Arizona weekly citizen., 1890-05-03

''%Nohi-'bAO-Nf W @A pm --O. hiO ouA ACA and daughter, Mrs. Brown, visited tn
 White House this morning for the frs time since the death of President Gar field, and were received in the red parlo by Preside and Mrs. Harrison, anC Mrs. Mckee.
 | GENERATIONS c. Fremont major general, United States Army Ire tired); John B. Collin, to be Indiar agent at Haimesville, Montana: Henry B. Gooding, to be chief justice of the l supreme court of Arizona.
 The senate committee on education and labor to-day received the committee of the association of agricultural col leges and experiment. stations, who pre- sented a memorial of their needs. The memorial sets forth that the special and immediate needs of these colleges were for generous support, and asks that at least S15,OO0 year be provided now for each state, to be increased 9ntila limit 0f not less than twenty i've thousand dollars S reached.
 Senator Paddock to-day presented a pamphlet from the legislative commit tee of the national grange, containing their memorial i1 favor of legislation to prohibit the adulteration of food, gamb- ling in farm products and formation and continuation of trusts; also Tn favor of remonetization of silver and a revision of the tariff in the interest of agricul- ture.
 The following correspondence was made public today:
 EXECUTIVE MANSION
 April 24, 1890.
 To the Attorney General:
 SIR:-I have had frequent occasion during the last three months to confer with you in reference to obstruction of fered in the counties of Leon, Gadsden, Madison and Jefferson in the state of Florida, to the execution in progress in the courts of the United States. It is not necessary to say more of the situa- tiOn than that the officers of the United States are not suffered to exercise their of things can no longer be tolerated. You will. therefore, instruct United States Marshal Weeks as soon as he has been qualified, to proceed at once to execute such writs and arrests as ma, be placed in his hands. If he appre- hendS resistance, he will employ civil posse, such as may discourage resist ance, or Ovelc. ne 1t. He should pro ceed with calmness and moderation. which should always attend public off cer in the execution of his duty, and at the same time act with a firmness and courage that will impress the lawless with a wholesome sense of danger and futile resistance. You will assure off cers of the law. and those who have foolishly and wickedly thought to set the law at defiance that every resource lodged with the executive by the consti- tuition and laws, will, as necessity arises, be employed to make it safe ard feasible to hold federal commission and to exc cute the duties it imposes.
 Very Respectfully,
 BENJAMIN HARRISON.
 Appended to this is letter from At torney General Miller, to United States Marshal Weeks, of Florida, directing that the presidents instructions be faith fully carried out.
 A delegation of thirty-seven leading citizens of New Mexico is here to de mand of congress the appointment of a speclal tribunal to settle land grant ti- ties in that territory. It also urges the otAAhiooAOh OI -NCN t4CAlCO do a state.
 ST. LOUIS. April 6-Additional ad- vices from Texas show that the great rain storm winch prevailed during the week has covered nearly the northern and western sections of the state, reach ing out as far as Big Springs on the Tex | as and Pacific, and almost in the Pan | handle in the northwest. Nearly foot | of water has fallen since last Monday, | and all rivers and streams are at flood l height, and the country IS practically | Five freight and one pas senger trains are laid up at Colorado | City on account of the washOut. Part | of Abilence is flooded. and the creek | through the town has risen over | twenty feet. the people living in the | low bottoms being rescued with difficult | ty. Trinity rIver rose twenty-seven feet | and flooded large section of country. l The Brazos river also Overflowed and is | doing great damage. All roads in north ern and western parts of the state have | suffered from the washing out of their | tracks, culverts, bridges, embankments, | etc., and it will take several days to re pair the damages. The rain has been | .nS HcdNlcsJ ever huOWn III northern | md western Texas.
 WASHINGTON, Aprll 2S-The U. S. | Circuit Court, through Chief Justice | Fuller, to-day rendered an opinion ad- -erse to the constitutionality of the | State laws providing for the seizure of | iquor brought into the state in orig | nal packages. Such laws, the court holds, Ire in interference with the interstate | .ommOrce law.
 SAN FEANcIsCo, April 26.