Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1870-06-18

GEN. BELKNAP, Secretary of War win return
to this city this evening.
Cash IN THE TREASURY To-DAy.-Coin,
S109,J ,59512 coin certificates, S34 90, 600 cur
rency balance, s21 ,556,9
TIE ONLY NOMINATION sent to the Senate
to-day was that of Roger s. Green to be Asso-
cate Justice of the Supreme Court of Washing
ten Territory.
GEN. SPINNER, with few lady friends, went
to the Great Falls of the Potomac this after
noon, to look after the black bass atounding in
those waters.
ORDERED TO WASHINGTON FOR ExAMINA
TIoN.-Ensigns H. b. Mansfield, Richard Rush.
and j. NJ. Wainright, U. S. N, have been de-
tached from the Mohican and ordered to Wash
ingtou, ID. c., for examination for promotion.
The REPUBLICAN CONGRESSIONAL ExECU-
TIVE COMMITTEE met at the Capitol this
morning, and agreed to tender the appointment
of Secretary to the Committee to Thos. l.. Tul-
lock, Esq, Collector of Internal Revenue for
this District, who was Secretary of the Com
mittee during the last Presidential campaign.
-
THE SENATE to-day rescinded their request
to the House to return the bill providing for the
appointment of an additional Justice of the Su-
preme Court of this District and abolishing the
Orphans Court. So the bill now goes to the
President for his signature, having been passed
by both houses.
THE CURRENCY BILL.-The Senate Finance
Committee will report the currency bill which
recently passed the House to the Senate on
Monday. Several amendments have been sug-
gested, but it has not yet been determined
whether to report the bill as it came from the
House or with the proposed amendments.
THE LONG BRIDeE BILL PASSED BY Born
HorsRs.-The Senate this morning passed the
bill which passed the House yesterday, giving
the use Of the Long Bridge to the Potomac
Railroad Company, and granting that company
permission to extend its track along Maryland
avenue and over that bridge to connect with
Virginia roads. ...
BowKN's LEGACIEs-BuUetin No. from the
r rst Ward-Hinsber Corrects HIS First Stat
m-nt--Due the First Ward Laborers s2s ,579.Us.-
Commissioner Himber, of the First Ward, yes
terday transmitted the following letter to Sena-
tor Hamln:
Hon. III. Ramlin, U. s. s., Chairman Distyic. Com
SIR: l have the honor to state that of the
amount of Sl9, so only 81 800 have been paid
in goods and money by private parties.
fhave the honor 20 be, sir, very respectfully
your obedient servant, HENRY HIMBgR.
Commissioner Imp'ts First Ward.
Washington, d. c., June II, 1870.
1t will be seen bv the above, when comparel
| with Himbers original statement that the cor
poratiOn is still in debt account of work done
| by laborers under Himber's direction, the nice
little sum of s2S,579.OS.
TIE
RAL-It seems pretty certain that the more rad
icai Republicans will make an. earnest stfaEt
prosar. /. ss- -....,u swat or tIr. Ackermans nom
ination to the Attorney Generalship or failing
in that, to prevent his confirmation by the Sen
ate. This action grows out of the part borne by
MIR. Ackerman during the late rebellion in
which, it is alleged, he voluntarily took an
active part for about eighteen months.
1t appears that the legal and political disa-
| bilities imposed upon Mr.. Ackerman by the
fourteenth amendment were removed by the
act approved on the 18th of December last, in
which his name appears with about fifteen hun
dred others. The opposition to him would
seem, therefore, not to be based upon strictly
legal objections, but rather upon the question of
propriety in the President choosing constitu-
| tional adviser from that class, while plenty of
men at least equal in ability and reputation to
Mr.. Alderman, and without any taint upon
their patriotism, could be had for the place.
AS stated elsewhere, the nomination was re-
ferred, without debate, to the Judiciary Com
mittee, during the executive session of the
Senate yesterday.
AT THE DEMOCRATIC CAUCUS Tbursdav NIGHT
about fifty members of Congress we're present.
including four Senators. The object is to secure
concert of action. A paper is in course of prem
aration, to be addressed to their Southern
friends with regard to the election of members
OF Congress from that section. .-.
DEPARTMENT OF JUsrICR.-COngress having
just passed q law to that effect, the Attorney
Generals Office will hereafter be known as the
Department OF Justice, with the Attorney Cen
eral at Its head, and q Solicitor General and
department the Solicitors of the Treasury De-
partment and Internal Revenue Bureau and
the Solicitor OF the Navy Department and their
ASSISTANTS and employees, and also the examiner
OF claims In the Department Of State. The re-
organization will probably take place when the
new Attorney General is sworn into office.
CoNFIRMATIoSs.-Thef following nominations
were confirmed by the Senate in executive ses-
sion yesterday afternoon: Edward L. Barny,
Attorney for the western district OF Texas;
James l.. Belford, Associate Justice of the Su,
preme Court OF Colorado Territory; Jas. B.
Mexican, of New York, Chief Justice of tile
Supreme Court Of Utah Territory; q. @. Grove,
of Alabama, Secretary for Utah; johnw. Early,
to be Naval Constructor; ID. b. Cliffe, Assessor
of Internal Revenue for the fifth district of Ten
nessee; Charles II. Cragin, Postmaster at
Georgetown ID. g. 20 ~. FaSIEIIiE :
JUDGE PURCELL, Of the orphans Court Of
this District, was at the Senate this morning 10
see what had become Of Senator Trumbulls
bill abolishinR his court. He claimed that he
had forty Senators watching the bill and that
the manner In which 1t was passed was fraud.