The National tribune., 1882-06-10
CAPITAL TOPICS.

Secretary Chandler will attend the graduat-
ing exercises at the Naval Academy. Next
week he will make short visit to Concord,
n. H., to attend to some low business.
Colonel Amos Webster has formally entered
upon his duties as Chief Clerk of the Tgy;sji.-y-
Department The colonel remarked To ~
TIONAL TRIBUNE representative thai he )
really surprised at the host OF friends tii5 have
appeared to offer their congratulations aud Il
fe,r to secure appointments since his elevation
to the position.
The Comptroller OF the Currency, who IS also
Commissioner of the Freedmen's Saving and
Trust Company, has received from the acting
Secretary of the Treasury check for S25o,001,
being the pUrchase-money of the Erce:imen's
Bank property, in this city, which has been
formally transferred to the United States for
the use of the Department of Justice. Comp
treIler Knox has begun paying fifteen per cent.
dividend to the creditors Of the defunct bank.
Hon. James c. Blaine, Senator Henry Davis,
of West Virginia; ex-senator Chatfee, of Colo
RADIO: Senator Miller, of New York, and s B.
Elkins, left Washington a few days ago, on
special train on q tour of inspection over the
new road running south from Piedmont into
the coal regions of West Virginia, in which
these gentlemen are all interested.
Mr.. E. C. Adams, private secretary to the
director of the mint, has resigned to resume his
former position with the Bradstreet company
of New York.
Chief Constructor T. D. Wilson has returned
from his tour of inspection Of the navy yards
at Boston and Portsmouth. He inspected the
Plymouth, at Portsmouth, and the Hartford and
Shenandoah, at Boston.
Chairman Williams, of the House Foreign
Affairs Committee, says that ex-senator Blaine
will be called upon soon to testify in regard to
certain matters brought out by the examination
of Mr.. Robert Randall, of the Credit Industriel
company.
A list of the names of all who were killed in
the recent outbreak of the Apache Indians, in
Arizona. has been received at the War Depart
ment. There were forty-five killed in all.
Receipts in the Patent Office from January
1 to June l, 1882, amount to $l25, ,6O5.65, show
ing an increase in receipts for the same period
of 1851 of S64, ,623.55, an increase per working
day of $500 and in the same period of 1850 an
The number of applications filed from January
1 to june l, 1852, is 1924, an increase over
1881 of ? 2307, and over 1850, 3,O39.
Regarding the compulsory retirement clause
of the army bill for officers of the army, Gen.
eral Sherman expresses himself as in favor of a
bill that would be fair and just, and with which
the army would be compelled to comply. Gen.
Sherman has heretofore said that he hoped
that the compulsory clause would be passed and
that no exception would be made in his case.
In compliance with the Senates resolution
calling for the correspondence of the State De-
partment with the British government in rela-
ton to the Clayton Bulwer treaty, providing
for an interoceanic canal or railway under the
Joint protectorate of the United States and
Great Britain, Secretary Frelinghuysen sent to
that body his dispatch of the oth ult. In reply
to several dispatches of Lord Granville to Mr..
Blaine. Mr.. Frelinghuysen discusses at length
the Monroe doctrine, showing the circum-
stances under which it Was first announced,
and then proceeds to answer Lord Granville's
argument seriatim. He claims that the Clay
ton -Bulwer treaty was violated first by the
British government in retaining It's hold upon
Central American territory, and maintaining
its Influence in that quarter, and that the treaty
wa. meant to apply toa canal by the Nicaragua
route, and to one which was to be built at once.
In conclusion, he says the President does not
think that the United States are called upon to
revive the provisions of the treaty which relate
to Joint protectorate and that the treaty was
concluded TO secure thing which did not exist,
and now never can exist. The people OF the
United States, he adds, have now abundance
of capital for such enterprises, and do not need
foreign assistance.