Seattle daily post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, W.T. [Wash.]) 1881-1888, 1882-06-30
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.ssoctarEp PRESS DISPATCHES
usmocrafir Convention

;o.erests appear. Malcolm Hay is tenn
n,rarv Chairman. Committees are APP
'ointed. The Committee on Credea-
,;s,s decided in favor of Peter Monroe,
prouounced Pattison man, while his
ouponen., Marshall, was opposed.
S,sneer, moving a recess. thanked
cod no whip crack was heard here, and
ro man was big enough to boss the
pecocratic party of Pennsylvania.
Congressional.
HOUSE.
WASHINGTON, June 25.-Orth, FROM
,hs Committee on Foreign Affairs.
caI,sd for a further correspondence
.ouehing the imprisonment of American
citizens abroad, and whether any PEI
son holding Office under the United
States hid proposed to any American
si.izsas.in British possessions to accept
their release upon any condition.
Robinson being refused permission
70 speak under operation Of tho previous
question, said he would move tomorrow
10 irnpsach Minister Lowell; that il
vas A privileged question and he had
RIGHT 10 be heard on It.
Wilson offered Il resolution request
inc TIE President to demand OF Great
Britain reasons for ihe imprisonment
of American citizens ia Ireland; aud If
Il appears that such imprisonment is
wrong OF in violation of the rights Of
American citizens, he is authorized to
demand their release: aud if il Is de
layed or refused, he shall resort to such
maans as he may think proper TO eifec:
their release.
Robinson was then allowed seven
minutes. but refused 10 use them. He
taid lie had documents which should
brin. the blush of shame to tho face of
every American. The President lad
for one hundred days been on his knees
before lord Granville, who was splitting
in his face, and insulting America by
refusing to listen to his prayers. There
was all kind of garbage and nonsense
sent Granville to tell him the House
was not in earnest. Tracts from the
NV York Tribune, as treasonous as
were ever spawned from vermin in l776,
including Lowell's answer, havo been
sent to Granville. He despised COM
mittee milk and water resolution which
lad not the courage TO discover whether
the British lion S tail should be wrench
ed or the American eagles neck wrung
Wilson'S resolution was adopted also.
The committees naval appropriation
bill was then taken mp.
Indian Country.
WASHINGTON. June Ex-senator Mil
Ter has reported bill from the Com
mittee on Revision of Taxes to define
the meaning OF the term Indian coun
try, az had under the revised statutes
and other laws of the United States,
over which there has been more or less
dispute for more than thirty years.
The bill provides that the term shall be
construed to apply and include the fol
lowing classes of Indian reservation:
Land expressly reserved by treaty or
net of Congress, or set aside for tho use
O. Indians by executive order of the
President of the United States; lands
patented to tribes, and lands which have
been purchased by or conceded TO the
United States.
A Personal Etii.
Senator Miller reported from the Ma
val Affairs Committee bill giving Rear
Admiral David McDougall the paw and
compensation of a Rear Admiral.
Getting Cheap labor.
JERSEY CrY. June 2S.-ihe striking
switchmen are rather dissatisfied with
the prospects, and because the freight
handlers, whose cause they espoused
are going back to work. The Pennsyl-
vania road put on two hundred more
Italians and the Erie put four hundr d
Russian aud Hungarian Jews nj work
on their docks this morning, making
$50 refugees working there.
VIII Sell.
New YORK, June 2S.-The Convention
Of the 18th OF the Board of Trade, seek
ing relief from the freight blockade
will commence damage suits against
the railroads. II will be claimed that
all goods ready for shipment before July
Is. must be carried at present rates, and
not at the proposed advance.
Aiten,p: 10 Dcrraud the Treasury.
WASHINGTON. June 2s.--The Treasury
authorities today discovered quite an
extensive scheme to rob the Treasury
through bounty claims. These claims
ars cases in which soldiers have died,
and they are represented "a being alive,
such as widows, children, parents, guar
dians, etc. Ii has been ascertained that
considerable evidence in some cases is
fraudulent, and authorities fear there
have been more frauds than have been
detected.
The Irish Asitator.
CHICAGO, June .l.-Centrai Music
hiu was crowded this evening TO listen
% Michael Davitt. The principal points
mide in Dayitt's address, aside from
'sose as TO his position on the Irish
question, and his relations with Pvnsll
already reported in his eastern speeches
~efethat American opinion is great
tribunal, and is all important in tn,
settlement of the Irish question. Tbs
sbolition of landlordism is absolutel,
essential to the peace Of Ireland. Irisl
hndlordism has failed rs system
abolition does not mean conhscation
1here is chance for Enpland's consen
70 abolition. Once accomplished it vii
20 good. II is claimed blythe Lam
Acague that Gladstone has not mad
reasonable concessions, because hi
psn would prolong the life of land
'o'd'sm. The present proprietaryshil