Arizona weekly citizen., 1885-03-07
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five members of bis Cabinet as follows Bayard Secretary of State; Manning Secretary of the Treasury; Lamar Secretary of the Interior; Garland, At tOrney General; Villas, Postmaster Gen eral. This leaves the War and Nav, portfolios to be filed He is now dispos ed to appoint Whitney to the Navy. Il he had to send in bis Cabinet to-day h, would 10 doubt do so. Of course, thi. means two men from New York. Thi: is worrying him a good deal. He wants Whitney, and IS about decided to ignore custom and precedent and voluntarily incur much inevitable criticism of 6 hostile character, for the sake of having ! the man in the Navy Department whom | he understands and who understands him. It need not bs surprising if he does so anyhow; in fact 1t is probabls he will. As to the War Department, he is hRlting between two men, Judge En. dicott and Hon. Patrick A. Collins ol Massachusetts, with the chances in favor of the former. One of these IS sure to be appointed and will go in as the repre- sentative from New Englsnd. The appoint Judge Endicott, who will be re- luOCEC4 luC OcluOCI1AlC uOLullCc for Governor in Massachusetts last year His selection would be particularly sat isfsctory to the Independents who sup ported Cleveland, though his Democracy Is not to be doubted.
 WAsHINCToS, Feb. 27-Civil engineer Menocal, in charge of the expedition to survey the route proposed for the Nicsr- agus Canal, reports to the Navy Depart ment under date of San Juan River, Jan. 3l, the arrival of his party on the 22d of January, the camp being estsb- lished near the junction of the San Juan and Scrapique rivers. Some objection was offered by the officials of the Costa Rica government to hls making the sur veys within Costa Rica territOry with out further instructions from that gov ernment. A special messenger was sent to San Jose for further instructions. In tine meantime the survey was begun on the left margin of the San Juan river and carried to the other side. MenOcal made a careful exammatIOn of that river and other tributaries for several miles above its mouth, winch satisfied him of the impOssibility of raising the waters of that river for canal by a dam at that point. The survey Is being prose- cuted with encouraging signs of sue cess.
 WASHINGTON, Feb. 27-The death of Logan, member of the Illinois Legisla- turs, and the failure of the Oregon Le. . islaturs to elect Senator has Caused some politicsl speculation here, and the fact that New Hampshire does not elect a Senator to take Blsir's place tIll June adds still further interest to the ques tiOn. But, even IS no Senators should appear the 4th of March Tn the places of Slater of Oregon, Logan of Illinois, and Blair of New Hampshire. the Repubh cans would still have thirty-seyen and the Democrats only thiIty-fOur-a Re publican majority of three without the vote of Malone and Riddleherger, who are both expected to continue with the Republicans, and If they do the Repub licau majority will be five, but if not and they go over to the Democrats the majority would then sink to one.
 WASHINGTON, D. C., Feb. 27-Presi- dent Arthur did the handsome thing by President-elect Cleveland. He asked him to come direct to the White House on bis arrival in Washington, but Mir. Cleveland, having secnr-d rooms, re- spectfulIy declined the offer. On inaug uration day, President Arthur, in ac- cordance with time-hOnOred custom, will call upon the incoming President at his hotel and escort him to the Capitol to be inaugurated. The gathering st the inauguration ceremonies promises to be the lRrgestfor years. Republicans have tired of attending inauguration cere- monies, but there are thousands of Dem ocrats within easy reach of the capital who have never attended an inRugura- tlon, but will do so this year for the first time.
 LONDON, Feb. 27-GlGdstone in answer to protest of the Peace Society against the prosecution of war in the SOudan confines himself tn reference of the many acts of Lord Wolseley to induce the hostile Arabs to cease making war he points the Society to Lord Wolseley's proclamstions to show that the govern. ment desired to avoid blOOdshed to es- | tablish the native government at khar- | toum and recognize Fl MRhdi ss Sutton | of kOrdofan, if he surrendered European and Fll-aheer prisoners, in hIs posses sion.
 HALIFAX, Feb. 27-In the Nova Scotit Legislature Mir. Power gave notice that | he proposed to question the right of the | Parliament of Canada to impose n duty on flour. Another member offered C resolution stating that the union witt Canada had been injurious to Nova Scotia and recommending an appeal tC the Imperial authorities for leave tC withdraw from the Dominion
 WASHINGTON, Feb. 27-Senate-Tht consideration of the Naval bill was con tinued; Tn the discussion on the bill, Me Pherson favored the building of larger cruisers than provided for and on sug gestion of Miller of California without | objection by Hale, the limit of maximum tonnage for two new cruisers was rec. commended by the Senate Committee WAS made five thousand instead of foul thousand tons. The amendment offered by Hale agreed to sppropristing Sll2,OO1 | for tbe purchase of EricsOn's torpedo boat idestroyerl. With this exception the bill passed substantially as reported from the senate committee on sppro priations-
 SAN FRAxsIsco, Feb. 27.-The Exami ner's Fresno. California, special says | Early this morning R fire broke out lI the grocery store of YeargID Morgan buildings, the adjacent buildings beins of wood the fire soon enveloped hall tbe block occAsiOninR loss of S3O,OOO Insurance S23,OO0. The principal loser, are Weaver < Dunbar, hardware, S6,OOO insured for s3,5OO; Baker & Johnson general merchants. $l3.OcO, insured fol sgOOO: Mrs. Daly stationery, g. 600. ID. sur-d for 21,OOO. Yesrgin 6 Morgan loss was s4,OOO, fully insured.
 SAN FRAScIsco, Feb. 27-The collec tion of minerals of the State Mining Bureau. were shipped to day for eIhibi, tion at New Orleans. There are ID all s7 cases which include fifty boxes ol minerals, tveDty-four plate glass csse' and A few special boxes containing marbles and other native geological specimens of exceptional beauty and rarity. In a day or two State Minerolo gist Hanks will leave the city Tor Ne" Orleans to Superintend the exhibit
 NEW YORK. Feb. 27-Railroad mana gers are considerably stirrsp up over bill that has been introduced m the Legislature at the request of the Board of Railroad Commissioners giving tha' body extensive powers over every rail roaj corporation in the State.
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