Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1876-01-11
EVENING STAR.
Washington News and Gossip.

THE PRESIDENTS EVENING RECEPTIONS
will be held ON the second and fourth T1ss-
days in January and tie fourth Tuesday In
February, from to 10 p. IA.
GovERNMFNF RECEIPTS To-DAY.-Inter-
nal revenue, ~isl.lC2 A.; customs, -3Ii ,93}.75.
How still il seems without Bu'ler!-
ISiTiFaf." Jtl1dfc1n.
TIE EOUsE COMMITTEE on the District OF
Columbia have elected as clerk, william r.
Nhit.c-, OF Missouri.
TI!E AMOUNT OF national bank notes re-
ceiyed az the Treasury today FOX redemption
aggTCg gated S5e2,.G0
FISH is the wealtbieFt man in the Cabinet,
bat The Postmaster General controls the
most stamps Boston Posi.
AMONG TIE CALLERS al the White House
to-day were Senators BOgy, Hitchcock and
Cockrell, and Representatives Wells and
Phillips.
W. W. MCINTYRE has been promoted from
assistant clerk to clerk in the Baltimore AMI
Grafton railway post office. Pay increased
from $1,000 to ST. 200 per annum.
THE EULoGIEs delivered to-day in the
Senate, on the character OF Andrew Johnson.
were listened to with great attention. Those
of Mr.. Morton and Mr.. McCreery were I'M
E-ELECTED.-The House Committee on
: appropriations to-day unanimously re-
elected as clerk Col. Robert j. Stevens. Mr..
Stevens has served six years with the COM
mittee, and is one OF the indispensable fix
lures Of tue House.
CONTESTED ELECTIoNs,-The House Com
mittee ON Elections this morning took up
the Standardization case of Abbott VS..
Frost, Of the Boston Mass district The
testimony in the case was ordered to be
printed.
PERsoSAL.-D.J. McCann has not been
appointed clerk OF the Senate Committee on
Education and Labor, as has been stated.
- e atOr Logan was in his seat to dav.
'''DuEe Gwinn, ex-United States Senator
from taillOTnla, was on the floor OF the
House to-day, and sat in the seat occupied in
the last Congress by Representative Ste
phens, OF Georgia.
FIRST LIEUT.. JAMES II. SPENCER, 4:h IL
fantTy, will report 10 the superintendent
general recruiting service, New York city.
to accompany q detachment ofreCruits under
orders to Angel Island, California, for assign
ment To the eth infantry, in tie military di
vision of the Pacific. On the completion of
this duty he Will proceed to join his com
pany.
HOUSE SELECT COMMITTEEs.-In the
House yesterday Speaker Kerr appointed
the following select committees:
On TIE Te54s Frontier Troubles. Messrs.
ScnleicEer of Texas, C. $. Williams Of Mich
igaD, Lamar OF Mississippi, Banks of M4ssa-
chHsetts, and Hurlbat OF Illinois.
on The Free,iItel's Bank FuillTc.-Messrs.
Douglas of Virginia, Bradford of Alabama,
SteDGer OF Pennsylvania, Riddle OF Tonnes
see, Hooker Of Mississippi, Bliss of New
York, Far1eli of Illinois, Frost OF Massa-
ehusetis, and Rainey of South Carolina.
NAVAL AFFAIRs.-The House Commit
tee on Naval Affairs heard Representative
Starkweather, Of Connecticut, this morn
ing, in opposition 10 the proposed abolition
OF the New London (COnn.l navy ward, The
committee took no action, but will, at an
carry Jay, take up the recommendation Of
tGe special inspection commission, which
visited all the naval stations on the Atlantic
coast, and united in report recommending
the sale OF several yards, the Washington
yard being Of The number.
NAVAL ORDERs.-Master Nelson T. Hous-
ton and Ensign Martin f. Hall ordered 10
examination for promotion; Gunner John r
Granger 10 navy yard New York; Gunner
K II. Cross to naval magazine Fort Mifiiin:
Lieut.. Commander A. :. Baker detached
iIom the Naval Academy On the ID of Feb
rE@ry next and ordered % command the Pa
los, Asiatic station, per steamer of lst March
from san Francisco; Lieut.. Commander w
X. Bridgman from command Of the PalOs on
The rerOrting OF his relief, and ordered 10 re-
turn home and report arrival; Gunner VIM
f. Weber from the navy yard New York
and placed on waiting orders; Gunner Geo
Il. CUshman from the naval magazine Fort
Mifiln and ordered TO hold himself in readi-
ness for sea service.
REPRESENTATIVE HILLS SPEECH To-
DAY.-At one O'Clock to-day representative
Ben Hill, Of Georgia, took the floor TO adj
dress the House on the amnesty bill. The
galleries were crowded to the utmost. MIR
Hil speaks with elaboration. has pleasing
Il a tina lie l.
OF effective oratory. His speech was no. az
apology for the AnGsrsonYille atrocities nor
an eulo2y on Jet Davis, other than that he
defended him from the charge that ne was
gUlltyOf the acts committed in southern priS-
ons. He admitted that JEFF Davis did com
mission the officers who may hare perpe-
uated them, but, for this reason, he was no
more responsible for their acts than was
President Grant for General Babcock's, or
Joyce and McDOnald's acts. He, at all
events, acquitted President Grant of any
such tmpUtatiOn, and thought Mr.. Blaine
should be as gracious with the eX cOnfeder-
ate President.
PASSAGE OF THE NAVAL Monument
BILL.-In the Senate, today, the bill pro
yidlng for the completion and location OF the
naval monument was reported favorabIy
rom lne NaVal Committe and passed. II
approprlaleS 5000 to be expended under
the direction of the Secretary of the NAVY
| Tor the purpose OF completing the statue OF
"Peace, platform, steps and Circular basin
OF the naval monument Contracted for nv,
the officers of the navy with Franklin SIM
mons, and placing the same on some appro-
pirate part OF the public ground in Washing
Ton: ETOriIed, That the Secretary of the
Navy, the chairman of the Committee on
Public Buildings and Grounds Of the Senate
the che irman ON the Public Buildings and
Grounds of the House OF RepreSentatives, and
Frederic Law OlmSted are appointed com.
mittee to select and designate such place
upon the public grounds for the erection OF
the said monument as in their Judgment
shall be most appropriate
REPUBLICAN SENATORIAL CAUCUS The
republican Senators held a caucus this morn
ing TO consider Mr.. Morton's bill to provide
for and regulate the counting or votes for
President and Vice President. This bill is
intended TO do away with the 22i Joint rule
which provides that the two Houses shall
assemble in the hall of the House OF Repre-
SentauVes at O'Clock p. IN. on the second
wednesday in Februa y next succeeding the
meeting OF the electors of President and Vice
President of the United States. and the pres
ident OF the Senate shall be their presiding
officer; one teller shall be appoi nted on the
part of the Senate and two on the part of the
House OF Representatives, 10 whom shall be
handed, as they are opened by the president
OF the Senate, the certificates OF the electoral
votes; and said tellers, having read the same
IN the presence and heariug of the two Houses