The National tribune. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1877-1917, 1885-11-12

terests of the United States on the Isthmus
against such disorders rs occurred last year.
At present everything is as quiet" there rs it
generally used to be /" on the Potomac" i'll the
war dispatches, but Secretary Whitney does
not propose to get left" if anything does hap
! pen.
A PROCLAMATION BY TIE PRESIDENT.
| In view of the anti Chinese riots in Wash
ington Territory, the President on Saturday
| issued the following proclamation:
Whereas it is represented TO me by the Governor
of the Territory of Washington that domestic vio-
ence exists within the said Territory, and that by
reason of unlawful distractions and combinations
and the assemblage of evil-disposed persons 1t has
become impractCable to enforce by the ordinary
course of judicial proceedings the laws of the United
States at Seattle and at other points and places
within said Territory, whereby life and property are
| there threatened and endangered;
And whereas the Legislature of said Territory
| cannot be convened and in the Judgment of the
| President an emergency has arisen and case IS
now presented which justiiies and requires under
the Constitution and Laws of the United States the
employment OF military force to suppress domestic
violence and enforce the faithful execution of the
| laws of the United States, if the command and
warning of this proclamation be disobeyed and
disregarded;
Now therefore I, Grover Cleveland. President
of the United States, do hereby command and warn
all insurgents and all persons who have assembled
at any point within the said Territory of Washing
ton for the unlawful purposes aforesaid, to desist
therefrom and to dispense and retire peaceably to
their respective abodeS or before II o clock me-
ridian on the Sth day of November instant.
And do admonish all good citizens of the United
States, and all persons within the limits and
jurisdiction thereof against aiding abetting, coun-
tenancng or taking any part in any such unlawful
acts or assemblages.
In witness whereof I have set my hand and
caused the seal of the United States to be hereunto
affixed
Done at the city of We. hington this seventh day
of November in the year of our Lord one
thousand eight hundred and eighty-fve,
SEAL and of the independents of the United States
the one hundred and tenth.
GROVER CLEVELAND
By the President:
7. +. BAYARD. Secretary of State.
REFORM IN COURTS MARTIAL.
Col. Lieber, Acting Judge Advocate General
says in his annual report that for the last six
years the number of trials by general courts
martial has been constantly increasing He
recommends several notifications of the arti-
cles of war. 1t has now become, he says, the
| recognized right Of the accused to be represent
ed by counsel before court-martial and when
so represented the prosecution is apt to be con-
Quoted with an amount of interest which must
unfit the prosecutor for any other relationship
to the court. Yet, under our system, the
Judge Advocate, besides being the prosecutor
for the Government, is the recorder and the
legal adviser of the court. These functions are
apt to be irreconcilable with that of prosecutor,
as is also his relation to the accused.
Col. Lieber thinks the Judge Advocate should
court where the accused is unrepresented for
here he may, by word or the infection of a
word, or by gesture even, unWttingly iniiu-
ence its Judgment.
Col Lieber also recommends that commits
stoned officers of the army be authorized to
administer oaths in certain cases, and that
military jurisdiction for the purpose of trial be
extended over military convicts who have been
discharged from the service and are confined
elsewhere than at the military prison at Leav
enworth. At the Leavenworth prison only can
convicts who have been discharged the service
be brought to trial for offenses committed dur
ing their imprisonment.
DEATH OF COL. SEATON.
The announcement of the death of Col G. " ".
Seaton, ex-Superintendent of the Census, which
occurred in Vermont last Week. is received with
deep regret. Col. Seaton's death was not unex-
pected, as he had been in falling health for two
years. During tie war Col. Seaton served i'll
the Verm"lt sharpshooters, under Col. Berdan,
and subsequently was on the Sanitary Commits
sion in New Orleans After the work of the
Commission was wound up he came to Wash
ington, and was Chief of the Population Divis-
ion of the Census of 1870, and subsequently
Chief Clerk of the Pension Office, and in April,
1879 was appointed Chief Clerk of the Census
of $780, and became Superintendent in July,
1881, which position he held up to July, 1885,
when the incomplete work was turned over to
the Secretary of the Interior Department, and
is now being finished under his direction.
APPOINTMENTS FOR THE FAR WEST.
On Saturday the President appointed James
A. Bayard, of Maryland, a son of the Secretary
of State, to be Secretary of AriZona Joseph &.
Straughan, son-in-law of J. G. Shoemaker pro-
prietor of the indianapolis Sentinel, to be Sur
veyor-General of Idaho; James A. Dawson, at
one time Adjutant- General of Kentucky and
editor of the Louisville EUening Neps, to be SHr-
veyor-General of Colorado; John Hise, of Ar-
IONA, a civil engineer, and formerly politician
of Chicago, to be Surveyor General of Arizona.
THE CIVIL SERVICE BOARD.
The new Board of Civil Service Commission
ers is fully organized and ready for business
A. 2. EdgertOn, of Indiana, is President of the
Board.
CALLERS AT THE NATIONAL TRIBUNE OFFICE.
Capt. j. A. Apperson, Cheyenne, Wyo Man
ager Land Department of the Swan Land &
Cattle Co. Capt. Apperson went out ia the
10th ILL.,, and, after considerable service in that
regiment. received q commission in the 1I7th
H., in which he served until the end of the
war
Gen. w. E. w. Ross, Baltimore, Nd Gen.
Ross went out in the 10th Nd, in which he
made fine record, and rose to the grade of
Lieutenant Colonel. At the discharge of the
10th he was offered a similar commission in
the 31st U. S. G. T., which, as he was anxious
to help fight the war Through to its close, he
accepted, and did splendid service with his
dusky command at Spottsylvania and on the
lines in front of Petersburg. He lost leg in
the attack on the Crater. As far as is known
he was the only native and resident of Mary
land who commanded colored troops He was
Postmaster of Baltimore until relieved by the
present Administration for alleged offensive
partisanship."
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