Arizona weekly citizen., 1881-10-30

| the Senate, m dIsbUrslnS moneys Tor its expenses. He then moved to appoint as Chief Clerk, Shaber, as Acting Secre- tary.
 Pendleton stated that he had been prepared to offer a similar resolution. Adopted.
 1 The Presidents message was referred to the Committee on Foreign Relations.
 In transmitting the answer of the Secretary of State to the Senate a reso- lutiOn asking whether tie government had taken any action since the last Con- | gress to protect tie rights and interests of the Panama Canal, was referred.
 Tse Panaria Canal
 WAsHISGTOY, October 25.-S Secretary Blaine has addressed a letter of instrUc- tons to Ministers at European Courts \ for their guidance in questions likely to arise in connection with the Panama Ca nal. The letter, in fact, emphasized the | Monroe Doctrine, holding that while the | United States declines Go interfere with the guarantees of European powers in I connection with European affairs, 1t will insist upon those powers rcfraiuing from any interference by mutual guarantee or l otherwise with the question. The United | States has great interest. TEe letter calls attention to the development of the | Pacific Coast and the importance of the canal as means of Uuited States trans continental travel.
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 NEW YORK, October 2G-Eev. Henry Ward Beecher retirus from Jdc editorial management of the Christian Union and | IS succeeded by MT. Abbott, long asso- ciated with the paper.
 The secresaIy5hip oi the Treasury. WASHINGTON, October a6.-Since the declination of ex-Goyeruor Morgan. the probability of ConklnE's being offered the Secretaryship of the Treasury is be- ing freely discussed here. It is general ! ly conceded that the Secretary ship of the Treasury will go Go New YoIk. The Michigan Fire Sufferers.
 CHICAGO. October 1C. Ex-Governor : Baldwin announces that much larger . sum of money IS needed for the IicLi- 1 gan sufferers. There are twenty-five hun : dred destitute iamiiies.
 Capital GOzzlp.
 WAsHNGTOS, Oct. Z6.-Ile President has received telesraphic information that ex-Goveruor Morgan has positively de- clined the Secretaryship of the Treasury. The letter embGdyluE lis decision and l setting forth the reason ui decinstiOn Is . nov on the way tO W ;sin.-ton.
 The President has a-Giu asked Mac 1 Neagh to remain in the Cabinet, because . he warmly admires E.m or because he 1 desires tO disarm criticisms in the Star Route frauds.
 MacVeagh is said to have offended the 1 other Secretaries by tLe frank avowal . that the President has 60 right Co choose . hls own advisers. He also says that if | the Star Route prosecutions iail, it will ! not be for lack oi rgsodhty; that there 1 will be evidence enough t1 send a dozen . men to the peniJentiay.
 The Seuate confirmed II. II. Ganett ! as Minister to Liberlg, and J. C. Mcbride | as postmaster at Lincoln, Nebraska.
 The Grand Jury has indicted Captain . Howgate for forging the name of R. Ii. ! Rochester, Treasurer of tle Western Unien Telegraph Company, to receipts 1 amounting to thirty thousand dollars.
 The Senators are getting impatient at the Presidents delay in forming his CabI- net. In executive session a motion was made to adjourn sine dle, and during the discussion 1t was announced that the | President would not delay Senators | longer than Friday evening.
 Assistant-Secretary French was this | morning appointed Acting Secretary of the Treasury.
 First Assistant Postmaster General | Tyner has resigned, iutimating that he has given up the fight. He had prepared | a statement denying the truth of the ! charges against hlm.
 A trief Cabinet session was held to- day.
 Tiffany Instructions.
 WAsHISGroS. October 26-Acting h. dian Commissioner Stevens has instruct cd Agent Tiffany, at San Carlos Agency, to turn over to the military the return ing Apaches, known to have been hos tile.
 The Hrs. Garfield Fund.
 NEW YORK, October 26.-The total amount of the Mrs. Garfield Fund t1 date is S36l, ,19l.
 Judge TynoI.
 WAsmNGTON, October 2G.-It is re- ported that Judge Tyuer has rendered President Arthur his resignation as First Assistant POsmastCr-General.
 The Guitsau Gaze.
 WASHINGTON, October 26-District Attorney Corkhill las received a tcle- gram from Judge Porter, of New York, stating that he will assist Government counsel in the prosecution or Guiteau. Alter argument by ScoVilo, Judge Cox postponed Guiteau's trial to November 14th. ScOville stated in bis opinion that the Court had jurisdiction and intimated that he would not raise any question on that point. Judge Lawrence, Assistant Comptroller of the Treasury, decided that Guiteau's witnesses living over one hundred miles outside the jurisdiction of this District Court cannot be paid by the Government.
 Morgan Positively Dooiine7. WASHINGTON. October g6-A Senator who left the Presidents residence at noon states that a messenger arrived this morning bringing letter from ex- Governor Morgan, in which Inc posi- lively and finally declined tle Secreta- | ryship of the Irea5ury, and informed { the President that it would he useless to expect any reconsideration. this letter, I it appears, was written iu response t0 . | telegram sent from here yesterday urg- ing Morgan tO acceIt. jp Co late hour last night the President clung to the hope that Morgan might te persuaded ! Ab Aft4N tilNt'tA4t.tA all such idea. The President is cmbar- rassed in consequence of MorCan's re- ! fusal, and for the present ar least Is un- decided what to d0, and apparently is considering the policy of bridging over Cabinet matters until December by per- ; hitting Assistant Secretary French to remain at the head O, tLc Treasury and requesting Attorney General MacVeagh to remain in office until chen. Mac Yeagh Is out of the city, hut as Ee has ' told the President he wouiI continue in ; the Cabinet until his successor should ] be appointed, it is not presumed he ( would refuse service until December. l
 senass Special sezs.5r. WAsHINGroS, October 2i--EausOm l ! offered resolution fo- a rcaort on the the Potomac Flats. Adopted. Sherman offered a resolution for the investigation of Treasury accounts, 1 ! which, after 1t was modified SD as to give ! the Committee the fullest power, was [ adopted. After Executive session, the Senate ' adjourned.
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