary Sherman has gone 10 New
York and expects to be absent about
week.
CABINET MEETING.
At the Cabinet meeting to-day some dis.
cussion arose regarding the recent firing
into the American schooners on the
Cuban coast. The information received
at the Department of State from the Span
ish Government Is that there is no such
Spanish vessel as the Nuncio, and the au-
thorities OF that Government are inclined
TO the impression that the vessel which
over-hauled the American schooner was
run by pirates.
Some time was devoted to considering
the different candidates for the position Of
District Attorney at st. Louis, but no con-
clusion was reached.
The question OF Ex-Governor Hartranft
not yet having accepted the Collectorship
OF Philadelphia was discussed. II
was thought he would be heard from
within day or two.
ARREST OF DEPUTY COLLECTORS.
Internal revenue commissioner, Raum,
received telegram announcing the arrest
under State process, OF several deputy
collectors engaged in the Red Oak affair,
Campbell county, Georgia, in which one
Of the parties was killed by revenue Off.
Ger, who alleges that the firing on their
part was in self defense. General Raum,
after comforting with Attorney General
Deyens, telegraphed for tie Assistant Dis
trict Attorney to appear in behalf OF the
revenue officers who are under arrest, and
to take out writs OF habeas corpus with
the view TO transferring the cases to
court.
COMMISSIONS SIGNED.
The President to-day signed the COM
missions OF David NJ. Key, Of Tennessee,
to be United States District Judge Of the
eastern and middle districts Of Tennessee,
and OF Horace Maynard, Of Tennessee, to
be Postmaster. General OF the United
States.
PRESIDENTS POWER TO APPOINT DURING
RECESS OF CONGRESS.
Attorney-G General Devens has given an
opinion on the power OF the President to
appoint during recess Of Congress to
vacancies, occurring either during the re-
cess or during the sessions of the Senate,
and appointments for which the Senate
may have failed to confirm. The opinion
was ELECTED by letters from Secretary
Sherman, relative to the appointment OF
John F. Hartranit Collector at Philadel-
phia. The Attorney-General says:
am OF the opinion that the vacancy in
the Collectorship OF the Port OF PAiladel.
phia, having occurred during the session
OF the Senate, and the Senate having ad-
journed without acting on denomination
sent to 1t, the President may now appoint
the nominee, or any other person.. TO fill
the vacancy by temporary commission,
to expire at the end OF the next session OF
the Senate, and that the condition OF the
office Is not affected by the provisions OF
tenure Of the office act, and will
not be until the end OF the next session OF
the Senate without confirmation oil the
nominee.
After o careful examination, am salts.
fed that not only has this practice Of
Presidents been uniform In this regard,
but that 1t has been sustained whenever
brought into controversy by the advice OF
the respective Attoney-Generals.
FACTS ABOUT THE FISHERIES.
Prof. Baird is organizing the portion Of
the Federal census work relating to fish
cries. The report will include imports and
exports Of fish and fish products from 1920
to the present time, beside foreign ship
ments. A few Of these tables have been
prepared and exhibit some remarkable
features, such as the growth Of the oyster
export trade from sS5,osS in 1885, when
the first reliable Information begins, to
s45S, ,S06 in 1879, and the decrease in the
exports Of spermaceti candles, which in
1885 amounted to si5l, l,9O7 and in 1857 was
but SIS, ,l2l, since which time it has gradu-
ally fallen OFF to condition Of absolute
stagnation. The work is divided into
several sections, each one in the hands Of
an expert in his particular branch.
R. E. Earll has charge Of the Atlantic
coast fisheries. He was formerly in charge
OF the propagating department Of the
United States Fish Commission. Capt. j..
W. Collins, for thirty years in the halibut
and cod fishery Of Gloucester, Mass, is
his assistant, Silas stearne, q naturalist
OF note, Is In charge Of the Gulf coast,
and has with him s. I. Walker, q collector
OF specimens, long In the employ OF the
Smithsonian Institution. Ludwig Kum-
leln, late with the polars Arctic expedition
as naturalist, looks after the great lakes.
D. S. Jordan will report on the sea fisher
les OF the Pacific coast. He Is also q nat
uralists OF high repute, famous for the dis
coYery OF several new varieties OF hsh.
Charles G. Atkins the Fish Commissioner
OF Maine, has charge Of the river fisher
les Of that State. Col. Marshall McDon-
aid, holding the same Office in Virginia,
will report on the Southern rivers, includ:
ing the Potomac. Ernst Ingersoll, well
known in literature, has been retained 70
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