The National tribune. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1877-1917, 1892-07-28

uueSting him to withdraw the Item. Nben
the item was reached, while the bill was before
the Senate, this letter was sent by Mr.. Perkins
to the Clerks desk and read to the Senate, and
upon his motion the item was stricken from the
bill Senator Plumb left his family In COM
Portable circumstances and the widow In de-
clinng to take unearned money from the Treas
ury in his name felt that she was acting accord
ing to principle which he if living, would
approve.
Mr. Donald McNaughton, Chairman of the
New York Commissioners of the Worlds Far.
was recently given permission to search the
records of the Navy Department, and the result
was the finding of the original plans and specl-
fcations of Robert Fulton for the first steam
gunboat the "Demologos," designed by the
great inventor in 1913. Fac SMILES OF these
plans were made for use in the New YORK
Exhibit at the Columbian Exposition. The
Demologos looked very much like modern
canal boat, aud had eight guns on each broad
side and two guns in the bow and two IN the
stern, and was evidently intended to be terror
to the navies of the world. Another search
will be made to find the model or plans Of Full.
| toms first steamboat, the Claremont. with
which the inventor navigated the Hudson
River in 1907.
The Postofice authorities have been recelv-
| ing complaints of the loss of money in the
mails on Capitol Hill. in Washington, and a
Postoffice Inspector was placed on the case, and
on Thursday, July 81, William A. Clayton, a
eolored letter carrier, who has been on the
force for the past three years, was arrested for
| the thefts, after a careful investigation by the
Inspector had located the losses on the route
served by Clayton. Several tests were made
with marked money before Clayton was ar
rested, and in each of them he was shown to
have rifed the letters of the marked money.
| He was taken before a United States Com
missioner and in default of $1,000 bail was
committed to Jail.
| So.
Secretary John W. Foster, of the State De-
partment, announced on Wednesday, July 20,
that an entirely cordial and mutually -satisfac-
tory settlement had been arrived at between
this Government and that of Chile respecting
the indemnity to be paid by the latter on &C
count of the assault made upon the crew of the
United States cruiser Baltimore at Valparaiso,
| Oct 16, 1891. The last dispatch on this subject
was one sent by Mr.. Blaine in January last, in
which he stated that the President believed
that the question of indemnity for the Balti-
more affair was capable of adjustment by the
usual diplomatic methods, and that the sense
| of justice of Chile would doubtless enable the
| two Governments to honorably end the whole
matter. There the question rested until the en-
| trance into the Chilean Cabinet of the present
Minister of Foreign Affairs Senior Errazuriz.
| last month. when he communicated to Mr..
Egan, the United States Minister, the disp8si-
ton Of the Chilean Government to come to an
adjustment of the Baltimore reparation. Under
date of July ID Senior Errazuriz addressed Mr..
Egan a note, placing at his disposal $4,000 in
gold, asking him to cause it to be distributed
among the families of the two seamen who
were killed and the surviving members of the
crew of the Baltimore who were wounded in
the affair. Mr.. Egan promptly replied. accept
! ing the offer Of the Chilean Government as q
frank, friendly and entirely satisfactory settle
ment Of the deplorable occurrence at Valparaiso.
The Baltimore indemnity finds no exact prece-
dent in the diplomatic history of the United
States
SIS
Last week President Harrison returned the
bill TO amend the act as to Circuit Court of APP
| peals in cases of Indian depredations without
his approval, which is the first veto made by
him during this session Of Congress. The Presi.
dent thinks the effect Of the first provision OF
the bill would be to defeat the general purpose
Of Congress in constituting an intermediate
court. His chief objection to the BILL however, il
found in the third section, which provides tina.
no appeal shall be allowed from the judgmen,
of the Court of Claims in these cases. There
areover 10000 of these claims, aggregating $780,,
100000, number of them involving 100000
each, a few as much as $500 900, and one of owe,
SI,0O0000. Gen. Harrison has been left away
behind in the use Of the veto by his predeces
sor. as Cleveland did more of that kind of worl
than any six previous Presidents.
IS
The House Committee On War Claims bav,
made favorable report on the claim of JOSEPH
B. Orbison, for the repayment of $500, which
be gave the Government for his exemption
from service in the army as a conscript dur
4
gro, and lived in Butler County, Pa, during tn,
war. He was drafted, and endeavored to pro
cure exemption on the ground that, being
negro, he was not citizen OF the United States
Orbison's plea was not accepted by the Provost
Marshal, and he subsequently paid $500 for
substitute. The Committee on War Claims o
the House have allowed Orbison's claim on tn
ground that he was not citizen of the Unitei
States until the passage of the Civil Rights bill
in 1866, and. therefore was not liable to mill
tsry duty under the draft act. which specified
only able-bodied citizens. They ought, by al
means to have allowed him interest on hi
money for all these years besides.
, Representative McRae, of Arkansas from th
} Committee on Public Lands submitted to th
, House the report of the Committee, which wa
. instructed to examine and report as to the CT,
3 cumstances under which certain leases in tn
, Yellowstone National Park were made i
March, 1889, by the Secretary of the Interior {
3 the Yellowstone Park Association. This is til
] transaction in which it was charged that Rui
, sell Harrison, son Of the President, had used hi
influence in behalf of the Park Association wit
Secretary Noble, TO secure the leases. The r.
e port says that the son of the President is
= no wise connected with the United States Go,