The Cheyenne daily leader. [volume] (Cheyenne, Wyo.) 1870-1884, 1882-07-27
WASHINGTON NOTES.

Washington, July 26.-There is a
private claimant named Kidwell, TO the
Potomac flats, and the president is
likely t. veto the river and harbor bill
on account of a large appropriation for
them, for that reason, if for no other.
The president las the most gorgeous
turnout ever seen here.
The senate naval committee agreed
to report f%avorably the appropriation Of
$4,000 for removing the bodies of
Lieut.. DeLong and his COMPANIONS
from Siberia to America.
The report that President Barrios
had succeeded in making an agree
ment, whereby the United States gov
ernment will become the arbitor Of the
boundary dispute between Guatemala
and Mexico is untrue.
The president has referred the sup
Elemental petition bearing $4,000 sig
natures, from the Garfield club of New
York city asking the pardon of Sergt.
Mason, to the secretary Of war, together
with several other similar petitions.
The wake of the internal revenue bill
began in the senate two days ago and
this afternoon the ~lifeless body was laid
away, possibly until next session, and
probably forever. The corpse may be
resurrecled long enough to. allow one
more vote to be taken on the question
of resumiHg its consideration but there
is no hope that the subject will be re-
garded worthy of dissection.
No information has been commuui-
agreement between Guatemala and
Mexico touching the disputed bounda-
ny question. 1t is believed, however,
that the matter is in a fair way Il reach
adjustment. The president, it is un.
derstood, is unwilling to arbitrate I'M
less requested by both parties to do so,
and unless the question to be settled he
definitely agreed upon.
The substance of the attorney gem
erals opinion on political assessments,
presented to the cabinet Tuesday, is
that the officers of the government
are prohibited from soliciting or receiv-
ing such assessments; that members Of
congress, in the broad sense of the
term are officers of the government,
but that in a strict constitutional sense
and under former rulings of congress,
they are not officers.
Senator Vance, in a debate on Tues.
day in support Of his assertion, said the
eyes of the workingmen of the couu-
try were being opened, and he had read
ut the clerks desk the declarations OF
a meeting representing the labor strik-
ers IN Pennsylvania, that hereafter.
when asked to carry the tariff banner,
they would ask of what beneti. it was
to them when their labor was not pro-
tected against foreign paupers, who are
being enticed here to compete with
them.
Mr.. Blaine has addressed a long let. !
ter to the committee of the house
which is investigating his connection
with Shipherd and the Peruvian guano
companies. He closes thus: "AIIl
ask, and | have a right to ask, is that
the foreign policy OF the government.
when was at the head of the depart
ment of state, shall be judged by its
official acts; its official dispatches, and
It's official records. / ask that the true
history OF the great question shall not
be determined by wayside talk, by here.
say OF interested parties, by errors of
memory, by shreds aud patches of idle
gossip, by misrepresentation Of the ma.
lignant, or by Misrepresentation of the
ignorant.