Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1889-01-28

fuse or neglect to convey any mails upon any
train upon which the Postmaster General NAV
require, or willfully refuse to obey any law re-
specting the transportation of the mails, il
shall be liable to penalty not exceeding si .ooC
for each day in which such refusal or neglect
shall be persisted in.
RIGHTS OF SETTLERS ON RAILROAD LANDS
resolution adopted by the Kansas house of
representatives was to-day laid before the
Senate. in which, after recital Of the fact
that settlers on railroad land grants have been
compelled to pay an excessive price for their
holdings and have been otherwise mistreated.
the Kansas Senators and Representatives in
Congress are requested to use their influence
in Congress in behalf Of the settlers and to
secure the passage of the House bill relating
to the rights OF settlers on railroad lands.
AGRATEFUL LITTLE GIRL.
Representative Dockery, of Missouri. was
the following grateful letter from little girl,
fourteen years Of age, residing at Excelsior
Springs, NO.:
II take this opportunity of addressing you to
express my sincere thanks for the assistance
you have rendered in procuring pension for
me, for which am very grateful, and truly
hope that you may be the means of making
happy the hearts Of many others during your
term OF office; and would that could be the
means OF extending your prosperity to the
limits of time"
Mrs. Whitney, accompanied by three lady
friends and a gentleman, was in the Presidents
reserved pew in the Senate gallery this morn
ing.
Mr.. G. p. Huntington, Of the Central Pacific
rallroad company, was given a private hearing
to-day by the Senate committee on Pacific rail-
roads, which has the Mitchell bill now pending
before it.
The House committee on public lands to-day
ordered a favorable report on the Senate bill
granting the use OF certain lands in the city OF
st. Aug justine, Fla, for public park.
Blaine in the Cabinet.
WHAT HIS FRIENDS AT THE CAPITOL SAT-.
Mr.. Blaine's friends at the capitol say they
do not know whether or not the statement in
the New York Herald is true that the Secre.
taryship of State has been actually offered to
and accepted by him, but they think there il
no doubt that it will be, if it has not been
offered to him already.
The Samoan Troubles.
CALL FOR INFORMATION REFERRED IN THE
HOUSE.
In the House, to-day, Representative Ford
of Michigan, offered for reference to the com.
mittee on foreign affairs the following pream-
BILE and resolution:
Whereas, Recent dispatches from Vice-consul
Blackjack, of Apia, Samoa, to the Secretary OF
State, and accounts in the public press have
conveyed the intelligence of great indignities
offered by the representatives Of Germany to
American citizens and American interests in
Samoa and
whereas, In the correspondence transmitted
by the President to Congress ON April 2, 1888.
touching our rights in Samoa, there appears a
letter from the Secretary of State TO the
18Th md .iniot
mission of their governments to make public
the Joint protocols of the Samoa conference
held between said Secretary and said ministers
in the summer of 1887, which permission was
refused; and
Whereas. 1t is alleged that the publication OF
these protocols would show that Germany has
violated treaty rights and obligations solemnly
entered into with the United States.
Resotoed, BY the House of Representatives
that the Secretary of State be requested tC
transmit to the House copies of all such proto
Gals and memoranda of the proceedings of said
conference, if not incompatible with the public
interest.
New Mexico and Her People.
A VIGOROUS PROTEST AGAINST THE ADMISSION OF
THAT TERRITORY AS STATE.
The memorial presented to the Senate to-day
protesting against the admission of New Mexico
as state of the Union represents that it is moi
to the business interests of the residents
of the territory, nor is it the desire of the
majority of New Mexico's citizens really
engaged in commercial pursuits, that
Mexico should at the present time
be admitted into the Union of states. The pc.
titioners say further that New Mexico is a,
present totally untitled for the responsibility
of statehood because the greater part of the
population are unfamiliar with the English
language, and though honest and of good
intentions, are, as class, of people whom
designing and inscriptions politicians may
readily acquire a power over, that enables
them to sway the people almost without limit
The petition also states that the character OF
the legislatures of the territory have been such
as causes the gravest fears that if left to enact
laws not subject to the reversal of Congress the
resulting code would be disgrace to the state