, 1872-10-16
. WASHINGTON.
Tie MarshalltoVn, Iowa, Bank
Middle Referred to the
Comptroller.
Favorable Report to the Revenue Blu"
reau Concerning Chicago
Distilieries.
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special Dispatch to The Chicago TRIBUNE.
PREPARING WORK FOR THE NEXT CONGRESS-
WASHINGTON, D. c., Oct. 15.-General Gar
field, having done his part toward the campaign
in Pennsylvania and Ohio, will return here to-
1norrow to attend to his duties as Chairman Of
the House Committee on Appropriations
meeting Of 3 portion of the Committee will soon
be held for the purpose Of considering the va
rious bills for the next session. Estimates ara
being mnde by the several Departments. The
Committee expect TINT all the appropriation
bills will have been thoroughly considered By
the Committee On the first day Of the session.
As the next session Of Congress will only
last three months it is proposed to attend to the
business Of the country first. and not leave the
indispensable work to be rushed through in 8
crude il not dishonest condition On the last days
Of the session.
MAAsHA1LrowN (1A.) BANK auDp1E.
The MarshaTtown Bank, Of Iowa, was one Of
the earliest to organize under the National
Banking Act, its incorporation dating as faz
back as 1864. It's quarterly statements
and annual reports to the Currency
Bureau have always shown it to
be in a dourishing condition. Indeed
30 safe and profitable have been the business
transactions that its stockholders and Directors
admit that their annual profits have never gone
much below so per cent. But prosperity has
ruined the organization. After 3 tedious and
protracted quarrel among themselves, the
parties sought the Intervention Of the Comp
troller OF the Currency. Among other charges
the fatal one OF usuricus interest Was hit on,
and upon this ISSUE alone the Comp
troller assumed Jurisdiction Of the case.
It will be remembered that one
Of the provisions Of the National Bank act, ia
that no bank organized hereunder shall charge
any greater interest than that allowed by the
laws OF the State. One set OF stockholders de-
sired forced liquidation, and they had hear
ing through counsel to-day, through their
attorney, G. Henderson. Another clique oppos~
ed this action, arguing TINT the funds Of tho
bank we're a1l right and that iquidatioo
could not be required OF bank
that vas able to pay dollar for dollar. The
Comptroller Of the Currency has not officially
decided the mudd1e yet, but he said to-day info7~
na1ly thst the best thing the hank could do
would be to go into voluntary liquidation.
STEAMBOAT INSPECTION
The Secretary OF the Treasury has written
letter to the Supervising Steamboat Inspector at
Detroit to the effect that, in insttuting investi~
cations as to casualties to ocean vessels, partic-
u1ar care should be taken that no officer should
be assigned to such duty who could have any
motive whatever to conceal the facts.
ILLINOIS D1sTnLER1E5.
E. s. Holmes, Of the International Revenue
Bureau, has Just returned from tour Of ohser-
vatian among the distilleries in and around Chi
cago. He reports to Commissioner Douglass
that everything ia working satisfactorily, and that
the new reguIations meet with general satisfac-
tion, and are being satisfactorily observed.
ALLEGED DEFALcA1roS.
J. Y. Greeley, member of the present Congress
from the Second District Of Pennsylvania: the
wealthiest and most aristocratic district OF Phil
adelphis, is said to be the person to whom tbs
Associated Press dispatches refer as q probahte
defaulter, owing S20, 600 to various persons for
whom he was Trustee Greeley was the
creation Of Simon Cameron, who had
quarrelled With Charles O'Nein, Cree1ey's
predecessor, and set up Greeley to beat him.
The usual accessories prevailed, and O'Neil WAS
left out Of Congress till this year, when he
begged forgiveness, and the Winnebago Chief
let him up. Greeley, meantime, came to Wash
ington, stu1ious1y absented himself from his
scat, and VAS q nonentity, except with those
Government clerks and city police officers with
whom he associated. He has not been sean for
several months. He leaves many debts here
among hotel keepers, saloons, &c. Judge
Kelley is now the only Republican Congressman
in Pennsylvania who dares to fight Cameron.
Conyers, the recently appointed colored mid
ahipman, is having about as bad E time Of it at
the Annapolis Naval Academy as. Cadet Smith
did at West Point. On last Friday night, when
the uidshipmen we're in line marching from the
lower part Of the grounds to their quarters, an
attack WAS made on Conyers by some score OF
middys, who kicked and cntfed him uncere-
moniously. A cadet officer rushed in with &
drawn sword among the crowd that had gather
attack. Mdshipman Conyers could recognize
only one Of his assailants. Two colored attend
ants, who We made guard to him, we're beaten
at the Bame time. The Presidents attention has
been called to this matter, and he haapronounced
that all the parties engaged in the affair shall be
dismissed.
ITO the Assoc!ated Prsss.1
TREASURY ORDER REGARDING WAR CLAIMS.
WASHINGTON, Oct. 15.-secreta1y Boutwell, has
addressed the following letter to the Third Audi
sm: You are requested to suspend action
upon claims for stores and supplies fur
nished ostensibly for the use OF the
army in all cases where the required
returns have not been made by the 1eceipting
officer. This course is made necessary by the
fact that e1-oficers Of the army have i1
some instances given their official GER
tifcates and receipts for forage. and
other supplies, dating them years before
the time when they were actually made, in or
der to bring them within the scope Of their
official authority, thus leaving an open door for
collusion and fraud in the absence Of SO I'M
portant guard as official returns
(8igneD GEO. 8. boutwell,.
rALK WITH THE INDIANS.
An interview took place to-day at the Interior
Department between General F. A.. Walker,
Commissioner Of Indian Affairs, and large
party Of Indians representing the Klowas, Co
mauches, Apaches, and other Wild nbes Of the
western part OF the Indian Territory,
who have so long made Kansas,
raidinr ground. The Commissioner, after ad-