The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1876-08-10
General News Summary.
FROM WASHINGTON.

UNITED STATES SENATOR ALLAN T. Ca.
PERroN, OF West Virginia, died in Washing
ton on the Goth, of angina pectoris, brought
on by hot weather. He was sixty-six years
OF age. His term in the Senate would have
expired in 1881.
The position of Commissioner of Internal
Revenue having been formally declined by
Congressman MacDoug,n, of New York, was
on the Goth, offered to Gen. Green B. Raum,
of1llinois, and accepted by him.
THE majority report of the House Com
mittee on Naval affairs is very lengthy
document, and concludes with statement
that, upon full review of the facts ascer-
tanned by the committee in he administra-
ton OF the naval service during the last
seven years, the law has been disregarded
and violated in the letting of contracts; in
the purchase of supplies; in the destruction
and sale OF property belonging to the naval
service; in the failure to cover into the
treasury the proceeds of the sales of property;
in the expenditure and disbursement of the
appropriations made for the support of the
navy; in the application of the sums appro-
priated for that branch of the public service;
in exceeding the appropriations made by
Congress for given fiscal years, ETC., etc. The
majority submit a resolution to the House
that the legal questions and proof be re-
ferred to the Judiciary Committee, who shall
examine and report whether the violations
of law referred to in the report be impeacha
BILE offenses, under the Constitu ion, and, if
so, then they shall report articles of i'm
parchment against George NJ. Robson,
Secretary of the Navy. The minority
report alleges that the majority report is un-
fair in its statements, fallacious in it's con-
clusion, and is evidently promoted by par
tlsan spirit, ignoring entirely testimony
favorable to the Navy Department, and pre-
sentins other portions in such ways as to in
fict gross injustice upon the Secretary and
other officers
ORDERS were issued from Washington on
the Goth for two battalions of artillery, of
four companies each, from the First and
Second Regiments, to be sent from the Di-
vision OF the Atlantic to the Department of
the Missouri, to report to Gen: Pope.
WASHINGTON dispatch of the 9th says
the Secretary of the Treasury had stopped
the coinage of trade dollars at Philadelphia
and Carson City, and ordered the San Fran
cisco Mint to coin only sufficient to meet the
actual export demand The MINIS will be
run to the full capacity on subsidiary coin
and the necessary gold coinage.
OFFICIAL returns made to the Bureau of
Statistics show that during the fiscal year
ended June 80, 1876, there arrived in the
United States 22,572 Chinese immigrants, of
whom only 259 were females. During the
corresponding period of 1875, the total i'm
migration to the United States from China
was 49, 3s, of whom eighty-two were fe-
males.
CAUCUS of the Democratic members of
the House of Representatives in Washing
ton was held on the evening of the Goth, at
which the question of repeating the date of
the resumption of specie payments was de-
bated and voted on, with the result of about
fifty for to twenty-five against repeal. This
did not afford a test of what the result
might be in the House, as not one half of
the Democratic members were present at the
caucus.
A WASHINGTON telegram of the 29th ult.
says Geo. H. Cowell, Chief Clerk of the
Postoffice Department, and personal friend
OF MIR. Jewell, had been requested to resign.
and had done SO, the resignation to take ef
feet on the 31st.
WASHINGTON special of the Goth ult,
states that the President said he had it in
his power to completely clear himself from
the charges made by ex-Solicitor Wilson,
ana that he would certainly do so.