Rensselaer Republican, Volume 20, Number 37, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 17 May 1888 — WASHINGTON NOTES. [ARTICLE]

WASHINGTON NOTES.

Concerning the enforced military duty required by France of naturalised Americans, Secretary Bayard has instructed Minister McLane to inform M. Flourens that the United States government holds that the decree of naturalisation granted by it to a French citizen is not open to impeachment by the French government, either in its executive or its judicial branches, and that it is alleged to have been improperly issued the remedy is by application to the Department of State. “You will further say,” writes the Secretary, “that if the subjection to forced military service of the citizens whose cases you report is based upon an assumption that they are not citizens of United States, this.department asks for their immediate release and for a proper compensation for the losses which they have incurred by each detention. It cannot be admitted that American citizens not charged with any erime should be detained under arrest fer oven 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.” It is understood that General James W. Ewing, disbursing clerk of the Department of Justice, h«s been found short in his accounts to the extent of SB,OOO or $9,000. Over $5,000 of the money said to be unaccounted fer belongs to the accounts for 1808, 1883 and 1884. General Ewing is bonded in the sum of SIO,OOO, and Representative Goff, of West Virginia, is one of his sureties. General Ewing was k Union soldier of good record and is one of the best known men in the eity. He was appointed from West Virginia, and has held his present office for many years. The Senate Committee on privileges and elections held a meeting Friday to consider the Turpie case. After an hour’s consideration the committe eame to the. unanimous conclusion that the action of the Indiana House of Representatives, under the partieulsr circumstances of thia ease, of the title of its

members to their seats, is conolaaive upas the Senate; and, therefore, that the persons who voted in the election ci Senator must be conclusively presumed to. have bean eatitled to vote, and, consequently, that Mr. Tnrpie must he held tn be entitled to his seat. A Democratic House caucus was he’d Wednesday night *No effort was made to bind members to the support of the Mills bill, but they were asked to be present when the vote war taken. All proposed amendments are to be referred to tbe Democratic members of tbe ways and means committee for consideration and report. At Mr. Campbell’s' suggestion, a report will not be made until after ihe New York Democratic Convention is held.