Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1878-05-20
THE EVENING STAR.
WASHINGTON News and Gossip.
GOVERNMENT RECEIPTS ToDAY.-Internal
revenue, $GO6,559.12; customs, sos, ,5S204.


day amounted to $274,SOO.
SENATOR Don CAMERON occupied his seat in.
the Senate to-day, and received many con
gratulatiOnS from his fellow Senators on his
wedding.
THE FLORIDA ELECTION INVESTIGATION.
1t is expected that the Florida investigating
committee will organize tomorrow The
committee will sit in this city until Congress
adiournS, when subcommittee will be ap-
pointed to take testimony in Florida and Lou
iSiana.
THE PRESIDENT AND MIR. CONKLING-
There does not appear, upon inquiry, to be
any truth in the statement that there has been
OF is about to be a partial reconciliation be-
tween the President and Senator COnkling.
II there should be any such reconciliation, the
first overture would have, it is believed. to
come from the Senator. The President would
not, 1t IS thought, take the initiatory step.
CAPTAIN EADs' JETTY WoRK.-The select
committee of the Senate on transportation
routes to the seaboard. met again this morn
ing. Jas. B. Eads concluded his argument,
begun last Friday, to show the reason why his
contract for the widening of the south pass of
the Mississippi river should be modified as
provided for in the bill introduced by Senator
Window last week The committee has re-
quested Generals Barnard and Wright, engi-
neer officers, who lately made an official exam
inaliOn Of Captain Eads' work, to appear be-
lore Ill HeNb wednesday.
AMONG THE CALLERS at the White House
to-day were Attorney General Devens Secre-
tary Schurz: Senators Booth, Sargent. Mitch
ell, Plumb, Representatives Neal, Boyd. Page.
Jorgenson; Wren, Bagley, LanderS, Banks,
Brogden, Rainey and Smalls
REAR ADMIRAL WYMAN, who has been re-
lieved by Capt. Franklin as chief of the Hy-
geographic office in this city, will remain on
duty there until he has wound up his affairs
connected with the office.
WOMEN'S RIGHTS IN THE SUPREME COURT
Senator Thurman to-day reported back from
the committee on judiciary adversely a bill in
reference to the right of women to practice
before the Supreme Court The committee re-
armS its opinion that the question is one
which must be decided by the court itself
There is no law preventing women from Drac-
Using before the Supreme Court, consequently
their claims must be decided by the same rules
which admits male lawyers to practice before
the court.
A GENERAL COURT MARTIAL consisting of
the following officers is appointed to meet at
St. Louis barracks on the 22d instant for the
trial of such persons as may be brought before
II: Colonel j. j. Gregg, Sth cavalry: Surgeon
T. r. NOium; Captain f. B. Savage. Sth in
fantry; First Lieutenant Byron Dawson, 9th
cavalry; First Lieutenant w. G. Forbush. 9Th
cavalry, and Assistant Surgeon l.. Y LOring,
Judge advocate of the court.
SPEAKER RANDALL, With other prOmin en-
democrats, left Philadelphia last evening for
Pittsburg to attend the democratic state con-
yention TO be held there on Wednesday.
ROBERT PETIT, pay director in the u s.
navy: died in Philadelphia yesterday after a
'ohg Illness He entered the navy in 1887.
OBJECT TO THE PATENT PALACE CAR FOR
STOCK.-The House committee on agriculture
have reported adversely on the cattle trans
P0rtatlon bill. The principal objection to the
Dlll Is the patent pa lace car. The committee
says: TO enforce the feeding and Watering
OF llVe STOCK on trains would compel the use of
patented cars, and we cannot for moment
SympathlZe with any such legSlatiOn' MIR
Calk!ns, OF the committee, recommends the
appointment OF commission to investigate
the Whole question before any action is taken
CHIEF JUSTICE WAITE will preside at the
June term of the U. S. circuit court to he held
in New York city, in place of Associate JUS
ice Hunt, who is having very poor health
rms VIII be the first time that The Chief JUS,
tlce las held court in northern city since his
accession to Office.
THE WHIsKEY WAR IN KENTUCKY-The
officers OF the Internal Revenue service have
become so enthusiastic on the subject of en-
forcing General Raums new policy for break
ing up Illicit distlllatiOn that it is extremely
dangerous for MOOnShiner'' to show his
head IN any part OF the country. The latest
disaster to the cause of fraud is reported in
kentucky. Collector Buckner, from Louis
Vile, reports the capture and destruction of
still OF the capacity of 50 gallons, and the ar
resi- OF the owner and one employe in Manin
the house of B. T. Clark, the guide who aided
in the recent capture of number of notorious
"MOOnshinerS" was burned and his family
driven OIL.
A DISTINGUISHED PARTY GONE TO THE ADJ.
RONDACKs.-Vice President Wheeler. Mrs.
Hayes, Fanny Hayes and DR.. WOodworth. lett
Washington on the limited express last Fri
Day morning Tor visit to Malone, N. Y, Mr..
Mheelers birthplace and residence From
Malone, where serenade was given the party
last Saturday night, they will visit the Adj
rondacks. Mr.. Wheeler has camped in the
ton, for the past twenty-five years. Mrs.
Hayes has never experienced the pleasure of
;at ea;tGhng IN trout in the northern lakes. The
VlSlC 10 the mountains is made early in the
season to avoid the pestiferous June flies and
mosquitoes
IHE WYOMING AT RoUEN.-Commande
watson, OF the Wyoming, reports to Secretary
Thompson under date of May 9Th, that he left
HaVre, France, for ROuen, Tuesday, April
SEth' arriving there about 2 p. m. of the same
day, ten hours before the Wyoming was ex
peGted pee to to arrive. The captain of the port re-
out to meet her, and in person clearing place
10 get there: The authorities and people were
much gratlhed at the ship being brought up
the river, calling the officers and crew the
pioneers, and expressing the hope and belief
Ihat her visit will be the means of bringing
before Americans the accessibility of Rouen
as commercial port. The authorities of the
CITY requested Commander Watson to assure
the Secretary that not only our merchant
ships, but also men Of-war, would ALWAYS meet
with most cordial welcome. The least water
1ound In going up the Seine 10 ROuen was
nineteen and half feet. Commander Wat
son can see no reason why vessels drawing less
than Is feet should not go to ROuen Every
thing possible is done by the chamber of
commerce 10 facilitate unloading He thinks
our cotton should be landed there instead of at
HaVre, as ROuen is the Manchester of France.
IHE CHINESE FAMINE-SIXTY MILLION SUI
FERERs.-MiniSter Seward sends to the State
department accounts of the Chinese famine
up to the middle of March last The distress
occasioned by the famine of last year is
spreading over much wider area owing to
renewed drought The district now affected
comprises parts OF or the whole of the PROV
lnceS OF Shansi, Chilli, Shantung. Shansi. Ho
nan, Szchuen and kanSu. Actual famine is
pressing upon l5,000,O00 people, while fully
60,tUuOcO are suffering more or less distress.
lhe ChlneSe Journals TEEN with accounts of
the suferlng. One of the most pitiable fea.
lures OF this famine is that there Is an abund-
anGe OF food in the country, and it is only the
lack OF transportation which causes so much
misery and less of life The crops have been
soOd immediately around the stricken dis
trlels, but as f0Gd can be transported only on
wagons OF pack animals it cannot be taken
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