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WAsHISGToN, April AIN the Senst
the Chair announced Boutwell, of Massachu
sets, Cameron Of Wisconsin, Oglesby o.
Illinois, Bayard of Delaware and McDonalC
OF Indiana a. the committee to Investigate
the recent election in Mississippi. s--."l
Stevenson introduced bill concerniu.
corporations engaged in the business of dis
tlllug Referred To Committee on Finance
The Committee on Appropriations hav,
agreed To recommend the appropriation o
500, 900 for light and fuel and $50, 900 To-
wlt,css ices III the regular deficiency bill
which they expect to pass this week. The
will not report these items in a special bill
SO there Is no immediate relief for govern
ment officers. - ~.
The Committee or Privileges and. Elec
tions did nothing. s. On,
In the House the bill extending the time
in which indictments may be found to thre,
years passed. This is intended to reacl
che safe-burglary conspirators. s-1 als'Hl
message was received from the Senate
stating that 1t was ready to receive the I'M.
parchment managers. H % 30 - i,i 'l.''
WAsHINGToN, April At is said the de
tails Tor the transfer of the accounts of the
navy from the Earrings to Cews & Co. were
arranged at a midnight meeting by Hunt.
ington, then cashier OF the FIRST National
|
Bayard and Mcdonald will represent the
Democrats on the Mississippi election com
mittee. ..f IEa
Major Merrill, while serving in South
Carolina, received $21, 400 in rewards, un
der Governor SCOTS proclamation, for fer
retlng out and convicting ku- klux. .lr-
Gen. Custer charges Major Merrill with
taking bride from an accused before a
courlmartial in Texas, of which he was
judge advocate. This Merrill denied before
the committee. s. a-t 1es 1855 r.se .
Merrill is now on duty at the centennial.
WASHINGTON, April 4.-The Senate, in
executive session, rejected Dana as Minister
to England. ~ :, . 10 = !, 80. -, +
| WASHINGTON, April e4.-T'he Military
Committee OF the House agreed to report
the fOrtiication bill as passed by the
House, without amendment. "a nell 'H ~.
The Postmaster General and ATTORNEY
General are absent from the Cabinet os1lq @
| Nominations Charles Payson,s OF Massa-
chusetts, chief of the diplomatic bureau of
| the department. of State; Charles Nc
Mullan, of New York, Consul General at
Rome. u st.. yf,.uW sal ID foa OF .
Tire total coinage for the month is
So, 500, 900. The Virginia Consolidated
Mining Company produced s., 900, 009, In
March the Treasury Department received
5000, 900 in. dimes and 500, 600 in quarters!
| The Treasury circular issued Saturday
was general. 1t orders the superintendent
of all public buildings to stop the fuel,
| light and watetex penses, and toJdischarge
all persons paid from the appropriation for
| these purposes ON receipt of the circular.
The matter was discussed in the Cabinet
to-day, but no remedy found: The circu-
lar does not apply to postofi ,es kept else
where than in the public, buildings. '.s 90,
| Gen. Custer was recalled byath War
Department Committee. He did not give
tany information of Iooseness, in post tradeF-
>hips, because an army order dated March,
| 1873, forbade it. Such things must go
! through their regular channels. and would
have been pigeen-holed in the Secretary of
+ Wars office. Gen. Hazen tried it. and was
sent to Fort Buford, where there is no
civilization but what an officer takes
with him. , .c..s =. tdtl1 = ..,ooJ-aos1 bso-
The people Of Kansas are against mixed
schools, which the last Legislature legal
ized. The law is disregarded at Leaven-
worth. ...5. -e t.5t .03e ys1a, dnT }--s,Er g.
h WASHINGTON, April 4.-The House Conn
E'mittee on Military Affairs was directed to
| make inquiry and report officers travelling in
foreign countries.
Tie impeachment managers ssked to re-
tire to present to the Senate in. due form
Impeachment articles Granted. 20 a1ili l5s
Correspondence regarding Consul Gem
eral Seward, now Minister 10 China, was
referred TO the Committee on Expenses of
State Department. %, 'a -. :, 81 ~
Schleicber, chairman of the Committee
on Texas Frontier Troubles, reported a bill
which provides for the protection ofsithe
frontier on the lower Rio Grande. II authl.
orizes and requires the President to station
and keep on the Rio Grande river from its
mouth to the. northern boundary OF the
Safe of Tamaulipas, above Laredo, two
regiments of cavalry in addition to- the in
fantry for garrison duty, and to keep each.
troop up to the full strength Iofaone, hun
bred prvates. 1t also authorizes the Pres
ideut, in view of the Inability
of the Mexican government To- prevent
the threads of lawless parties from Mexico
into Texas, to order the troops to cross the
Rio Grande, and use such measures as may
besfound necessary to recover the. stolen
property and to check the raids, guarding
however, against unnecessary injury to-
peaceable inhabitants of Mexleo.s Tine bill
was made the special order for April 20, I
and from day to day till disposed of. qsass j.
The bill regarding the employment Of a
special COUNSEL; requiring that the Judge
certify to the necessity. and fix the fee
passed. - 'Ai' -. 'l7' - q @'''''i-A' =
at thesaieht session of the Senate, Sker-
man repefted the House bill, without :amGns-
ment, authorizing the Secretary of the
Treasury 10 pay the Alabama claims and
Judgments, which was laid over
The impeachment managers were pre-
scented to the chairman, and the usual pro-
ceedings occurred. r,o,, i5l,,',,i srl = s7,-s
The executive session then adjoarned =
WASHINGTON, April Probabilities
For the Western Gulf States, falling lbal
rometer, south wind, partly cloudy weather
or stationary temperature, and possibly fol-
lowed by cooler north winds and rising ba-a
rometer for Western Texas. - - ;. i.