The Sentinel. [volume] (Trenton, N.J.) 1880-1882, 1881-11-12
From Washington.

L.
far, secretary of the State of Guatemala, VIII
has been sent as special envoy to bear the
coincidence OF the government and people of
Guatemala on the death of President Garfield.
HERR j. voS ScHAEFFER, at present dipio-
matte agent and consul-general Of Austria ar
Alexandria, Egypt, has been appointed Aus
trian minister at Washington.
The comptroller of the currency has ap-
pointed Frederick Frelinghuysen receiver OF
the Mechanics National bank of Newark, and
Linus VI. Price assistant receiver.
Nh. JOIN W. FOSTER has resigned as United
States minister to Russia.
THE new British minister to the United
States, Lionel Sackville West, has arrived from
England.
LIZ the star route cases George Bliss, of New
York, argued for the government and r. G.
Ingersoll for the defense.
MR-FRENcH, assistant secretary ofthe treasury.
has given notice that the assistant treasurer at
New York will redeem weekly 50, 000, 900 of any
uncalled continued three and a half per cent.
bonds
COLONEL DUDLEY, commissioner of pensions.
has submitted to the secretary of the interior a
recommendation that Congress be asked to
appropriate 500, 000, 900 for disbursement BY
his Office during the next fiscal year lending
June 80, 1889 in payment of annual and accrued
pensions, and also that an immediate deficiency
appropriation Of 500, 900, 900 be requested for
the purpose Of paying all arrears of pensions.
CAPTAIN HOOPER, of the recently returned
Arctic exploring vessel Corwin, reports his
inability TO find any trace of the missing Jean
nette during his cruise of over Is, 900 miles.
He is not satisfied that she is lost and he
recommends that new expeditions be sent out
in the spring.
A REMARKABLE scene is said to have taken
place at recent cabinet meeting between the
President and Attorney-General McVeagh.
According to the published account of the
affair the President took the encouragement
to task for not being prepared in the Guiteau
case and personally pushing it to trial. The
attorney general replied that he did not con-
slider it any part Of his business to give atten-
ton to criminal prosecutions. The President
replied that this was great state trial, and
that the whole country looked to Mr. MacVeagh
to zee that it was conducted properly and eff
GENTLY. Mr.. MaeVeagh said that there was no
law or custom for the attorney generalt TO appear
in criminal trials, and said he had been told SO
by Judge jeremiah Black. The President then
quoted the case of Aaron Burr, and the attor-
ney-general replied that that was trial for
treason. EYES," the President is reported to
have said "and this Is a trial for numbering
the chief magistrate Of the nation, and to my
mind it is the positive duty of the attorney
general to take charge of the case" Mr.. Mac
Yeagh then reiterated that the law never
contemplated that as any part of his duty
Finally, the President said he was determined
that the government should have able counsel,
and he would himself direct, if Mr.. MacVeagh
declined to do so, that Judge John E Porter,
of New York, and Walter Davidge, Of Washing
ton, be employed as additional counsel in the
prosecution of Guiteau.
ALL of the late President Garfeld's effects
were removed from the White House few
days ago and sent to Mrs Garfield at Cleye-
land, Ohio.
Ex-SEcRETARY WINDOW denies the correct
ness of the reported scene in the cabinet be-
tween President Arthur and Attorney General
MacYeagh. He says the President did not take
Mr.. MacVeagh to task for not pushing the Gui-
teau case, as was reported, and that there was
the best of feeling between the President and
all the members of the cabinet.