Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1873-02-21

0tIefa yesttfosiS oy MS request, Wben the laC-
tr rendered him position in his professional
cIpscity in western state. This Col Nosby
declined, on the ground that his accepting the
position light lead his friends TO infer that his
support OF the President in the recent campaign
was bast on desire TO be rewarded by gov
eminent Office.
TIE Presidents SOUTHERN TouR ABAN-
DoNHp FOR THE PREsEHT-The Presid Mt has
decided to give up his contemplated southern
tour, at least for the present. This conclusion
was arrived at after a general converse
tion on the subject in Cabinet nesting TODAY.
The President being of the opinion that tie
grea: amount OF import ant business to be trans
acted Immediately after the adjournment OF
Congress wOuld not Justify him in absenting
himself from Washington at the time fixed for
his trip south.
TIE SENATE CREDIT MoBILIER INvEsTIGA-
TIoN.-Senator Morrill's special committee to
inquire into the distribution of credit mobilier
day, and examined the evidence taken by the
Poland committee in connection with that taken
by themselves, with a view to making up the
report. The evidence is nearly all in, and the
committee will probably report by the middle OF
next week. Mr.. John b. Alley has been sum
mcned and will be examined to- morrow in ref
erence to the $4,000 given Mr. Harlan by DR..
DuraAt, and as TO whether Durant made any
claim upon the company to have that sum re-
funded TO him.
of the Utah anti-polygamy bill, has received
from Mrs. Lille Devereaux Blake, correspond
ing secretary of the New York Woman Suffrage
association, whom our readers Will remember
as the handsome and eloquent young matron
who made three several addresses at the late
woman suffrage convention in this city, a res
eluti0n unanimously adopted at the association g
last regular meeting, entering an earnest pro-
test against the proposition TO deprive the wO-
men OF that territory of the elective franchise.
(Which Franchise is theirs by moral right and
existing law"
NAVAL CHANGES. Commander George
Dewey ordered to command the Narragansett
per steamer Of March 1st, relieving Commander
X. W. Meade, who is ordered to return 20 the
United States. The Narragansett is now on her
way to CallaO, and will be, after changing COM
manders, placed on the same service as the
Portsmouth. The latter vessel left New York
over two months since for the purpose of COM
plotting surveys in the Gulf Of California, Sand
wicl, Navigator and South Shetland islands the
expedition to be absent from three to five years.
receiving ship New Hampshire and ordered to
the Juniata.
TIE House ttu an unfair thing to the Dis
trict to-day by depriving the District commit
tee Of the time allotted to il under the rule.
This being the third Friday of the month the
District cosmittee is entitled TO the floor ~ two
O'Clock. When that hour came the House was
in committee OF the whole on the suRlry civil
bill, but Speaker Blaine resumed the chair and
annOuECe1 the balance OF the day as belonging
to the District committee, under the rule.
Genera Garfield moved that the rule be sus-
| pendeA, and the House again resolve itself into
committee of the whole on the sundry civil bill
Mr. star weather wanted to say a word, and
| therembers Of the District committee fought
| bIayely for their rights. Sam. Randall object
| ed % debate, however, and the House, by a vote
Of 7l2 to u, suspended the rule and went into
committee Of the whole on the sundry civil bill
flstead Of giving the afternoon to the Distric,
/ committee. Mr. Ekaridge deAanded the yeas
| end days, but twelve gentle1nea only voted i'm
favor OF this and they were referred. and the
District lost its day. The committee hal quite
large number Of bills to report, some OF them
Of much mpOrszuce.