Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1876-07-08
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Washington News.

Washington News.
WASHINGTON, July /. - Representative
Lane got his bill through the House for re
lief of the suretics of J. w. z. Huntington
late Superintendent of Indian affairs, iron
liability for $4,000 of government none,
lost on the steamship Brother Jonathan.
The President today signed the act to pro
vide temporarily for the expenditures of til,
government; also the naval appropriation
bill
The committee of Conference on the pos
Office appropriation bill has agreed upon ;
report. They compromise on rates of COM
pensallon to postmasters. The pay fol
railroad transportation is reduced ten pei
cent. peioW the present rate, and a commits
sion Is provided to take the subject into con
sideration and report at the next session.
Third class mail matter, transient newspapers
magazines, pamphlets, books and all printed
matter, except circulars, to pay one cent for
| every two ounces.
| The Senate has agreed 10 the amendments
| appropriating $4,000 for surveying public
lands in California; $4,000 Cor Oregon; $50,
OOO for Nevada; $4,000 for Washington
Territory; also $4,000 for the incidental eX-
penses OF the office of the Surveyor General
| OF California, and from $15, coo to $50, 900 to
| each of the other Pacific States and Terrific
| ries.
Mitchefs bill has been passed by the SEN
ate, to extend the time for the completion of
| the surveys and locations of the Portland,
Dalles and Salt Lake Railroad and its branch
es until April IA, 1873.
Relief for Gen. Jno Suffer-
WASHINGTON, July 2.-The House private
land claims committee have voted to recon-
mend the passage of bill appropriating
$50, 900 for the relief of Gen John Suffer, in
consideration of his services to early Califor>
MIA immigrants, his losses of personal prop
erty foT want of legal protection and his equi
ties in the Sobranta grant confirmed by the
lower tribunal; but denied by the United
States supreme court decision. This sum is
to be in full satisfaction of his claim for lien
lands and all other claims for losses or SER
vice.
Sargent Denies Yer.sin's Charges.
Sargent, referring to remarks attributed to
him by IergaiE, who was removed today
| from charge of the Special Agency Division
of the Internal Revenue Bureau, denies he
ever said there were no whisky frauds on the
Pacific coast. He ridicules tho idea that he
would undertake to be cOnscicncc-keepcr for
an entire community. What he diu say was
that although very probably there were some
frauds committed there as well as elsewhere,
he did not believe, upon the unsupported
statements of Phillips and Iergain, that men
like Vardyke and Scdgwick were rascals.
The Uerald's Washington special says:
The truth is, Iergain is Il victim of the whis-
ky thieves in the NeSt lie was active and
untiring in his investigations. When he had
just returned from ST. Louis with evidence
Of frauds duplicating Mcdonald, Joyce and
| Others, before even any seizures were made,
Babcock went one day TO u prominent treas
ury officer and asked him if that Ecrgain
was not making himself too id fresh in
| 81. Louis matters" Senator Spencer's hos~
| tility t. Iergain is also supposed to come of
his intimacy with Babcock. The Heraid
regards Icrgain's removal as Grants last
| bnnler, and thinks Republicans will have
| hard work to excuse it.
the Bottom Of tho Sea.
New YORK, July 3-After lapse of three
| years, work has been rcsuMed on the wreck
| of the sunkcn frigate, llussar, near Port Nor
| ris, to obtain treasure to the amount of $3.50,
| 300, which is buried in the vessel. y gen
| era survey of the wreck was made on Satur-
| day by a diver named Cook, from San Fran
cisco. He found but little of the old frigate
left. The money is supposed to be in the
| ships treasury, over which there is a solid
| mass of kentledge and single ballast, which,
| by the action of the water, have become SO
| onylomeratcd that it is as hard as iron, and
will have to be drilled or blasted through.
The HusSar arrived with the friEate Mer>
curry at this port November %, 1850. She
carried money to pay off the British troops;
but on arriving here the money amounting
| to $3.50 900, was all transferred to the lIuss;.r
which also took on board seventy American
prisoners, and set sail for New London.
The commander was determined to make u
passage through Hell Gate, but failed The
| vessel struck on Il rock, and the swift current
drifted her helplessly against Randalls lis
and, when she became manageable The
captain decided to beach her in u marshy cove
beloy Port Morris With the assistance of
some other vessel she was beachc6 ON high
tide and fastened by a hawser to some trees,
and as the tide receded the strain forced the
cables to part, and some of the trees were
pulled up, and the vessel, with sudden
lurch, went over the ledge and sunk in 100
feet of water and has never been heard of
since.
News Resignation.
The T1lJunc's Washington special says the
dead lock of the Treasury department does
not furnish any further difficulty in the
| treasurers office. The President ON Satur
day evening modified his acceptance of
Treasurer News resignation 50 that it shall
take effect upon the qualification of his sue
|
duties of the office SO far as TO permit the
transaction of business.
Have Come TO an Agreement
| The conference committee on the post.
office appropriation bill have arrived at an
agreement. The understood basis of agree.
ment includes concession on the part of the
Senate of the reduction of 10 per cent. on
rates paid railroad companies Tor transporta-
ton Of mails Under existing laws this re-
duction of compensation WILL it is said, cause
discontinuancc of fast mail trains. There
are $S, 1000 for railroad transportation
Third class matter is fixed at one cent per
ounce, except for private matter, not includ.
ing circulars, which is one cent for each two
ounces. POstmasters' salaries comprised on
Marshalrs bill as modified by the House com
mittee.
The Senate wi I not Try Belknap
| II seems certain the Senate will not try the
Belknap impeachment case, and probably a
| final adjournment will be had about July
18th.
| WAR Of Race and Religion.
LONDON, July 3.-The Pal 1MU Gazette to
day concludes a gloomy leader on war as
follows: 1t is to be a warOf race and relig-
ion. This is what they are trying to make Of
it in Russia. This conception of it, which