Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1874-04-01

INTERNAL RRVENUE.-rhe receipts from this
source to-day were sl9l3i6.
THE HOUSE Committee en- Foreign Affairs
today resumed but Did not finish the consider
alton Of the consular bTn.
DR.. MARY T. WALKEk's CLAIM has been
transferred from the House Committee on Mil
tary Affairs 70 the Committee on War Claims
Were 1t Will be referred to subcommittee.
THK COMMITTEES ON WAR CLAIMS this morn
ing discussed the last report OF the Commits
sOnCTs OF Claims, and made the bill paying
a" Yards the special order for FRIDAY next.
The HOUSE Committee on Agriculture have
decided to report favOrably bill authorizing
Ia be made a collection of specimens of ALI the
different woods in the country, To be pla,aI IN
the museum at the Department Of Agriculture.
TIE HOUSE Committee on Patents deci.led
This morning TO report favOrably upon allOw;ny
Gen. " m h. Ward TO go before the Com MIS-
sIOLeT of Patents, without prejudice i'm rela ion
10 an extension Of the patent on his bullet
mould.
ADMIRAL PORTER is much better tod Az He
Is relieved of the very severe pain which has
accompanied his disease, and Is able to move
about little. His many friends are very nh ch
encouraged at the Improvement in his coldi
ton.
THE House Committee on Appropriations to-
day had under consideration the $50 900 def
cheney for the District of Columbia Reform
School, ard will probably report fsvOrabIy
They expect TO finish the consideration of the
entIre deficiency bill and report it TO the House
10 morrow.
The SANBORs CoNTRACT.-Assis.antS ecre-
tary Of the Treasury Sawyer was before the
Ways and Means Committee this morning AMI
was examined at great length as to VIVA. he
Knows about the SanbOrn contract. Sanh1rn
himself will probably be before the committee
TO- morrow in answer to the summons recently
Issued for his appearance.
NAVAL ORDRRs.-Lieut. Commander Ed
ward A. Walker has been detached from the
Lancaster and ordered to return home ami re.
port arrival. Lieut.. Commander Frederick r
smith has been detached from ordnance duty
at Key West Florida, and ordered TO duty as
executive Gfcer of the Lancaster. Cadet En-
giIeer Il L. Leitch las been detached from Tna
Ajax and ordered 10 the Dsspee.
THE THIRTY EIGHTH SrAR.--The H,1s,
Committee on Territories held a regular m ,at.
ing this morning and considered the bill eft Mr..
ElkIns, delegate from New Mexico for the al
mission of the territory OF New Mexico "a a
state in the Union. Although the comm.ftee
nave Tot Vet decided on their action, IL ~ I'M
deIst'od that they will report in favor of Jhs
OIL ior The admission of New Mexico.
1T APPEARS that the main object of General
Scbenck's return home is to tase In MARI age
Mrs. Hicks, young and wealthy widow, for.
merly Of Philadelphia, hut since the war a resi-
dent OF Ohio. Gen. s, mex will make A brief
stay here. and then, accom- panied BY his bri.ia
return 10 his post as Minister to England. The
General, although in his sixtytifth year, is Look
ty.-SIecidl Phild. Star.
THE House Committee on Pubic Buildings
AMI Grounds, who have for some time past had
NJ a.
dlng that where contracts have not already
en- entered into for the erection of new build
iDes, or where work has not been comm ancad
ne money appropriated for such building
snsIl be covered into the Treasury, have rrs-
pared bill 10 report to the House. which il M.
so sweeping as that of Mr.. Garneld's ami which
provides Tor the erection OF such new building
AZ I'D tue opinion or the Secretary OF the Traas
ury are lmperatively necessary. n
THR PETITION of the South CAROLYN. .,r-
PAYERS presented in the House yesterday was
not referred to Committee or WAYS and means
as stated, but to the Judiciary COMMITTEES. with
power 10 send Tor persons and pa pers. Thought
nj memteIs OF Congress OF both parties ex,sr.S.
, rheseives greatly impressed by the represent.
lions OF the &c egation as TO the distressed con-
uilen OF the taxpayers OF South Carolina AMI
there is no doubt the committee will give rhe
matter attentive consideration, to see II Com,
gresslonal action can be constitutionalIy applied
Tor their relief.
headquarters OF the army from Fort Bliss.
Texas, states that citizens of San EIisario
about y miles from that pest, report that a
party or Indians. supposed 10 be from the Fort
STATION reservation, visited the town about ten
days ago during the night. capturing six hor,as
and killing two. The citizens also report III AZ
on the night of the 9th ultimo another marty
also supposed to be Mescalero Apaches from
tne stanton Deighborhood, visited the tOy n and
sterehouses. mum beriDg, in conflicting accounts,
from ten TO twenty. An armed party of citizens
OF San Elisario trailed the stolen stock as far a.
Guadslupe Pass without overtakiDg them.
TnE HOWARD INQUIRY-Yesterdsy was the
sixteenth day of the Howard investi cation. H.
Z. Harmon and Edgar g. Beman, clerks in tha
second Auditors office, were examined The
former testified that there had come to the Sec
ono AUDITORS ONCE between twenty and thirty
thousand complaints of white soldiers of bonn
Ties and arrears not paid from the year 1856 to
the present time, and about three thousand
complaints from colOred soldiers. In iIIustr,-
tlOn 81 the mistakes that were made in the nav.
ment or dues, case was given where the
voucher recelpting for the money was signed
by mark, and the letter of complaint from
me soldier to whom the money rightfulIy he
oDged, subsequently written, was signed nv
himself, with his full name. Beman TESTIFIED
as TO the great difficulties often experienced i'm
Identifying claimants. q. ~ an
The Public Debt
The recapitulatlOn M the