The Lamar register., 1902-09-17
LATE WASHINGTON NEWS AND
GOVERNMENTAL PROCEEDINGS

ITeSlutlil IkOOSeVelI HIS removed
William Vaughan. United States dis
trict attorney for the Northern District
of Alabama, for neglect of duty.
The President has appointed John p.
Debolt judge at Honolulu, vice Abram
$. Humphreys, resigned. Mr.. Debolt
is Il prominent member of the Honolu-
lu bar.
The War Department is advised that
the transport Sherman sailed from
Manila September 7th for San Francis
co with ninety-three sick. 100 casuals
and seventy-one discharged soldiers.
The contractor who furnished coal
for the War Department has notified
Chief Clerk Scotfield that he could no
longer obtain anthracite coal. Officers
of the department say they cannot OBJ
tain coal and are about to purchase bi-
luminous coal.
Lieutenant General Miles left Wash
ington on the 11th inst. for the West
and will sail from San Francisco on
the transport Thomas for the Philip
pines, where he will make n tour OF IN
srection of the army in the Islands. lie
will return via SueZ.
An allotment of the 100000 appro-
priated by Congress for n government
exhibit at the st. Louis Louisiana Pur-
chase Exposition has been made at
meeting of the board of officials ap-
pointed to prepare the exhibit of the
executive departments and bureaus.
Rear Admiral Frederic Rodgers will
turn over the command of the Asiatic
station to Rear Admiral Robley ID.
Evans mt Yokahoma. Japan, about Oc-
tobcr Goth, and Admiral Rodgers then
will sail for the United States aboard
lii IT, ~. ivtfr
across the Pacific to San Francisco.
A net increase of nine per cent. oc-
Cured in the receipts at the fifty larg-
est postoflices in the United States last
month, as compared with August, 1901.
The largest increases We're 26:G per
cent. at Dcs Moines, Iowa, and 26.2 per
cent. at Toledo. Ohio. New York's re-
ceipts increased almost twelve per cent.
and Chicago's six per cent.
The Interior Department has re-
ceived petition from large number
of people in Fremont county, Wyom-
ing. asking that about $4,000 acres of
land. lying on the continental divide
southwest of Lander, be made for
est reservation. A fierce fire Is raging
on this tract, and the citizens contend
that its reservation is the best means
to prevent such contlagrations in the
future. The department will lnvestig-
gate the question.
Confirmation has come to the State
Department from Minister Powell of
the press report that the Haytien gov
ernment has declared Gonavies and
some of the other Haytien ports which
are in the hands of the Firninists,
closed to commerce. The right of
government to close or open ports in
normal conditions never has been ques-
toned. But as certain South and Cen
trail American republics have shown
disposition to avail themselves of the
privilege, in case of revolutionary
troubles. to close ports which they did
not actually control, the State Depart
ment has adopted the policy of declin-
ing to recognize such DEGREES, which,
after all, are nothing more than paper
blockades. Therefore this last Hay
tien order will not be allowed to inter-
ferc with commerce with the ports
named unless the IIaytien government
can, by display of naval force, either
drive Off the insurgents or maintain an
actual blockade.
AS was expected, Mr.. Powell, the
Knitted States minister to Hayti, re-
ported promptly to the Sthte Depart
ment the sinking of the Haytien gun
boat Crete-a- -Pierrot by the German
gunboat Panther As matters stand,
there Is nothing to be done by the State
Department at this juncture. The Off
cials have not changed their views that
the incident was one between the Ger
man and Haytien governments, and
that 1t was not our business. The Ber-
lin advices to the effect that the Hay
ten government had expressed its sat
isfaction with the situation being
brought to the attention of the depart
ment here went to confirm the officials
in their position. No American inter-
ests have been affected unfavorably, in
their Judgment, and as the United
States has not recognized the revolu-
tionists in Hayti there is no one to
make complaint to this government. On
the whole. it is felt that the termina-
ton of Killick's career in summary
fashion may have salutary effect, not
only in Hayti, but also in South and
Central American countries, where
heretofore the slightest revolutionary
disturbance has been made the pretext
for veXatious and expensive interfer-
ence with foreign merchant vessels.
A dispatch from Genoa, Italy, states
that John ]. Girimondi, an Italian, who
has been naturaliZed an American citi-
zen, and was formerly United States
consul general at Santos, Brazil, but
who is said to have been dismissed on
account of alleged deficiency in the rev.
enues of his office, has been arrested
at Omaglapatrie. Girimondi. when he
returned to Italy from Brazil, pretend
ed to have been appointed II United
States consul in Persia and asserted
that he was also commissioned to in
spect the whole United States consular
service in Asia. Later lie acted as a
priest and has been daily celebrating
mass. When arersted he was about to
leave accompanied by two italian