Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1877-08-06

vi tue C6pitOl, nave Deen uled al re Interior
department.
THE U. s. STEAMER MAYFLowER, with
the cadet engineers on board, left New York
harbor Saturday for Cold Springs.
Mr.. w. III. RODGERS, the Presidents pri-
vate secretary, has gone to Gettysburg. He
will return on Wednesday
AT THE WHITE HoUsE.-Among the call
ers at the White House 10 day were Gov.
Walker, NJ. C.. of Virginia, and Gov. DENIM
son, District Commissioner.
PHILADELPHIA is, by an order issued
from the Treasury, designated as the port
from which imported goods can be shipped
in bond 10 the dominion of Canada.
Mr.. ADOLF CLUss denies that he has made
any charges against Architect Clarke OF the
Capitol, and the statement that he did so is
an impudsnt lie in all its details; that he has
not spoken TO Secretary Schurz for months
and never on the subject of Mr.. Clarke's re-
moval, or about the Capitol grounds or the
building.
PERsONAL.-Gen. %. Z. Babcock Is In the
city. go. Marshal Douglass has returned TO
his home in North Carolina. 80. I. b.
Sanders, Assistant Chief of the Customs
Division of the Treasury, has returned to
Washington from a brief visit to New Eng
land, bringing back with him one of the
fairest of the Old Bay States fair daughters,
TO be henceforth known as Mrs. Sanders.
REsIG NATIoN.-Judge b. F. James, for
many years a principal examiner in the
Patent office, has resigned. 1t is understood
that his resignation was enforced on account
OF charges affecting his moral character.
The friends of Judge James assert that he
will be able to prove the utter falsity of the
accusations against him, to the satisfaction
of the Commissioner of Patents and the Sec
rotary OF the Interior.
Tur
SERyICE.-Gen. Badeau, consul general TO
London, upon being relieved from the Office
of consul there, will begin to draw the pay
OF a full captain in the army. This is under
a decision OF the Attorney General, which
declares that retired army officers do not for
felt their right to receive their retired pay by
entering The diplomatic service, and that
upon retiring from the latter service, they
a gain draw pay as military officers. The
precedent was set in the case OF Gen. Sickles.
No ACTION has yet been taken by the War
depaltm towards returning the federal
| troops recently ordered to different points in
Pennsylvania, Illinois, Missouri, MARYLAND
and elsewhere TO the posts occupied by them
before the labor troubles commenced, aud IL
| is not probable that the troops will be re-
moved from these localities for some time TO
| come, the government being able TO provide
1 for the army at one point just as well as at
another, and there being ample facilities for
the maintenance OF the troops in the states
anOy e mentioned.
GEN SHERMAN ON THE BIGHoRN CoUN-
TRY-The Secretary of War has received a
| letter from Gen. Sherman, dated on the
l steamer Rosebud, Big Horn river, July IS,
| giving an account OF his visit TO the new
| military post in the forks OF the Big and Lit
| tie Horn, and conveying his Impressions of
4 the country. The most important point In
| his letter is his statement that 'the country
1 west of this is good country, and will rap
idly MI up with emigrants, who will in the
next ten years build up q community as
strong and as capable OF self-dsfense as Col
l or1do."
| THE GREED OF THE RAILROADS.&C. pe-
cial dispatch to the Cincinnati Gazette
from this city says: "There is considel-
| able comment in administration circles
| upon the fact that the railroads which
| were substantially prevented from de-
/ struction by tine Intervention of the fed
| eral government are making such haste
| TO present bills TO the government for the
| transportation OF troops. One old officer, to
I whose efforts, by the confession of railroad
| that the action is Characteristic Of the man
| ayers OF the corporation whose property he
says, been grinding their employees for
years, and now they seek to grind the gov
eminent for having protected their prop
| erty."
THE LABOR QUESTION IN THE MESSAGE
| good portion OF the Presidents message,
| upon the reassembling OF Congress, will be
| Cevoted 10 a consideration of the labor ques-
| on. 1t is known that at the numerous Cabi-
Dtt meetings held within the past two weeks
| this subject has in several Instances been
| discussed 10 the exclusion OF all other mat
ters. Several members of the Cabinet are
known TO be in favor OF the passage of a law
providing for the organization OF a commits
sion, which shall have q due regard for the
/ interest OF all cOncerned-prOducers, mer-
| chants. railroad employees and capitalists
| so that on any question fair compromise
| n ay be effected. A member OF the Cabinet,
| III a recent conversation, spoke OF this plan
| and argued that Congress has the right to
Iass such law under the clause of the con-
| stltution authorizing that body to regulate
commerce with foreign nations, aud among
4 the several states and with the Indian tribes.
| He further argued that the theory upon
when our government is founded Is one Of
| compromise. He thought Congress In It's
| wisdom would devise q proper manner for
The appointment of this Commission, so that
\ II should lot be open TO undue influences, but
De composed OF persons representing all IN
/ teTests.
4 THE GRIEVANCES OF w. B. MOORE
1 VIM. b. Moore, who was at one time the SUI
Iervising special agent OF the Treasury de-
/ partment, undertakes In q column aud q
| half article in a morning paper to show that
| his removal from Office pending an investi-
iecior of the port Of Norfolk, who is a de-
\ faUlter TO the government, is calculated to
impair the efficiency Of the public service
nat he OF Ss re S
accounts, and but for him the matter would
| not have been brought to light. Ohicers OF
| the Treasury department deny that Moore
| was the person who made the discovery Of
| Lees default. 1t appears that Lee, in max
| ing his accounts 10 the Treasury depart
| ment. charged himself with the amount OF
his deficit as cash remaining on hand and
| unpaid, aud IL was only after his death that
| his shortcomings were discovered by the ex-
! aiming officers OF the Treasury department.
| II is alleged that Moore Is q chronic grum-
| bier, with a desire to make charges against
| public officers without giving due weight to
| TIRE truth. Ii IL said that he wrote several
| letters 10 President Grant recommending
| The dismissal of Ii prominent officials In the
Treasury, solely because he (Moore) con-
ceived the unfounded idea that the persons
he thus selected for decapitation were un-
friendly 10 him.
In the charges made by Moore against
| Gen. BoyDtOn, NO one in this community
W ii believe that Gen. B., In causing to be
| published one or two of the many letters
Moore wrote President Grant, ever put him.
| sell I'm a position TO warrant even the suspi-
ciOn that he desired TO blackmail Mr. Moore
and the ridiculous charge that he wanted a