Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1878-05-24
WASHINGTON.

WASHINGTON.
The total amount recommended In the Arm
Appropriation bill for the year ending June 30
1S19 is S26, ,929, ,671-$2, 500, 600 of which is 70
the pay, etc, OF officers who may retire uude
its provisions The estimate in the bill is for 20,
600 enlisted men. Cavalry regiments are re
duced to six and infantry to fifteen. Officer
who apply on or before Jan. | next may b,
honorably discharged with certain allowance
Of pay. Officers unfit for service are TO b,
mustered out.
James f.. Anderson, late Supervisor in East
Feliciana, La, published a letter on the 14tl
to Representative Potter in which he saw
the statement that he falsely protested that
the election in that parish had not been fail
and free is untrue. The returns and all pa
pers Herewith connected made by him are
true, he says, which he is able to show before
any impartial tribunal.
The Senate on the 18th ratified the treaty be
ing for a convention at Paris with view tc
the adoption of the metric system.
The Republican members of the House in
caucus on the 18th adopted resolutions that
the investigation resolution pending in the
House is an attempt, in an unjustifable, lille
gal form, to reopen the question of the Presi-
dental title, question solemnly settled by
the last Congress; is revolutionary, and de-
structiye of the good order, business prosper
ity and peace of the country, and that the eff
fort TO force the measure upon the House
should be resisted by all authorized means.
A majority of the speakers took a serious
view of the situation.
An interview with Secretary Sherman rela-
tive to the pending investigation resolution
was published on the 10th. The Secretary
said the movement was makeshift for Demo
cratic capital for campaign purposes He
visited the South in the interest of right and
justice; devoted much time and attention to
the subject, and believed the declared result
fell short of doing justice to the Republican
ticket. He challenged the closest scrutiny into
all his purposes and acts while he was in that
section pending the canvassing of the votes
He did not fear the Democrats, and had not
the slightest fear of the consequences to him
self.
The U. S. steamer Omaha has been coll
demned as not being worth repairing.
Prof. Henry's funeral on the 10th was at
tended by an immense assemblage of distin-
guished persons. All departments of the
Government were represented.
The syndicate has decided to take the re-
naming S15,0O0000 of the S50,0O0,OO0 of AZ
per cents. covered by its contract with the
Secretary of the Treasury.
Spencer F. Baird, Assistant Secretary of the
Smithsonian Institute, has been elected Secre-
tary, rice Prof Henry deceased.
A special of the 18th says the Republicans
viii not offer any further investigation resolu-
tions.
National Bank circulation outstanding on
the 18th: Gold notes 81 ,432 100, currency notes
1872, 1851.
The Patent Office receipts from Jan. to
May exceeded the expenditures S15, 7S5.
The following compose the select committee
OK eleven appointed under the investigation
resolution recently adopted by the House:
Clarkson N Potter, New York; w. R. Morri-
son, Illinois; Eppa Hunton, Virginia; John
A. MacMahon, Ohio; j. C. S. Blackburn, Ken
lucky; w. S. Stenger, Pennsylvania; Thomas
r. Cobb, acknowledgements. B. f. Butler,
Massachusetts,; Frank Hiscocl, New York. j.
d. Cox, Ohio, and Thomas b. Reed, Maine
Republicans.
The Treasury Department has had some
difficulty in purchasing silver bullion for coin
ing the parties owning 1t wanting gold in
payment. The Treasurer, however, would
only pay the standard silver dollar.
In the House, on the Goth, Mr. Garfield pre-
sented cable dispatch from Minister Noyes
stating his desire of being subpGnaed by the
Investigating Committee.
U. S. Minister Seward writes of the famine
in China that actual famine is pressing upon
1900, 900 people, while 6O,O0O,OO0 are suffer
ing more OF less distress.
The Senate Judiciary Committee reported
on the 20th on the House bill providing for
the admission of women to the bar of the Su-
preme Court that there was no law prohibit
ing court from admitting a woman to the
bar, and therefore there was no necessity for
this legislation.
Secretary Sherman on the Goth sent letter
to the Investigating Committee, charging the
Democrats with making libelous statements
against him. He says the preamble of the
Potter resolution contains three propositions
that are false. He believes the letter said to
have been written by him to Anderson is
base forgery. Sherman says further that the
whole movement is revolutionary and in
tended to depose Hayes, but the Democrats
will find that he will not be driven from office
except by superior force.
The revenue agents examining the condi-
tion of the Cincinnati district report TO the
Commissioner that there is evidence that the
Government has been defrauded of considera-
BILE amounts of tax on spirits and tobacco. A
loose condition of affairs exists, attributable
TO want of organization and utter neglect and
disregard of duty by portion of the Collect
or's force.