Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1876-04-28

/ been appointed journal clerk OF the House.
REsIGNED-wm. l.. IRIS, OF New York,
/ who for The past two years has been in
| charge Of the government telegraph Office
Of the L. g. Senate, has resigned.
AND NOW The Graphic is tying II pass of
that Ben Butler-Hallet KilbouTn portrait as
the likeness of DR.. LindeTmao, OF the L. =.
| mint. Too bal!
| PERsONAL.-D. h. Cartier, collector of tlp
| port of Genesee, at Rochester, y. Y, is
registered at the Ebbitt house. Mr.. Cartier
| is nephew OF Justice Cartier.
| GEN. HORACE BoUGHTON has resigned
| mis- position as clerk TO the Committee on
| Military Affairs. The inquiry into his pre-.
! official conduct was yesterday stopped by
| the committee, and laid on the table.
Mr.. CLAPP, the Congressional Printer,
has sent note TO the House Committee on
| Printing alleging that as an officer OF the
Senate that cOmmi ttee has no Jurisdiction
| over his acts, and intImating that hereafter
he may decline to recognize its authority.
The AMOUNT OF new national bank notes
Issued during the month of April was
S2s4 2l5. Eighty per cent. of the above
amount (S2T ,312) in greenbecks has been
| retired, reducing the outstanding legal ten
teIs 10 S3IU, 81 ,II6.
| THE Senate Committee on Commerce have
| decided TO hold evening sessions for the con-
| sideratiOn ofthe river and arbor appropria-
ton bin, in order to get through with it
before four of their members, who have been
| appointed on the Mississippi investigation
| committee, start southwark.
ANDYEr ANOTHER WORLDLY asst ro-
nOmical telegraph TO the Smithsonian In-
stitutiOn this morning, Prof. Perrotin, OF
Toulouse, announces the discovery of new
planet of the twelfth magnitude, in IL hours
10 minnfps night QgcaDsfOn- In dpuraaS
| minutes declination south; daily motion
minutes.
ALABAMA CLAIMS-The Treasury de-
partment has settled the twelve hundred
| and four claims adjudicated by the Court of
Alabama Claims, amounting to So 500, O90.
They Will be paid on Monday next. There
still remain about one thousand claims,
| amounting to 5000 600. Recent communi-
cations fron London indicate that the Brit
ish government will make point on the
use of the unexpended balance.
CoNFIRMArIoNs.-The Senate yesterday
Confirmed the following nominations: S. w.
MaTston, of Missouri, agent for the consoli-
| dated agencies in the Indian territory, the
nomination OF w. Z. Ross having been with
drawn0 Stephen MOffatt, collector OF Gus
| toms for the district OF Champlain, y. Y;
William Wells, collector of customs for the
district OF Vermont; John W. Groesbeck,
| postmaster at Harvard, Ill.
| THE CASE OF SENATOR SPENCER
| Briefs in the case of the Alabama legislature
| against Senator Spencer have been sub
| United TO the Senate Committee on Pfvi-
| leges and Elections which met 10 day. The
cor sideIatiOn of the arguments as presented
| nv counsel was postponed until the next
| meeting Gen. Morgan, counsel for the me-
| mOrlalists recites the testimony, and claims
| that sufficient evidence was adduc during
| the investigation 10 show that Spencer OBJ
| tanned his election by corrupt means. Mr.
| Spencer's counsel claim that the prosecution
utterly failed TO establish their charges of
| corruption.
THE CABINET MEETING to-day was an
| unusually long one, the question under con-
sideration being whether the heads of depart
| ments should submit original papers to the
| Congressional committees. 1t Will be re-
| membered that this question was referred
10 the Attorney General at the last
he has been giving the matter a
| good deal Of attention for several days.
The meeting adjourned at half-past two
| without deciding the question. AS the orders
| for papers were upon the Secretary OF the
| Treasury, wto was detained before a COM
mittee to day, the case was postponed until
| early next week, when special meeting
will be held TO decide 1t.
THE MISSISSIPPI INvEsrIG ATONE
animation ofez Governor AmeS.-Ex- Governor
Ames, of Mississippi, was before the COM
mittee TO inquire into election frauds in Mis-
| sssippi yesterday and to-day, and testified
| a 10 the e. istence OF a general system OF
/ l. limitation, fraud and violehce by which
| In all the republican counties the voters op-
posed TO the democracy were prevented from
| exercising their franchise. He showed that il
| bloody collision between the two races Cas
| he was not sustained by federal troops, to
secure TO the negroes their rights at the last
election; that there were riots, shootings,
threats, an organized system OF intimida,
\ ton; that the peace officers were in some
cases overawed and In other instances exiled
a hot fr1a IL
| any rights which the democrats felt bound
TO respect He showed that the pretext of
| robblng the state, so often made, by excess
| sive taxation was wholly ungrOunded, as
the rate of taxation in Mississippi is only
| 20 cents head, whereas In New York it is
| Sl6 head. His testimony will be continued
for some days as IL covers the whole field of
| investigation.
SECRETARY BRIsrow ISDIGNANT.-Judge
Bright, OF Tennessee, though not acting in
the capacity OF chairman of the committee
examining into Secretary Bristow's connec-
ton with the Mary Merritt case, has shown
disposition to dictate largely how the ex-
animation shall proceed. To day he ma lie
| one or two suggestions TO witnesses which
| were calculated TO bear against the interest
| OF the accused. When the committee adj
journed Bright went over 10 where Secretary
BTiStOw was sitting, at the other end OF the
committee table. and extended his hand to
the Secretary. The latter replied, mo, sir;
l cannot shake hands with you" The re-
! fusal threw the TenneSseean into an excited
state, and he protested that he should do his
| duty, and that If Secretary BristOw was
found guilty he would join in a report to
that effect, but that If he was innocent he
should likewise unite with his colleagues in
! so stating. Mr.. Bristow intimated rather
strongly that Bright had even gone outside
| OF the committee room TO get at evidence In
the Mary Merritt case, prejudicial to him.
The upshOt OF the whole matter was Bright
went into long explanation, and the acer-
bities between the two finally quieted 10 a
feeling of good nature. This Is the first in
stance where any one accused has had the
nerve to know his rights before a Hon Sc
committee, and knowing them dare MAIN
tain Them.