Democratic Sentinel, Volume 11, Number 19, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 10 June 1887 — THE NATIONAL CAPITAL. [ARTICLE]

THE NATIONAL CAPITAL.

John N. Oliver, whom President Cleveland removed from the posit oa of justice of the peace for the District of Columbi a last April, has refused to surrender Ins office to Gen. John Evans, who was appointed to succeed him, says a Washington dispatch. Mr. Oliver, in letters to the President and the Attorney General, denies the right of the President to remove him, and claims that such removal can be effected only for cause and then by the Supreme Court of the District of Columbia as t?r due notice. He also requests that the order of removal be removed and the case be referred to the court named for trial The Attorney-Ganeral in his reply hpp that this method of appointing and removing justice? of the peace was changed by a subsequent enactment and that the President has acted wholly in accordance with the law. It is probable that the courts will have to settle the matter. Assistant Secretary Maynard addressed a letter to the Collector of Customs at San Francisco transmitting an extract from the United State* Commercial Agent at Noiimea, New Caledonia, a French penal colony, in regard to the exportation of convicts from that

colony to San Francisco. Judge Maynard inetructe the Collector to take especial care that the immigrant laws are properly enforced, so as to prevent the landing of any persona so ► hipped to this country, if found to be convicts. The Collector is also instructed to convey that information to the Commissioner of Immigration at San Francisco.