The Hawaiian gazette., 1881-06-15
General sHsrIf.sn5ie.
Late EoreIgn teens.

were received by the Ella which arrived
from San Francisco on the 9Th inst.
WASHINGTON, May l6th.-The Vice Pre-
sident laid before the Senate the following
communication
WASHINGTON, May 16. 1881.
SIR: Will You please announce to the
Senate that my resignation as Senator Of
the United Statee from the State of New
York has been forwarded to the Governor
of that State. have the honor to be,
with great respect, your obedient servant,
Roscoe CoNKLING.
This communication caused great SEN
sation which was heightened when the
Vice President laid the following before
Senate.
SENATE CHAMBER, May l6, 1881.
SIR: l have forwarded to the Governor
of the State of New York my resignation
as Senator of the United States for the
State of New York. Will you please
announce this fact to the Senate. With
great respect, your obedient servant,
TIC. PLATT.
1t is rnmored that General Grant was
advised by telegraph of the resignation of
Senators Conkling and Platt, and invited
10 return from Mexico Immediately in
order to take part. in some programme of
important consequence. 1t is further said
that he has telcgraphed his acceptance of
the request, that he will shortly return to
New York and thereupon be announced as
a candidate for election to the United
States Senate from that State or exert his
utmost influence to procure the reelection
of CoukIing and Platt. Rumor also says
that the programme will be for Platt To
decline reelection IN favor Of Grant, and
that the stalwarts will endeavor to send
Grant and Conkling to the Senate together.
Texas has recently enacted law, which
has been approved by the Governor, Civ
ing pension of public lands to all Con-
federate soldiers who enlisted in that State.
SAN Francisco, May 2Oth.-The South
ern Pacific Railroad has been finished
to FL Paso, Texas, md trains have
commenced running in and out of that
city. FL Paso is 1885 7-l0 miles from
San Francisco. The regular southern
train from this city yesterday was the first
through train started direct to Ell Paso.
1t is understood that the work Of road
building will be pushed forward to the
Gulf of Mexico, the line having already
been surveyed and all the steel rails needed
for it ordered. Next Monday a special
excursion train will run from this city to
Ell Paso, which place will be reached on
the following Wednesday Dight at 10
o'clock The train will leave Ell Paso to
return on Saturday, the 2Sth, and reach
here on the 3lst, at 3:a5 P. NJ.
The Southern Pacific Railroad Company
has also determined to extend the Will
mingtou, Los Angeles county, branch to
deep water within the line Of breakwater.
For that purpose a survey has been made.
Surveyors will soon be sent into the
field to run a line from Fort Yuma to deep
water at Port Isabel, at the head Of the
Gulf of California A line Of. steamboats,
will be placed by the Railroad Company TO
run from-Point Isabel to Hermosilo, Quay
mas and other Gulf of California ports,
for the deveIopement of the trade of that
region, in which this city, Los Angeles
and San Beruardino are expected to be
benefited, on the one hand, aud the Next
can ports named on the other.
WASHINGTON, May 20th.-The report of
the Secretary of State in the case of
Michael p Boyton, Minister Lowell, and
Consul Barron, sets forth that Boyton was
one of the defendants of the traversers in
the late prosecution at Dublin, aud was
proceeded against in common with the
prominent members from Ireland and the
officers of the Irish Land League That
proceeding was terminated on the 18th of
January aud no claim of American citizen
ship was presented in behalf of Boyton.
Boyton, however, visited the United States
Consul at Dublin in November, and pro-
duced passport issued him by the State
Department, under date of November Goth,
1866, requesting its visa. Barrow sent to
Lowell in February the correspondence had
with the Department and mentioned the
circumstances that 'Boyton had told him
he was not a native-born citizen of the
United States, having been born in Ire
land and taken to America when child.
On the Doth of March last the British
Parliament passed a measure known as
the - Coercion Act" Under that statute
warrant of arrest for Michael II. Boytou,
of Kildare, was issued, and Boyton was
arrested on the 9Th of March. He at once
telegraphed to Minister Lowell, demanding
the protection of the United States, and |
Minister Lowell thereupon had several
interviews with the British Secretary of
State fer Foreign Affairs in regard to Boy |
toms complaint, and also instructed Barrow
to visit the prisoner and obtain proof in
regard to his American citizenship, and if
the fact of such citizenship was sufficiently |
ascertained, to make energetic steps for
his protection. Barrows visited Boyton,
and received from him a circumstantial |
declaration that he was born in Ireland in
1916, and his father emigrated to the
United States in 1859, and he (the younger
Boyton) served in the United States Navy /
in lS64-65. He advanced claim to citi-
zenship, on the ground that he had become
a citizen by service in the United States
Navy; meanwhile the State deputatiou
gave to the Boyton case urgent attention
cue to its exceptional gravity. That
Michael P Boyton has for years honestly
believed himself a citizen OF tho United
States, aud that he has lived and acted in
that belief without troubling himself to