Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1878-05-23
THE EVENING STAR.
Washington News and Gossip.

Washington News and Gossip.
SUBSCRIPTIONS to the tour per cent. loan to-
! day amounted to s366,1O
GOVERNMENT RECEIPTS ToDAY.-Internal
revenue s342, 032 2l: customs, $506,5l9,92
SECRETARY SCHURz did not go on the presi-
| dental excursion last evening, as stated, being
| prevented by pressure of business.
COLLECTOR TUITION, of Philadelphia, is here.
A rumOr reached him at home that his official
| head was not as firm on his shoulders as it
| ought to be, and he came to Washington to see
| about il.
| The DEBATE ON THE ARMY BILL. as far as it
has progressed, developes unmistakably the
| fact that the army will not be reduced to tif-
| teen thousand men, as many democrats de
sire, but that its present status will not be very
! seriously disturbed.
| Ldter.-At two O'Clock this afternoon the
| House, in committee of the whole, voted down
| all amendments to the army biz reducing the
! adopted an amendment by teller vote OF ll5
| yeas to lO7 nays fixing the army at 25,OW. The
republicans voted solid for the force Of 25,0J0
and the democrats solid against it, with the
| exception of the Texas delegation. Williams,
| of Michigan; Cutler of New Jersey, and Wig
| gingt0n, of California. MIR. Hewitt gave no.
! vote on the amendment when the bill is re-
| ported from the committee of the whole to the
| House.
| JUDGE KELLY will decline denomination to
! Congress from any political party, as it is his
desire to retire wholly from public life.
CALL FOR FIvE-TwENTrEs.-The Secretary
of the Treasury yesterday issued the fifty
eighth call for the redemption OF go bonds.
| cOHSOlS of 1865. The call is for + j0G0.0J0. OF
which two and a half are coupon and two and
half millions registered bonds
CoNFIRMATI oNs.-The nomination of MI
Packard for consul to Liverpool was confirmed
by the Senate yesterday afternoon by vote Of
| IS to 20, those voting in the negative all being
| democrats The only speech made was by Mr..
| SaulsDuIy, OF Delaware, who commented Sc
| yerely on the arrangement by which Mr.. Tor
| bert, a citizen of Delaware was sacrificed in
| order to give an office to Packard. He said
| that Mr.. TOrbert was a faithful and efficient
! officer. The arrangement consisted in the re-
| mOval of Mr.. TOrbert, who was consul general
at Paris, the transfer0f Mr.. Fairchild from the
| consulate at Liverpool to the consul general
| ship at Paris, and the appointment of Packard
| to the Liverpool consulate. The Senate also
confirmed the following nominations: Lucius
| Fairchild, of Wisconsin, now consul at Liver
| pool. to be L. S. consul general at Paris, vice
| Alfred I. A. TOrbert, recalled: Theo Wagner
| TO be surveyor general OF California; pOStmas-
orado, and j. Hilery Sligh at Walhaa, South
| Carolina:
QUIET UTEs.-The Indian office has received
letter from the southern Ute agency, which
| says that since the departure of the military
| the indians, who were before threatening and
| dlsolGerly, nave become quiet, and no further
| trouble Is apprehended.
| PRESIDENT HAYES, accompanied by his SON.
Webb Hayes, his private secretary, Rogers,
| and his wife and daughter, Attorney General
| DeVens. and Secretary of War McCrary left
this city in the So train last evening for Baiti-
| more. where they took the steamer Carolina
Capt. Hid, for Norfolk, to attend the com
| nff hn HON
| School day. They were joined in Baltimore
by Messrs. Samuel NJ Shoemaker, and ladies,
Enoch Pratt, Rev. Charles r, Weld, of the
!ectOr of the port of Baltimore, and others.
| Rev. W. G. Day, F. NJ. Colstan and George
| Savage, a committee, waited on President
| EdyeS, i'll the saloon of the steamer and eX-
tended an invitation to the musical festival a.
| the Academy of Music next week. The Presi-
SAID he you'd be at the opening
Fortress Monroe this morning the President
| was received with military hOnOrS. The cere-
monies commenced at the school at II a. m.
| The President expects to return 10 Washing
ton tomorrow.
GEN. BUFFERS IDEAS ABOUT THE ARMY
AND FRONTIER PROTECTION.-The latter part
| of General Buffers speech. which he was not
| permitted 10 deliver in the House on Tuesday
| night, was the only part that bad any bearing
| upon the army appropriation bill then under
dIScuSSlOn In that speech, as printed, he
| says that, instead of a regiment posted on the
| frontier, the Government should support four
hundred families settled on the public lands,
| With strong wOrkingmen at their heads and
| give them arms. They would protect them.
| selves from Indians, and prevent incursions
ee ad saeS se % but
| stronger than a regiment, and be, in fact
| regiment of militia. When that is accom-
| pliShed, he said, it will be time enough to talk
about disbanding your army, and Cutting it
| down to few SergeantS to keep the guns and
| carriages in the several posts painted. Edu-
| forts to private life until the contingency of
| actual war calls them into action.
| NAVAL ORDERs.-Surgeon H. NJ Wells to
| the Alaska June lSt. Master Nathan Sargent,
| from the Washington Navy Yard, Both Instant,
| and ordered to Newport, T. l., for instructions
| in torpedo Selsice.
| RUSSIANS STUDYING OUR TORPEDO SYSTEM
1t is announced by telegraph that four Rus
| sian officers have arrived at Newport, r. l.,
and that nine or ten more are en- route for that
city. The object Of their visit is reported ss
emhoH anq there has been good deal Of
! explained by the fact that the torpedo school
for the instruction of officers of the g. g. navy
opens at Newport on the first of the next
| month. There is nothing to prevent the Rus
| sian ofhcers from witnessing the various ex
| periments with torpedOes which annually take
place there, and profiting by their observa
| tlon. There is also nothing to prevent the
| cOurtesies which have hitherto been extended
| British and other foreign naval officers to al
| low them to witness to the best advantage
| these experiments being extended to the RlIs
| sian visitors. Russia has within the past few
| months invested largely in tOrpedOes manu-.
| factured in this country and her officers NAV
| be going to Newport to gain from an Amer
| lean source knowledge of how to manipulate
! them.
| CADETS APPOINTED.-GeOrge H. DOty, of
| Brooklyn, N. Y; G. De Witt Drew, of High
! land Falls, N. j.; VIM. K. Reynolds, of Wash
| ingtOn, ID. c., and Francis M. Dunwoody, of
| Fairfield, Iowa, have been appointed cadets
| in the revenue marine service.
| The LEGISLATIVE, EXECUTIVE AND judi
| CIAL AUTHORIZATION BILL, as amended by the
Senate committee on appropriations, was re-
ported TO the Senate today. The aggregate
| amount OF the appropriation is largely in
| creased, although an itemZed statement of the
| Increase has not been prepared. The House
| reduced The grades OF clerks in the depart.
| ments, creating what is termed a $1,000 class
| The Senate committee abOlishes the House
provision and restores the grade of clerkships
as they now exist. The House abolished mes
| Sengerships IN the departments, and created
| instead assistant messengers at reduced Sala-
| ries, from $40 to S720 per annum. The Senate
! committee has restored the messengers and
/ salaries. The House raduppd tho now nf Io