Year: 1878

fax Commission which will treat the ques-
ton of the Canadian Fisheries and the ex-
tortionate award IN no mild terms This
paper will be submitted to Congress with
the rest of the documents asking an appro-
priation to pay the award.


Familiar Old Case.


The counsel in the McGarrahan case for
the claimant and for the defense endeavored
to get in additional evidence before the
Senate Committee on Public Lands at its
tee would not agree to it, and notified the
counsel that they would be ready to hear ar
guments in the case next Friday.


The Pacific Railroad Funding Bill.


The House judiciary Committee decided
to move the reference of the Pacific Fund
ing Bill to that Committee. An effort will
be made when the bill is reached upon the
Speakers desk to put it upon its passage
without reference to any committee.


Yesterdays Cabinet Session.


The Cabinet meeting yesterday was de-
voted mainly to the transaction of routine
business. Postmaster General Key was
present and gave an account of his'trip to
Havana The Presidents visit to Philadel-
phia was talked over, and Secretaries Sher-
man and Schurz decided to accompany him.
The Attorney General intended to go also,
but he has been called home on account OF
illness in his family.


The New Orleans COllectorship
was not mentioned in the Cabinet session
yesterday. In fact the question as to who
is to be nominated for this position is as far
from being settled as ever. New complica-
tions seem to spring up every day. There
n no sayarol factions hpra anph Uith n can-
didate, and it seems impossible to reconcile
them, and the President does not seem in
clined to settle the question by making a
selection himself Gov. Packard leaves here
tonight for New Orleans.


The Blair scheme.


The Herald's Washington special says: A
canvass of the Senate and House of Repre-
sentatives on the bill introduced by Mr.
Kimmel of Maryland, at the suggestion of
Mr.. Montgomery Blair, to allow of q quo
warranto proceeding in the United States
Supreme Court to ascertain the validity Of
the title of the incumbent of the Presi-
dency, disclosed the fact that 256 members
of both Houses opposed the nefarious
scheme, and it will be crushed under an
athemas from all sides-North, South,
East and West wanting peace, Constitu-
tional union and happiness. Only 10 out OF
1868 congressman would support tne Dill,
and 81 are on the fence.


OF 269 members of the House whose state
ments have been given for publication, 2O7
declare their emphatic opposition to the
Blair movement, and only Is favor it.. The
residue decline to express any opinion,
some because they have given no attention
to the subject, some because they intend to
act with their party, some from sheer dis
like of being interviewed, and some because
they do not believe the question will come
up, and see no necessity for having any
views upon it at all. 1t will be remembered
that on Monday Montgomery Blair's
memorial was referred to the Judiciary
Committee of the House. Three of the II
members of the Committee declare thei,
opposition, but the other s are non-com
INITIAL, for the reasons, as stated by Mr.
Knott, Chairman of the Committee, that
they think there would be an indecorum in
| declaring their views in advance on sub
ject referred 10 them for examination.
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