Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1876-08-05
LATEST EASTERN NEWS.
The Appropriation Bill.

WASHINGTON, July 3l-Thc President will
send special message to the House today in
regard to the sundry civil appropriation bill,
which he says he reluctantly signs. lie calls
the attention of the House to some of the
main features of the bill which IRE injurious
to the public service in several important par
ticulars. The appropriations made in the
bill are inadequate in that they don't appro-
pirate according to the existing laws and f ill
to provide for some branches Of the service
at all. The bill is inadequate in that it seri-
| ously cripples several branches of the service,
notably the signal service corps. Attention
is called to the fact no appropriation is made
for the District of Columbia, which is great
injustice to its citizens, who have no govern
ment of their own, but are dependent on
Congress. Comment is made as to the action
of Congress in failing to provide for the
judgments against the government allowed
by the supreme court and court of claims,
amounting to about 50 coo, 600 Special at
| tention is directed TO the omission in the bill
and the President dwells upon the fact, that
the tribunals which allowed the claims were
established by Congress, one of them for the
special purpose, and that the claimants, after
having been to great expense to get judy
ments, are now met with the refusal of Con
gress to pay them.
Political
The Tribunc's special says the letter of &C
ceptancc will be harm onous, Hendricks hav
ing been reported as having undergone a
change of heart on the currency question.
charlie Ross Again.
PHILADELPHIA, July 3l.-Thc mulato man
George, who recently asserted that Charley
Ross was alive and well, that he could find
him, has suddenly disappeared, it is supposed
in consequence of Charles father telling him
he could have him hung. which apparently
alarmed him. Ross believes George has seen
Charley since his abduction. He did not
seem anxious to get money now Said would
cost about forty dollars to go to where tic
child is
Another Abdlcation.
VIENNA, July 31.-The Sultan Murad has
signed his abdication.
Suicide OF Bishop.
New YORK, July 31.-The London Times
| says Archbishop Butcher, of Mcarth. Ireland.
committed suicide while deliriuus and suffer
ing from congestion of the lungs and bron-
chitis On his table was slip of paper
bearing the single word mad
Belknap Acquitted.
WASHINGTON, Aug. 1.-Belkuap has been
acquitted, the vote standing IS for convic>
ton and % not guilty-lcss than the re
quircG tw0-thirds.
Gen. Potter and the ssSylph.o
Gen. Porter left fer Washington this morn
| ing TO offer his testimony in correction of the
statement made BlufUrd Wilson in regard to
the "Sylph" dispatch and Gen. Babcock.
Porter, whose truthfulness is uhfluestioned
here, denies that he ever said ''Sylph" was
the cognomcn given some lewd women with
whom the President was compromised. He
denies that he knew or heard of such a case,
though he did hear of some female who was
persistent in her efforts of business of her
own, without any pretext of rejecting on the
President, and who was switched off by Nc
Donald ut Babcock's suggestion. Wilson
| himself wcakcns on this lewd woman story
and the discreditable differences it was de-
signed to suggest.
WASHINGTON, Aug. 1.-The ways and
means committee today authorized the chair
man to report a concurrent solution for the
! adjournment of Congress at noon on Monday
| next.
Tornado.
ST. LOUIS, Aug. Ia tornado passed