Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1878-04-03

place towards the close of this month.
ALL But ONE of the Texas delegation IN
Congress will vote against anv proposition
that has been or will be introduced into Con-
gress which entails the reduction of the regu-
lar army to below 5000 men.
THE SILVER CERTIFICATES will be ready for
issue on the 10th inst. Orders have been re-
ceived for about million dollars worth oil
them.
THEY ASK FOR BREAD AND STONE IS
GIVEN THEM.-The House this morning passed
a resolution allowing newspaper cOrrespOn
dents to have access to the lobby in the rear of
the Speakers desk. What the correspondents
wanted was access to the floor, so that they
could get information without having mem
BerS called out. The resolution passed today
was evidently intended to relieve the CORE
spOndentS from the irkSOme task of obtaining
news, made doubly so by. keeping them OIL the
floor. If to days resolution was intended to
relieve them, it's about as much relief as Civ
ing q man a ride by allowing him TO hang on
TO the tail gate OF wagon.
THE COTTON CLAIM CAsE.-The trial of F A.
SAWYER, W. T. HaineS and w. II. BarStow on
the charge of conspiracy TO defraud the gov
ernment was resumed in the Criminal Court
OF this District. Judge Wyle, this morning
and MeSsrs. Burr, Banfield and Osborn teSti-
fed for the government.
PROF. RILEY. late state entOmolOgist of Mis-
souri,, has been rendered the position of ento-
mOlOgist of the Agricultural department, and
will probably accept it.
THE EVENT of the evening will he the lee
ture by Grace Greenwood upon The Heroic
in Common Life at the Congregational
church. The famous Hutchinson family will
assist i'll the affair, and there are intimatiOnS
of an agreeable surprise intended for some
body, that Will add vastly to the interest OF the
occasion.
THE Sr-S ATT itla nnrrti, rIIny-
confirmed the nominations of several postmas-
teTS
Mr.. FRYE made a speech in the House to
day sharply criticiSing the soldiers roll mae
up by DOorkeeper Polk. One soldier it
seems was an apOthecary'S clerk in the army,
another belonged to an independent company
in Boston; one sprained his ankle when drill
ing in 1861, another was not disabled but said
he had been diseased for a number of years:
While yet another said that he had never been
wounded but had the asthma. Mr. Frye's
speech created considerable laughter as he
criticised the wild hunt of the democrats for
wounded soldiers to fill this roll and their poor
success in finding them.
FINANCIAL.-The House committee on bank
ing and currency has appointed subcom
mttee. consisting of MeSSrS. YeateS HartzeI
and Fort. to consider and report upon Repre-
sentative Stephens financial bill, which was
introduced in the House yeaterday. Final
action will be taken by the committee on
Friday next on Representative POtterS bill.
providing for the distribution of work now
done by the bureau OF engraving and printing
to the bank note companies. The sentiment
of the committee appears 10 be against the
passage OF such measure
An ADVERSE REPoHT.-The Senate COM
mittee on territories has agreed to report ad-
veTSely on the nomination of Prof. HOyt to be
Governor OF Wyoming, in place of Thayer, re-
moved. The adverse report was presented to
the Senate III executive session yesterday.
ACT APPKOvED.-The President today ar-
proved the act entitled IAN act to amend an
act entitled AN act for She support of the gov
erTment for the District of Columbia for the
fiscal year ending June 30th, 1873, and for
Oiher purposes The President also ap-
proved the act constituting the chairmen of
OF Congress and the librarian of Congress
commission to consider and report plan for
providing enlarged accommodations for the
library oil Congress.
SENATOR BOOTH made vigorous speech in
the Senate to-day against the sinking fund bill
for the Pacific roads reported from the com
mittee on railroads. At the conclusion of his
speech, Mr.. Booth went into the cloak room
and was prOstrated by severe fainting spell.
SENATOR DORSEY appeared Unexpectedly
before the committee on post offices and post
roads, sitting at the Post Office department,
and requested the privilege of being exam
ined in regard to the alleged connection of
himself with the mail contracts of Peck, Mi
ner and others, now under investigation by
that committee. Senator Dorsey said that If
the committee had been courteous enough to
notify HIM in the beginning that they had
matters involving him under investigation, he
could have saved them the trouble and ex-
penSe of sending to Arkansas and elsewhere
for witnesses. He said that ever since he had
been in the Senate he had done whatever he
taO m a tl fn nh tnAp aCf,t
ents and friends in procuring mail contracts,
and that he was proud to know that those he
had assisted had performed their service in
an honest and competent way. In the par
ticular contracts under investigation he said
he had assisted Peck, Miner, Chidester and
Adams, to the extent OF his power, in a lawful
their bonds, had asked his friends to become
their sureties, and had written to Postmaster
Hadley at Little Rock to assist them there.
He had endorsed their notes, and had done
various other service for them, of which he
was not ashamed. They had called upon him
for assistance when they found difficulty i'm
procuring their bond, and as he knew their
bids were lower than the amount now paid
by the government for the same service, and
as he knew them to be good men he thought
he would be doing an act worthy of commend
alton rather than condemnation in thus en-
cOuraging competition. On Peck and Miners
bids, which had been accepted as the lowest,
the government had saved Sl30,0O0 On the
service for which Adams had bid the govern
ment:had saved $3.50, ,0O0 and he was glad that
he had done anything to aid in accomplishing
this saving. Senator Dorsey denied unquali-
fiedly and positively that he had any interest,
remote, contingent, or possible, in any mail
contracts in the past, present, or future. He
denied that he had given his assistance to
Peck, Miner, and the other contractors, for
the committee that he should perform the same
service at any time that he was called upon.
THE CoOLIE TRADE.-Secretary Thompson
has received intelligence from the command
ing officer of the South Pacific squadron that
a number of American vessels are engaged in
the cOOlie trade. The coolies are purchased
in China and thence transported to the United
States, the owners of the vessel being paid so
much per head for them. The SECRETARY is
considering the propriety OF issuing orders to
the commanders of American memo war in
the South Pacific waters to seize all American
vessels engaged in this traffic and convey
them TO the nearest American port.
THE MAIL EXCURSION TO HAvANA-This
afternoon at Clio O'Clock the following party
will leave the B., & p, depot on the opening
of the new fast mail route to Havana, going
by way of the Atlantic Coast Line (Wilming
ton, Savannah to Cedar Keys, in the new Pull
man cars extra and New EnglandD and they
expect to be gone about fifteen days: Post
master-Gen Key; Gen. VIM. A. Knapp,
chief clerk: Judge A. A. Freeman Assistant
Attorney General, daughter and niece; j. M.
McGrew, sixth auditor: HI. M. Morton, EXecu-
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