Show EDMUNDS AND conspiring A DELAY OK TUE FULLER nomination the french trouble arrest aug american citizens correspondence of the ENQUIRER secretary bayard has endeared himself to every patriotic american citizen by his manly and courageous instructions to mr mclane our minister to franco in the cases of several naturalized american citizens who have been arrested and compelled to do military duty in france when their release was demanded by our minister the french minister replied in each case that the question 0 allegiance legi ance was one over which the administration had no jurisdiction and must be settled by the courts it was fully bet forth that under french principles citizenship is conferred by parentage and not by the place of birtrand birtE and that expatriation of the french citizen requires the consent of the french government upon these points mr has instructed minister mclane to inform the french government that the government of the united states holds that the certificate of naturalization granted by it to a french citizen is not open to impeachment by the french government either in its executive or its judicial branch in plain english we propose to see that american citizens are allowed to travel unmolested wherever they may desire to go but to return to mr bayaras bayards Ba yards instructions he says in conclusion you will further say that if subjection to forced military service of the citizens whose cases you report is based upon an assumption that they are not citizens of the united states this department asks for their immediate release and for a proper compensation pensa tion for tho losses which they have received for such detention it cannot bo admitted that american citizens not charged with any crime should be detained under arrest for even a single day after their proofs of citizenship have been presented in cases like this the united states can never admit the propriety of submitting to the ordinary delays of judicial action tho kind of talk to make the united states flag respected the world over senators edmunds and evarts the two leading republican members of the senate judiciary committee to which the nomination of mr fuller for chief justice has been referred are charged with having conspired together for the purpose of delaying a report upon the nomination until after the presidential election and should a republican by accident be elected to delay if until after rations that he may nominate a republican for chief justice I 1 dont believe this charge not that the senators named would object to carrying out such a plan were it feasible but because they are entirely too shrewd to attempt anything which they know it is impossible to accomplish and this would certainly be impossible if I 1 were disposed to wager on this subject I 1 should have no hesitation whatever in laying odds that mr ful 1 le would bo confirmed inside of three weeks and unless something more serious than anything yet brought against him should be unearthed his confirmation is like to be unanimous another good republican office holder has gone wrong his accounts arc short something like his name is gen jas W ewing and he was appointment and disbursing clerk of the department of justice he was appointed as a republican some six or eight years ago from west virgiaia it is said that the defalcations began in 1882 and have continued right along until they amount to the above sum the government will lose nothing as he was under bond he has been dismissed and frank 0 branigan of ville ohio a good democrat appointed in his place had this been done in the early days of the administration ewings bondsmen would not have had so much to pay the senate has passed the bill for beiting all unearned railroad land grants the house committee on appropriations has reported a bill appropriating pria ting to meet deficiencies in the appropriation for the payment of army pensions during the remainder althe present fiscal year senator who was confined to his room with a carbuncle on his leg for nearly a week after his recent speech on tuesday apologized to the senate for the language he used in replying to ingalls charges the river and harbor bill has boon passed by the house by a more than two thirds majority it appropriates the caucus of the democratic members of the house held on wednesday evening did not discuss the proposed amendments to the mills tariff bill as it was generally supposed it would but passed a resolution that all amendments proposed to be offered by democrats should be first submitted to the committee on ways and means to be considered and reported upon to another caucus tebe held next week this resolution ofia unanimously agreed to but arran dall gave notice that ho did not propose to be bound by any caucus action A large number of amendments ave already been submitted to th e ways and committee washington may 11 1888 |