Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1889-03-22

ihH HdCollOh dlAOLS IlcpuDllCdu statesmen
is. g Who will be chosen Minister to Eng.
land?" If there are candidates for this
place, their names are being kept secret.
A report comes from Philadelphia that
friends of Judge Clark here are urging his
appointment, and the general belief is that
some man either from New England or
Pennsylvania will be appointed.
A Dandy" Gunboat.
WASHINGTON, March 21st-A favorable
report upon the gunboat Yorktown has
been made by the Board. She has been
completed in accordance with the contract,
and is sufficiently strong to bear her
weights OF every description. The Board
is impressed by her clean condition and
smoothness. She could be put into COM
mission Immediately if her dynamos were
set up and connected and her battery
supplied.
Washington Territory's Governor.
WASHINGTON, March 21st.-The Wash
ington Territory Gubernatorial fight was
settled to day by the appointment of Miles
G. Moore of Walla Walla to succeed Gov
ernor Semple. The appointment was to
have been made some days ago, and had it
been made then Watson G.. SQUIRE. a
former Governor, would have been ap-
pointed, bat he has since changed his
mind, and will be candidate for United
States Senator.
Retired Naval Veterans.
WASHINGTON, March 2lst.@Commander
Charles a. Schetky, o. s. N, was to-day
placed on the retired list, and Rear-Ad-
miral Luce has been notified that he will
be retired on the 25th. By Luce retire
ment Commodore Harmony will be pro-
NOTED TO Rear-Adniral, Captain Ramsay
10 be Commodore, Commander Casey 10 be
Commodore and Lieutenant Commander
Bradford to he Commander.
Harrison's First Pardon.
WASHINGTON, March 21st-The Presi-
dent has commuted to imprisonment for
life the sentence of death imposed in the
case of Albert Green (colored), convicted of
murder in the District of Columbia in Sep
tember last and sentened to be hanged on
the 5th OF April. This is the first criminal
case in which President Harrison has exer-
cised his clemency.
Mare Islands New Commanders.
WASHINGTON, March 21st.-The Secre-
| tary OF the Navy has ordered Commodore
A. h. K. Benham to take command of the
Navy Yard at Mare Island, Cal which
position was vacated by Rear Admiral
Belknap when he sailed to take command
OF the Asiatic squadron. Commodore Ben
Blacklisting the Boomers.
WASHINGTON, March 2lst. BY order OF
| the President, the Commanding General of
the Missouri was this afternoon ordered to
| list the names of those invading the lately
ceded Indian lands before The Presidential
proclamation opening them, those on the
| list to be hereafter and always excluded
| from such lands.
Arrival of s. M. White.
WASHINGTON, March 21st.-Stephen M.
White arrived here from Los Angeles to-
day. He has been in consultation with
| Mr.. Swift and Acknowledgement johnson,
| of California, to-day relative to the argu-
ments to be made il the Chae Chan Ping
case before the Supreme Court next Mon
| day.
Possibly Osborne of California.
WASHINGTON, March 21st.-A delegation
of New Workers saw the President to-day
| on behalf of Lewis Payne's appointment as
| Public Printer. 1t is said the President
informed the delegation that New York
| must not expect this Office, as he had about
decided to give it to Western man.
Supervising Architect.
WASHINGTON, March 2lst.-In answer to
| an inquiry on the subject this afternoon
Secretary Window said he had rendered
the posiuon OF supervising Architect oi
the Treasury to James H. Windrin OF
Philadelphia, but was not sure yet whether
he would accept it or not.
| A Change of Duties.
WASHINGTON, March 2lst.-Charles NJ
| Pendley, who has been for many years
official stenographer at the White House
has been appointed Private Secretary to the
Secretary of the Treasury, to take effeci
April lst.
New Bank Chartered.
| WASHINGTON. March 2lst.-The Comp
troller OF Currency has authorized ths
! Western National Bank of Missoula, NJ
T., to commence business with capital O
$75, 900.
Postoffice Name Changed.
| WASHINGTON, March 21st.-The name o
the Postoffice at Los Ginlicos, in Sonom.
county, has been changed to South Ginli
COS.
The members of the cabinet have swor,
in and the men who wanted to be mem
bers have in the meantime sworn out
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