Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1875-01-08
The Stoweu Inquiry.

/ tiOn of Graham. Wells produced five due
bills from Graham to Stowell, the first dated
! May, 1872, and the last November of the
| same year, amounting in the aggregate to
| $500 This was year before the disposal OF
| the cadetShip. Counsel produced those due
] bills TO show that Graham, having paid
| Stowell S3l0 on account, owed him the S190
| which Graham acknowledged TO be still due
| 10 StOwelI.
on examination by Mr.. Gooch. member
| of the Committee, Graham repeated that he
paid $50 at the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad
! depot to Stowell, on account of the sale of
! the cadetShip.
| II seemed nom the subsequent testimony
| that on the 1lth of December last Graham,
1 arriving from Richmond, sent a note to
| StOwell, informing him that he was at the
| Howard Hotel, and could be found there be-
| tween certain hours. Subsequently he
/ called at StOwell's hotel, but Stowell refused
| Joseph Z. Evans colored, was sworn and
| testified that he is a member OF the Virginia
| state senate, and secretary of the committee
| for the 4th Congressional district; the recon-
! mendation of the youth SchOOlcraft for a
| cadetShip waaS shown to him; it was signed
| by George w. Graham, as chairman, and
Joseph II. Evans, as secretary; the witness
| said he did not sign the paper, and had no
/ knowledge of his name appearing until
| StOwell showed him the paper in Richmond;
| he did not authorize Graham to sign his
name at any time.
The committee has postponed the further
| investigation in the ease until next Tuesday.
! THE HOUSE COMMITTEE ON PACIFIC
| RAILROADS has Oppointed q subcommittee
! on the subject Of relief to the Southern Pacific
railroad as asked by Col. Scott and others
| consisting of SypheT. of Louisiana Wells of
missouri, and Barnum, of Connecticut.
THE HOUSE JUDICIARY COMMITTEE have
agreed to make an adverse report upon the
bill providing for one additional representa-
tive in Congress from the state of Nebraska;
also npon bill providing for the creation OF
new state out of five parishes of Louisiana
and SIX counties of northwestern Texas.
ROssITER T. RAYMOND, who called MouI-
ton a liar in Plymouth church when the lat
ter was somewhat exercised over the report
OF the examining committee. was before the
House 4 appropriation Committee yeSter Law
advocating that a salary of $1,000 be paid
hlm Tor The collection of certain mining sta
tistics made by him.
PETITION OF THE DISTRICT FIRENEN.-
In the Senate this morning Mr.. Lewis intro
duced memorial from the members of the
District fire department protesting against
the reduction of salaries proposed i'm the
Morrill, bill, and asking that they be in
creased. The petition sets forth that the pres
ent compensation is barely sufficient To- Sus-
tain life, and that they have to protect @
large amount of government property, and
are compelled to be at their posts except for
few hours once in every six days. The
memorial was referred TO the District Com
mittee.
oNEk HALF OF DOLLARS I'm
PAPER) BURSED-The circulars sent out by
| the controller Of the currency calling for an
| exhibit of the condition of national banks a.
| the close of business ON the 31st of December
| last, were destroyed by the burning of the
postal car on the baltimore and Potomac roaI
| last. These calls will be duplicated taday.
Some four hundred thousand dollars in new
national bank notes sent from the controllers
office were also burned. 1t is possible that a
large portion OF these notes NAV be returne
rhAFTP1 and h
Between two and three hundred thousand
dollars of legal tenders and fractional cur
rency, which was sent to the assistant treas
urer at New York and To the nation depOsi-
tories in the north and east, were also de-
strOyed.
SOMETHING ABOUT THE FIBER PAPER
An incident occurred this morning before the
House Committee on Banking and Currency
which produced quite a sensation among the
members OF the committee and the specta-
tors. The attorney for one of the New York
bank note companies drew attention TO a 8 IN
tence in the report of the Secretary of the
Treasury stating that not piece OF the fiber
paper upon which our government issues is
printed had ever been lost. As showing that
the Secretary's informant had misled him,
the attorney threw upon the committees
table bundle containing one hundred sheets
OF localized fiber paper that had been manu.
factuTed by the government, and had come
into the possession of the bank note compa-
MES. The attorney declined to say how they
came in possession of this government paper
until Mr.. McCartee, superintendent of the En-
craving and Printing Bureau, could be present
10 be lnterrOgated about this singular affair.
As il is understood generally that the fiber
paper is a protection, and point having
been made of this by the department, IL would
be well 10 have this branch of the bank note
printing controversy thoroughly investigat-
ed, as the Secretary and the community NAV
need information on this point. This matter
may be explained satisfactorily, but the pub
lie will demand that there shall be a system
adopted that is absolutely safe. The paper
account between the department and these
New York bank note companies has been
one hundred sheets of fiber paper are remain
ing over and unaccounted for.
TAXATION OF CHURCH PROPERTY IN THE
DISTRICT.-The Senate District Committee
at its meeting this morning heard Rev. Drs.
Sunderland, Addison, Grey and Butler, on
the petition of clergymen OF the District for
th9 exemption of church property from taxa
ton. These gentlemen urged in a very earnest
manner the favorable consideration of their
petition on the part of the committee. The
law as 1t at present stood, they said, placed
an embargo upon religion, In some countries
where there was union OF church and state,
the state provided literally for the support
of the church. Here it was proposed TO reverse
this, and to make the church help 10 support
the state The law was also diScriminative,
lnaSmuch as all charitable and educational
institutions were exempt, and under this
exemption some religious sects held
immense and valuable estates free
AiOul WHllt OJltfS WHO only
owned the ground upon which their churches
stood had TO pay such taxes that some of
their congregation could not stand il, and
would have to cease worship. A large num-
Der of lawyers had expressed the opinion that
the tax imposed by the Commissioners was
unlawful As they could only collect taxes
upon property cas- provided by law" Under
the law the property shall have been assessed
before taxes can be collected thereupon
This property had never been assessed and
therefore no taxes could legally be collected
The matter could be successfully contested
bylaw, but the reverend gentlemen preferred
to seek remedial legislation. They were lis
tened TO with great attention by the commit
tee who will consider the matter at an early
day.
LIBEL SUIT ABOUT A LOVE STORY
Frank +. wilcox, wealthy young married
man OF Springfield Mass, has begun a libel
suit against the Sunday Morning Telegram
of that city, for $4,000 damages, for the pub
Hcation OF the statement that he had elOped
with Miss Flora Loomis, of the same city
The Telegram also stated that Mr.. Wilcox
and the young lady were at a hotel over night
together, last January, and that he had of
fered his wife $4,000 for a separation. He
denies all the statements, as does the father
OF Miss Eoomis.
To BE MARRIED AGAIN.-A report comes
from London that Mr.. DisraeIi Is to be mar