The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1882-08-10
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FROM WASHINGTON.
The House committee on foreign affairs has
made report embodying the results Of it's in
quiry into the fate of certain papers missing
from the files Of the state department
and the conduct Of certain ministers
plenipotentiary Of the United States in
reference to questions growing out Of
the war between Chill and Peru.
The report says that the committee are OF
opinion that the missing papers from the files
OF tho state department were not Of such char
acter or Importance as TO furnish q motive for
| purloining them from the files or for destroy.
ing them, but that their loss suggests the pro-
| priety Of greater caution in the future on the
part of those having such papers In charge.
After going over the evidence submitted
| to 1t the committee in conclusion says that
1.-THE missing rsrerS, with ono exception. have
been replaced by correct copies Of the same. +"
and that mo minister plenipotentiary OF the
United States was either personally interested
or improperly connected with transactions IN
which the Intervention Of this government was
requested or expected in the affairs Of Chill
and Peru in such manner as 10 call for action
on the part OF the House Of Representatives.
DURING July the national debt was reduced
sl3SGO, O2752, leaving the principal at 81, ,675,-
O54 1920, and cash in the treasury, $241, ,O9S.-
03152.
THE total coinage at the various United
states mints during July was 2,722,35O
pieces, worth s9 1885
LAST month the total receipts from customs
were $37,S22, 667, and the expenditures were
less than $20,OOO,OOO
IHE President has approved the act 10
amend the statutes in relation to copyright !;
theJoint resolution for the relief of Sarah J.
s. Garnet, widow Of II. H. Garnet, late min
lister to Liberia the act regulating the car
rage OF passengers by sea the act granting
right of way for railroad and telegraph line
through the lands of the Choctaw and Chicka-
saw Indian nations the act amending sec
ions three and four Of the act of February 81
1879, to fix the pay of letter-carriers the Joint
resolution to furnish the Congressional Record
to each state and Territorial library.
CONTRIBUTIONS by the Senate: William Hale.
OF Iowa, to be governor of the Territory of
Wyoming; Paul Lange of Iowa, to be United
States consul at st. Stephens, N. B.; Andrew
W. Smythe to be superintendent of mint at
New Orleans.
NOMINATIONS by the President: Andrew W
Smythe to be superintendent of the United
States mint at New Orleans; John @. Kinney to
be United States marshal for the district of
Connecticut William Waldorf Astor, of New
'ork, to be envoy extraordinary and minister
n1n irnt nntia co I1oI,
Welsh, of Pennsylvania, to be United States
consul at Florence.
THE state department has received cable
Message from John r. Young, United States
minister to China, stating that during a riot in
Corea the mob attacked the Japanese legation.
md two persons were killed and three
wounded. Rear-Admiral Clitz, commanding
the Asiatic squadron, has been instructed to
send vessel to Corea to protect treaty inter-
'sts and to communicate with Minister Young.
FURTHER combinations by the Senate
William Waldorf Astor, of New York, to be
9nvoy extraordinary and minister plenipoten.
'iary to Italy; Z. G. Van Riper to be United
States consul at Moscow; Charles Seymour, OF
Wisconsin, to be consul at Canton; Gustayus
Coward, of Illinois, to be secretary of legation
tnd consul-general at Madrid; Schuyler
Crosby, of New York, to be governor of Mon.
ana Territory; Henry K. Mccoy to be United
States judge for the northern district of Geor
Sia John G. Kinney to be United States mar,
shall for the District of Connecticut.
REAR-ADMIRAL NICHOLSON has been in-
structed by the navy department to send ves-
sells to Tunis and Trpoli to remove the con-
sular records. and also to distribute the fleet
all along the North African coast to protect
American interests during the complications
now impending.
The President nominated Ulysses s. Grant
and William Henry Trescot to be commission
ers to negotiate II commercial treaty with
Mexico.