Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1874-01-09

BE JOlnJ rtsOIuEIOn authorizing tuWaru
Young, of the bureau of statistics, to accept a
diamond ring from the Car of Russia, was sent
to the President to-day for his signature.
THE NATIONAL BASKs.-The controller of
T. e currency has called upon the national banks
o report of their condition as shown by their
books on the 26th of last December.
SECRETARY BELKSAP gave his views in OPP
position to the proposed reduction of the army
before the House Committee on Military Affair
this morning.
PERsoNAL.-Ex-Senator H. s. Lane and wife,
Indiana; Hon. q. W. GIldlland, Pennsylvania;
Captain j. ID. Marion, L. s. N; Commodore
Mallory, U. S. N; Admiral j. l.. Worden. q, s.
N, are at the Ebbitt House.
Mr.. CRAGIN's BILL, introduced in the Senate
to-day, to change the titles of certain naval
officers, proposes to change the titles of first
al second assistant engineers to passed assist
ant engineers respectively.
The GOVERNMENT SUITS AGAINST THE TEL
EGRAPH CoMPANIEs.-AttorneyG General Will
lams has retained Hon. Reverdy johnson, OF
Maryland, as a special assistant in the prosecu-
ton of the several suits between the General
Government and various telegraph companies
MT: johnson took the oath required by law
Court in Baltimore. These suits arise in con-
nection with the army signal service.
1T LOOKS as though Mr.. Crutchfield, a men,
Der of Congress from Tennessee, might in mat
ters of affection have been leaning on a broken
reed, and was anxious to get even with some
'air false one. He yesterday asked leave to
Offer an amendment to the supplementary civil
rights bill, providing penalty against any
woman who refuses an offer of marriage on ac-
count of race, color, or previous condition OF
seryitude.-N. Y. Graphic.
POSTMASTER GENERAL CREswELL was be-
fore the House Committee on Appropriations
this morning. 1t appears that the solicitor for
the Post Office Department has decided thai
under the law no stationary contract can be
made by him tor a period covering ever one
year. This decision, he states, will greatly en-
barrass him, particularly with reference to the
postal card supply; and be desires such egisla-
ton or wider construction OF the present law
as will relieve him therefrom.
THE TRANSPORTATION BLL.-Phe House
Committee on Railroads and Canals this morn
ing further considered Mr.. McCrary's bill to reg
ulate commerce by railroads among the states
and disposed of five of the fourteen sections OF
the bill. The fourth section, prescribing the
powers of the board OF nine commissioner wa
-ome"hat amended so as TO amplify their pow
eIs, and prescrIbes a longer term for holding
once than four years, as the bill originally pro-
Vided.
NONGNATIoNs.-The President sent the fol-
lowing nominations TO the Senate to-day: Caleb
Cushing, of Virginia, to be Chief Justice of the
Supreme Court of the United States Seth NJ
Barber, pension agent, Cleveland, Ohio; II. b.
Swoope, United States attorney, western dis
trict Pennsylvania; Geo. r. Peck, United
states attorney for Kansas; James E. Bangs,
OF District OF Colum bia, to be secretary of com
mission for determining boundary line bet seen
United States and British Possessions between
Lake OF the Woods and the Rocky mountains.
SENATE CoNFIRMArIoNs.-The Senate in
executive session yesterday confirmed the fol-
lowing nominations John G. Caldwell, OF
Maine, to be Minister Resident to Uruguay and
Paraguay; Edward l.. Baker, of Illinois, Con
sui at Buenos Ayres; George P. Foster, L.
Marshal for Vermont; Thomas p. Ochltree, L.
,. Marshal for eastern district OF Texas; Arch
bald Sterling, DR., U. s. attorney for Mary
land; l.. l.. Lewis, U. 5. attorney for the eastern
district of Virginia. Also the nominations of a
number OF pension and Indian agents and post
masters.
THE SCrLPToRs.-Mr. Frank Simmons, the
rising young sculptor, has returned from Rome
on brief visit to his home in Maine. He has
received a number of orders for new work, and
his much admired statute of Roger Williams
at the Capitol, is to be put into bronze for the
park at Providence. His statue of JOch abed
and the infant Moses, owned by Mr.. Appleton,
critics.
: Miss Winnie Ream has received an order
Tor portrait bust of Mayor Powell, of Brook
Ign, from the council of that city.
~ No" hLAfLOslONs-IQe PRESIDENT
yesterday sent to both houses of Congress the
report of the commission appointed under the
act to authorize inquiries into the causes of
steam boiler explosions. The report, after Civ
ing an account OF certain experiments and the
means used for these purposes, says the con-
ciusl0ns drawn therefrOm will be furnished in
the final report. About fifty thousand dollars
OF the appropriation, which was SlOO, 900, have
thus far been paid out in the purchase of boil
eTs, machinery and materials, and in erecting
suitable buildings, bomb proofs, &C., required
10 carry out the experiments.
The WOMAN QUEsTIoN-A memorial was
filed in the House to-day by Mr.. Shanks from
the indianapolis Women's Suffrage Association,
ID opposition to the repeal by Congress of the
right OF female suffrage in the territories. They
oppose such measure, because it contemplates
step backward in the progress which this ma
ton has for nearly century been making to-
WARD the ideal OF a just government, whose
powers are derived from the consent of the
governed as foreshadOwed in the Declaration of
Independence; because it will be an act of gross
injustice to nearly one half OF the pioneers of
civilization who have braved the hardship s and
dangers OF frontier life, and who Justly claim
VIII In the government which may dispose of
their lives, their liberty and property, and be-
cause such repeal proposes a return to the
parDarous usages OF the dark ages, q step wholly
unworthy the intelligence and refinement OF
the nineteenth century. The memorial was re-
ferred to the Judiciary Committee.
AN APPEAL FROM THE MCENRRY L.GIsLA-
TURE OF LoUIsIANA.-The telegram received
by the President pro TEN. of the Senate and the
Speaker OF the House of Representatives yes.
terday, las stated in our report of Congressional
proceedings Of yesterday,) was signed by Ed
WARD Booth and Robert WOrrell, of the Senate,
and James l.. Libdell, n. j. Foster, and r. c.
Lacnarie. OF the House committee of the McEu-
cry legislature of Louisiana stating that "the
legal legislature" of the state assembled on the
9TH inst, and that the orders OF the general
commanding the department are Of such q
character Is to prevent . large portion of their
body from taking part in the Assembly. They
earnestly pray Congress for relief, and close by
saying: "Ouf liberties have been DESTROYED by
the action Of Federal court, sup ported by the
army Of the United States. Will not the euar-
antee article In the Constitution enable Won to
protect u? Judge Story has predicted that
the erection Of despotism in one Of the states
will bring on the destruction Of the whole re.
public"
JUDGE BIZ sTSED, of the district court Of the
United States for the state Of Alabama, has
addressed pamphlet of ave printed pages to
each individual member OF the House Judiciary
Committee, alluding to Mr.. Hoar's original
resolution with reference to his alleged judicial
misconduct, introduced in 1878, and Giving a
statemeut, under oath, Of the timer, wnen, and
the the places in Alabama where, during 1870 to