The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1870-03-14
FOURTH EDITION
News from the European Squadron
The Pay Of Naval Employees.
They do not Get Enough TO Live On
from WASHINGTON.
GencrnI I.osnn,. Army n,,I.

General LOann's Army Hill.
Special Despatch % The Epentng TeleorapA
The Senate Military Committee have not vet
considered General Logan's bill for the reor-
ganization of the army. The feeling of the
members of the committee Is against the bill.
IL Is regarded as too sweeping and will be con-
siderably modified before 1t is reported to the
Senate.
Mrs. stanton.
Tho House has passed resolution giving to
the widow of the late Edwin NJ. Stanton one
years salary for his services as Associate Justice
of the Supreme Court. The Democrats called
the yeas and nays on It, and 1t went through by
a party vote.
United stntcs Supreme Court.
Despdtch 10 the Associated Press.
On the opening of the Supreme Court to-day.
Judge Strong presented his commission as an
Associate Justice of that court, which was
directed to be read, when the oath of Office was
administered by the Clerk and he took his seat
on the bench.
In the Grapeshot case the court decided that
President Lincoln's provisional courts in Louisi-
ana and elsewhere were legal tribunals.
Naval Orders.
acknowledgements Charles L. Franklin,
commanding United States steamer Saugus,
under date of Feb. 2S, reports his arrival in
company with the surveying steamer Bibb at
Havana, on the 9th. An officer from the
Spanish Admirals ship first rendered the usual
courtesies. He returned the vislt. as also visit
from the English iron-clad Defense and the
French ship Latouche Fraville.
Leutenant-C Commander Geo. w. Armentrout
is ordered to the Nyack. Paymaster Henry
Fitting is ordered to duty at the Naval Asylum,
Philadelphia, on the lst of April relieving
Paymaster George Cochran of that portion Of
his present duties. Lieutenant Commander Ed
ward E. Preble is detached from the Nyack and
ordered home. Ensign John G. Irwin is detached
from signal duty at Washington and ordered TO
duty in the North Pacific squadron of the Pacific
feet. Passed Acknowledgment Frank l.. Dubois
is detached from the Naval Hospital at Chelsea,
Mass, and ordered to the receiving ship Inde-
pendence on the 10th of April next.
Military Orders.
The Commanding General of the Department
of the Cumberland has been directed to order to
their homes all officers who have been on re-
construction duty in the late Fourth Military
District.
The Sutro TunnoI.
The House Committee on Mines and Mining
this morning decided TO report adversely on the
bill to repeal that portion of the Sutro Tunnel
act which gives the company royalty of two
dollars per ton on all ores extracted from Com
stock lode, only one member of the committee
favorlng the proposed repeal
Compensation OF Naval Employees.
| Special Despatch % The EUeni,g TelslTaph
! WASHINGTON, March 14.-Several bureaus OF
! the Navy Department have drawn up u petition,
which will be presented to Congress to-day setting
forth the inadeuuacy OF their compensa,iUn TO meet
the most economical wants OF themselves and fami-
lies consistent with ordinary respectabiiCy, while
| no prudence OF management can save them from
prevent them from trespassing on such personal
means as they may possess" IL also states
responsibility, which merits living compensation,
(Which cannot be the where one-thrd OF the
whole salary is but the rent OF moderate house in
| remote districts of the CITY," 1t also quotes from
the report OF the Secretary or the Treasury in rea
tion to the increase OF the compensation Of his
ployes, and asks that when any offcer below the
rank OF Rear. Admiral shall be appointed chief OF q
naval bureau, he shall have the sea pay and allow.
| ance OF a commodore. Secretary Robeson strongly
ndoI sed the petition, and referred It to the Com.
mitee Naval Affairs for favorable consideration.
The Iacts set forth by them regarding the incom-
potency Of their salaries for respectable support
doubtless true but the large pay OF these officers
OF the navy is considered insufficient for their main
tenance, where the justice be in Congress with
holding the trinng increase OF salaries asked for by
the civil employees, the majority OF whom have larg:
motest districts OF the city," The civil employees
have never sent to Congress- so strong petition IL
| their favor as this one,