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and foreign ports.
The bin To tx Cay for tie meeting Of
electors for President and Vice -Presd mt,
and provide for and register the counting of
votes for President and Vice President. snd
a decision Of the questions arising therefrom,
was further discussed, and passed by viva
voce vote
Adjourned till Monday.
House Of Representatives.
WASHINGTON, April 9TH. - Page asked
unanimous consent to introduce his Chinese
bill
Springer objected, and Page ssid he would
ask for consent to introduce the bill until
successful.
The House went into Committee of the
Whole on the Tariff Commission bill.
kasson hoped TO get vote early next
week.
When the committee rose Page of Califor.
MIA made another attempt to introduce his
Chinese bill, but was again met with an OBJ
lection from Springer, " no suggested that the
bill should be first taken to the White House
and submitted to the President FOR his sp.
proyal, but he subsequently, withdrew his
objections.
Page thereupon introduced the bin, and it
was referred to the Committee on Education
and Labor.
Willis of Kentucky then introduced bill
TO regulate, limit and suspend the immigra-
tion of Chinese laborers by a 6fteen-years'
suspension. Referred to the Committee on
Education and Labor, as was also bill intro
duced by Berry of California, to execute a
treaty stipula ion in reference to the Chinese
with a sixteen.years' suspension.
A motion to adjourn over till Monday was
voted down. and the House adjourned till to-
morrow.
The Interior and Navy Portfol:e The
Russian Mission.
WASHINGTON, April 6th-The President
has nominated Henry U. Teller, of Colorado.
to be Secretary Of the Interior, VIM. L.
Chandler, Of New Hampshire, to he Sscye-
tary of the Navy, Wm. H. Hunt, of Louis
lane, to be Envoy Extraordinary and Minis
ter Plenipotentiary to Russia.
SECOND DIsPATCnl
WASHINGTON, April 9th. - The Senate
unanimously confirmed Senator TeIer's noui-
nation, aud referred the others.
ChandIer's Confirmation In Doubt.
WASHINGTON, April 6th.-The confirmation
of Chandler appears to be in doubt Several
Democratic Senators, among them Beck, as
sert that he will not receive the Democratic
vote. They also claim that several Republi-
can Senator'S will vote against his conhTma-
tion.
The Imprisoned Americans In Ireland.
WAsHIsGToN. April 6sh.-The President
has sent to the Senate the report cf Secretary
of State FFelinghuysen relating to the Amer
lean citizens in prisoned in Ireland. The
Secretary says:
No copy Of the g Act for better protection OF
persons and property in Ireland (the Act under
which the arrests complained Of were made) being
found in the Department If State here at the time
of i passage the 26th of May last-the then See
rets-y instructed Lowell t. obtain and forward au-
thentic pies at his earliest convenience. Lowell
compiled with this instruction on the 18Th OF June
last but meanwhile the Department seems to have
obtained n copy of the Act, as the Secret ry Of
State instructed Lowell follows on the 81
of June last: Whatever necessity there may be,
in the estimation of her Majesty, for the
existence and enforcement in Ireland Of the eXcep
tionable legislative measures recently enacted IN
respect to that country, this Government cannot
view with unconcern the application of summary
proceedings attendant upon the execution OF these
measures to naturalized citizens of the United States
of Irish origin whose business relations may render
necessary their presence IN ireland or any other
part OF the United Kingdom, or whose fal in
stincts or love for kindred may have prompted
them to revisit their native country. IL American
citizens, while within British jurisdiction offend
against British laws this Government will not
seek to shield item from the legal consequences
of their acts but it insist upon the applica
ton TO their cases of those common principles OF
criminal Jurisprudence which in the United stat es
secures to every who offenis against its laws,
whether he be an American citizen or q foreign sub
iect those incidents TO criminal prosecution which
afford the best safeguard to personal liberty and
the strongest securities against oppression under
forms of law which might otherwise be practiced
through excessive zeal; that accused person shall
immediately upon arrest be Informed Of the specific
crime or offense upon which he ls held, and
that he shall be offered an opportunity for speedy
trlal before an impartial Court and jury
tia to every criminal prosecution, necessary alike to
the protection Of innocence and the ascertainment
OF guilt.
Lowell replied at will give me great pleasure TO
communicate to Lord Granville the views you have
SO clearly and eloquenty expressed as to the njus
tce of OF the features Of the sooalled Protec
ton Act and especially to its retroactive character
but would respectfully suggest whether any steps
would be gained toward the speedy trial or relea.e
of Wal h by an argument against the law under
which he was apprehended, so long as Lord Gran
vile expressly refuses to make any di tinction be-
tween British subjects and American citizens in the
application OF the law
On the SIst of January last the House Of Repre-.
sentives called for list OF all American citizens,
natuyalized or native born, under arrest mpris-
onment, and especially such OF said citizens az may
be arrested under suspension OF the habeas corpus
in Ireland, etc. copy OF this resolution was for
warded to Lowell.
1t appears from his return that the following ar
res IS and imprisonment Of persons claiming to be
American citizens made after January 81, 1881
namely NJ b. Fogarty, Michael Boyden, Daniel Me-
Sweeney Henry OMahOny, James DAILY, NJ. C. En-
ery Dennis OConnor, Michael Hart and Joseph
Dilton
In the course of the CORES pondence it appears
that Boyden was not an American citizen, and some
doubt was thrown by the Consul at Cork upon Ma
honey's naturalization.
On the Sd Of March last the Secretary of State
instructed Lowell to use all diligence in regard to
the late cases. especially Hart and McSweeney.
On the 4th OF the same month Lowell was in
structed to inform the British Government that the
President hoped, without discussing the applica-
bity of the Coercion Act to citizens of the United
States the Lord Lieutenant would be instructed to
exercise the discretionary powers reposed in him by
the first secton far TO order The speedy trials
of all the imprisoned American citizens.
On the 10th of the same month Lowell was again
instructed to call attention to this subject, and to
saw thaahe President did not wish t. appear unrea
sonable, but would be relieved if he could inform
Congress that his request for the speedy trials of
the Americans had been compiled with
On the 25th OF March Lowell was again instructed
to say that the President hoped her Majesly's Gov
ernment would Its way to an early and favorable
answer to his request.
The negotiations, still going on, have so far
reached a conclusion that but three persons remain
in prison. and there is good to believe results
will be reached satisfactory to both Governments.
Several kilograms have passed between
London and Washington during the recent
pending negotiations which are not thought
compatible with public interests to disclose
at present. Accompanying the communica-
ton are dispatches from Minister LOWELL
and the Consul st Cork, showing that O'Con-
nor had acted as Treasurer of the Land
League, and that O'Mahony was Poor Law
Guardian at the time of his arrest.
The Peruvian Company Matter.
WASHINGTON, April 6th.-In the Peruvian
Company investigation to-day. Rics ques.
toned Shipherd closely in regard to Blaine's
position in the matter, but his replies were
guarded and unsatisfactory. He only threw
out the intimation that Blaine seemed inter
ested, and suggested TO witness that he j9in
with the moneyed French company.
Shipherd denied that he ever told a re-
porter of the Republican, or anybody else,
thst he would make a sensation in Court !;
had never made any statement for publica-
tion outside of the Court-room, although he
had talked to a man he believed not to be a
reporter in similar strain. He refused to
give his name.
Shipherd then read statement that he was
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