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EVENTS OF 1885. (MAECH.) 



terrupted by snow. The Reichstag approves the 

 grain duties." Anti-German manifestation at the fu- 

 neral of Jules Valles in Paris. Gen. Stewart dies of 

 his wounds. 



17. The House passes the legislative appropriation 

 bill. The Greek Chamber passes a vote of want of 

 confidence in the ministry. 



18. The bill against foreign contract labor passed 

 by the Senate. Proclamation authorizing the mobili- 

 zation of the English army and militia reserves. The 

 French fleet wins a victory in the China seas. 



19. The Senate passes the Texas-Pacific land for- 

 feiture bill. 



20. The agricultural appropriation bill passes the 

 Senate. Martin and his companions convicted of 

 election irregularities in Chicago. The Oregon Legis- 

 lature adjourns without electing a United States Sen- 

 ator. The English Grenadier Guards depart for the 

 Soudan. France declares rice contraband of war. 



21. Dedication of the Washington Monument in 

 Washington. United States Marshal Gosling mur- 

 dered by robbers in Texas. Auditor-General Swaim 

 suspended and placed on half- pay for twelve years 

 by sentence of court-martial. The advance of the 

 Eussians in Central Asia reported in the London 

 "Times." 



22. Lord Edward Fitzmaurice says in the British 

 House of Commons that the Russian ambassador de- 

 nied the truth of the rumor that there had been an 

 advance upon Herat. 



23. The Post-Office appropriations voted by the 

 Senate, and the naval appropriations by the House. 

 Proclamation of military law in Bechuanaland and 

 arrest of Niekerk. The bill for the reform of the 

 Hungarian House of Lords passed by the Chamber. 

 The French Chamber vote against the surtax on grain. 

 A third Italian expedition departs from Naples for 

 the Red Sea. Upon an understanding with England, 

 Italian forces occupy Assab and Beical. 



24. The bill authorizing the President to negotiate 

 for the purchase of Indian rights in the Oklahoma 

 lands approved by the Senate. Yunnanite troops at- 

 tempt to storm Tuyen Quan. 



25. The French commerci 

 published. 



26. The Berlin Conference signs the general act of 

 the Congo, and dissolves. 



27. The sundry civil appropriation bill passed by 

 the House ; also the substitute for the river and har- 

 bor appropriation bill. Letters patent granted to the 

 German Colonization Association, placing their acqui- 

 sitions in Africa under the German protectorate. The 

 vote of censure on the Egyptian policy of the British 

 Government rejected by the House of Commons, but 

 adopted in the House of Lords by a vote of 3 to 1. 

 Arrests of Anarchiste in Switzerland. 



28. The appropriation for fortification voted by the 

 House. The murderers of Capt. Murphy convicted 

 in New Orleans. 



March 1. Bombardment of Chinghae by Admiral 

 Courbet. The . revolutionary movement in Central 

 America assumes a serious aspect. 



2. The Senate increases the New Orleans appropria- 

 tion to $400,000. The German Chancellor delivers a 

 speech on colonial affairs, explaining the relations 

 with England. The German African Association ac- 

 quires territory in Zanzibar. 



3. The fortification appropriation voted by the 

 Senate. Departure of the New South Wales con- 

 tingent for the Soudan from Sydney. The French 

 garrison at Tuyen Quan rescued. The occupation 

 of Zulfikar Pass and of Sariyazi by the Russian out- 

 posts announced by Lord Granville in the British 

 Parliament ; explanations demanded of the Russian 

 Government. 



4. The House of Representatives adjourns after 

 passing the Grant retirement by 198 vote's to 78. In- 

 auguration of President Cleveland. The Senate of 

 the Forty-ninth Congress meets in extra session. 



commercial treaty with Burmah 



Senator Blair re-elected in New Hampshire. Capt. 

 Couch and twelve other Oklahoma boomers arrested 

 as rebels. Herbert Bismarck in London. 



5. The Cabinet appointments announced. 



6. The appointments of Secretaries Bayard, Lamar, 

 Garland, Vilas. Manning, Endicott, and Whitney con- 

 firmed by the Senate. Fairchild, Assistant-Secretary 

 of the Treasury, and Black, Commissioner of Pensions, 

 nominated by the President. Execution of Dr. Gor- 

 sen, uxoricide, in Philadelphia. Conciliatory declara- 

 tions of Lord Granville in the House of Lords in 

 respect to the German colonial policy. The Italian 

 Chamber approves the sale of the state railways. 



7. Walthall nominated by the Governor of Missis- 

 sippi to be Senator in the place of Secretary Lamar. 

 Spanish sovereignty over the Sulu Archipelago for- 

 mally recognized by Germany and England. 



9. Ex-Surg.-Gen. Wales summoned before a court 

 martial to answer to charges of neglect of duty. Gen. 

 Barrios, President of Guatemala, proclaims the union 

 of the states of Central America, and takes the field 

 with his troops to render the union effective. 



10. Sir Charles Warren enters Rooi Grond. The 

 proposition to reduce the annual recruit of the Span- 

 ish army from 70,000 to 40,000 men rejected by the 

 Cortes. 



11. Trial of Gen. Hazen before a court-martial for 

 insubordination. The Governor of Dakota vetoes a 

 bill to establish woman suffrage. The Chinese posi- 

 tions around Kelung taken by the French after five 

 days' fighting. An agreement on West African ques- 

 tions made by Count Herbert Bismarck with the Eng- 

 lish Government. 



12. The President withdraws the Nicaragua Canal 

 and Spanish reciprocity treaties from the Senate, in 

 order that they might be considered by the new Ad- 

 ministration. Martin and Gallagher sentenced to be 

 fined and imprisoned for election frauds, in Chicago. 

 The British Government demands explanations on the 

 subject of Gen. KomarofPs advance, and at the same 

 time begins to prepare for war. 



13. The standing committees of the Senate, for the 

 Forty-ninth Congress, are chosen. Zebehr Pasha ar- 

 rested in Cairo. The British Government reject the 

 Zulfikar- Maruchak boundary -line. Death of Gen. 

 Fernandez, President of Costa Rica. The British 

 Parliament votes 20,000 to the family of Gen. Gor- 

 don. Gladstone's speech, announcing the agreement 

 of Russia not to advance. 



14. The Russian Government agrees not to advance 

 on the Afghan frontier unless the Afghans advance. 



15. The opponents of the Gould administration of 

 the Wabash Railroad system win their case. 



16. Lynch-murders in Arkansas. The revolution- 

 ists attack Panama. The German Reichstag votes a 

 subsidy for trans-oceanic steamers. 



17. A formal censure recorded against Gen. Hazen 

 by the court-martial. Geo. Gray elected Senator from 

 Delaware in Secretary Bayard's place. The United 

 States intervene with a naval demonstration in the 

 Central American conflict. The cattle-duties bill 

 passed by the French Chamber. The Belgian Cham- 

 ber resolves to present an address to the King on the 

 happy conclusion of the Berlin Conference and the 

 creation of the Free State of the Congo. The French 

 blockade Pakhoi. 



18. The murderer Cluverius arrested in Virginia. 

 The Danish Folkething adopt the address to the King 

 asking the dismissal of the ministers. 



19. The President appoints Porter Assistant-Secre- 

 tary of State ; Atkins, from Tennessee, Chief of the 

 Indian Bureau; Montgomery, from Michigan, Q 

 of the Patent-Office ; Durham, from Kentucky, First 

 Comptroller of the Treasury ; Hay, from Pennsyl- 

 vania, First Assistant-Postmaster-General; PendJi 

 ton, from Ohio, Minister to Berlin ; McLane, from 

 Maryland, Minister to Paris ; Phelps. from Vermont, 

 Minister to London ; Jackson, from Georgia, Minist 

 to Mexico; Muldrow, from Mississippi, Assistant- 

 Secretary of the Interior; Sparks, from Illinois, Lane 



