Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1871-02-02

INTERNAL REVENUB.-The Teceirts rom
this yource TO day were 1881 49,.
TsR expenditures Of the government during
The month OF January were Sill Jj2, 56l.Jj.
Mr.. WALTER BESNrx, clerk i7, the OF .e Of
the Commissary General, has resigned.
GOV. ASHLEY Of Impeachment memory was
in New York yesterday on his way TO Washing
ton.
NAVAL ORDERS TO-DAY Boat swain Charles
Miller, ordered 10 the receiving ship at Phila-
delphia. CARPENTER Joseph q. Thomas, ordered
TO the Michigan.
CADET APPoINTMENT.-R. j. DOWNING son
of Col. Downing, OF Lancas ter county, Va. has
been appointed cadet at West Point from the
first CoIgressiona! district Of Virginia.
G. Ii. POOR, Esq, son of Rear Admiral Poor.
l. 5. N, and recently connected with the press
as Washington correspondent. was yesterday
appointed private secretary TO Vice Admiral s.
Z. Rowan.
THE Hon. II. X. BUTLER, it is said, intends
to institute suit for libel against the Chica 90
RepV6'ican for An article which appeared in thar
journal December 20. He claims $4,000
damages.
II. G. DAVIS, democrat, was yesterday elected
Senator, to succeed Senator W. L. Wiley, whose
term expires March 4th. The vote stood for
Davis 50, for Judge Bond %.
TIE STATEMENT OF THE PUBLIC DIRT. ina,
issued from the Treasury Department, shows
that the decrease OF the debt since January Ist
has been 81 ,0I0 9s6 as, aud the decrease sirce
March list, 1910, sll0, 3Ol 67O.17. The coin in the
Treasury amounts to 500 0G6, 50O.4j, and the cur
rency to S24 ,s2i 1854.
CoNF1RHATIoNs.-1he Senate, in executive
session, yesterday afternoon confirmed the
nomination OF Willis Drummond, to be Commits
sloner OF the General Land Office, in place OF
Jos ). Wilson, by vote OF 81 yeas to 8 pays,
The nominations CT Lewis Weitzel, to be assas-
sor OF internal revenue, first district of Ohio
and John b. Nontieth, TO be India agent, NeZ
Perces agency, Idaho, were also confirmed.
TBB SENATE COMMITTEES to examine into the
condition of affairs i'm the South, appointed
under the recent message OF the President,
th;s morning heard the testimony OF several
witnesses from North Carolina. The commit
tee thus far has examined about fifty witnesses
and there seems to he but little pros pect of CON-
pleting the investigation this session. The com
mittee will, however, make partial report be-
lore the clo>e OF the session.
NOT EXPECTED TO REcovER-Gen. Horace
Capron, Commissioner of Agriculture, received
another telegram yesterday afternoon, stating
that his Youngest son, OsMOnd L. e apron, was so
badly burned by the fire which DESTROYED the
Halliday House, at Kenosha, Wisconsin, as
stated in yesterdays STAR, that he cannot pos
sibly survive. The young man thus about 10
die painful death is only about p wears OF are
and is well known here, as he was formerly in
charge of the seed room, Bureau OF A griculture
The QUESTION OF NAVAL RANK-The Senate
Committee on Military Affairs this morning
had under consideration the House bill rcyuIa-
of staf nffc
navy, and heard the statements OF several naval
officers in opposition to the bin. The objections
TO the Till were numerous, and it was argued
that the effect OF II would be, III some cases. to
advarce officers who had not seen more than
i've years service over many vino had been in
the service twenty years.
TEE FIRST STATE DINNER OF the season by
the President and Mrs Grant will take place at
the Executive Mansion this evening, and be at
tended by ex-Secretary Borie and lady Mrs
Cramer, Miss Felt, OF Galena, Ill aud Mr.
Dent, Mrs. Grants father, Senators Osborn
sprague, Howe and lady. Howell, Ramsev and
lady. and Spencer, Representatives Barnum
and lady, Brooks and lady, Dawes, Dixon.
Ferris and lady Hawiey and lady, Hay and
Axtell, Burnett and Dickey, and Minister H.
I. Blow.
EX-CoNNIssIONER WILSON, OF the General
Land Office, repaired to that Office early this
morning, and addressed letter to Mr.. W. W.
Curtis, the Chief Clerk, asking him .sto take
charge, as he had seen. by the papers, that his
term OF on &c had expired" which Mr.. Curtis
at once did, and will remain In charge about
two weeks, as Mr.. Drummond, the new Com
missioner, leaves this evening Tor Iowa, TO
settle up bus private business before entering
upon the dhtes his Office.
The BILL IN RELATION TO THE Tssr OATH
which passed the House yesterday as stated
in "a n laa hy a
SO, enacts: "That when any person who il not
rendered ineligible to ofhce by the provisions OF
the fourteenth amendment TO the Constitution
shall be elected or appointed to any Office of
honor or trust under the government OF the
United States, and shall not be able on account
OF his participation IN the late rebeIi to take
the oath prescribed in the act of Congress
approved j uly 2, 1852, sad person shall, IN lieu
OF said oath, before entering upon the duties OF
said Office. take and subscribe the oath pre-
seribed in The act OF Congress, entitled An act
prescribing an oath OF Office to be taken by
persons from whom legal disabilities shall have
been removed" approved July IL, lspo."
DECISIONS BY THE COMMISSIONER OF INTER
NAL REvENUE.-Commssone Pleasonton has
decided that under the provisions OF section q
Of the act OF July 18th, 1870, the American board
Of commissioners for foreign missions il released
from all liability ior succession or Legacy taxHs
which were unpad AT the date of the passage OF
that act, and that after that date DO such taxes
can accrue.
Also, that the tax of two and One-half Der
cent. upon the undivided profits, dividends, in
terest and coupons OF the companies and corpo-
ratiOns enumerated in section l. of the same act
should be withheld only from that portion of
said profits which have accrued since December
81, 1911, and that NO tax whatever should be
withheld from the portion earned and accrued
during the last live months of the wear 1870 All
previous rulings to the contrary are revoked
and claims for abatement should be prepared In
all cases where assessments have been made
contrary 10 the tenor of this decision.
DISTRICT ArFAIRs BEFORE THE SENATE
CoMMITTEE.-The Senate Committee On the
District of Columbia met this morning, ana
agreed to report favorably on the bin to incor-
porate the Union Life Association of the United
States, naming as corpOrat0rs Alfred PleasOu-
ton, Samuel Sinclair, Quincy A. Gilmore, Alex
Wilder, Jas. W. Hustled, Chas. A. Wells, Henry
n. Williams, Benz. r. Manierre, Chamcy NJ
Depew, Peter Cooper, Henry j. Ramsdell
Moses II. Grinnell, Henry r. Low, VIM. r.
Brock, Geo. Shea, Thos. W. coughlan John
Raymond, Elijah r. Wheeler, Daniel CLARK
Briggs, VIM. +. Shaffsr, Edison +. Emory,
Michael j. Farrell, VIM. Smith, J. +. Phillics
Geo. W. Avery, j. II. Lathrop, and VIM Tobin.
The object OF the association is 10 carry on the
business OF assurance on lives, especially the
lives Of soldiers and sailors now in the ser yice