Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1875-12-21
EVENING STAR.
Washington News and Gossip.

GOVERNMENT RECEIPTS To-pAY.-Inter-
nal revenue, e2f7 5000; customs, s2l3, 974.1I.
THE PRESIDENT and family returned from
Philadelphia yesterday afternoon.
THE AMOUNT of national bank note cur
rency received at the Treasury to-day aggre-
| gated S2S3.711.
j. B. MOTLEY, esq, of this city, has been
appointed Clerk to the House Committee of
Post Offices and Post Roads.
GEN. J.. p. c. SHANKs has returned from
the Indian territory, where he has been
engaged on duty in regard to Indian matters,
and is busily engaged in the preparation Of
his report.
Mr.. E. w. BARBER, Third Assistant Post
master General, has gone to his home in
Michigan spend the holidays. Mr.. VIM. NJ
Ireland is Acting Third Assistant Postmas-
ter General during his absence.
CHIEF CLERK APPoINTED.-Dr. l.. X.
Lippincott, recorder of the General Land Of
fee, has been appointed chief clerk of the
Land office, vice w. w. Curtis, resigned, to
take effect January 1, 1876. "Grace Green
wood" is the wife ofDr. Lippincott.
AMONG THE DISTRICT BILLS which have
been introduced in the present Congress is
one for the relief of Richard t. Morsell, of
this city, for compensation for the use and
occupation by the United States of lot num-
bered 3, in square 15S, for camp and barrack
purposes from June list, 1861, TO September
LIST, 1870.
DEMONSTRATIONS IN 1.-THE Secre-
tary of the Interior yesterday decided the
case of the heirs OF Murray Mcconnell VS.
the Chicago and Northwestern Railroad
Company, involving the title to the land on
which the depot OF the company in Chicago
is built, and which is represented to be
worth several million dollars, in favor of the
company.
ARMY ORDERs.-Captain j. 8. Tomkins
25th infantry, will report to the command
ing officer Columbus barracks, Ohio, for
temporary duty. The leave Of absence
granted "a Lieutenant VIM. Cary, 18th in
fanty, Fort Marcy, New MexfcO,) from
headquarters, department of Missouri, is ex-
tended IL months, with permission to go
beyond the sea.
NAVAL ORDERs.-Ensign Howard S.
WaIing to temporary duty at the Hydro
graphic Office, Both instant. Chief Engineer
John III. Long detached from special duty at
New York and ordered to the Vandalia.
Passed Assistant Engineer Henry L. Slas-
son nom the navy yard, New York and
ordered to the Nandalia, 2Sth instant. Cadet
Engineers E. r. Freeman and Geo. s. Will
lets from the Hartford and ordered to the
Nandalta, 2sth instant.
HOUSE APPo1NTMENTs.-T Clerk of the
House of Representatives yesterday ap-
pointed ex-Congressman John b. Rice, OF
Ky, Librarian OF the House, vice John
James Piatt, removed; Thomas s. Petit
tally clerk, vice James w. Nightingale, re-
moved; VIM. T. Dove, of Maryland, (form-
erly Washington alderman), clerk, $500.
The following appointments, all Mary
landers, have been made under the door
keeper =. p. Gettings, messenger; Louis II.
Nelson, folder; and James T. Blackstone,
messenger.
Col. GEO. s. BANGS, superintendent of the
hot
this and the list Of January, will retire from
that position to engage in business, proba
bly, In Illinois. For six months mast al
Bangs mas contemplated resigning, but has
2Slned 10 ald Ia organizing the fast mail
tN service, and to perfect SO far as pos
sible, the postal railway Service generally.
he gives as the reason for his retirement the
lnadeauacy OF bis salary, ga, 200 per year,
rily expend In travelling expenses, Congress
making no provision for his reimbursement.
THE CoMMIrTEEs-Thea assignments made
by Speaker Kerr of the members Of the House
TO the various committees ANNOUNCED first
In yesterdays starr are praised and de-
nounced in about equal proportions. The
censure comes largely from old members
who have been superseded on important
ceived that which they had no reason TO
expect applaud the selections, and those who
did not find no merit in them.
House-that of Ways and Means-is given
to VIM. X. Morrison, of Illinois, a name COM
Paratively unknown. The selfish view taken
given the place because he organized Speak
er Kerr's effective campaign, and was his
active lieutenant I'm bringing up the forces
ever, made upon his integrity. The OBJ
Jections presented come from the east, in
that he is free trader, and from some por-
currency. In organizing the Ways and Means
Committee Mr.. Kerr took good care, appar-
emily, to have free trade preponderance.
by Blaine and Kelly. ALI the remaining
members are free traders, or favor a tariff
The Banking and Currency Committee is
given 10 Mr.. Cox, of New York. His selec-
ton was disappointment to himself and to
nearly every one else. His disappointment
and did moi want 1t. The disappointment of
others is in the fact that Mr.. Kerr did not
place some one at the head of the committee
more pronounced on one side or the other Of
the currency question. Mr.. Cox is believed
10 be hard money man. Nevertheless in
the recent Ohio campaign, in which he made
issue, remaining well balanced on the fence
The remaining members of the committee
are ali hard money men, with the single ex-
seem that the committee had been thus made
up TO prevent the soft money party from
giving prominence to their views on the cur
iShSy qucstfOA. II Is SAFE 10 predict llat no
bill win ever be reported from the Commits
tee which will invite discussion from the
soIt-money advocates. The shrewdness of
Mr.. Kerr in thus framing the committee is
cOmmendable. fnasmuch as he heads of
good deal OF maneuvering by the Opposition
for party capital on the currency Question.
The Committee Of Ways and Means also Is a
hard money committee, with but two excep-
lions.
The District Committee in some respects
may De objected TO as an urfair one. There
Oh, .xs.
e O0iumDla on the part Of good many west.
s Sepst memos.s and nearly the whole mem
DS is given to that section. Buckner,
"a Missouri, is the chairman. His first ser
yicein Congress was with the 4sd. He is a
Virginian by birth, having been born in
Fredericksburg. He was educated ct the
Georgetown College and the University of
Virginia. In 1851 he settled In Missouri, and
since 1871 he held several important state
offices. He was In 1854 the commissioner of
public works for the state OF Missouri. He
was also selected by the legislature of Mis-
souri, as delegate to the peace congress.
Neal, of Ohio, Is the only old Congressman of
the d0nnOCrafa e. ernafndor MoaSra