Daily Los Angeles herald., 1878-04-05
Latest Eastern News.
The Ways nui Means tN.n.ni'toe's
Report.

CHICAGO, April 4th.-The Jour
naps Washington special says:
Members of the Ways and Means
Committee say the revenue bill
will probably he completed so as to
be submitted carly next week. The
question OF re-imposinglthe income
tax is expected to be decided at the
meeting tomorrow. A member of
the committee said to-day that he
believed the proposition would be
carried in committee, although
Secretary Sherman is against it
and wants duty placed on tea and
coffee instead. The bill has been
framed with view to raising
about S55,000,000 revenue. Wood
believes there will be no deficit in
the revenues if his tariff bill be-
comes law, but he will vote in
favor of restoring the income tax,
which will be made to bear as
heavily as possible upon large cor
porations.
Whoie Family ArGwued.
KALAMAZOO, Mich, April 4th.-
Tuesday afternoon II neighbor
found Mr.. Krouse's house, three
miles south of Augusta, in this
county, locked and the remains of
Mr.. Grouse, wife and two children,
were found in the lake adjoining.
Fishing tackle and other evidences
indicated an accident while they
were fishing.
New York Fiour Market.
NEW YORK, April 4th.-Flour is
less active but steadil ~ held. Wheat
is dull and 3@l lower, closing
weak.
SLOW sfemamd for sEe New Dollar.
WASHINGTON, April 4.-For sew
eral days the exchanges at the
Urea. ury of silver dollars of the
new coinage have not averaged be-
You'd 500 day, exclusive of APP
plications from banks. Only two
shipments have thus far been made
from the mint to the Treasury, ag-
gregating $4,000. There are still
| $4,000 Of this in the cash room
vaults.
Iuterestiug Washington EDtes.
WAsHINGToN, April 4th.-The
three days discussion of the mo-
mentous door keeper question was
at last ended this afternoon by the
adoption OF resolutions ousting Col.
Polk by an unexpectedly large ma
j)rity. The negative votes were
all, with one exception, cast by
Democrats. a number of Repub-
licans felt.a great sympathy for
Polk, who has evidently been treat
ed by the Democratic majority of
the investigating committee as u
soapegoat; but, in view of his lack
of firmness to resist the pressure,
and his manifest business inef1i-
cheney, they could not vote for
his retention in office. They were
also, of course, influenced to some
extent by willingness to he thus
furnished with an effective topic
for the political campaign next
Autumn. Quickly following this
action the Republicans made an eff
fort to force an immediate election,
hoping to take advantage of DEM
| ocratic absence and divisions, and
elect General Sherwood, who for
merly held the office. The Demo-
Gratis, however, mustered enough
votes to carry an adjournment and
will probably unite upon some can
didate at the caucus tomorrow
. evening.
Representatives Wigginton aud
Luttrell made an argument before
: the House Private Land Claims
! Committee to-day in Advocacy OF
p Wigginton's bill allowing settlers
on the Pulgas rancho to bring suit
in the United States Court for the
readjustment of its boundaries.
, The Superintendent of the Coast
SURVEY has received complete re-
port of the recent survey of San
Diego harbor from which it appears
that the bar has retained an extra
ordinary permanent character OF
form since the date of Admiral AL
denis survey in 1870, and that the
depth OF water in the channel over
the bar has boone nine inches
greater during the interval of
twenty-five years between the sur
veys. The preliminary report here
tofore mentioned in these dis
patches showed that the depth of
water in the harbor has also been
maintained or increased during the
same period.
| The prospect of q vote being
taken in the Senate tomorrow on
the Pacific railroads Sinking Fund
bill seems very slight. The subject
will probably go oyer till next
week.
Conkling to-day manifested an
unmistakable opposition to the Ju-
dietary Committees bill, and its
chances of passage have been there
Booth was to-day enabled to at
tend the meeting of his committee,
but returned to his apartments
early in the afternoon. a day or
two of comparative quiet will uu-
, doubtedly restore him to his usual
health.
secretary sherma"'s Views o.,
Resumption.
: WASHINGTON, April 4th.-Secre-
tary Sherman to-day, before the
, House Banking Committee, insist
ed that the government was in as
good and, perhaps, better condi-
ton for resumption than the Ianl.
of England.
Ewing Intercepted the Secretary
as to where he intended to get the
necessary millions of gold.
The Secretary said it might pre-.
vent his fulfilling his plans to- eX-
pose them thoroughly, but he
|, would get money chiefly from the
sale of bonds as not much would
come from surplus revenue. He
expected S50,000,000 gold by the
sale of bonds, but as to the kind of
bonds he would sell, he must ex.
ercise his discretion on home sales.
He didn't want to go abroad for
gold, but desired to keep gold and
silver here aud then he would have