Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1875-01-28
EVENING STAR.
Washington News and Gossip.

Cur as fOiiOwS:-TueSday evening, Februa-
~ 2i; Tuesday evening, February Sd, and
will continue on both evenings from eight to
ten O'Clock p. m.
State Dinners:-Tuesday, January 26th;
Tuesday, February 9th.
INTERVAL REvENUE.-The receipts from
this source to-day were $50 ,5I9.41.
y Coon NovE.-The COrcOran Gallery is
TO be open from : Y to 10 O'Clock Thursday
evenings hereafter.
THE SENATE Committee on Commerce
morning agreed to report the bill 10 promote
the efficiency of the marine hospital service.
CONGRESSMAN FRYE met with a warm re-
ceptiOa at the Burns Club-BOstOR Post.
AS a matter of fact, Congressman Frye was
in New Orleans at the time mentioned.
THE CUsHMAN ENTERTAINMENT to-mOr-
row evening at the Congregational church
promises 10 he brilliant affair. The dia-
gram at Choate's bookstore indicates a large
audience, and from the character of those
who have purchased seats the audience will
De a distinguished one.
THE CONGRESSIONAL INVESTIGATING
COMMITTEE in New Orleans examined sew
eral witnesses yesterday, including Major
Merrill and other army officers, who testified
az 10 the Outra yes on and intimidation of the
cOlOrcd people of Louisiana.
TIL E ORDNANCE BUREAU APPRoPRI-
ALTON. - The Military Committee of the
House, after consideration Of the Presidents
message asking for an increased apprOpri-
alton for the Ordnance bureau, have decided
To recommend the appropriation of $50, 900.
which is the entire sum asked for in the mes
sage, and an additional SlOU 200 for the pur-
pose of securing the grounds upon which to
make the ordnance tests.
WM. S. KING, of Pacific Mail notoriety.
arrived in this city night before last. and
was met by friends and driven from the de-
pot in a close carriage. He has not made his
whereabouts known, because he is in CONSUL
tatiOn with counsel, and he desires for the
present to avoid the subpoena Of the Commit
tee on Ways and Means. His arrival here in
a somewhat secret manner gives rise To the
impression that he will make a clean breast
Of all he knows of the Pacific Mail subsidy
after *. b. Irwin shall have been discharged.
PERsONAL.-Arrived at the Ebbitt House
to-day: Hon. ID. w. voorhees,, Ind; Hon.
Samuel FalcOner, San Francisco; Captain
George Z. BelknaP, L. $. N; Hon. c. y. Ste
yens and wife and Miss Stevens, Ware, Mass;
Hon. Edward y. Fowler, VI; Commodore
Addison Low, n. Y; Commodore j. S. Dew
elny. Pittsburg, Pa; Governor B. MaggOffiin,
Ny; Hon. IL. T. PeytOn, Va; Beverly Tucker
and wife. Va. Senator Jones appeared in
his seat in the Senate to-day for the first time
since the holidays.
THE HOUSE POSTAL COMMITTEE has re-
sumed the investigation OF the alleged over
charge by the Continental Bank Note COM
pany for printing official stamps for the
several executive departments. Experts en-
plOyed by the committee swOre that the plates
of which the company furnished one hundred
| at $500 each would cost at fair valuation only
SIl each They also swOre that stamp prini-
ing would be profitable at twenty cents per
thousand, iOF which eighty cents was charged
The contract was given out by the Post Office
department, under Postmaster General Cres-
Wells administration. without ADVERTISE
ment, and the stamps already printed will
| assregate thirty milliO~s.
THE SENATE NAVAL COMMITTEE yester-
day heard the Hon. Samuel Shellabarger of
Ohio, i'm advocacy of the passage of Senate
| bill 1g7, accepting the profer of the "Inter-
| national Steamship company and the
| Western Iron Boat Building company to
| establish in the east an iron steamship yard
| and in the west boat building yard. &c
| These companies propose 10 put upon the At
| lautic. within three years, a line of twelve
| nrSt-claSS ocean SteamerS-withOut subsidy.
| At the last session of Congress the Senate
| Naval Committee recommended the passage
| OF this bill. Its passage has also been recon-
| mended by the Secretary Of the Navy and
| Admiral POTtOr.
| CONTEMPLATING SENATOR ELECT
| pAwES-The Committee of Ways and
| Means have addressed a letter to Mr.. Dawes.
1 their chairman, recently elected by the Mas
| sachUsetts legislature to the Senate as fol-
4
I Ways and Means (thOSe of opposite politics
| TeSCrving only their political predilectiOls)
1 have heard the tidings of your election as
| Senator from the state of Massachusetts, wit
| most sincere qualification. They are unwflI-
| ing 10 allow the occasion TO pass without a
| testimonial on their part of their high appre-
4 G alton of the distinguished qualities YOU
1 have shown as the chairman presiding over
| their deliberations, and a personal friend
4 and companion in the duties with which they
/ are charged. Your stainless reputation duri ng
4 q lOHg and ariuOuS service in Congress- as
| well as the abilities you have exhibited in
| the discharge of public duties, give emphasis
1 70 this appreciation"
/ II may be mentioned in this connection
| that the Massachusetts senate OH Tuesday
| recOnsidered their action in declaring Senator
| B.lttOn'S seat vacant. and reSeated him. This
1 definitely settles the question that had been
| raised as to the legality of the election Of Mr.
| Dawes to the United States Senate, Senator
Britton having participated in the election.
CIVIL AND CRIMINAL PROCEEDINGS on
1 THE SUGG FORT CLAIM.-SolicitOr BlufOrd
| Wilson, OF the Treasury department, has
made report to Secretary BristOw upon
| the pay ment of the frGudulent claims of Sugg
| Fort, of Robinson county. Tenn. in which he
| says: in my Judgment, based upon the facts
| before me, the claim is base fraud upon the
1 government, allowed originally upOn insult
/ hcient testimony, without due defiberatiOn
1 and permitted to be hurried through the ac-
4 counting Office upon repre- sentatiOns since
| shown To be false, and under circumstances
| that seem To call imDeratively for fuller and
| more rigid investigation. II must
| be admitted i'm view of the law that the re-
| sponSlbllity for the payment OF every such
/ claim must rest solely upon the COmmissary
| General. The question of the sufficiency of
| the proof OF loyalty, of the taking and use,
| il primarily for him. And yet the Third Au-
| ditor and Second Comptroller are response
/ bic as we'll" Mr.. Wilson then states tina {
| civil and criminal proceedings have been in
1 Sttuted against the claimant, and cOncluS eS
/ by setting forth that sit will be the aim OF
| this office 10 so follow up these legal proceed
| ings, civil and criminal, as to make them a
| Salutary warning TO all persons cherishing
| like unlawful and corrupt designs upon the
1 public treasury
| Miss GRUNDY.-Miss Snead, who as an iss
| Grundy," was familiar 10 every reader of the
HOTtd, is dangerously ill; she has been in
| poor health for two or three years. Miss
| Snead deserves a separate niche in the his
/ tory OF Washington journalism. She was
| the first society writer from this city, and
| with the exception of Fay" in the Louis
| willie C0IHier-Joa17Idl, and ''Gleaner," of a
| Cincinnati paper, decidedly the best of the
| hundreds who have tried to initiate her. Cor
| respoDdence from Washington to-day is
| about evenly divided between men and wo-
| men, and these latter who are supporting
| themselves by il, even though their work
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