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Washington and world affairs in congress and Europe
A sweeping May 11 1878 Washington dispatch outlines Democratic plans to present Florida election fraud findings to the House, with private talks in Baltimore including Col. Pelton. It notes diplomacy shifts as England and Russia show movement toward peace and discusses Ulysses S Grant clemency and Venezuela claims. Also updated are Army reorganization, funding, and Virginia and Maryland electoral disputes in the broader political scene.
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Washington
House
Baltimore
Mount Vernon
Florida
New York
Col. Pelton
Tilden
England
Russia
Bismarck
Austria
Germany
Dennis
Hayes
Hamilton
Committee On Foreign Affairs
Venezuela
Venezula
Congress
Grant
Georgia
Taft
Internal Revenue
Raum
Internal Revenue Bureau
Johson
Moffett Bell-Punch
Columbia
Morrill
Boston
Senate
Secretary of War
Topham
Potter
Maryland
Louisiana
Conger
Garfield
Hale
Theodore Wagner
United States
California
George Lount
Prescott
Arizona
Edward M. Brown
Dakota
Fort Keogh
War Department
Paddy
Miles
Department
St. Paul
Sitting Bull
Joseph
Howard
Wheeler
Young
Colorado
Nevada
Territories
Paris
Noyes
Torbert
McCormick
Berlin
William
Baden
Unter den Linden
St. Petersburg
Gortschakoff
Count Schouvaloff
London
Count Schouwaloff
Schouvaloff
San Stefano
Dardanelles
Agence Russe
Constantinople
Rome
Cimbria
America
Amoor
Todleben
Thumla
Varna
Batoum
Osman Pasha
Times
Adrianople
Dedragath
Erzeroum