The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1886-03-12
FROM WASHINGTON.
A Sad Errand.
Especial to the PRESS.

Especial to the PRESSl
WASHINGTON, March Ex-senator Frye
has been appointed one of the committee on
the part of the Senate to accompany the re-
mains of the late Senator Miller to Cali
fornia. 1t was reported that Senator Hale
also was to be one of that committee but 1t
proves to be an error.
Personal.
Hon. VIM. L. Putnam of Portland, who
has been for several days attending some
cases before the Supreme Coufe, leaves for
home tomorrow.
The Edmunds Resolution.
The debate on the Edmunds resolution did
not call forth such a large audience to-day as
yesterday and Tuesday. Mr. Wilson OF
Iowa read long speech quoting from the
Presidents reform declarations and arralgn-
ing him for not keeping his promises on
carrying out his civil service pledges. Mr..
Kenna of West Virginia has the floor to-
morrow.
OF interest to Maine People.
WASHINGTON, March ILL: G. Downs
and A. McNichol of Calais, Me-, appeared
before the House committee on claims to-day
in support of Mr.. b outelle's bill to give the
United States District Court jurisdiction in
the case of the claim of the owners OF tne
brig Olive Frances, for 1000. The brig
was run down by the United States gunpoat
inooski in 1866.
Mr.. Dingley presented to-day a memorial
of fifty-six ship owners and masters OF cam
den, praying for the passage OF the sDingley
pilotage bill
Senator Hale presented the petition OF 9
hundred persons of Sagadahoc and oxford
tQmnaranop mStruCLlOn Ill
the public schools.
Mr.. BouteIIe and Brady's Rejoinder-
Representatives Boutelle and Brady have
TOMS letter. The rejoiuder is scathlng
document and nearly every. statement maze
by Commodore Truxton in regard to the
Norfolk navy yard and its management IS
branded as false. The document closes
with the assertion that 1t IS unmis,
takebly shown that Commodore Truxton did
cause the removal of an honorable lnscrlp-
tion from the very dock engine as charged
and his giving no reason therefor, ana tnat
he made wholesale removals OF UNION sol
diers and sailors whose places were hlleq py
ex-confederates in fragrant violation Oh law.
Senator Miller's Funeral.
During the executive session to-day the
Senate adopted resolutions inviting the
House of Representatives., the President, his
CdDlu6b. IUb LollpICllC OOulb hhN AOASAe3h ~
tion to be present Saturday at the funeral OF
Senator Miller Senators Jones of Nevada,
FRYE, Cullom, Butler and Gray were ap-
pointed a committee to accompany the re-
mains to their place of interment.
The Presidents Veto Message.
In the message to Congress vetoing the
bill to quit the title of settlers on the Des
Moines river lands in Iowa the President re-
views the history of this grant, the sub
sequent claims and their final adjudication
by the Supreme Court of the United States,
and says:
| have examined the legislation on the subject
of this grant, studied the decisions of the court on
numerous and complicated questions which have
arisen from such legislation, and the positions OF
the pa ties claiming interest in the land cover
ed by said grant, and i cannot but think that
every possible question that can be raised or at
least that ought to be raised in any suit relating
to these lands has been determined by the highest
judicial authority in the land and If any substan-
tial point remains yet unsettled believe there IS
no difficulty in presenting it to the proper tribunal
Notwithstanding the fact that there may be par
ties in occupancy of these lands who suNer hard
ships by the application of strict legal principles
to their claims safety lies in the noninterference
by Congress with matters which should be left 10
judicial cognizance, and am unwilling TO concur
in legislation which, if not an encroachment or
judicial power treads so closely thereon as to be
of doubtful expediency and which at the same
time increase the elements of litigation that have
heretofore existed and endanger vested rights