The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1880-03-11
From Washington.

The POstmaster-General issued an
consideration Of the action of the House in
appropriating $l,O700 0o for the continuance
of the "star SERVICE" and pending the &C.
ton of the Senate, further action under his
order Of the Goth directing that, on and after
the LIST of March, the mail service on "star
routes should be reduced to one trip per
week, ETC., should be suspended until further
notice.
The public debt statement for Feb
ruary makes the following exhibit: Total
debt (ncluding interest), 81, 1911, 463, S74. Cash
in Treasury, sl96.35l, 1853. Debt, less amount
in Treasury, ST. 95. 1l2,22l Decrease during
the month, s5,672, 40. Decrease since June
3d. 1872 $32, U95 OBS.
A FEW months ago negro was con-
victed of murder in West Virginia. The
Judge presiding, in accordance with the State
law, excluded colored men from the jury,
and the Court of Appeals sustained the rul-
ing. On the LIST the United States Supreme
Court reversed the ruling of the courts be-
low, and pronounced the trial and conviction
of the prisoner illegal, because lie was, by the
exclusion of his own race from the jury,
denied the equal protection of the law
guaranteed by the Fourteenth Amendment.
In the Virginia case, where q negro MUIR
derer had been tried by a jury composed
entirely of white men, the State laws
containing no prohibition ON colored citi-
zens from so serving, the Supreme Court
pronounces the action Of Judge Rives, of the
Federal bench, in removing the case to his
court for trial, wrong. In the case of the
State Judge who presided in the last-men-
toned trial, who was arraigned for persist
emily excluding colored men from juries, the
law not requiring it, it was held that the
complains against him were we'll founded
In the case of Davis, Deputy Collector in
Tennessee district, who while on q raid kill,
. moonshiner and was indicted for murder
q State court, it was decided that the KILN
was done BY him as an officer of the Unite,
States in the discharge of his duty, and tina:
II the provocatiOn had not been sufficient, lie
would have been amenable to Federal and
not State law. Justice Field dissented.
The coinage during February at the
United States minis amounted to total o.
$5,l69,969, of which sum 81, 3UO, 400 were t..
standard silver dollars.
The National Bank taxation cases
were decided by the United States Supreme
Court on the I'd, the Court holding that the
laws Of New York and Ohio virtually dis.
eliminate against bank stock in favor Of 9th.
er moneyed capital, and are in conflict with
Federal acts bearing on the subject.
The Commissioner of Agriculture, in
y recent letter to Representative LIE Fever,
says the wants of the Agricultural Depart
ment are many and urgent A suitable build
ing is needed for the accommodation Of en-
ployes, for the storage and handling Of seeds,
and for the continuous exhibition Of the agri-
cultural produce Of this great Nation. Com
missioner LIE Duo urgently recommends the
addition of divisions Of forestry, meteorology
and veterinary division, and, in summing ur
their needs, in . single phrase, says "the
Department needs opportunity"
A CONFERENCE was held in Wash
ington on the Sd between Secretary Schurz
and the Ute chieftains. The Iadians virtu.
ally agreed to accept the terms of the Gov.
eminent and cede their reservation. It wa
thought the White River Utes would be re
moved to the Uintah Reservation in Utah, and
that Ouray and the Uncompahgres would be
settled Ia severalty on Grand River, Utah. Al
previous interview the Southern Ute dele.
cation consented to give mp their present
reservation. They would probably be located
on the strip Of land bOrdered on the Ii
Plata River in New Mexico, and near the
Navajo Reservation.
PRESIDENT HAYES has withdrawn
from the Senate the nomination Of p. B. 8