The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1878-03-15
WASHINGTON.
The Boston CoIIectorship.

The Boston COlIectOrship.
WASHINGTON, March 14-The Senate Com
mittee on Commerce unanimously agreed to
report favorably upon the nomination Of A. W.
Beard to be Collector of Customs at Boston.
Executive Nominations.
The President sent the following nominations
to the Senate to-day: Thos. NJ Dawson of Cali
fornia, consul at Opio; Geo. w. Roosevelt OF
Pa, consul at Auckland
The south Carolina Whislkey Thieves.
The following telegram was received here to-
day:
GREENvILLE, s. c., Mar. IA.
To Hon. Green B. Baum, Commissioner of In
have organized at Spartansburg and here a
force of thirty men who are row on their way
to Pickeus county Redmond, with 80 men,
followed the track of Capt. Holt mans force OF
tilferies were destroyed. The force being pow
erless to contend with Redmond's gang, has re-
treated to Easey, waiting reinforce ments.
Red mond has ordered citizens at their peril not
TO furnish food or shelter to revenue Off
The present force cannot be overp0wered. War
rants of arrest will be procured for jail break
ers and other revenue cuiprts. They will eth
er be captured or become fugitives. 1 leave at
once for Easley, where dispatches will reach
me.
The New Dollar.
Ten Thousand new silver dollars were re-
ceive1 at the Treasury today. Three thousand
dollars have been paid out in exchange for
gold The burden of the demand is from par
ties wishing the new coinage for pocket pieces.
Secretary schurz and the Timber Depre-
datiOns.
Secretary Schurz being asked what he
thought of yesterdays debate in the Senate up
on the prosecution of timber depreciation in
Montana, said: "SOme senators attacked the
interior department for doing a thing it had
not done and scarcely mentioned the thing it
hoo ton hor mr.
prosecuted the settlers and miners who wanted
little wood and timber for their stores aud
mines, while we really had only prosecuted
SPECTATORS who had deprecated upon the pub
lie lands on large scale for the sake of per-
sonal profit. Under instructions of this de-
partment not settler or miner had been
touched except where persons had cut timber
under cover of fraudulent preemption or home
stead claims. When these spectators obtained
| S. to IS per cord for wood and 500 to go per
| thousand feet for manufactured lumber they
had taken from public lands, they could afford
| TO pay the government at least small part OF
their profit as the people in other parts of the
| country have to do. We are bound to execute
| these laws are not as they should bs it is the
business of Congress to make them so.
Schnrz being asked whether he had made a
speech while in the Senate on the moiety sys-
tenn denoucing spies in the revenue service said
| that SO far as he conld remember he had not
L
| about spies. Those who were called spies 10
| the employ of the interior department. were
| simply agents sent out to discover what depre.
| datons had been committed and who commit
| ted them, and if the department wanted tc
know anything about the matter these agen Is
had to be called upon for inform alton, as the
| depredators are not in the habit of reporting
themselves.
Various.
The Senate Committee on Post offices reached
| no conclusion on the Toledo postmasteIship and
| postponed action till its next meeting
The subcommittee of the Senate Committee
| on Railroads submitted to the full committed
| for its consideration copy of the bill agreed
upon by the House Pacific Railroad Com mites
| and the full committee commenced discussion
| of the measure and adjourned.
| The Committee on Education and Labor will
report bill providing that the net proceeds oil
public lands shall forever be set APART for thu
education of the people,
The Secretary of the Treasury says that the
report that he has decided to sell a large
amount of the a per cent. bonds at par in gold
is erroneous Tue total subscriptions to thess
bonds since Jan. 16 are $500 600.
On and after April LIST the light at the East
| ern entrance of Gloucester Harbor will be fixed
cred" instead of fixed white
| The terms of Office of E. B. Brewer of New
York, j. a. Willard of Nebraska, James f
| Wilson of Iowa, j. S. Harrison of Indiana
| and Mr.. Chadwick of Connecticut, government
| directors of the Union Pacific railroad, have
| expired. Probably none but Mr.. Chad wick
| will be reappointed.