Knoxville daily chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1870-1882, 1882-05-09
WASHINGTON.
The Supreme Court on Sergeant
Mason's Case.
The Writ Of Habeas Corpus De
MED.
The President Signs the ANU
Chinese Bill.

examination of Senator Blair was re-
sumed before the foreign affairs
committee tosday. The most i'm
portant part of the investigation was
that he declined to produce his cor
respondence with Shipnerd which he
said was strictly private and conf
Dental and growing out of relations
as attorney and client. In answer to
questions relative to the cor
respondence, he said he knew moth
ing whatever of the loss of certain
papers from the State Department,
nor of any government official being
interested in effecting the policy of
the government IN the interest of
these claims, nor of any effort or ex-
pectation of securing an armed in
tervention of this government, nor
of any expectation or effort to pre-
vent peace between Chill and Peru
unless these claims were allowed.
The following is the detailed vote
in the House on the tariff commits
sion bill: Yeas-Aldrich, Anderson,
Atherton, Barbour, B4rr, Bayne,
Bingham, Bliss, Bowman, Brewer,
Briggs, Browne, Brumm, Buck, Bur
rows, of Missouri, Burrows, of Michi-
gan, Butter worth, Calkins, Camp,
Campbell, Gambler, Connor, Carpene
ter, Chase, Chapman, Cla-dy, Crapo,
Cullen, Curtin, Dar. ell, Dawes, Deer
ing, De Mojte, Dee andorf, Dineley,
Dwight, Ellis, Ermentrout, Ere
Farwell, of Illinois, Ford, George,
Gibson, Godshalk, Grout, Guenther,
Hall, Harmer, Harris, of New jersey,
Haseltine, Haskell, Hawk, Hazel
ton, Heilmsn, Hende. son, Hep>
burn, Hewitt, of Alabama, Hill,
Hiscock, Hoblitzell, Hoge, Hubbell,
Hobbs, Humphrey, Jacobs, Jones of
New Jersey, Jorgensen, Joyce, Kas>
son, Kelly, Kenna, Ketcham, Klotz,
Lacey, Lewis, Lord, Lynch, Marsh,
Mcclure, McKin' ey, McA7ne, Mil
ler, Moore, Morey, Morse, Nos:
grove, Murch, Mutchler, Neal, Nor
ss,ONeill, Pacheco, Page, Payson,
Peelle, Pierce, Pound, Ray, Reed
Rice, of Mo-; Rice, of Mass; Rich,
Richie, Robinson, of Mass; Rob-
inson, of Ohio; Ross, Russell, Ryan,
Scoville, Scranton, Shallenberger,
Shelley, Sherwin, Schultz, Skinner,
Smith, of Pennsylvania, Smith, OF
New York, Speer, Spooner, Steele,
Stone, Straight, Talbot, Taylor,
Thomas, Thompson, of Iowa, Town
send, of Ohio, Tyler, Updegraff, OF
Ohio, Upson, Valentine, Van Horn,
Van Voorhis, Wadsworth, Wait,
Walker, Ward, Watson, Webber,
White, Williams, of Wisconsin, Will
lets, Wilson, Wise, of Pennsylvanie
Wise, of Virginia, W. A. Wood, OF
New York, and Young-151.
Nays-Aiken, Armfeld, Atkins,
Beach, Belford, Belmont, Beltzhoov-
er, Berry, Bland, Blount, Bragg,
Buchanan, Buckner, Caldwell, Car
Isle, Clark, Clements, Cobb, Cole
rick, Cook, Cox, of New York, Cox
North Carolina, Cravens, Culberson
Cults, Davidson, Davis, of Missouri
Deuster, Dibble, Dowd, Dunn, Dun
nell, Eyins, Farwell, of Iowa, Fin
ley, Forney, Garrison, Gunter, Ham
mond, of Georgia, Hardenbergh
Hatch. Herbert, Herdon, HeW
itt, of New York, House
Jones, of Arkansas, King
Knott, Latham, Leedom, LeFevert
Naming, Matson, McCoid, Mckenzie
McMillio, Mile, Money, Morrison
Moulton, Muldrow, Oates, Ortiz
Phister, Reagan, Scales, Shackelfort
Singleton, OF Mississippi, Stocksla
ger, Thompson, of Kentucky, Till
man, Townshend, of Illinois, Tucke
Turner, of Kentucky, Updegraff,
Iowa, Vance, Warner, Syringe
Washburn, Wellborn, Whit'h horn,
Williams, of Alabama, and Will
SO.
The results of the conference betwee
Secretary Frelinghuysen and I'll
Spanish Minister, Francisco Boic
were promulgated to-day in the for
of protocol In this document it
sgneed to extend the time for exam
lining and deciding cases before tt
Spanish Am erican claims commis
sion, till thu first of January, 1885,
in conse GU ence of the death of /
arbitrator, and of the advocate c
the part of the United States.
The President has issued an ordt
relieving General F'itz John Port
of so much of the courtmartial Sc
tence as debarred him from holdir
any Office of trust in the .. S.
WASHINGTON, D. c., May S.
A decision was rendered by Il
Supreme Court of the United Stat
this aftarnoon in the case of Sergea
John A. Mason, petitioner upon a
plication for writ of habeas corpr
The court in carefully prepar
opinion of the Chief Justice deci
ing that the court martial had Fl
Jurisdiction to try Mason for t
offence charged. That its proeee
ings were all within its proper Jur
diction and that sentence pronour
ed was not in excess of its pow.
The petition for a writ of habe
corpus is therefore denied and t
rule to show cause discharged.
The Senate to-day confirmed
postmasters JohnC. Sullivan, Stark
vile, Miss: james W. Flanagan, j
Longview, Texas. The nominati
of Temple G. Byron, as postmast
at Terrell, Texss, was rejected.
\ The Chinese bill was tod
Z signed by the President.
A hearing of the argument on
Gmteau bill of exceptions before
District Supreme Court in banc "
set for to-day, but went over till