Arizona weekly citizen., 1882-03-12
EASTERN NEWS.
Attack on Bliss.

Attack on Bhss
 CHICAGO, March, S.-The Times Wash
 ington special says Dr. Boynton has
 written letter to Dr. Baxter, saying
 that Dr. Bliss was never placed in charge
 of the Presidents case by any member of
 the Presidents family, and was continued
 without authority from them through
 ont the entire case. Upon the back of
 Boynton's letter IS an endorsement by
 Mrs Garfield of the truth of the state
 ments therein made. Dr. Baxter has cir
 culated this letter among the Senators and Members In order 10 defeat Bliss's
 bull.
 United States Marshal ir Csrsivitv
 CHICAGO. March 9.-A Helena. Mont,
 special says the United States Marshal
 there has received a dispatch dated
 March 3d, from his deputy, John Healy.
 that he IS a prisoner among tha half
 breeds and Indians in their camp on
 Milk River. The country Is full of smugglers and illicit traders, and he had arrested of the leading men, captured S3,0DO worth of robes when the Indians captured him and his outfit He asks aid from Fort Assin boint As there are are not troops enough at the Poplar riY- CT and the Sansaic Indians are ready for war, Marshal Botkin has directed aid to be sent.
 Further from the Flcod:
 MEHPHis, March 9.-E. H. Moon, attorney of Bolivar county, reports breaks in Hushpucana and Lake Charles leeves, on Monday night. The former IS ths largest leyee in Mississippi and three breaks submerges the entire coun- ty of Bolivar. At Rosedale the water is ten feet deep in all the dwellings. Of three hundred inhabitants only three families vet remain and they are living Tn the gArrets of their houses, all others sought safety elsewhere. The levee im- mediately in front of Roseburg is crowd cd with negroes, mules and cattle. The negroes number about 500, have no shel- ter and are existing on cattle which they kill. Their condition is terrible and they have been exposed for the past two days to cold and drenching showers.
 The Chinese sm Passes the Senate.
 WASHINGTON, March To- When the | Of the Chinese biJ was re- sumed in the Senate. Hawley took the ! floor and spoke against It. He was fol lowed by Jones, of Nevada ~ho strongly ! advocated it's passage. Senator Muller followed, iayoring 1t. Merrill took the floor and stated that he should vote against the bill. Farley, Edmunds and Sherman followed in brief speeches. Earley's amendment. providing that Chinese shall not become naturalized. was then passed by vote Of 9 to 22. Growers amendment, declaring the term labOrers wherever used in the bill shall skilled inborers and Chinese engaged in mIning, vas adopted by q vote of 2 against 22 An amsndmeai wRs adopted striking out the require ment that passport shall be produced Ehenever lawfully demanded. this pro- vision being considered superiluous. The pill WIS then reported from the Con- nIttee of the whole to the Senate and 7ote taken on 1ngalls' amendment, re- lewed by him, to reduce the period of from twenty years tO ten 'eaFs. Ingalls, amendment was rejected 1y vote of 2l nays against 20 yeas. At 's3O the bill was placed on its passage md passed by the following vote: Yeas -Bsyard, Beck, Cameron, of Wis: Cock ell. Coke. Fair, Farley, Garland, Grover, ieorge, German, Hale. Harris, Hall. of Colorado; Jackson, Jones, of Florida; Iones, of Nevada; Miller, of California; dil CT, Of New York; Morgan, Pagh, Ransom, Stanton, Slater, Teller, Tance, Vest, Voorhees, and Walker. 'ays-Aldrich. Aston, Blair, Brown, longer, Davis of Illinois, Dawes, Ed nunds, Frye, Hosr, Ingalls,, Lapham. icDin. McMillan, Morrell-l5.
 How the Senate stood WAsHISGTos, March l0-An analysis { the final vote on the Chinese bill, hows that tveDty-one Democrats and ight Republicans were recorded in ia or of the bill in the shape in which it | assed, and that thirteen Republicans, ne Democrat and one Independent, 'avis of Illinois. were recorded sainst it. Adding to these totals [ nnounced the pairs. the showing thirty Democrats and eight Re ublicans in the affirmative. and twen- r-two, Republicans, one Democrat [ nd one Independent in the negative, ,aving fourteen members of the Senate for. The record Of the vote , n the amendment to reduce the time of l lspension to ten years was made up of ghteen Republicans, one Democrat and in favor of the reduction, nd seventeen Democrats and five Re , ublicans against it. Five Democrats ' Oted on this amendment yesterday q hen the bill was in the Com ' littee of the whole. The diminu- ! on of that number to one to-day [ to be credited mainly to the private r Kertions of Farley. who induced three the five to change their votes on this 7oposition. Miller aud Farley jointly | rocured an extension of Pendleton's J air with Sherman so as to apply to this ' as well as to final vote on [ le bill It Is simple justice to add that ! the Pacific coast Senators have labored nceAsingly in private as well as public a