The Wellington enterprise. [volume] (Wellington, Ohio) 1867-188?, 1882-04-26
WASHINGTON.

Mr.. TAYLOR, Chairman OF the Committee
to audit the expenses of the Illness and death
Of President Garfield, submitted the following
report on the 18th. Mr. Blackburn presented
the report of the minority. Both were re-
ferred to the Committee of the Whole. The
bill appropriates for the relief of Lucretia r.
Garfield $4,000 less any sum paid the late
President Garfield on account of his salary a.
President 1t pays DR.. Bliss s35, 200; Doctors
Agnew and Hamilton, $4,000 each; DR.. Rey-
burn, $1,000; DR.. Susan Edison, 5000;
William ]. Crump. 5000; Secretary OF the
Navy, $1o,sS2; William X. Speare, under
taker, s1,s35; G. N. Jones, Elberon, 81 ,O92,
and to the various merchants and others sums
ranging from fifty cents to 81 900. 1t provides
that when Surgeon General ]. X. Barnes be
retired from active service he be placed on the
retired list with rank and pay of Major-Gen-
eral. It further provides that there shall be
added TO the medical corps Of the army one
Surgeon with rank, pay and emoluments OF
Lieutenant Colonel and authorized the Presi-
dent to promote Joseph ]. Woodward to that
position.
THE President on the Goth nominated Al
phonso TAFT, Of Ohio, Envoy Extraordinary
and Minister Plenipotentiary of the United
States to Austria; VIM i. Dayton, of New
Jersey, Minister Resident of the United States
to Netherlands; Nicholas Fish, of New York,
Minister Resident to Belgium; John NJ. Fran
els, Of New York, to be Charge dAffairs to
Portugal; J. P. Wiekersham, of Pennsyl-
vania, to be Charge d'Affairs TO Denmark /;
Adam Badeau, OF New York, Consul General
at Havanna; Henry l. Daight, Of New York,
United States Consul at Prescott
THE President transmitted to Congress on
the Goth q letter addressed by the Munster
Plenipotentiary to Mexico to the Secretary Of
State proposing a conclusion of the convention
between the Two countries for defining the
boundary between the United States and Mex
ico from the Rio Grande to the Pacific Ocean,
by the erection of durable monuments. He
also lays before Congress a letter on the same
subject with its Accompaniment from the Sec
retary Of War, TO whom the proposition was
referred by he Secretary OF State for an ex-
preston OF his views thereon. The President
states that he deems 1t important that the
boundary line between the two countries, rs
defined by the existing treaties, and already
once surveyed, should be run anew, and de-
fined by suitable, permanent monuments, and
says that "by so doing. uncertainty viii be
prevented as to Jurisdiction in criminal and
municipal affairs and questions to be averted,
which may at any time In the near fnture arise
with the growth Of population on this border"
A FEMALE crank from Connecticut arrived
ut Washing on on the aoth and was taken IN
charge by the police. She said she came for
the purpose OF marrying the President, and
then intended to pray with him and thus In
duce him TO pardon Guiteau.
A COMMUNICATION. to the House from the
Secretary Of State shows the sole Issue between
Spain and the United States, growing out of
the operations of the. American army In Flor
ida, Is the non-payment of interest on the
amount Of awards, 81, ,o96, ,T4l, which sum has
been paid. This interest has been computed
upon 2l2 claims involved, and amounts TO
81, ,99o, ,6ss, which Is the amount claimed by
pain TO be due.
Mr. r. c. WILSON, of Cleveland, arrived at
Washington on. the 2lst with . petition Of
$1,000 signatures Of citizens Of Ohio asking
for the pardon of Sergeant Mason
THE terms Of twcnty-six United States Sem