Show IFashiagton Notes Washington 25 Secretary Ramsey Ram-sey says that government can only receive Sitting Bulls people as prisoners of war to be held until government provides or their main tenance General Sherman regards them as British subjects The treasury bought 415000 ounces of silver for San Francisco and New Orleans Secretary Thompson tc > day ordered Commander Potter of the Constel ation to t deliver her cargo to the lerald relief committee of Dublin and explain that it was donated by a few generous hearted Americans out of sympathy for suffering Irish He expresses satisfaction at the peaceful character of their mission Chicago InterOcean3 Wash ngton The senators and representatives representa-tives from California are not at all pleased with the selection of the commission to negotiate an immigra ion treaty with China They claim they have been badly treated because tia a subject that their constituent are interested in almost exclusively and they have been given but one member of the board while two have been selected who know nothing of the situation or the needs of California Califor-nia They insist that no man can understand the Chinese question until he has come in contact with that rice and that learning by experience ii vastly difierent from learning from theory It is a beautiful theory that everybody is welcome upon our hospitabla shores remarked one today but it is a dreadfully disagreeable disa-greeable ono when applied to the Chinese The Californians claim that Angell and Trescott have their minds made up and the result of the commission will therefore not change the present situation President Angell has accepted the Chinese mission and it is understood here that he will be granted a leave I of two years from his duties as prta dent of the Michigan university The deadlock in the House of Rs presentativea ovsr Garfields motion i concerning the Townshend tarifi bill I waa terminated this afternoon I by the adoption of the simple I method of tho approval o I Mondays journal and thereupon i withdrawing the bill from Towns hends committee and referring it to the committee on ways and mean a common sense proceedure which apparently was not thought of until alter the House bai become too deeply involved in parliametary difficulties diffi-culties and too much excited by personal controversies to act upon any sensible suggestion while the i excitement lasted The whole Etrugele in fact has been prolific of personal disputes and unparliamentary usages between members The speaker has been severely se-verely criticised for his rulingp and 1 bad blood has ben stirred up all around The nomination of the new ministe to China and those of Commissioner Swift and Trescott ware taken up during dur-ing todays executive session of the Senate and referred to the committee commit-tee on foreign relations which will meet next Tuesday It is understood tact the commissioners are not to t enter on theirmission until Congrea shall first have made an appropriation appropria-tion to defray their expenses This I it is believed will be readily granted II I There seems to be lttle or no doubt of their confirmation and that of Mr I Angell as mini 3r is conceded on I all hands The Utes leaves tomorrow confident confi-dent that their people will agree to I the terms of government Two of L the prisoners are freed by the evidence LI evi-dence of Miss Meeker The interior department is now believed to have a complete list of the guilty parties I coming from one of the Indians themselves them-selves and it is expected they will soon be brought in by the chiefs now returning Chief Douglass will be detained as a prisoner |