Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1873-02-28
EVENING STAR.
Washington News and Gossip.


Washington News and Gossip.
internal REV ESrE.-The receipts from this
sJurce to-day were S2Jt 1926.
The EDUCATIONAL MATERIAL for the Vienna
Exposition nov at the Bureau Of Education
will b- shipped TO- morrow to New York, to be
forw srde,i to its destination. rgrtr
The SENATE COMMITTEE ON MILITARY
AFFAIRS have reported favorably the bill
throwing open an regiments CT the army to the
enlistment Of colored men.
AT TIVE CABINEr MEETING to-day, all the
members were present. Besides the transaction
OF general routine business, the situation in
LOUISIANA, and the general condition OF Con-
gressional legislation was infor mally discussed
The CASE OF PHELPS, DoDeR & Co. has been
settled the basis OF their last offer amended
by the Treasury officials. The settlement in
wolves the payment by Phelps, Dodge & Co. of
sci 900. I.-. TO-
A NEW JAPANESE MINISTER CoNINe.-The
Japan Gasette OF the sd OF January Publishes
the following announcement: Benrikoshi
Uyeno- Kaganori has been appointed Minister
Tor Japan at Washington. tt.. :
Mr.. BELLEw, the famous English elocutionist
gives his last reading in this city asLincoln Hall
such as 10 give great variety to the entertain
ment.
The SOUTHERN CLAIMS COMMISSION yester-
dav heard the claims OF Elizabeth b. Hood and
Mary f. Jennings, the former for $4,000 and
latter for 81 600. Both claimants reside In
Fauquier county, Va.
PERsoNAL-Mr. III. Sayille, chief clerk of the
Treasury, is i'll. Gov Walker, of Virginia.
was on the floor Of the House to-day. 49,
Ex-senator Fowler, of Tennessee, was on the
floor OF the Senate this afternoon.
BIDS were opened yesterday for supplying the
Post Office Department with the new postal
cards for the next four years. There were four
teen proposals. the bids ranging from e1.39y to
S2.9s per thousand. The bid Of the Columbia
Bank Note Company Of this city was sl.S5 per
thousand.
| NEwsPAPEE EXCHANGEs.-The House COM
| mittee on appropriations this morning consid-
cred the Senate amendments to the Post Office
| appropriation bill, and agreed to HOMOGENEOUS in
/ the amendment forbidding the transmission OF
| all free matter, so far as the same affects the
exchange among newspapers.
HORACE F. CLARKE, president of the Union
Pacific railroad, and William d. Bishop, presi-
| dent OF the New YORK and New Haven road are
in the city to oppose the passage by Congress of
acts granting patents to the inventors of an ina
proved car wheel and car brake. A bill giving
the inventors patents was recently reported
ia'orabiy by the Senate committee on patents.
NAVAL CHANGEs.-Lieutenant Commander
A V. Mitchell ordered TO command the hospi-
tai ship Pawnee, vice Lieutenant Commander
T.. G. Merriman. detached and placed ON wait.
ing orders. Medical Inspector AL. Gihon, de-
tached from special duty in the Bureau of
Medicine, &c, and ordered to the Wabash and
az heef surgeon Of the European seatien ON the
| lst June next.
JuDsE DELAHAY TO BE IMPEAcHrp.-In the
House this morning Gen. Butler, from the ju-
dietary committee, reported resolution In favor
OF articles Of impeachment against Judge Mark
H. Delahay, OF Kansas, and authoriz sd the ap-
pointment of committee of three to notify the
Senate that such action had been taken by the
House and that articles of Impeachment would
be presented in due time. Gen. Butler explained
thai il was proposed to GO to trial before the
Senate this session. The resolution was adopted.
IN HIS PRAYER at the opening of the Senate
to-day, Rev. DR.. Newman earnestly prayed that
the abuses of wealth might be remedie,l; that
| the condition Of public morals throu ghout the
\ country might be Improved, and that the Sem
| ators might be guided Alright in the treatmen nj
of questions touching individuals as well as
stood that the latter part of his PRAYER had spe-
| cial reference to Senator Patterson, whose case
| il was supposed, would come before the Senate
| during the session to-day.
THE WEATHER CHRONICLE issued from the
Signal Office for the week ending Yesterday
says: 'During the past week st0rm-centre has
Canada; second diminished pressure over the
| southern states, and thence northeastward,
developing INTO very severe storm, along the
middle and east Atlantic coast; a third notth-
| eastward over Kansas to the upper lake region
| The largest total amounts OF rain and melted
spow during the past week have been reported
rom the following stations: Montreal, LOS in
! La; Montgomery, 1.5i; Augusta. 2.29: Quebec.
2@!; Wilmington, n. e., 2.35; knoxville, 2S3;
and Mt. Washington. 80.
| PRESIDENTIAL NoNiNATIoys-The Presi-
dent sent the following nominations to the SEN
ate to-day John d. shepard, supervising
| Inspector OF steamboats,, 9th district; Daniel B.
sTieR o. q plcrar usssivss Of public
| OF Florida, receiver OF public moneys, district
of lands, East Florida land district; Joshua
\ W. Gilbert, OF Florida, surveyor general.
! district Of Florida; Moses y. TAYLOR, of
Florida, register OF land office at Tallahassee;
| John l.. Sheridan, register of land office at Fair
OF Colorado, receiver Of public moneys, Fair
| Play, Col; John VI. woodburn, of Dakota re-
| ceiyer OF pnblc moneys, VermilliOn, Dakota;
A.W; Chapman, collector OF customs, Apala-
| ehicola, Fla.
| The PoMEEoY REPORT, which will he pre-
| sented in the Senate to- morrow, will, il is un-
derstood, exonerate Mr.. POneroy from the
l chai kc VI ofipciN bfOught against MIN by YORK.
| 10 will take the ground that the charges were
| not proven, and that the defeat OF Mr.. Pomeroy
was, as As Claimed by the latter, the result OF a
| conspiracy by York and his friends some of
| the members of the committee are of the opn-
ION that Senater-elect Ingalls, is not entitled to
his seat IN the Senate, and that the existence of
! a conspiracy to defeat Pomeroy renders his
| election void. u = not understood however
| that the report OF the committee will take this
radical view OF the subject, As the question OF
\ Ingalls, eligibility cannot come before the Sem
ate until his credentials presented, next see
| sion.
COMMISSIONER DRCMAoND has refused to
restore a Missouri lawyer to privileges of prac-
/ tce in the General Land office, who had been
| disbarred on account of unprofessiOnal acts
| committed in connection with the prosecution