Los Angeles daily herald., 1889-04-16
FROM WASHINGTON.
The President Takes a Con-
stitutiOnal.
OPINION DOUBTED.
An Apache Figures Successfully as
Appellant in the United States
Supreme Court.

Associated Press Dispatches to the HERALD.
WASHINGTON, April 5.-President Har-
rison, accompanied by Mrs. HARRISON
and Secretaries Blaine and Window,
went down the Potomac this morning for
days ride. Before leaving, the Presi-
dent received the Chicago and All Amer
ica baseball clubs. The reception was
very brief.
THE PRESIDENT WANTS COMFORT.
1t is reported that the President con-
templates taking the whole south front
of the first floor OF the State Department
building for executive offices, and estab
fishing his routine office hours there.
Such plan would give the President
privilege which the humblest . SSemployes
of the Government have, but which the
Chief Executive does not possess-that
is, the right to enjoy his own home. The
clerks in some OF the smallest di visions
of the State Department have more room
and more conveniences than the clerks
at the Executive Mansion.
Soon after leaving the wharf, the gen.
house and spent most of the time there un
til noon when Mount Vernon was reached.
The boat proceeded down the river as far
ss Budd's ferry, thirty-two miles from
| Washington. Here the boat was slowed
down and luncheon was served. The
| Holly then turned up steam. and at
half past five the party were at the
wharf, and, half an hour later, the Presi
dent was again at the White House. The
trip was keenly enjoyed.
ATTEMPTED OFFICIAL EXCUSE.
Naval Constructor Highborn, Acting
Chief of the Construction Bureau, does
not credit the report that the Tres of the
Trenton were extinguished by floods that
came through the hawse-pipes. He says
these pipes we're placed on the berth
deck to allow the heavy forward gun to
be worked. The effect was to make the
vessel ride at anchor more easily than if
they had been placed on the upper deck.
In heavy, ,Isea water would come through
them, and complaint had been made
that they kept the deck wet. Still they
had been furnished with rubber packer
bucklers which, ii applied, would make
the pipes nearly water-tight, and Captain
Highborn says it is entirely incredible
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through to extinguish the fires. Un-
doubtedly the cause of the wreck was in
sufficient eDgine-power.
The English ship Calliope, which
escaped by bare margin of half knot
an hour to windward, has 3,0O0-horse-
power to 200 tons displacement. The
Trenton has 3,l00-horse-power, but a
tonnage of 5000.
| COMMANDER BOOKS COURT MARTIAL.
The court martial convened to try
Lieutenant. Commander Book on the
charge of absence from duty without
leave, met to-day. Commodore John O.
Walker, Chief OF the Bureau of Naviga-
ton, and Governor Swineford, of Alaska,
| were examined.
| Commodore Walker testified that
Lieutenant Book did not leave the Pinta
with the permission of the Navy Depart
ment. The accused said to him that he
left the ship on his own responsibility,
and had gone to Washington to secure
certain repairs needed. For the defense,
Governor Swineford, OF Alaska, testified
that he had requested a passage in the
Pinta to one of the islands where a dis
turbance existed, and had been informed
that the vessel was unfit for service. The
people of Sitka were anxious that the
vessel should be put in good condition.
as it was feared that they would be the
first to suffer in case of trouble with Ger
many.
AN APACHE APPELLANT.
The Supreme Court to-day decided
favorably upon the application of Con
Shayee for writ of habeas corpus. Con
Shayee is an Apache Indian, convicted
of the murder OF another Indian in the
United States District of Arizona, and
sentenced to be hanged. 1t was con-
tended that the ofense was committed
against the laws of the Territory, and
should have been tried under those laws
by the Territorial Court. The Supreme
Court grants the writ prayed for. The
same order was made in the case of Cap
tain Jack, the Indian whose case is sub
stantially the same as that just de-
scribed, and who was sentenced to thirty
years Imprisonment in the Ohio peni-
tentiary.
INDIAN CONCESSION COMMISSIONERS.
George D. Robinson, of Massachusetts,
j. Otis Humphrey, of Illinois, and
Alfred III. Wilson, of Arkansas, mem
bers OF the Commission recently ap-
pointed by the President to negotiate
WIN OiC OHOtOk60 ODD6f indian
tribes in Indian Territory, for the con-
cession of certain lands under the act of
March 2, 1889, met to day and received
their commissions. The written instru-
ments are elaborate and contain a COM
plete history of the Governments treaty
relations with these Indians from the
earliest times.
IN MEMORY OF MATTHEW'S.
Attorney-General Miller to-day pre-
sented the Supreme Courtthe resolutions
adopted the meeting of the bar of April
9th, to take upon the death of Hon. STAN
ley Matthews. The resolutions were or
dered spread upon the court records.
The Attorney General then delivered a
long eulogy on the deceased, to which
Chief Justice Miller responded.
WOOL cLAssED AS WASTE.
Assistant Secretary Tichenor to-day
gave hearing to G. W. Patten, of Phil
adelphia, and r. d. jackson, of New
York, in favor of modification of the
present classification of wool waste so as
to permit its entry at 10 cents per pound
as waste. 1t is now classified as secured
wool, on which the duty is much higher.
CONTRACT AWARDED.
The Secretary of the Interior to-day
awarded the contract for the erection Of
the Indian Industrial School building at
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