Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1878-03-20
THE EVENING STAR.
Washington News and Gossip.
GOVERNMENT RECEIPTS TO-DAY.-Internal
Revenue. S241. .1SS 50: customs, Sts2.

Washington News and Gossip.
GOVERNMENT RECEIPTS To-DAY.-Internal
Revenue, s24l 80: customs, stS2,0S5.20
GENERAL HANCOCK arrived in the city to-
day. and in company with General Sherman
paid his respects to the President,
L. S. NAVY REGULATION CIRCULAR No. II,
Just issued, provides that there shall be at
tached TO each navy yard captain of the
yard, who will be the aid or executive of the
cOmmandant, and in the absence of the conf
mandant will act in his stead.
PERsoNAL.-MajOr Ben. Perley POore, who
has been i'll at his residence in Georgetown for
some days past, is recovering, and will be out
again in day or two. 80. Mrs. Senator Blaine
and Gail Hamilton occupied seat in the gal
lery of the House of Representatives to-day.
\ POSTMASTER SUMMONED. - The House
committee on expenditures in the Post Office
DEPARTMENT has subpwnead Hadley. the
postmaster at Little Rock, 10 appear before it
and to testify TO the charge against him. that
he certified to postal bidders in blank i'll viola
ton of law.
is THERE MAI. CONTRACT "RING''?-In
the House to-day, during the debate on the bill
to provide for the advertising of mail lettings,
Mr.. Money, a member of the postal commit
tee. stated that mail contractor was before
the postal committee to-day, who testified that
he receiV9d $4,000 for carrying the mail over
one 0f the territorial routes, and Sub-let it for
Sl5,iO0. Mr.. Money said also that one ring
OF contractors controlled over six hundred
routes.
SENATOR SPENCER authorized STAR repOr-
ter to say that the statement in a city morning
paper today. purpOrting to be an interview
with him. is manufactured, and is without any
foundation OF truth.
AN EXAMINATION FOR PROMOTION OF a clerk
TO the head clerkslIip in the Washington and
Petersburg railway post office. made vacant
by the death of Mr. Wm. kealey, has just been
concluded, and has resulted in arec0mmenda-
tiOm for the promotion OF Mr.: ii. {. Sener. Mr..
III. w. McGeOrge, assistant clerk, has been re
commended TO the place vacated by Mr. Sc
nerS promotion.
INVESTIGATING THE POST OFFICE DEPART
MENT.-The committee on expenditures in the
Pest Office department, of which Hon. Jere.
\. Williams, of Alabama. is chairman, nave
commenced their work III good earnest They
have room No. y, on the first floor OF 1.-The Post
Omre building. where their examinations of
the book vouchers and papers of the Post
ONCE department and the Sixth Auditors
office will he made, and where they will eX-
anime witnesses. OF hear complaints, or
ceive information. This committee will
examine into and report on the .reor-
ganiZatiCn Of the department, and of the
various modes OF making contracts. They
Will examine how all moneys are paid, and
how, business, is conducted at the post Offices
N.
Philadelphia, Boston, Baltimore, New Orleans,
etc. The work OF the committee will be very
extensive and looks 20 a thorough going
through OF post office routes and report as
tothe better organization of the same.
Mr.. SAYLER's WHISKY BILL.-A meeting of
the Senate finance committee was held to-
day, 10 consider Mr.. Sayler's resolution re-
Gently adopted by the House, extending the
time to keep whiSkey in bond to from one to
three years. Senators Beck and Matthews
spoke in favor of the adoption of the reSolu-
ton The committee adjourned with the un-
de rStauding that Il vote would be taken on the
resolution next Friday. It's understood that
the eastern whisky manufacturers are opposed
To the resolution.
ABOUT FIVE HUNDRED Tons of condemned
bank note plates were melted down in tn
furnace at the navy yard today. On Friday
next about five thousand tons more will be de
Stroyed in the same manner. The other five
thousand tons were destroyed Monday.
WANT TO KNOW ABOUT w. Il. WHITAKER
Mr.. Howe introduced in the Senate today 4
resolution requesting the President, if not
Incompatible with the public interests, to
inform the Senate whether w. r. Whitaker
who recently presided in the superior criminal
court of the parish OF New Orleans, was
formerly employed in the internal revenue
service OF the government, or as Assistant
either of said capacities said Whitaker is a
defaulter to the United States: if so, in what
| amount. under what circumstances, and what
! legal proceedings We're taken against him.
what was the result of such proceedings and
if said proceedings were discontinued by
whom; &c. In submitting, this resolution,
! which has earned for him a reputation for
wit among Senators, said that he had been
! accused OF not being over Jealous i'm his sup
| port OF the Presidents policy, and he would
yindicate himself in speaking upon the reSOlu-
tiOn, if the Senate would afford him the oppor-
tunity next Monday.
THE APPLICANTS to the Secretary of the In
terror for the position of fire commissioner
made vacant by the resignation OF Mr. ThOs
7. Morgan; are MesSrs. VIM. B. Reed, Thomas
T.. Quantrill, w. T. Walker and Dorsey Clagett
An appointment will soon be made.
REFORM IN THE NAvY.-Secretary Thomp-
son has issued al order that hereafter non
commissioned officers of the marine corps
cannot be reduced while serving on shore,
except with the approval OF the cOmmandant
OF the corps or the sentence OF a court martial
On shipboard, he cannot be reduced except to
the next inferior grade, and in pursuance of
sentence OF court martial. This takes from
captains of vessels and the commander of
companies of guards OF marines their power
| TO DISMISS nOn-cOmmisSiOned officers at will
THE PENSION BILL reported yesterday from
the committee on appropriations appropriates
s29,2S6,5l4. The bill contains new feature,
providing that from and after the first of July
next pensions shall be paid by the Treasurer
under directions of the Secretary of the Treas
uTy. and until this act shall be carried into
effect the special paying agents shall not be al
lowed more than ten cents per voucher, and
shall, in addition to their proportion of sala-
ries, be paft only for such contingencies as
may be approved by the Secretary of the Inte.
riOr and the Secretary of the Treasury. This
bill proposes to abolish the present eighteen
pension agencies. effecting saving to the
government of about s2O0.OtO annually.
THE TENNESSEE WHISKY WAR-Yesterday
| Commissioner Raum telegraphed to Collector
WeOdcock at Nashville, to employ thirty ad
| ditiOnal men if necessary to enforce the law
| and break up illicit distillatiOn. WoOdcock
! replies to-day that he will do SO if necessary
| He says that his special, Deputy Davis, is as
| slStlng successfully in White county Put
! nam and Jackson counties are where the Illicit
| diStilleries have organized.