River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1881-10-20
TELEGRAPHIC.
Condensed for Convenient and
Ready Reading.
WASHINGTON.


PRESIDENT ARTHUR has appointed O. p
Clarke first deputy commissioner of PEN
sions.
the goyernorship of any territory, but will
be otherwise provided for.
IT is said General Grant has asked the
retention of Major Pruden, one of the
clerks at the executive Office.
EX-SENATOR SPENCER is IN the city. 1t
is claimed he will have good billet in
this city under the new regime.
The Mexican government has appoint
ed commissioners to study the basis of a
commercial treaty with the United States.
WALKER BLAINE, son of the sec
rotary, has been nominated by
President Arthur TO be third assistant gee
rotary of state.
IT is understood that Secretary Win
dom will be candidate for reelection to
the senate from Minnesota, General Edg-
erton retiring in his favor.
GUfrEAU on the 18th inst. made a
written appeal to President Arthur for
aid and sympathy, which will be duly pre-
scented by Counsel Scoville
A SENSATIONAL rumor was started in
Washington Saturday stating that Guiteau
had taken poison and was dead. The only
foundation for ii was in his being dosed
with quinine for malaria.
TYNER, the first assistant postmaster
| general, has been invited to send in his
resignation. 1t is believed that Frank
| Hatton, of Burlington, Iowa, will be his
successor.
6 GENERAL JOHN BEATTY, the leader OF
the Ohio stalwarts. is at the National.
| He opposed Governor Fosters election
| because of his action in the breaking up
of the Packard government in Louisiana.
The extraordinary session of the senate
called by President Arthur. convened on
/ the 10Th inst, and was called to order by
| Secretary Burch. After some filibuster-
ing. Thomas f. Bayard. of Delaware was
| elected president pro tenn. 1t Is probable
| the further organization of the senate will
| be left till the December session.
| IT is stated that there is some reason to
| believe that President Arthur will appoint
| Chief Justice Gray, of Massachusetts,, to
the vacancy in the United States supreme
court caused by the death of Justice Cliff
ford. President Garfield had determined
on the appointment of Judge Gray at the
time he was shot.
THE first vignette of the late president
which will appear among the treasury IS
| sues will be upon the checks for the q per
cent bonds continued at 81 per cent.
| These checks embrace the first issue which
can be utilized for that purpose. In the
postofice department the vignette of the
| late president will be placed on the five
cent postage stamp.
! GUITEAU publishes a warning to the
| public to attempt no violence on him
under penalty of being shot dead by United
| States officials. There are at present no
indications that any attempt will be made
| to attack Guiteau when he is arraigned.
| Washington is too law-abiding a place.
| There are no strangers here who would be
suspected of such a purpose, and there
have nowhere been any indications of
| violence. On the days when it was very
possible that Guiteau might have been ar
raigned, there were no more than dozen
people around the courthouse, and they
were composed of colored people looking
| for work.
The announcement that General James
would remain in the cabinet for several
months to come and that there was pos
| sibility Mr.. MacVeagh might change his
determination to resign his portfolio, has
caused considerable comment here. Mr..
| MacVeagh to-day averred that he would
renew his request for the immediate APP
| pointment of his successor. but there are
many who hopo he will finally decide to
| keep the postmaster general company.
Mr.. James, in agreeing to remain, felt
that he was performing duty which he
owed to those who have been associated
with him in the prosecution of the star
route cases. The president is DESTROYS
that those who mapped out the investiga-
ton and completed the cases upon which
action has begun in the criminal court
should finish their labors. If the post
master general consulted his personal
wishes and interests he would leave the
cabinet instantly, but he intends to remain
now until the labors of those with whom
he has been associated in the work of re.
form are completed. The star route con
spirators are greatly worried because Mr.
| James has been asked by the president &c
remain until the cases are disposed of.