Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1871-12-18
EVENING STAR.

| EVENING STAR.
Washington News and Gossip.
RETIREMENT OF PAYMAsrRR GENERAL
BRIcE AND DEPUTY p. NJ. G. LEoNARD.-An
order. issued by the War Department to-day.
gives Bigadier General BENZ. W. Brice Paw
master General, leave of absence until January
4, 1872, and retires him from the service, at his
| own request, and by direction of the President,
on and after. the date mentioned. The same
! order retires Colonel Hiram Leonard, Deputy
| Paymasttr General, on and after the same date.
| By direction of the President Major Benjamin
Alvord, paymaster, is assigned to duty in charge
OF the Paymaster Generals Department until
| further orders The present law prohibits APP
pointments or promotions in any Of the staff de-
partmcnts OF the army without special legisis-
ton; hence, no appointment of Paymaster
General will be made at present.
General Alyord is native of Vermont, and
| was appointed to the army from the Military
| Academy in 1888. He received his commission
| as Major an / Paymaster june -. iS5i. and on
| the 9th of April, 1856, was made breyet Briga-
der General in the regular army.
INTERNAL REvEsuE--The receipts from this
| source to-day were s652, 1880.
HoN. WILLIAM II. SEWARD is very low from
paralysis at his home in Auburn, n. Y.
| VALENTINE McNALLY has been appointed
chief clerk of the ordnance buraeu, vice Keller,
| deceased.
THE UNITED STATES AND BRITISH AMERr-
| CAN CLAIMS CoMMIs SION adjourned on Satur-
| day until the oath proximo.
| DANIEL W. MUM has been appointed Super
visor of Internal Revenue for the state OF Illinois,
in place o. Gen. r.. j. Sweet, recently appointed
| first deputy Commissioner OF Internal Revenue.
i
GOVERNOR COOKE is still suffering from Sc
we're bilious attack and q bad cold. He was at
his office and banking house this morning how
ever, and during the day called on the Presi-
dent.
CoCHIsE has been invited by Secretary
Delano to visit his Great Father, the President
in Washington 1t is believed this notorious
Apache CHIEF will accept the invitation and
visit the capital early next wear.
THE UNITED STATES AND SPANISH CoMMIs-
SION have as yet decided no cases. and but few
have come before them. There is some delay in
taking testimony in Cuba, owing to the unset
tied condition OF affairs.
NoMINATIONs.-The President sent the fol-
nominations to the Senate to-day:
John Baldwin Hay, OF Va, to be consul gem
eral at Beirut; John p. Gates, postmaster at
Medina, n. V; James F. Rowe, postmaster at
1 Brunswick, Ga.
WHITE HOUSE NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. Carpen-
ter, Pratt Morton, Clayton and Hill, and Rep
resentatiyes Burdette and Peck, of Ohio; Gov.
Cooke, the Secretary of War, and the members
of the civil service commission, called upon and
had interviews with the President to-day.
THE CIVIL SERVICE COMMISSION, which has
been in session since the 18th of October last,
called on the President in a body Except Mr..
Medill) to-day, and submitted their general
plan. 1t will probably be made public at an
early day.
/ THE SOUTHERN CLAIMS COMMISSION will
resume its sessions Immediately after New
Years. the meantime they will take up two
or three hundred cases now ready for decision,
and prepare them for consideration by the
House committee on claims
HON. CALEB CUSHING, who is still in this
| city, does not expect to leave for Geneva for
some months. The treaty allows four months
from the delivery OF the case on both sides or
longer, in the discretion of the a,bitrators for
the delivery OF counter cases.
PRINTED copies of the arguments of the United
States, presented to the Geneva conference on
Saturday, will be laid before Congress to. day.
Two editions Of the argument, in French and
English in the highest style of the art typogra-
phical, were prepared at the Government r rint-
| ing Office.
| The HOUSE COMMITTEE ON APPEoPRIA-
TONS this morning agreed to report favorably
ON bill appropriating s2s 900 to pay deficiency
| in the expenses OF the Joint Committee to In
l ytsugate Southern Outrages. The bill apprO-
| lriating S2,0O0,0O0 for public building at st.
Louis was discussed at some length, and It seems
| 10 be. the impression that a favorable report
| npon it will be made.
| INCOME TAX REPEAL.-Mr. Kellogg, of CT,
l this afternoon introduced a resolution in the
House instructing the Ways and means Commit
tee to report to the House as early in January as
possible a bin repeating the income tax, and all
| internal revenue taxes, except those on liquors
| and cigars, and moved to suspend the rules for
| its consideration. This created quite a sensa-
| ton, and a motion to adjourn was carried by a
| vote OF 100 yeas to 81 nays.
DISTRICT BILLs.-General Chapman intro
duced in the House to-day several bills. One
provides for the extension OF the Capitol grounds
by taking in squares 6Ss and 600, thus extending
the grounds to street south and b street
north, and to LIST street east. Also, bill amend
atory OF the general Incorporation law, which
provides that property, either real personal,
can be filed as capital stock by any corporation
| applying for charter.
| TRANSFERS OF NAVAL OFFIcERs.-Lieuten-
| ant Commanders Charles ID. Sigsbee and s. W.
| Ferry and Chief Engineer ID. b. Macomb have
| been detached from the U. S. steamer Severn
l and ordered to the Worcester Paymaster Ed
| ward Foster has been detached from the Severn
| and ordered to settle his accounts. Lieutenant
Commander nj. l.. johnson, Surgeon A. Hudson
l and Chief Engineer Charles III. Baker have
| been detached from the Worcester and placed
| on waiting orders.
CATAcAzY PEREMPToRILY REcALLED.-Sec-
rotary Fish has received from, Minister Curtin,
at st. Petersburg, intelligence that Minister
Catacazy has been peremptorily recalled by
Prince Gortehakoff, the imperial chancellor
and that the Russian legation here has, by order
OF the Emperor, been placed in charge of Mr..
Boris Danzas, second secretary, until a new
minister shall arrive in this city. Mr.. waldemar
Bodisco. first secretary, Is acting Consul General
at New York, 1t will be remembered. Mr.. Dam
zas has been attached to the legation here for
several years past.
PERsoNAL.-Bishop George Q. Cannon, edo
tor Of the Salt Lake News is in town, and is be-
ing introduced about here by Delegate Hooper
Mr. Cannon, though yet young man, is recog-
nized as one Of the ablest and most sagaciOus
Of the Mormon leaders. Mr. Hoouer len YES