The times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1882-1897, 1882-04-28

the sentence OF the courtmartial ana carry In
to effect the recommendation OF tho advisory
board. The matter was considered by the cabi-
net Friday
The bill to place General Grant on the re-
tired list has stirred the friends OF Generals
Averill ana Peasanton to insist upon the same
honor. General Averll, the famous cavalry
leader, Is said to be In almost destitute circum-
stances. Senator Logan refuses to accept any
additions to the Grant bill.
The president transmitted to congress let
ter from the Mexican minister, proposing tho
definition OF the boundary line from the Rio
Grande to the Pacific by the erection of dura-
BILE monuments. The chief magistrate sug-
gests that, In accepting the proposal. suitable
provision DO made for an adequate military
force on the frontier to protect surveying par
ties.
The Zunis have gone home excepting two,
M. wogui and son of Pedro Pinoucho, who
remain with Mr. Cushing to assist In catalogu-
ing the collection at the Smithsonian institute.
Those who went carried the water taken from
the ocean at Boston, and also some secured
from the Potomac on their trip to Mount Yer
non before they went to Boston, and also
supply of shells to be ground into meal to use
In their religious ceremonies.
The president has signed the appropriation
bill giving $465,000 for the use of the public
printer. Mr.. Rounds expresses himself rs sat
fshed, and says that this sum Is ample for the
current fiscal year. Mr.. ID. Helm, of the WASH
ington Critic, will be appointed foreman of
the Record. G. d. Fletcher, of Centralia, ILL.,,
is at the head of the specification room.
Chaplain G.. G. Mullin, of the army, has just
returned from the lower Mississippi region.
HIS had In charge the distribution of govern
ment aid to the sufferers by the flood. He had
an interview with Secretary Lincoln Satur-
day, and told very affecting story of the
scenes of restitution he had witnessed. He
has made report to the commissioner Of COM
merce.
Drs. Agnew and Hamilton are very much
dissatisfied with the action of the House speci-
al committee in recommending that DIR. Bliss
he paid an amount nearly double what they are
to receive for their services in attending the
late President Garfield. DR.. Hamilton has
taken occasion to express in q pointed way,
his dissent from the action of the committee,
and also the opinion that the amount named
for Dr. Bliss Is too large and far more than his
services were worth. He says he stands ready
to give Congress information In regard to the
services of the doctors IL it Is desired.
Charles ii. Reed has received a letter from
Scovillc saying that he had withdrawn from
the Guiteau case and would have nothing more
to do with 1t. Reed will go into court this
week and ask to have n day assigned to hear
arguments in the motion for a new trial. He
is not Over-confdent that new trial will be
granted or that Guteau will be given a day
longer to live than the time now fixed for his
execution. He says he believes IL new trial
Is refused that Guiteau will break entirely
down, and that it will be very doubtful wheth-
er he will live to see the day fixed for his exc
cution.
Mr.. Blaine appeared before the house for
IN mi
denial of the statements of Shipherd. Their |
first interview lasted but fifteen minutes, and |
they did not meet again for three months. The |
reason why Shipherd was not at first kicked |
out of the department was that he was intro
duced by a senator and had three ex-senators |
and an ex-secretary OF the treasury as counsel. |
Mr.. Blaine produced letter from Henry w. |
Blair, denying that he heard Shipherd state to |
the ex-secretary that Minister Hurlbut had |
been offered 81, 900 in the stock of the Peru
Wan company. Mr.. Blaine ut one time express
ed the opinion that Shiphord should be sent be-
fore the grand jury for perjury. The exami-
nation was continued Wednesday. Mr.. Blaine
expressed his obligations for an opportunity
to state that no important dispatches In regard
Ing President Garfleld's sickness. He stated,
with much earnestness, that the English bond
holders put up job of war on Peru for booty;
that Chill and England were now dividing
spoils amounting to 500 00O, 000 and that his
tory will hold the United States responsible for
the dismemberment which has taken place.
meeting of the subcommittee of the house
judiciary committee, charged with the subject
Of railroad land grants. was held Thursday, and
listened to the argument of Mr.. Gray, of Grand
Rapids, Mich, in behalf of the Northern Pa
cifc Railroad company. MIR. Gray insisted that
the grant Of land to the Northern Pacific vest
ed the lands In a corporation for the purpose
Of constructing road on the land indicated
In the original charter of that company. He
cited authorities to show that, notwithstand-
Ing there was a reservation of right Of repeal
Of the grant, yet from the nature of the charter
and the act making the grant It became vest-
ed right. and was therefore irrepealable, being
In the nature of a contract. He held that, even
II congress had the power to take these lands
away from the Northern Pacific Railroad cor
poration now in existence, It was compelled to
zee that the road was constructed or should
transfer the title to the lands to some corpora
ion which would complete it. Mr.. Gray spoke
over an hour. The committee will hear other
arguments In behalf of other Pacific railroad
companies. The land grants which they are
Investigating embrace eleven companies and
involve 133,000,000 acres.