The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1880-03-30
WAS EIuGTON

WASHINGTON, March 90 The Senate
| ratified the French claims treaty.
The Senate Exodus Commi hearC
A. Harris. of Fort Scott, Kan. Dem
| ocrat. who testified that 100 colored mer
and 800 women and children iD a destitut,
condition had come to his section. com
planning only of hard times in the Soutl
on account of short crops. They haC
been msled by gorgeous pictures OF plenty
and ease obtainable in Kansas. People
generally in Kansas condemned the move
| % ent, which was not political, but speGu-
iatiVe.
Exports exceed imports for the year
ending Feb. 20, by $2l2. 26S. sos. Ex-
cess OF the preceding year was 1922, 1862.
l67.
The Senate in executive session appoint
ed to be United States Consul HC. Mars
ton, of Illinois. at Malaga Indian Agen,
Edward Fl, Bowman, OF Illinois, to the
Pawnee agency, Indian territory.
TIE House Committee on Coinage.
Weigh and Measures Instructed Repre-
senta i've Cahin TO report to the House
his substitute for Representative Jones
oill relating to coinage and coin. The sub
stitute provides tor the recoinage of silver
coins OF the United States OF the denomi-
nation of half dollars of the weight pro
yided by the act of Feb IL, 1873. 1872
grains, now in the Treasury of the United
States, or that may hereafter he paid into
tbe treasury into silver halt dollars of
206} grains or proportlouate fuIl standard
weight of the legal tender silver dollar,
and that such half dollars be receivable for
all duties public and private.
The following nominations of Census
Supervisors were rejected. William L.
Brown. Metropolis City, Eighth district
of illinois, and Spencer Smith, Council
Bluffs, Third district OF Iowa,
Secretary Evarts. 10 report to the
Presidents on the Venezuela claims,
which the latter transmitted to Congress
TO day, says; | have come to the con
clusion that DO obligation of justice to
Venezuela requires from this government
an abrogation of the awards and an in
stitution of new mixed commission tor
the re examination of claims upon
which such awards have been made. On
the other hand necessary attention to the
rights of our own citizens in whose behalf
only after long years of fruitless applica-
ton to Venuzela were we ably to conclude
convention for adjudication of their
claims, precludes a remission of their
demands to the uncertain composition and
precarious administration of a new COM
mission In conclusion the Secretary says
If tb.t department should proceed to
make distribution upon all awards, not
withstanding The grave denunciation OF
Venezuela aud of the Congressional Com
mittee of 1876 upon a great number of
them, it should be done upon conclusion
that this government should insist upon
thepayment of all these awards aDi should
take coercive measures to compel their
reeougnition and satisfaction by Venezuela
es fast, at least. as its financial resources
should permit. The question should be
submitted to Congress tor its determination
and if Congress is not prepared to under
take coercive measures then the Secre-
tary says there seems no other course for
the goyernm ent to pursue but to institute
judicial investigation by q competent
com mission,