Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1885-11-09

tory, anu that Dy reason OF unlawful obstruc-
tons and combinations and the assemblage of
evil disposed persons. it has become imprac-
ticable 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 justifes and
requires, under the constitution and laws of
the United States, the employment of military
force to suppress domestic violence and en-
force the faithful execution of the laws of the
United States, if the command and warning
of this proclamation be disobeyed and dis.
regarded.
Now, therefore, l, Grover Cleveland, Presi-
dent Of the United States of America, dc
hereby command and warn all insurgents and
all persons who have assembled at any poin,
within the said territory of Washington for
the unlawful purposes aforesaid, to desist
therefrom and to disperse and retire peace.
ably to their respective abodes on or before
IL o'clock, meridian, on the eighth day of
November, instant.
And so admonish all good citizens of the
United States, and all persons within the
iilbito anu tUeTeOl, against dlul0S,
abetting, cOuntenancing or taking any part in
any such unlawful acts or assemblages.
In witness whereof, have set my hand
and caused the seal of the United States to be
hereunto affixed.
Done at the city of Washington this 7th day
of November, in the year of our Lord one
thousand eight hundred and eighty-five, and
of the independence of the United States
the one hundred and tenth.
GROVER CLEVELAND.
BY the President:
T. F. BAYARD, Secretary of State.
[Seal.
The President made the following appoint
ments today:
J. A. Bayard of Maryland, to be secretary
of Arizona.
Joseph C. Strangham of Indiana, to be
surveyor general of Idaho.
James Dawson of Colorado, to be surveyor
general of Colorado.
j. Hise of Arizona, to be surveyor general
of Arizona.
WASHINGTON, Nov. 8.
Manton Marble, who returned from Europe
few days ago, has reported in person to
Secretary Bayard and President Cleveland.
The results of his confidential mission therein,
where he has been employed since last May,
the character and puspOse of this important
mission, now first made public and which are
fully stated in the following letter of instruc-
ton from Secretary Bayard to Mr.. Marble
and his circular letter to our ministers in
England, France and Germany, Messrs.
Phelps, McLane and Pendleton, show that
the President, whatever views expressed in
his silver letter written at Albany before his
term of office began or those which he may
h.. Geo. Co. H.
Congress, promptly accepted the duty i'm
posed on him by the existing laws of Con-
gress requiring renewed endeavor to promote
bi-metallic union with the leading nations
of Europe. The following is the circular
letter to the ministers to England, France
and Germany:
DEPARTMENT OF STATE,
WASHINGTON, May IA, 1885.
Sir-Manton Marble has been chosen by
the President as a confidential agent of the
government OF the United States to visit the
principal nations of Europe, there to ascer-
tain the present opinions of their governments
touching the fixed ratio between gold and
silver, and their estimated coinage and col
latera! use as money in domestic circulation
and international exchange. The enclosed
copy of instructions given Marble will possess
you of the objects of his mission, of manner,
and extent and aim of the aid which you and
other ministers of the United States to whom
like instruction is addressed, will be ex-
pected 20 assist him, as it is difficult to over
state the Importance of the question and its
momentous consequences to the American
people, which are involved in its salvation,
necessarily for accurate and full knowledge
of all facts, and of the real intentions and at
titude of the leading powers of Europe in
regard thereto, becomes apparent. l trust,
therefore, that not later than the first of No
vember next, with the assistance of Marbles
labors you will enable the President to lay
before Congress the information, coupled
with proper suggestions, which may make
practicable such legislation as will meet the
grave emergency. | need not impress upon
you the necessity of reticence as to Marbles
function. You will naturally regard this in
struction for the present as personal, with
holding it from the files of legation until the
proper time arrives of making it of record.
1 am, sir,
Your obedient servant,
T. +. Bayard.
DEPARTMENT OF STATE. !
WASHINGTON, MAY l3, 1885.
Manton Marble, Esq, New York;
Sir The President has had in review
the several successive act of the Congress of
the United States from March, 1876, to July,
1884, which, authorizing the silver commits
sion of 1867, the international monetary
conference at Paris, of April and July. 1881,
and also negotiations with foreign govern
ments, under the acts of June q, 1879, and
August Z, 1882, and the continuance of the
same under the act of July H., 1884, have
sought to prepare for, promote and obtain the
adoption of common ratio between gold and
silver, for the purpose of establishing inter-
nationally the use of bi-metallic money and
securing fxidity of value between those
metals In compliance with the uniform
purpose indicated in these various acts of
Congress, in furtherance of their object and
in execution of the policy they prescribe to
the Executive, am directed by the Presi-
dent, who recognizes your especial compe-
tency in practical monetary and economic
science, to request you to proceed to Europe
at the earliest date which shall suit your
convenience and by personal conferences
with expert advisers and statesmen of the
principal governments of Europe, and in con-
junction with ministers representing the
United States, near these governments, par
ticularly with our ministers to Great
Britain, France and Germany, to
whom you will be duly cred
tied, to which copies of these instruc-
tions be conHdentially transmitted, and who