The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1880-03-31
CAPITAL CHATTER.
IN FAVOR OF MAKING INDIANAPOLIS PORT {
DELIvERY.

IN FAVOR OF MAKING INDIANAPOLIS A PORT or
DELIvERY.
WASHINGTON ID. G., March 26.-The COM
mittee on commerce has instructed Represent
ative Henderson to report favorablp bill
making Indianapolis port of delivery.
THEY FAIL TO CONCUR.
WASHINGTON, March 29.-The House COM
Senate amendments to the star route de-
ficiency bill.
THE EXCESS OF EXPORTS.
The excess OF exports over imports for the
was s2l2, ,29S, 1868; for the II months which ended
on February %, 1879, s29S, ,762,l67.
BEFORE THE EXODUS COMMITTEE.
The Senate Exodus committee held short
session to-day and examined A. Harris, prac.
ticing lawyer and Democrat, from Fort Scott,
grants, mostly from Texas, had come to Fort
Scott about 100 Of whom were men, the re-
mainder women and children. They were
generally in destitute condition, and de
pended for employment on odd jobs. He had
cOnverSed with quite number OF them, who
gave no other reason for emigrating than hard
times IN their section ofthe South, resulting
from a short crop last year, and their under
standing that Kansas was a favorable place to
move TO. They told him that some white men
had travelled through Texas and displayed to
negroes chromos representing negro family
located on a fine plantation in Kansas, with
a fine two-story white house, elegantly fur
nished, with a piano, fine carpets, ETC., white
servants and fine barns. These travelling
agents charged the negro emlgrants from So to
So each for purchasing their tickets.
Harris did not think the exodus was a politi-
cal movement in Kansas, as the Republicans
did not need Republican votes in that State
The people generally in his section of the State
he said, condemned the movement, es IL result
ed in bringing to the State pauperized laborers
who were not self-supporting, and were not
needed there.
SECRETARY EvARrs ON THE VENEZUELAN
CLAIMS.
Secretary Evarts, in report to the
president on the Venezuelan claims, which
the latter transmitted to Congress says
81 have come to the conclusion that no obliga-
tion ofjustice to Venezuela requires from this
Government an abrOgation OF these awards
and the institution or q new mixed commits
sion for the re-eXaminatton of the claims upon
which such awards have been made ON the
other hand a necessary attention to the rights
of our own citizens in whose behalf only after
long years of fruitless application to the JUS
a convention for the adjudication OF
their claims, precludes the remission OF
their demands To uncertain composition and
precariOus administration of a new commits
sion" In conclusion, the secretary says "that
II the department should proceed TO make dis
tributton upon all awards, Notwithstanding
the grave denunciatlOn OF Venezuela and the
Congressional committee of 1875 upon a great
number of them 1t should be done upon q
conclusion that this Government should in
Sist upon the payment of all these awards and
should make coercive measures to compel
their recognition and satisfaction by Vene
zeuela as fast. at least, as itS financial re-
sources would permit. The question should be
submitted 10 Congress for its determination
If Congress is not prepared to under
take coerclve measures, then, the sec
for the Govern nment 10 pursue but tC
institute ajudicIal investigation by a compe-
tent commission with adequate authority to
cline TO further press the payment OF, and what
awards ii would insist upon.