Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1876-03-16
EVENING STAR.
Washington News and Gossip.

- OAN 4AN ~ MI 1l1Os
Washington News and Gossip.
GOVERNMENT RECEIPrs-Iniernal reve-
nue. to day, s2ss, 1883; customs, s551 ,21s 50.
TIE sepa'e to-day agreed that when 1t
adjourns 1t would be until Monday next.
AMONG those wi O had interviews with the
President to-day were the Secretaries of War
and the Treasury, the Attorney General, and
Senators Logan and Spencer.
REPRESENTATIVES, EUGENE HALE, OF
Maine, who has been In New Hampshire
stamping the state for the republicans, re-
tuaned to Washin gton on the afternoon lin
tied express train.
NoMINATIoNs-The President sent the
following nominations to the Senate to-day:
Emory p. Beauchamp, to be consul at Co
lo2ne; Jonathan q. Wait, to be postmaster
at StuTgis, Michigan.
THE Senate Committee on Patents to-day
heard several representatives of the United
states Stove Making Association against
Senate bin 3G5, amending certain sections OF
the Revised Statutes affecting patents and
copyrights.
THE WHISKY FRAUDS INvEsTIG ALTON.
The select committee on the investigation of
the st. Louis whisky frauds has summoned
District Attorney Dyer and Col. Broadhead
as witnesses. The investigation will begin
when these witne -es arrive here.
GONE TO MEET WHITTHoRNE's COMMIT
TEEMEN-Naval Constructor Philip HIGH
born, L. s. N, now stationed al League
Island, left last night for the Kittery navy
yard, under subpoena from Congress. Mr..
Hirhborn was six years at the Kittery yard.
i PiiiId. Times, 18th.
AN ATHLETIC AND EFFICIENT VOTER
The following telegram was forwarded from
the Capitol to-day 10 the rotund and u5iqui-
tons James /. Christy, assistant sergeaut-at-
arms of the Senate, at Dover, New Hamp-
shire, where he went 10 vote a few days
since. The telegram would seem to- indicate
that he did his duty nobly by voting early
have majority enough: II IL goes any higher
the democrats will kill Ben. Hill and thereby
eEdanger Connecticut"
MRS. TAFT is a most cultivated lady,
highly accomplished, with a decided predl-
lection for bellies leitreS. She is remar kable
for her exemplary piety and her active be-
nevolence. She is constantly engaged I'm
works of charity, and her removal to Wash
tngtOn viii be serious loss TO the poor OF
Cincinnati, in whose cause she has unceas-
iEgly labOTed. Although wealthy, Judge
and Mrs Taft have always preferred sim
pie style of living, and have never cared
much to enter into gay society. They have
three sons, one of whom is married and has
children.
AN INVESTIGATION ALMOST ABANDON
ED-The House Committee on Public Bald
ings and Grounds has nearly abandoned its
investigation into the Chicago custom house
matter and the Mueller stone Ouarries. Tue
members of the committee express the al
most unanimous opinion that the sale of the
farm in Cincinnati by the father OF A. B.
Mullet, late supervising architect, to Muel-
Ter, the stone contractor, was an hOness
Transaction. The testimony of the Cincin-
natl Congressman, and of real estate dealers
OF that city, Is that the Mueller farm was
sold for about lis real Value Wash. On. ~.
j. Tribune.
A DEPUTY L. s. MARSHAL SHOT DEAD.
Major Jacob Wagner, in charge OF the
mounted revenue service in South Carolina,
advises the Commissioner of Internal Reve.
nue. that last week Alfred Duckvorth, depu-
" United States marshal, went alone to
arrest an Illicit distiller named Redmond,
operating near the confines OF Greenville
county. :. c., and Henderson county, N. C.,
and while serving his warrant the officer
allowed himself to be thrown off his guard,
when Redmond shot him with a revolver,
killing him almost instantly. No attempt
has yet been made TO arrest the murderer
who Is still at large.
THE BLACK HILLS-The Senate Com
mittee on Indian Affairs yesterday consid-
cred Mr.. Allisons bill providing for an
agreement with the Sioux Nation in regard
10 portion OF their reservation BLACK
Hills), and for other purposes and amended
10 in several particulars. The bill author
ICES the President to appoint commission
consisting OF five persons, one of whom
shall be an Ofncer OF the army not OF lower
rank than brigadier general, one OF whom
shall speak the Sioux language, and one of
whom shall be learned in the law, whose
duty IL shall be TO visit the various tribes OF
the Sioux, and state 10 them the changed
cond' uol OF affairs with reference to their
reservation since the ratification OF the
~ rft1zr Nf+ IA,
covery of gold in the Black Hills, and the
desire OF the United States to give them n
proper equivalent for the use and occupation
OF the bills by the whites, and the willing
ness Of the United States TO make an agree
ment with them which will provide for their
subsistence and support by appropriations
ten years. The treaty of the commission
must be submitted to Congress for ratifica-
tion before IL becomes valid.
Is THIS FREE COUNTRY ?-EIisOr Of The
Star: The undoubtci questionable course
pursued by the House of Representatives, In
ordering the Imprisonment in the common
jail of the alleged contumaciOus witness Kill
b0urn, IS exciting apprenesSions OF the most
seriOUs nature. A great principle is involved
in this case which brings il directly home to
every man and woman in the land, and buSi-
ness and professional men especially are
asking themselves whether their books and
papers and all else pertaining To their strictly
Tlyate affairs can be invaded and made to
10 Oh All, upon
the mere will and caprice OF even
so august a body as the Congress of
the United States, without specific charges
are made OF palpable violation of
law? Can mere suspicion of having
committed some wrong deprive the citizen
of that which every freeman values next to
life itself-his liberty? OIdOcs ''nig ht make
right" and are we as q nation to be humil-
lated In the eyes OF the whole world on this,
our Centennial year OF exisiencf, by tramr-
ling under foot not only the spirit, but the
very words OF our glorious declaration of Ia
dependence and the almost II spired Consti
tuition of the United States Itself?
Representatives OF the people, ponder this
well! These words are not "gush," but the
honest heart throbbings OF a people who are
willing to make allowances and to forgive
errors committed, but who will hold To q
rigid accountability every man who falls to
undo wrong when ii is made manifest.
JUSTICE.
Washington, ID. c., March 10.
THE INVESTIGATIONS INTO MR.. CLYMER'5
lNyEsTIGATIoS Through
the somewhat indistinct enunciation OF the
witness, Col. b. F. Grafton, in his testimony