Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1890-03-15
A HARBOR WANTED.
But Mexico Not Likely to ObligG
Arizona.
The Dolph Inquiry Heading to q FIzzls-'
The Bullet That Killed Taulbes
Found In the Temporal
Bono.

WASHINGTON, March Is. - Senator
Sherman, in asking the Senate to dis
charge the Committee on Foreign Rela-
tions from further consideration Of and
to lay on the table memorial Of the
Legislative Assembly of the Territory
OF Arizona, praying the President and
Congress to enter into a negotiation
with the Republic of Mexico for the
cession Of sufficient territory adjoining
Arizona on the southern boundary to-
secure deep water port upon the Gulf
OF California, which would afford an.
outlet for the products Of the Territory,
laid before the Senate some very inter
esting documents Of a diplomatic char
acter.
Senator Sherman, as chairman Of the
committee, referred the memorial to
Secretary Blaine, with request for his
opinion with regard to 1t, and this Is
the reply Of the Secretary;
Responding to your personal request
for my views in regard to this petition,
/ beg leave to say that can discern no
hopeful prospect of any negotiation be-
ing successfully conducted with Mexico
at the present time, even toward the linn
tied object in view. The temper Of the
statesmen and people Of Mexico has
been only recently manifested with re-
gard to the alienation of any part OF
the National Territory by the promi-
hence given in certain circles of tho Pa
cific coast to movement for the acqui-
sition of all or part OF Lower Cali
fornia by purchase.
'For the information OF your commit
tee I transmit herewith a copy of a
memorandum prepared by the Mexican
Minister of conversation which he had
with me on this subject on June last,
together with Senior Mariscal's memo
randum of May 90, 1880. of which Mr.
Romero gave me copy. l hold, I'M
hesitatingly. that the Government Of
the United States is precluded by obli-
cations of traditional good faith from
approaching the Government of Mexico
with view to acquiring any part of the
Mexican territory, and equally believe
that no administration of Mexico could
face the manifestations Of National
sentiment which would certainly at
tend any disposition to infringe the pro-
visions of the Mexican Constitution
which withholds from the Government
the power to cede Mexican soil.
Moreover, even did the subject
promise n favorable negotiation, the
petition fails to set forth the proposition
in sufficient detail. The northern and
eastern shore of the Gulf of California
does not appear to offer deep water
port until Libertad (Lobes) is reached,
some 200 miles from the delta of the
Colorado, and the country between that
coast and the present southern limits Of
Arizona is broken and appears i'll
adapted to q highway of intercourse.
Guaymas and the Sonora railway running
thence to Nogales constitute the present
channel of outlet from Arizona to the
Gulf of California"
THE DoLPH INQUIRY.
WASHINGTON, March 13.-The outcome
Of the Dolph secret session investiga-
ton has not been foreshadowed very
clearly yet, but the opinion is beginning
to prevail that when the committee
makes a report on the fruitless result of
Senators and employees of the Senate
the whole matter will be dropped. Mr..
Dolph's footing has been very slippery
for some time, and it appears now that
he will not have majority OF the Sem
ate to back him when the resolution to
punish the newspaper correspondents
for contempt comes to a vote. The OUT
oovoa ~ tho mn ffar y,i11 ,,r0ho H., ha Tho
discussion with open doors Of the prOpo-
sition to discontinue the practice Of
considering nominations in secret ses-
sion.
Ingalls, proposition to appoint COM
mittee of conference to bring about an
amicable agreement with the newspaper
men is regarded with a great deal of
favor on the floor. 1t is hardly prac-
tical, however, as no committee Of
Washington correspondents would have
the authority to bind the newspapers Of
the country to refrain from publishing
any particular class of news Several
Senators will present the argument in
the Senate that it is safe to trust to the
nice discrimination of the newspapers
as to what is proper to publish.
THU rAULBEE AUTOPSY.
WASHINGTON, March 13.-Dr. D. ].
Lamb conducted the autopsy Of the re-
mains Of the late ex-Representative
Taulbee in the presence of large num-
Der of medical men. The ball was
found to have passed beneath the eyes
downward and inward, fracturing por-
ton Of the orbital plate. Thence It
went toward the brain, fracturing and
splintoring the petrous portion Of the
temporal bone. The ball was
found imbedded in the bone and
dura mater. The further pene-
tration of q sixteenth of an inch
would have probably resulted in instant
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