Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1878-03-23
THE EVENING STAR.
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GOVERNMENT RECEIPTS ToDAY.-Internal
revenue, s295, ,694. .46; customs, siSl, ,60S61.
THE WOODRUFF EXPEDITION BILL AP-
PROvED.-The President to-day approved the
act granting register to a foreign built yes
SCI for the use OF the Woodruff scientific eXpe
dition.
acknowledgements and ex-Gov-
ernor Swami, of Maryland, will shortly be
married to Mrs. John r. Thompson, of Prince
ton, Nj.
Mr. c. F. ADAMS has not yet formally sig
nifed his acceptance of the position of govern
ment director on the Union Pacific railroad,
but there is no doubt that he will serve. All
but one of the members of the board are now
pretty well determined.
Gov EMERY, of Utah, had another talk with
the President yesterday afternoon about his
threatened removal 1t is understood that it
was arranged that the governor is not to be
disturbed in his position, al least for the pres
ent.
has been appointed an internal revenue store
keeper and gauger for the 10th district OF
Pennsylvania: John w. Bailey for the 9th dis
trict of West Virginia, and VIM. Berhell for
the Sth district of Kentucky.
CAPT. ALEXANDER MCKENZIE, engineer
corps, U. S. A., is ordered to report to the See
retary of the Treasury for the purpose of re-
leving Major WeitZel as engineer of the 1lth
lighthouse district.
ADVERTISING THE FOUR PER CENTs.-The
Secretary of the Treasury is. sending adver-
tisementS of the United States four per cent.
cOnSOls OF 1897 to pOStmaSterS throughout the
country with the request that they be posted
i'll conspicuous places in the respective post
Offices.
mittee on invalid pensions has agreed to re-
port bill allowing pensions of S72 per mouth
TO soldiers having lost either both eyes, both
hands or both feet, and of $2l per month to
those having lost one eye, one hand or one
foot.
THE FOLLOWING ORDER has been issued by
the Commissioner of Patents: by direction
the Secretary of the Interior the firm of
Knight & Knight, of Washington, D. c., and
individual members thereof. (viZ: +. w. and
w. d. Knight.) are disbarred from practice
before this bureau, because OF gross miScOn-
duet (sectiOn 4S7. Revised StatuteS,) and will
not be recognized from and after this date as
attorneys in the prosecution OF cases" This
firm must not be cOnfounded with the firm of
Knight Bros, which is in good repute before
the office.
SEWERAGE OF THE DISTRICT.-MajOr Ran
dOlph. chief engineer of the Baltimore and
Ohio railroad. and Benz. Severson. of this city,
were before the subcommittee on sewerage
OF the District of Columbia committee TODAY
and submitted an elaborate plan for the i'm
prOyement OF the sewerage system of the Dis
uict.
THE CENTENNIAL MEMORIAL.-HOn. Alvah
| A Clark of New Jersey, and Daniel Nj. Henry
| OF Md. have been appointed subcommittee
| to arrange a programme of exercises for the
| formal acceptance of the Centennial memo
| rial.
Not CORRECT.-The statement that Mr..
Rich. of Hannibal, Mo-, has been appointed an
expert on Mr.. GlOyer's Treasury investigating
committee is incorrect. Mr.. Rich says he did
not come here for any such position, and
would not accept it if rendered him.
A NICE PILE OF GOLD.-MeSSrS. Ewing and
Chittenden, a subcommittee of the House
committee on banking and currency, yester-
day viewed the weighing of sl5, ,OOO, 900 gold in
the Sub-treasury at New York. The eXamina-
tlOn OF all the accounts notes, coin and bull
lion in the sub-treasury has been completed.
The only discrepancy discovered was an ex-
cess OF "a cents in the fractional notes The
amount of gold coin sealed up in the vaults.
exclusive of loose gold and bullion, is
| sG,OO0,0O0.
INVESTIGATIONS BY THE SENATE COMMIT
| TEE ON TERRITORIEs.-Judge Baker, presi.
| dent of the st. Louis and San Francisco rail
| road, and attorney for the Atlantic and Pacific
railroad. testified before the Senate committee
on territories yesterday in the investigation
| under the voorhees, resolution. The Atlantic
| and Pacific road is one of the railroad cOrpO
rations in the territories which holds immense
| grants of lands subject to the SequestratiOn OF
the titles of the Indians to the lands of the ter
ritory Certain propositions 9 tor the 0rganlza z;
| Indian territory, pending before Congress, un,
| less amended would sequestrate the titles of the
bonds to the value OF 81, 700 90 had been issued sued
| OH the thirty-siX miles of the road built by the
st. Louis and San Francisco company in the
territory: d: M; Haley, resident OF the Chloe
tain delegates to Washington from the Choc.
| taw council for the purpose of securing legiS-
,atlon Ieiatye TO the adIuStme@ht @ OF the eastern
the school funds of the territory.
| CONFIRMATIONs.-The Senate in executive
session yesterday confirmed the following nom
nations: A. Dobrowsky, to be receiver Of
to be receiver of public moneys at Bonneville
Mo; j. L. Mahan, to be Indian agent for La
point agency, Wis. Collectors Of Customs
Great Egg Harbor, n. j.: John G. Poole, al
Sandusky, Ohio. Navy-Commodore E. T
Nichols, to be rear admiral, vice George H
Daniel F. Kelley, OF Pennsylvania, to be chic
engineer.
| THE MAIL CONTRACTS INvEsTIGATION-W
and former member Of Congress, testified be
fore the House committee investigating mai
contracts yesterday that last January, at tn,
request of Postmaster Hadley, of Little Rock
he had signed as surety about fifty bids TO
mail contracts in blank. Hadley said the bid
had been sent him by Senator Dorsey, will
the request that they be perfected and for
warded to Washington. He understood tina
! they were afterwards signed by. the Othe
surety, G. W. McDiarmd, of Little Rock. HI
| had since called at the POStOffice Department
to ascertain the names of the bidders and t,
notify the department of the infOrmality bu
he had only been able to find one of the bid
signed by him, and that bid was in the nam
| of John nj. Peek, and purported to be Signe,
| by Peck and atteSted before a notary Il
Washington. He could not testify whetha
Pecks signature was genuine. He knew .ha
Peck had been since last summer a resident o
New Mexico, and had not heard of his bei,S
in this section since then. Wiltshire said hi
own estate was worth $4,000 above ,incum
branccS. He was questioned as 70 his CONVEX
SatiOnS with Senator DOrseys but testified t
nothing important in that connection. TIL
bonds appear to have been executed before tw
witnesses, but Wiltshire says they We're no
present when he signed them. He does no
know whether awards were made on any 0
these proposals.
THE PRO RATA CoNTRovERsY.-Represe
tative Chalmers, in behalf of the Sub-cOm
mittee charged with the consideration of tn