The Portland daily press., 1874-06-02
WASHINGTON.
GEN. Bristow Nominated for Secretary of
the Trea sury.

the Ifea surys
WASHINGTON, June 1.-The Preside mt has
sent TO the Senate the nomination of BENJAMIN
H. Bristow OF Kentucky, to be Secretary of
the Treasury, and w. A. Richardson to be
Judge of the Court of Claims.
Cabinet Meeting.
The meeting of the Cabinet was held to day,
as The President intends to leave Washington
this evening for New York. Previous to the
Cabinet session Gen. Bristow had an interview
with the President.
Captain Preble has been ordered to the COM
mand of the Philadelphia navy yard and the
naval station at League Island, relieving Com
modore Mulaney
The Bank Note Question.
The Committee of Banking to-day resumed
the consideration of the note printing question.
The counsel for the New York Note Printing
Companies did not charge fraud against the
Government Printing Bureau, but that the
work had been done at extravaganza rates. The
printing for 1873 was stated in the answer of
Mr.. McCsrtee at 81, 365,0O0, while the books of
the Treasurer show $348,00 besides not spec
tally accounted tor by vouchers, as to whom the
money had been paid, &c. Assistant Secretary
Sawyer said that the Treasury Department had
furnished an account which the counsel on the
other side had pronounced untrue, but the ac-
count was true and represented the entire
amount expended by the bureau,
Prospects OF the Civil Rights Bill.
NEW YORK, June Nv ashington dispatches
state that the chances of the final passage
of the civil rights bill are small indeed, as it is
in such condition between the two houses of
Congress that each can decline any RESPONSE
biity for its failure An effort will be made to
pass it through the House under suspension
of the rules.
The Financial Question.
A Washington despatch says it is no beiev.
ed that the Conference Committee will frame a
bill that will be neither like the Senate nor the
House bill or any where between them. as they
are in some measure bound to do by usage, but
which will be nearly identical with the com.
promise measure reported by the Banking
Committee and rejected by the House.
Rumored designations.
A special despatch states that Solicitor Ban
field of the Treasury Department has resigned.
Assistant Secretary Sawyer has not yet resign
Secretaryship only on the condition of being al
lowed to appoint his subordinates.
The Nominations.
| The Senate to-day referred the nominations
| of Messls BristOw and Richardson to the FL
nance and Judiciary Committees respectively.
| Patent Bill.
| The bill passed by the Senate to-day amen
| datory of the law relating to patents, trade
| marks and copyrights, provides that no person
| his copyright unless every book or article copy
righted shall bear modification of the copy
| right. The bill also provides that no engrav
ings, lists or prints shall be copyrighted unless
| they are practical illustrations or works con-
nected with the fine arts, but that prints or la
bells designed to be used for any other article OF
| manufacture may be registered in the Patent
| Office on the payment of fee of 50 which
| shall cover the expense of furnishing copy OF
the records. The librarian of Congress is to
nno f,r Twin n
any assignment Of a copyright or for any copy
| of an assignment.
| sundry Approximations.
The House Committee on Appropriations has
| agreed to insert in the sundry civil apprOpria
ton bills the following: Boston post office
| $751;, 027, Boston custom house $25, 900, Chicago
$750O0O Cincinnati 5000, 600 Evansville, Ind.
New Orleans $191 900, New York 81, IA, 207
| Omaha $1,000, Portland $4,000, Philadelphia
$750000, st Louis $75, 900, California $685. 42
New Haven $4,000, Knoxville $4,000, State
war and navy department buildings in Wash
| ington $4,000. i'll Milwaukee 1913, 453, and sew
eral other appropriations for the South. Abou
| $7,000 900 in all were proposed for public build
lngs and for repairs $200.000.
Bureau of Commerce.
The bill reported by Senator Window from
| the Transportion ommittee, as substitute TO
the bill recently introduced by him to estab
| llSu bureau VI luIeTudi CouultICc, pIoFIooa
that there shall be established in the Treasury
| Department bureau of commerce into which
will be merged the existing bureau of statistics
The new bureau is to be in charge of a Com
| missioner of Commerce, appointed by To
| President and confirmed by the Senate, and its
duties will include the collection of statistic
and facts relating to foreign and domestic
commerce, the cost, operation, manager en-
and charges of railroads. and accounts and re
turns as to the tonnage, reg istraton, enroll
ment and licensing OF vessels. The bill ais
III Interstate transportation of freight ant
passengers to make sworn reports to the chic
of the bureau annually in regard to the cost
amount of business, rates of freight and pas
sengers, and generally to furnish full details 0