Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1874-06-09
EVENING STAR.
Washington News and Gossip.

Washington News and Gossip.
INTERNAL RKvEsuK-Tue receipts from this
source to day were s,T4 SO 1853
AILIBE MAI BIAS Of the Cabinet are present
the ct sson to day excepting the Secretary of
War.
TEE CoSPERxNcE COMMITTEE on the bill
relating TO the Freldmsn's Savings and Trust
Company have as yet bad no meeting.
MINIS AND MIsIsG.- Sir. Sutro informs Us
that he win not deliver any more lectures un-
less otherwise advertised.
The Committee OF Ways and Means thi.
morning visited the Treasury Department aud
paid their respects to Secretary Bristow.
THE SENATE Finance Committee will hear
to- morrow afternoon, at O'Clock, arguments
for and against the section in the tariff bill i'm
posing tax on sales Of gold, stocks, sc.
AT A MEETING of tn 5, merchants and mem.
bers of the Chamber OF Commerce, in New
York, yesterday. a committee was appointed to
come to Washington to urge the Senate to pass
the uoiety hill.
A DELEGATION representing the tobacco
manufacturing interest of the West was before
the Senate Finance Committee to-day to pro-
test against that section of the tariff bill author
izibg the indiscriminate sale OF leaf tobacco by
producers.
TIE CONFERENCE COMMITTEES on the finance
bill held another meeting this morning but
failed to agree on a report. They were to have
another meeting later in the day, when il was
hoped report would be agreed to.
ORDERED To THE COLORADO ieuteu ant
Louis Kingsley has been detached from the
photographic Office and ordered to the Colo
fana 4 n
D. v. H. Blocker have also been ordered ~ the
Colorado.
THE HOUSE Appropriation Committee this
morning gave An additional sudieace to the
Government Printing Office boekbinder ard
printers in opposition to the fixing OF their pay
at the average price paid such employees
in New orb, Philadelphia and Baltimore.
THE LATE COLLISION. 1t is understood that
the supervising steamboat inspectors will on
Saturday next commence their investig alton
into the collision between the Lady of the Lake
and the United States steamer Gettysburg.
The investigation will be held on board the
Lady CT the Lake at her wharf in this city.
THE ARMY REDUCTION BILL.-The Senate
Committee on Military Affairs have nearly
finished the consideration of the House bill for
the reduction of the army, and will report a
substitute. The committee make slight changes
N the staff d. departments OF the ordnance sab
sistence ard medical bureaus, and provide hat
III these bureaus the Office OF brigaiier genera
shall not be filed after it once becomes vacant.
NoMINATIoSs.-The Presi lent sent the fol
Living nominations to the Senate to day: Win
q. WhitsOn, associate Justice Of the supr me
court, Idaho; Roger 5. Greene, associate ius-
tlce supreme court, territory Wssbi 1gtOn;
Chss. ii. West, attorney l.. ). western district
Wisconsin; Franklin ". Oakley, marshal L. ).
western district Wisconsin; Lumau Norton
Judd, OF Dakota, register land office, Sprilg-
field, Dakota.
The CONFERENCE COMMITTEE on the leyis-
lative, executive and ju dicial appropriation bill
have not yet reached an agreement A long
session was held this morning, ana the commit
tee met again this afternoon, and was in session
at y. IN. The main points OF disagreement art
the appropriation for public printing, the in
crease OF the salaries of certain CLERKS Of the
House OF REPRESENTATIVES, and the amount to
be appropriated for committee Clerks.
TEE MISSISSIPPI SUPPEREss.-Goy. kellogg
has sent a dispatch to the Secretary Of War,
saying that the suffering from thu overflow re-
mains undated in Atchafslays, Lafourche and
Ouaehita valleys, although there is soma alb ate
ment on the banks OF the Mississippi. The
committee is issuing fully forty thousand ra-
uoHs daily, and in some districts are compelled
10 restrict relief 10 women and children, even
where work is not attaina5ls for able boiiei
men. He AXIS that the government issue
70 Geo daily ratioDs more.
TERsoNAL.- secretary Beiknap, while at
West Point yesterday, received infor In alton OF
the death, at Keokuk, Iowa, of his only son,
Willie, and left at once for that place. .".,ien
w. i. Sherman arrived at st. Louis YESTERDAY
- The marriage of Mr.. james Rankin Young
and Miss Mary Barclay will take place on the
evening OF the 2ith inst, and not on Saturday,
the Goth, as announced by one OF our conteni-
poraries. The ceremony, which will be quite
private, will be followed by a reception at the
residence of the brides father on 10th street,
after which the welded pair will start for New
YORK and some of the northern watering plac es
to be gone for several weeks.
THE REPORTS PROM TIE DISTRICT INvEsr1-
eating COMMERCIAL one o'clock to day
MIR. j. Nj. Wilson, of the Joint Special G Jmmi.-
tee Investigating All airs in the District of Co.
lumbia, reported the bill to provide q govern
ment for the District of Columbia, (printed in
full elsewhere in TIE STAR) He also asked
AID obtained leave 10 have the bill printed aud
Iecommitted to the committee; also, an order
10 nave the testimony printed. In reply To an
ihterrogatory Speaker Blaine made the an
nouncem ent that the committee would have
leave to report at any time.
In the Senate Mr.. Allison, chairman OF the
Joint Select Committee, reported the bin,
which he asked be printed and recommitted
IL Was 80 ordered. In reporting the bill Mr.
Allison said the committte would be prepared
to submit report in q few days.
The con mittee held no meeting to-day, hsv-
Ing adjourned last evening to meet at the call
Judge Allison asked that Dir. Wilson, ch sirman
OF the House branch OF the committee, be per
pitted 10 assist him in drafting the report,
which was agreed to. Messrs. Allison and viii
son were busy most of the day on the report and
it is not probable that the committee will b
called los ether again until it is finished, which
will not be under several days.
TIE CAUCUS Of the republican Senators and
representatives was held in the hall OF the
House OF Representatives last hight. propo-
sition was offered that congressional commit
tee be appointed In view OF the coming cleo
tons This was opposed by Mr.. Kelly, Of Penn
sylvania, who thought the appointment OF a
committee unnecessary, as every man should 20
before the people in his own way. Senator
Chandler explained the political stu alton and
gave reasons why the committee should be sp-
pointed, saying that similar committees had
rendered efficient service in the past. Mr..
Lynch, colored, of Mississippi, while advoca-
ting the appointment Of q committee, spoke of
the necessity Of passing the civil rights BILL and
said colored voters In the future as heretofore
would support republicans, there being no other
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