Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1876-01-19
EVENING STAR.
Washington News and Gossip.

Washington News and Gossip.
GOVERNMENT Receipts To-DAY.-Inter-
nal revenue, s231,74 customs, - g los.
THE AMOUNT of national bank notes re-
ceived at the Treasury to- day for redemption
aggregated S62s eco.
SECRETARY BELKNAP returned to the city
this morning, and was at the War depart
ment &c day.
NOMINATIONS. The President sent the
following nomination TO the Senate to-day:
VIM. d. Boyd, to be postmaster at Houlto1,
Maine.
PERsoNAL-Gen. o.. f. Babcock will not
leave for st. Louis until the latter part OF
the month. ...-Senatcr Dorsey, of Arkan-
SIS, has removed TO House No. IA Lafayette
;quare, which he hs ! leased for three years.
TIE CENTENNIAL BILL was called up in
Committee @ the Whole of the House at
o'clock to-day. 1t is not probable a vote
will be reached before tomorrow afternoon,
as more than twenty members are down for
spc Genes.
Mr.. MoRToN's SPEECH.-At o'clock this
afternoon, in the Senate, Mr.. Davis resolu-
tion in regard to Treasury accounts was laid
aside informally, and Mr.. Morton began the
reading OF long spc ech on the fraudulent
THE FEES realized in the naval Office at
Baltimore for the year 1875 were ss,OH21; c.
s. English, collector at Georgetown, 81, 2I9.16;
John f. Taylor, collector at Annapolis,
s3l9.35; David Miner, collector al Alexan-
dria, Sjl0.O3.
THE NOMINATION of Col. Geo. 8. Bangs,
superintendent of the railway mail service,
TO be assistant treasurer of the United States
at Chicago, vice VIM. +. Nichols, appointed
during the recess OF Congress, and whose
name was not sent TO the Senate, was con-
frmed by the Senate yesterday.
RULING HIM OUT.-In the Louisiana SEN
ate yesterday resolution was offered de-
claring vacant the seat of any senator who
absents himself for ten days without leave
This is aimS at Senator Eustis, who is in
this city To claim seat in the United
States Senate.
THE PAY OF Cong RkSSMEN-Thc bin in
the House by Mr.. Baker, OF Indiana, provid-
Jag lor the compensation of members OF Con-
gress, fixes the salaries of Senators, reprasen-
TT YES ard delegates. including those OF the
4sIn Congress, at S36C0 per aDuum, payable
monthly, with no allowance for stationery,
mileage or other purpose.
Ex-SESAToR WADE made q long argu-
ment before the Senate Committee on Pub
lie Lands yesterday, in support OF Senate
bill 217, which repeats so much of the sun
dry civil appropriation bill, approved July
=, 1870, as requires the payment, by the
Northern Pacinc Railroad company, OF the
cost of surveying and conveying the lands
granted said company.
LITTLE Sammy Sunset Cox boosted, after
making his funny little reply TO Blaine's
powerful arraignment of Jef' Davis for his
atrocities on Union prisoners that she had
Blaine got after the facetious little shortly,
and birched him until he cried out, "Weil,
below away; you a~e hyena."- Caicdg0
Tribune.
SPECIMEN WooD1.-Mr. Saunders, of the
= gricultuTal department, who is at the head
OF the committee on economic woods and
trees for the Centennial exposition, has in
process OF preparation at thenepartment and
elsewhere, over 400 different kinds of wood
the specimens arranged TO show the chars =
ter OF the log in sections two feet in length,
having one or two sides finished In different
styles, while one side shows the natural or
rough bark 1t is most Interesting museum
10 visit, even in Its present imperfect condi-
lion.
THE INTEREST ON THE DISTRICT 3-65
BoNDs.-A majority of the members OF the
House District Committee this morning ex-
p essed themselves to the effect that they
would lot at this time recommend an a ~
preparation TO meet the February Interest
on the 3 65 District OF Columbia bonds. The
committee further expressed its opinion that
sioners from the revenues OF the District.
The chairman, Mr.. Buckner, was directed to
present these views OF the committee to the
Appropriation Committee. This he will do
tomorrow.
CHARGE AGAINST AN INDIAN AGENT
Mr.. Ingalls,, who is employed with the Semi
mole tribe of Indians, appeared before the
House Committee on Indian Affairs this
morning, and under oath testified that Gen.
j. Il. e. ShaDks, special United States
Indian agent, had stirred up strife and dis
sensions among the tribes he visited for the
ties in Washington as an attorney to settle
the troubles which he (Shanks) inaugurated.
The committee decided TO Investigate the
matter, and has summoned Shanks TO APP
pear.
ANOTHERDIvE INTO THE "REAL ESTATE
PoOL."-A resolution has been prepared, and
will be introduced In the House of Repre-
sentatives at the first opportunity, providing
for select committee, with full authority
10 inquire into the nature history and char
acteT OF the celebrated Real Estate Pool,'
ard this Notwithstanding the recent Settle
ment OF the suit brought in the Supreme
CO urt OF the District by +. NJ. Lewis, trustee
OF Jay Cooke Il Co against IL. KilbOurn,
trustee, and others. II is claimed that Con-
greSs has jurisdiction in the premises be-
cause the government OF the United States
Is creditor OF the estate of Jay Cooke & Co.,
thJSng Iocb an "a assignment Of Jay CooEe.
of the Navy, as collateral security for a debt
of million dollars or more, growing ont of
the deposits by the Secretary OF the Navy
with Jay Cooke & Co.
CUTTING DOWN THE DIPLOMATIC Ex-
PENsEs.-The House Committee on Appro-
priations at its meeting last night finished
lis labors on the consular and diplomatic
appropriation bill. The bill as agreed upon
reduces the estimates made by the State de-
parIment 100000. The salaries of the min
listers at the four leadingj missions-Ger-
many, France. Great Britain and Russia
are reduced from 81 800 TO $4,000. All of
the twelve thousand dollar missions have
been reduced 10 nine; the ten thousand TO
eight: the seven thousand Il We hundred TO six
thousand five hundred. The mission to
Greece has been abolished and q consul des-
ignated to perform the duties at a salary
of $1,000. The South American missions
have Iheen reduced To two I'm numhars &c