Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1872-04-26

checks for the May instalment Of interest on
the registered stock Of this new lean, bearing
mated depositaries have been instructed to pay
such interest as may be called for before the
date mentioned.
The CABINET MEETING, to- day, was attended
by Secretaries Fish, Belknap, Robson, Post
master General Creswell, Solicitor Genera
Bristow, Judge Richardson and Gen. Cowen-
the three last named representing, respectively
well and Secretary Delano, who are absent from
the city,. No subjects Of special importance
were under consideration. The session lastet
two hours.
CLOSING UP THE FREEDNEN's BUREAU
The House committee On appropriations yester.
day heard Secretary Belknap and Gen. Whit
tlesey relative to the appropriation OF one hun
dse s thousand dollars asked for to close up the
affairs OF the Freedmen's Bureau. The secreta-
ry stated that the employment of m anv addition.
al clerks would be necessary, involving con
siderable expense, and that fully the sum nance
would be required.
The GETTYSBURG NATIONAL CRxKrRRY.-
David Wills, Esq, OF Gettysburg, was in thu
city yesterday, and transferred to the United
States the management OF the Soldiers Nationa
Cemetery at Gettysburg, in accordance with q
law OF Congress and of statutes of various states
The Secretary of War, who received the trans
fer, has appointed . superintendent, who is y
been made with the Hollywood ssociation OF
Richmond, Va, for the removal of the GOO,
confederate Dead buried at Gettysburg, e
Hollywood, the work Of exhumati0n has com
menced.
TIRE QUESTION OF ADJOURMENT.came up to
day in the House, under a resolution introduced
by Mr.. Dickey, of Pennsylvania, authorizing
the Vice President and the Speaker of tn,
House to adjourn their respective houses on the
18th OF May next. Mr.. Dawes said the ways
and means committee had considered the ad-
j0urnment resolution passed by the Senate, and
the public business, ard the impression,
prevailed in the committee that if tn,
House would SIT daily till five O'Clock
had no doubt that the public business could
be disposed of in time to adjourn at that time
The ways and means committee had not ken;
that resolution with view to prolonging tn,
session, but only to consider it in connection
with the business. He hoped the resolution OF
Dir. Dickey would not pass. The resolution
was still under discussion when our report
Sides and other indications, a majority of the
House is against the adoption OF such resolu.
ton at present.
THE HOUARD RESOLUTION PASSED BY TIL
HoUtE.-The House, this afternoon, by a vote o.
143 ayes to As nays passed the resolution reported
by General Banks from the committee on foreign
affairs in relation to DIR. John T.. Houard. now
held by the Spanish authorities. The amend
ment OF Judge Bingham to the resolution wa
also adopted, and, as amended and passed, the
resolution reads as follows:
whereas DR.. John Emilio Houard has
after one years imprisonment. and trial by q
military court martial, been convicted of com
plicity in an instruction against the Spanish
government in the island of Cuba, and, upon saiC
conviction, has been transported to a pena,
colony OF Spain for a term OF eight years, from
which conviction, sentence, and punishment he
appeals for protection to the government of the
United States; and whereas it is alleged, first
that said HOuard was a native born citizen O
the United States; second, that he never re-
nounced his allegiance as such citizen, but, on
the contrary, has claimed to be, and has been
enrolled by the officers of the governments of the
United States as citizen Of the United States:
third, that II is not shown by any form of proo
that he ever became by any act a subject O,
citizen of the government OF Spain; and whereas
it further appears that his trial, sentence ami
punishment have been i'm disregard and viola.
ton OF his undOubted rights as citizen of the
United States, under the Constitution and law
thereof, and the treaty of October q 1896, be-
tween the United States and Spain: Therefore
Ben resotred, That, in the Judgment of thi,
House, the said John Emilio Heuard was, and
Is, a citizen of the United States by birth and
continued and uninterrupted choice, and a.
such, Is entitled to all and every protection
from this government, and, in the opinion O,
this House, the President should promptly de-
mand his unconditional release and the restora-
uon OF MS property, which has been confscated
10 the use OF the Spanish government:
unless it shall be made to appear, upon in
vestigatiOn, to the satisfaction Of the executive
department, that said Houard had been held
Tor and duly convicted of an offence committed
bv him within the jurisdiction of Spain and has
been prosecuted therefor under the authority OF
law and according to the regular course of pro-
ceediDgs usual in like cases. and that the priyi-
ieges secured by citizens of the United States
by the 9TH article OF The treaty of the United
States with Spain, dated 9th of October, 1895
were neither denied or disregarded on his trial